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@idilsukan.bsky.social

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artist / writer / director Books / tv / animation / movies / TTRPGs just a ridiculous and brave shroom upon the cliff-top, bracing against ever merciless winds idil.studio

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · Mar 29

Still trying to process my excitement about this, here is my ludicrous show which I love dearly, selected to go to the Annecy Festival with Women in Animation

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11h

There is a big difference between designing for development (good, great, v fun)
vs
designing for fancy presentations explaining rudimentary design principles to clients (extremely bad & takes up so much time, diplomatically telling them thanx 4 the recommendation but I don’t want to use Canva)

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11h

Extremely seriously considering a pricing structure that allows for the client to see one draft at the very beginning and one draft at the very end inc in the fee

Any additional drafts they wanna see are charged £40,000 extra

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 14h

Why would they do this. Why would they take a shit right in their own cornflakes

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 14h

Look Frank Langella is a transcendent Skeletor in Masters of the Universe. Thunderously Shakespearean, with twisted, tragic, cosmic arrogance - much MUCH better than he ever needed to be. So much freaking grace - NO SMALL ROLES

How is it possible to follow this up by casting Jared Leto as Skeletor

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 15h

My eyes teared up a little, I’m not even joking
Ok now we find out if these get the fuck out of my feed settings are actually going to work but pls Pinterest I want to BELIEVE

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 15h

Oh my prayers my VERY ANGRY PRAYERS they are being answered
Pinterest > Settings
Refine Your Recommendations >
GenAI interests

YOU CAN FINALLY TURN THEM OFF

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

It looks like a bubble and overloads on increasingly desperate tool tips like a bubble

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

Wtfffffuck wtttheFUCK

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

Had to use Microsoft Teams today for the first time in a few years & it is a tsunami of AI cope, a fuming desperation unleashed, pls PLEASE use AI. Every button has a panicked tool tip gagging, frothing, unravelling, tearing its shirt off, begging you atop a cliff, wailing, a full R&B boyband song

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

Wait you have to be “eligible”?? You can’t just get one because… you want one? I had this impression you could just rock up at Boots and get one without an appointment

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

Argh YES his use of light is wild, it’s so controlled but so playful, ties it all beautifully together.

That’s what is missing in so many rip offs of his work - AND the hollow way clients talked to me when they gave me his posters as reference without knowing who he was -

- the wit & joy of it

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t see how any artist wouldn’t be influenced by him - even abstract or conceptual artists. What Struzan nailed was that emotional connection, the story OF the story. Even if your style is totally different, what we dream of is what we did with Struzan. To stop & stare and get LOST in the world

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18h

Oh man Drew Struzan. No one could do it like him.

So many execs don’t listen to how visceral & economic the difference is. So many more people see the poster than ever see the movie. The poster introduces the world to the idea, the emotional heft of it means it shaped people’s literal memories. RIP

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 22h

“it’s inevitable that the world will burn & everyone will die in agony, so you may as well let me steal your stuff against your wishes now. Why be mad about it”

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

As soon as I said it I knew in my heart that I had inadvertently conjured something both horrifying and beautiful

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes we enjoy Shakespeare’s Comedies but we are vastly underrating just how funny he is being with Hamlet’s character, he is literally taking the piss, and it is a very hilarious & great character study in the entitlement & stupidity of aristocrat children. It is: FUNNY

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I would allow Dawson’s Creek’s rules - sure a 30 y/o can play a 16 year old if they are have good hair & overdramatise absolutely everything like they are the first person who has ever felt anything

But to me getting these 50 y/os playing Hamlet is like getting Orson Welles to play Annie

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

There is discussion on Hamlet’s age but I land on him being a moronic teenager - To Be Or Not To Be absolutely a speech from someone who is Thinking Things For The First Time & is like yes only me has ever felt such powerful feelings
- & it is functionally insane for any actor over 25 to play him

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

Making everyone shut up and watch his terrible incredibly unsubtle play for goodness sake. Truly the trust fund brat who ruins uni theatre club for everyone

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

Hamlet is a spoiled nepobaby fuckboy, with core I Am 14 And ThIs Is Deep vibes, and should be played as such, literally for laughs. He is ridiculous, and there is a direct line between endless productions taking any of what he says seriously, and the manosphere

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

Bury me under the Blockbuster ruins

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

I might have a third cousin twice removed who lives in a remote Spanish village and works in an abattoir, and them maybe I’d buy not having any idea

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

All these well-connected people, in the arts, surrounded by queer and neurodivergent people, working closely with them day to day, and working with PRs and social media teams and press junkets for decades - all of them simply had no freaking idea

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to believe that all these people simply had no idea: “Hugh Laurie as Dumbledore, Matthew Macfadyen as Voldemort, Riz Ahmed as Snape, Michelle Gomez as McGonagall, Kit Harington as Gilderoy Lockhart, Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley, James McAvoy as Mad-Eye Moody, Matt Berry as Sir Cadogan.”

feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 2d

the source for this nonsense:

collider.com/harry-potter...

New Harry Potter Star Keira Knightley Reveals Her Stance on J.K. Rowling

New Harry Potter star Keira Knightley reveals her stance on J.K. Rowling amid ongoing unrest about the author's personal political opinions.

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

Plssss remember all articles by the Guardian about AI are advertorials