For this week's Animation Studies 2.0 Animation and Learning post, @clayonglass.bsky.social reflects on artist animator Sky David and his emphasis on tactility, movement, and subjectivity for a unique approach to learning and teaching animation. Read it at bit.ly/3X929MI.

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip
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Timelapse captured as I created the first frame in clay on glass for my fulldome animation #fulldome #clayonglass #experimentalanimation

Proud of Maryland! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

I spent more time with this panel than all the others (possibly combined) never quite satisfied though as I wove his images together, it started to be weirdly interesting… But watching the video of him mocking Kovaleski is shockingly hideous & so impossible to deny. No excuse for being ok with this.

Hundreds protested Project 2025 author Kevin Roberts' appearance at the University of Maryland's law school on Monday — the same day as the Baltimore Orioles' home opener. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

A clip from the preview screening of Our Colorful World, a fulldome film created and animated by our interdisciplinary team at Towson University.

“ How very human of us to fashion a test that predicates self-knowledge and intelligence on the response to one’s own image.”

What if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rachel Carson had met? Imagining an exchange in the year 1964, as the civil rights and environmental movements were forging parallel and increasingly urgent paths into American culture, J. Drew Lanham explores the power and necessity of convergence.

I-83 in Baltimore remains closed because of massive fire; expect delays

Here's a great quick article from April 2023 at @baltimoremagazine.com about the awesome zero-waste tree reclamation site Camp Small, which used to be a huge pile of rotting logs, and which, sadly, was the location of a terrible fire last night: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm... #Baltimore

Terrifying - I drove past this on Rt.83 earlier tonight. Camp Small was Baltimore City’s tree recycling/reuse center. Sad and scary to see it go up in flames.

Earlier I posted about the orange roughy, a fish that's quite interesting, and a little sad. Thread below. (This is my first thread, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong.)

Our collaborative fulldome film, AQUA DOME, is screening at an immersive festival in France!

“AQUA DOME (2019) est une œuvre immersive et collaborative qui invite le spectateur dans un voyage visuel et sonore à travers des paysages aquatiques oniriques.”

💙💚💙💚this animation from Lynn Tomlinson and song from @JohnnyFlynnHQ and @RobGMacfarlane.

Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane - Ten Degrees of Strange (Official Vi... https://youtu.be/d2eqv3y4Cq4 via @YouTube