Christopher Faison
@faisonctart.bsky.social
Freelance Character Designer looking for work! Luther Vandross enthusiast!
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Email: [email protected]
Website: faisonctart.wixsite.com/mysite
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Saw someone say responses to the pandemic that push the belief that it only affects the vulnerable presaged this eugenicist upswing bc it’s not materially different from saying your genes are superior
Anyway: Three doctors wrote this op-ed in NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Anyway: Three doctors wrote this op-ed in NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
August 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Saw someone say responses to the pandemic that push the belief that it only affects the vulnerable presaged this eugenicist upswing bc it’s not materially different from saying your genes are superior
Anyway: Three doctors wrote this op-ed in NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Anyway: Three doctors wrote this op-ed in NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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He was a therapist first, and also lived in Seattle in the '90s. People used to have disposable income and things used to be cheap.
Frasier is wild because we're meant to believe an AM radio show host has a skyscraper apartment with room for a grand piano
July 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
He was a therapist first, and also lived in Seattle in the '90s. People used to have disposable income and things used to be cheap.
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I find that Julia Roberts tends to bring the same energy and physical gestures/facial expressions to every role — which is fine, she doesn’t have to be a “disappears into the character” kind of actor (star) to be fun/effective — but she’s doing some things here that feel different for her!
Watch the official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt, starring Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts 👀
In theaters October 17 via Amazon MGM Studios.
In theaters October 17 via Amazon MGM Studios.
July 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I find that Julia Roberts tends to bring the same energy and physical gestures/facial expressions to every role — which is fine, she doesn’t have to be a “disappears into the character” kind of actor (star) to be fun/effective — but she’s doing some things here that feel different for her!
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Replacing the Black National Anthem with the Star Spangled Banner. Fascism Indicators everywhere.
April 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Replacing the Black National Anthem with the Star Spangled Banner. Fascism Indicators everywhere.
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feels like time to start breaking in a new work-related vendetta, and i think it's going to be the entire concept of "filler episodes"
March 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
feels like time to start breaking in a new work-related vendetta, and i think it's going to be the entire concept of "filler episodes"
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“Obama owes you nothing!!!”
He’s a former president and liberal symbol who should feel a duty to speak up against fascism. Stop acting like folks are asking for “emotional labor” or whatever from a random person on the street.
He’s a former president and liberal symbol who should feel a duty to speak up against fascism. Stop acting like folks are asking for “emotional labor” or whatever from a random person on the street.
March 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Obama owes you nothing!!!”
He’s a former president and liberal symbol who should feel a duty to speak up against fascism. Stop acting like folks are asking for “emotional labor” or whatever from a random person on the street.
He’s a former president and liberal symbol who should feel a duty to speak up against fascism. Stop acting like folks are asking for “emotional labor” or whatever from a random person on the street.
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Recently, I’ve been really pushing back on the framing that all of this is “backlash” to #MeToo.
Because the misogyny came first. When we call it backlash, we’re starting the story in the middle, which allows the perpetrators to cast themselves as victims.
Because the misogyny came first. When we call it backlash, we’re starting the story in the middle, which allows the perpetrators to cast themselves as victims.
March 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Recently, I’ve been really pushing back on the framing that all of this is “backlash” to #MeToo.
Because the misogyny came first. When we call it backlash, we’re starting the story in the middle, which allows the perpetrators to cast themselves as victims.
Because the misogyny came first. When we call it backlash, we’re starting the story in the middle, which allows the perpetrators to cast themselves as victims.
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"A Different World" Upscaling is Not Good (plus a comparison to the newly dropped MTV Unplugged series on Paramount+)
fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-di...
fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-di...
"A Different World" Upscaling is Not Good
“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good. The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The ve...
fxrant.blogspot.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"A Different World" Upscaling is Not Good (plus a comparison to the newly dropped MTV Unplugged series on Paramount+)
fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-di...
fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-di...
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Many shots have a flicker, too. And, this is the fun one - any shot with text gets really garbled.
These screengrabs are all from s01e01.
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These screengrabs are all from s01e01.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Many shots have a flicker, too. And, this is the fun one - any shot with text gets really garbled.
These screengrabs are all from s01e01.
2/
These screengrabs are all from s01e01.
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“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good.
The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good.
The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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my TCM co-hosting debut begins tonight (!!!!!!!). as a lifelong fan and student of the network, this is sincerely a dream come true.
here are the showtimes for tonight's @tcmtv.bsky.social program and next week's program:
here are the showtimes for tonight's @tcmtv.bsky.social program and next week's program:
March 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
my TCM co-hosting debut begins tonight (!!!!!!!). as a lifelong fan and student of the network, this is sincerely a dream come true.
here are the showtimes for tonight's @tcmtv.bsky.social program and next week's program:
here are the showtimes for tonight's @tcmtv.bsky.social program and next week's program:
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if you needed one more reason to cancel your Prime
Breaking News: The Washington Post’s opinion editor is leaving as the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, focuses the section on “personal liberties and free markets.”
Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
if you needed one more reason to cancel your Prime
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Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create
January 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
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A couple of covers I did a while back.
February 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A couple of covers I did a while back.
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When I say I can’t stand cinephiles and many other film critics this shit is why. What is up with how gender essentialist criticism has gotten? (Think of any convo around the “male gaze” or “female gaze”, which I have yet to see a solid definition of the latter.)
just learned that one of the really big Oscar podcasts said that women won't vote for The Brutalist because it's for men............. what are we doing here lol
February 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When I say I can’t stand cinephiles and many other film critics this shit is why. What is up with how gender essentialist criticism has gotten? (Think of any convo around the “male gaze” or “female gaze”, which I have yet to see a solid definition of the latter.)
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Caveat that of course this happens in all generations, it's not exclusive to Gen Z. However the article is talking about Gen Z and that is the age of the kids I've taught since I got into schools. So my part of this conversation is very specific.
February 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Caveat that of course this happens in all generations, it's not exclusive to Gen Z. However the article is talking about Gen Z and that is the age of the kids I've taught since I got into schools. So my part of this conversation is very specific.
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But it is an increasing problem in terms of battling misinfo. You can't get all your news from content creators pretending to be journalists. How we fix this I have no idea. All I can do on my end is try to teach what I can and hope it clicks.
February 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
But it is an increasing problem in terms of battling misinfo. You can't get all your news from content creators pretending to be journalists. How we fix this I have no idea. All I can do on my end is try to teach what I can and hope it clicks.
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Most of this I don't think is actually Gen Z's fault. Older generations dismantled and discredited journalism then turned around and established the content creator system, then turned around and exploited the shit out of that. Gen Z is working under parameters the rest of us set.
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Most of this I don't think is actually Gen Z's fault. Older generations dismantled and discredited journalism then turned around and established the content creator system, then turned around and exploited the shit out of that. Gen Z is working under parameters the rest of us set.
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I'm constantly having to gently push back on my Gen Z students who use the number of followers or the high view count on YouTube as a metric for determining expertise.
February 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I'm constantly having to gently push back on my Gen Z students who use the number of followers or the high view count on YouTube as a metric for determining expertise.
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Why? Because the journalists were too Millennial and too news-y. The other guy was younger, had more followers, and sounded more relatable. He didn't sound like what they thought news sounded like. It was only after we dived into his profile that they reluctantly relented.
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Why? Because the journalists were too Millennial and too news-y. The other guy was younger, had more followers, and sounded more relatable. He didn't sound like what they thought news sounded like. It was only after we dived into his profile that they reluctantly relented.
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A story I often tell was how I once used two tiktok videos about an upcoming state election to try and teach about misinfo and expertise. I showed LA Times journalists explaining an initiative, then a rando clearly talking out of his ass. Who did they trust? The rando.
February 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A story I often tell was how I once used two tiktok videos about an upcoming state election to try and teach about misinfo and expertise. I showed LA Times journalists explaining an initiative, then a rando clearly talking out of his ass. Who did they trust? The rando.
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Def true in my experience teaching Gen Z.
“The issue with younger generations is deeper than media mistrust. It’s that no one knows what a journalist is.”
www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
I’m a Gen Z journalist. My generation doesn’t know what that means. - Poynter
The issue with younger generations is deeper than media mistrust. It’s that no one knows what a journalist is.
www.poynter.org
February 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Def true in my experience teaching Gen Z.
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exo being the face of the afro korean festival memes almost makes twitter worth checking still
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
exo being the face of the afro korean festival memes almost makes twitter worth checking still