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Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time. https://bauwerks.net Tags: #art / #animation / #photography

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · Oct 17

Now's probably a good time to finally make a pinned post. Hey there! Writing for tech is my day job, but I also draw, animate, and take photos when I'm not working. I do all four on my website.

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Drawing of Gotoh from Patlabor parodying Kanamori from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits.

Drawing of Noa from Patlabor parodying Mizusaki from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits.

Drawing of Ota from Patlabor parodying Midori from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits.

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Peter Nickeas 🎃 @peternickeas.bsky.social · 9h

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 13h

I was too caught up in bullshit yesterday to remember to post this when it would've been more relevant and funnier, but a belated Happy Day Before Halloween on Halloween nonetheless! Watch scary movies, eat candy, or watch Knockin' On Heaven's Door, it's a solid action film if you haven't seen it.

From Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door, it's a peephole POV of Ed dressed with a devilishly-smiling pumpkin on her head, arms reached out to the door/peephole, saying "Trick or treat"

The same scene, POV, and text as the last screen, but Ed's now hunching forward and looking up into the peephole as devilishly as the pumpkin she wears, swaying her arms around in a scary manner. The dog Ein is seen sitting by her side, watching curiously.

Exterior shot looking at the front door of the corner building Ed and Ein were standing at, and now a grouchy old man in a bathrobe and a sawed-off shotgun is starting down at Ed, yelling "Idiot! Halloween's not till tomorrow."

The man's firing off his shotgun into the air, and Ed is running away to screen right.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18h

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent

Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

www.businessinsider.com

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

I've never read this book by Ebert, nor do I think all his writings/reviews are wise, but damn did he nail the head on this one. (From A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck by Roger Ebert)

"Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills." (from A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck by Roger Ebert)

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

At some point these kinds of screenings (screamings?) feel less like celebrating the film being shown and more like it's just an excuse for people to shout and be a buffoon for 90–120 minutes.

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

I know western animation & some live action films (namely musicals on both counts) do this too, but it seems like I see this more often w/ Japanese animation screenings, whether this behavior's officially condoned or the fans just do it on their own accord (ie, fans losing it over an animated seq.).

A post from Catsuka saying "'Shouting, applause, cheering and the use of glow sticks' will be allowed during special screenings of Evangelion movies in certain Japanese theaters in November (hand clap emoji) (for the 30th anniversary of the series)." Followed by a link to an article from Japanese site Natalie.mu. Screenshot shows Shinji reaching out to the screen in tears on a movie theater screen, while dozens of hands are extended with glow sticks, lit with blue light. (Presumably a photoshop job).

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

Ah yeah, I like Yuuki's work! Not sure why he didn't cross my mind. I think I got the 1st one you showed, but for some reason I thought the 2nd one was something like 吉 or 古. Obviously need to get back to studying my radicals (and JP in general). Thanks!

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

Who drew this? I'm having a hard time parsing the radicals in the kanji to look it up, and searches for artwork either bring up U.S. artwork or JP artwork that isn't this (and looks like a different artist's hand as well).

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

......Can't believe I didn't think of that, but it does kinda look like ikura that would double as the Ron's wig...

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

It's funny, I just added his site to my feed reader a couple weeks ago, and this was all I needed to see to promptly delete it.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

You can use the desktop version of hemingway for that and not cook the planet in the process.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

It looks like Japanese McDonald's got these toys a few years ago, I wonder if the HK McDos got them too.

entabe.com/news/gourmet...

A 3/4 view of some kind of plastic Funassyi toy, where the pear fairy is dressed in a yellow McDonald's uniform with a red tie and a red curly hair wig like the one Ronald McDonald wears.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 2d

This is horrifying and it also feels like the inevitable conclusion of any homelessness policy that begins and ends with “break up encampments and make people invisible”.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 2d

I also have nieces/nephews with an "aunt" who is their mom's best friend and not related to us at all, so...

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 2d

I'm going to assume it's mostly white folks making a big deal about this, and it's funny that they would b/c there are some pretty famous white folks in bands who have kids that call the other bandmates "uncle". americansongwriter.com/the-mundane-...

"Dhani Harrison Once Received a Frightful Drum Lesson From His “Uncle” Ringo

After George Harrison’s son became aware of what his dad actually did for a living (when he wasn’t fulfilling his passion project of being an arborist), the rest of Dhani Harrison’s upbringing made a lot more sense. While other kids were leaving school and going home to their parents and maybe their parents’ friends or other relatives, Dhani came home to find ELO frontman Jeff Lynne or Bob Dylan sitting in the living room. And, of course, his “Uncle” Ringo Starr just so happened to be one of the most notable drummers of the 21st century."

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 3d

Doing some digging around, it seems like most, if not all, of my problems with scratches and exposure are probably from the lab and not my camera. So, good for me, but also 😭 because you can't really redo negatives. Won't use that lab again...

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 3d

Color shots from the Observatory in Griffith Park and the Huntington greenhouse. Forgot to mention the previous shots are all from the Huntington too. These turned out mostly better, but some had faint streaks running in the shots. Inconsistent resolutions too. Need to talk to the lab.

#photography

Color shot of the L.A. skyline taken from Griffith Park, near the Observatory. Slightly smoggy, but fairly clear day.

Color shot of some plants with red flowers of some kind from the greenhouse at the Huntington.

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 3d

Got my first Hasselblad shots back from the lab, a couple rolls of B&W and a roll of color slide (Velvia — see next post). Between exposure, dust/spots, and scratches, not many of these turned out great, but these are some of the better ones.

#photography

Black and white shot of some tall trees with thin, willow of wisps-like branches hanging down. The trunks look like multiple smaller tree trunks merge into one larger trunk by the base. To the left corner are a bunch of cacti growing towards the upper-right direction.

Black and white shot of a female statue in the midst of a pond at Huntington Gardens, surrounded by ferns and rocks.

Black and white shot of other ferns from the same pond.

Black and white shot of a circular metal tube structure acting as a shelf, with multiple wood shelves propped up by other metal beams inside the frame. Each shelf has a small bansai tree. From the Huntington's Japanese garden.

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 3d

Screenshot of the blue-haired woman from the Ys I title screen for the PC Engine/TurboGrafix-16. She is nude and framed by some kind of golden oval-shaped frame with six green orbs circling the perimeter, and long, narrow pointy wings adorn the sides. In the game she holds a large blue orb that obscures her breasts, but this image has Nanoraptor's black orb-shaped rabbit in its place.

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 3d

I'm a little surprised Feng ShuAI hasn't been taken yet.

(Calling dibs now solely to sue whoever uses the name before the bubble bursts, will send all money received to pro-dem/yellow orgs in HK.)

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 4d

Sure, having lots of money to blow on cool pieces of art would be fun, but how is that not under del Toro's own idea of "not rich"? Wouldn't the criteria then just be whether or not it gives you personal satisfaction, whether it costs 10 cents or $10,000?

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 4d

I'm sure choosing yachts, planes, & islands as targets of criticism was intentional — who can justify any of those? — but the artworks he collects aren't cheap either. And it's a private collection! He'll loan pieces for an exhibit or do a press tour of the house, or sell for charity, but that's it.

Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 4d

The thing with that GdT quote about wealth going around is: he's not wrong, it's a good way to look at wealth, but it's still coming from a guy who owns at least two houses (that I'm aware of), one of which is used solely to house his 10,000+ pieces of artwork that his wealth afforded him.