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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

By the way if you got a bookshop not too far away from Brighton and you want an event where I draw stuff with people and then sign books, let me know!
Here's my latest book about what happens when you make art by surprise (or even on purpose)
www.walker.co.uk/978152951577...

Sometimes You Find a Dragon - Walker Books

Sometimes you find a dragon.A dragon of creativity.An inspiring picture book that encourages all young children to celebrate making and creating.From the awa...

www.walker.co.uk

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

I wish I'd had any free time there - I managed to grab a nice piece of cake on passing between the school and the train station and now I'm on my way to London already! We were so sad that there was no time...

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

Never ceases to be funny to do some classical drawing at people after they've watched me surprise myself with drawing funny faces on vegetables and making them argue on stage for half an hour

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

Then I told the kids who knew how to draw geometric solids that you can use them to construct anything else you want to draw and they were like "ah yeah, so like you just do random shapes and then WHOAH WHAT HOLD UP" while I was sketching up a human figure

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

Had a small crowd of kids round me at break time going WHOAAAH at my silly cat houses

A weird Sandcastle drawn on isometric paper, with a cat doodles in front. Around it is written "splendid castle" and "incredible deed". Cat looks quite smug I guess

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent school visit in Lincoln today. Mayhem and improvised cartoons. Talked more about isometric paper than expected. Expecting isometric paper sales to soar in Lincoln

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Every school we visit, the kids are so bright. Kids are just bright creatures. Full of ideas and thoughts and questions and fun and ready to invent stuff.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

On my way to Lincoln. Penultimate city on this tour!

Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

That's why we put a cloth over our heads when we eat the Rocher.

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Hollow Ponds @hollowponds.bsky.social · 3d

All our games are on sale on Steam right now!

Flock, Hohokum, I am Dead, Loot Rascals, Wilmot's Warehouse and Wilmot Works it Out...

here's a handy link to our bundle:
store.steampowered.com/bundle/42256...

...and here are a couple of cute cats from I am Dead who want you to click on it:

A tabby cat with a white tummy sits on a bin looking down at a black cat sitting on the ground. They are hanging around the back of the kipper smoking shack in Shelmerston, which is a location in the videogame I am Dead.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

It will not stand. It'll cause damage but it will not stand.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

What an insult to us all to pretend otherwise. What an insult to humanity to say we don't need to make and understand art. How disgusting, ridiculous and utterly pathetic.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Art will never be worthless. It's a shared universal language in countless dialects, across time, around the world. It's a living thing, too. It can be insulted and ridiculed and neglected and disrespected but humans make art, and it will always matter.

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 1d

the most powerful people in the world: "it is the least powerful people in the world who are the REAL problem"

everyone: "ah i see, that makes sense"

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

An industry that's set to replace artists with an endless churn of reconstituted slop, trying to suppress all critical understanding of the ways people may be controlled. This is a plan for automatic emotional manipulation engines to replace human culture.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 1d

oh look, they're wanting to cut the courses where people learn critical thinking, how strange

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh

Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

This is to say I've seen this and you can stop telling me

Rebecca Sugar looking non binary in owlish glasses

Viv Schwarz looking non binary in owlish glasses

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Today all my friends and several ex boyfriends agreed that I look like Rebecca Sugar. This is not correct. I looked like that first

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

This prime day, why not make a zine from bits of paper around the house and bits of thought around the head

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Still enjoying that I'm not in the sub basement

View from a dim hotel room of the pale evening sky and the top floors of a solid old brick building. There are black shutters on the window, open at the moment.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really happy when the teachers decide that they'll make copies of the zines the children make, collect them in a library maybe. Make more zines later. And when the children decide to form editorial teams. It's such fun

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

But also now I need to lie down and stay down for the rest of the day.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! I am exhausted. That's all right. - The children I worked with today were delightful and excited and funny. They came up with beautiful creatures and stories. It's so much fun seeing that happen! I also taught them the German word for potato because drawing a potato shape is always a good start

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