Bård Edlund
@edlundart.bsky.social
🇳🇴 Norwegian in NYC. I design and animate for clients, and for myself. I also make music and art, and enjoy luxuriating at quiet cafés and diners. Oh, and I make slow and weird and interesting videos about art & culture on my EDLUNDART YouTube channel
Just for fun on a walk today, I tried to set my iPhone camera to a 3 second timer, and hit the button "3-ish seconds before that bicyclist will probably be here," and then waved my phone vaguely in his direction at hip height as he went by. Fun result! (w/my patented fakestagram filter processing)
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Just for fun on a walk today, I tried to set my iPhone camera to a 3 second timer, and hit the button "3-ish seconds before that bicyclist will probably be here," and then waved my phone vaguely in his direction at hip height as he went by. Fun result! (w/my patented fakestagram filter processing)
Email from a very famous artist to Epstein
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Email from a very famous artist to Epstein
This article is a really fascinating look at the plan vs. the current state of Saudi Arabia's The Line project, the insane super-long residential thing in the desert. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This article is a really fascinating look at the plan vs. the current state of Saudi Arabia's The Line project, the insane super-long residential thing in the desert. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
I mean, this would really help the housing market!
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I mean, this would really help the housing market!
Because algorithms will increasingly suppress human content in favor of AI-generated slop, we should probably bring back the spirit of "web rings," ie good creators should lift up other good creators as part of all the content they post so we can all find the good stuff.
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Because algorithms will increasingly suppress human content in favor of AI-generated slop, we should probably bring back the spirit of "web rings," ie good creators should lift up other good creators as part of all the content they post so we can all find the good stuff.
Can they pay me at least a few million dollars for taking down content I've made that had literally nothing in it breaking any of their guidelines?
September 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Can they pay me at least a few million dollars for taking down content I've made that had literally nothing in it breaking any of their guidelines?
Reposted by Bård Edlund
Yo, the copyright IS the opt out. That's literally the entire point of intellectual and creative property.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yo, the copyright IS the opt out. That's literally the entire point of intellectual and creative property.
I'm not drunk, I'm decorating: I upcycled a bottle of Disaronno by exploiting celebrity body parts. (42 people agree this video is worth watching 30% through) youtu.be/GLQ9Gj5xPhA
If I Made a Sexist Vase, It's Because I Was Drunk
YouTube video by EDLUNDART
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm not drunk, I'm decorating: I upcycled a bottle of Disaronno by exploiting celebrity body parts. (42 people agree this video is worth watching 30% through) youtu.be/GLQ9Gj5xPhA
Reposted by Bård Edlund
dudes rock
Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 😎
July 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
dudes rock
👋 Need a distraction? I pulled 10 names of famous cartoon characters out of a hat and then drew them from memory, without looking them up first. Often funny, sometimes disastrous, occasionally beautiful. Enjoy!
youtu.be/14BayklmfCA
youtu.be/14BayklmfCA
Drawing Cartoon Characters From Memory — Fun Disaster
YouTube video by EDLUNDART
youtu.be
July 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
👋 Need a distraction? I pulled 10 names of famous cartoon characters out of a hat and then drew them from memory, without looking them up first. Often funny, sometimes disastrous, occasionally beautiful. Enjoy!
youtu.be/14BayklmfCA
youtu.be/14BayklmfCA
Reposted by Bård Edlund
From dropping letters in a mailbox to waving to neighbors and colleagues, the postwoman in Chris Ware’s new set of U.S. postage stamps does it all.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/chri...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/chri...
June 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
From dropping letters in a mailbox to waving to neighbors and colleagues, the postwoman in Chris Ware’s new set of U.S. postage stamps does it all.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/chri...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/chri...
Reposted by Bård Edlund
Same, girl. Same.
May 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Same, girl. Same.
Unusually painted mailbox thingie in Kips Bay or thereabouts, NYC
May 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Unusually painted mailbox thingie in Kips Bay or thereabouts, NYC
My newsprint collage obsession continues. You can watch me piece together this one and four more tiny works of art here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9_...
April 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My newsprint collage obsession continues. You can watch me piece together this one and four more tiny works of art here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9_...
An interesting goth-adjacent collage I made from dark newsprint imagery. [ #art #collage ] Watch me put it together in this super-chill YouTube video: youtu.be/QyiwhInSKt8
April 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
An interesting goth-adjacent collage I made from dark newsprint imagery. [ #art #collage ] Watch me put it together in this super-chill YouTube video: youtu.be/QyiwhInSKt8
I wonder: Could some country set up very artist-friendly, AI-hostile copyright laws, and then could all artists register and publish their work in that country, sort of an opposite of how all companies are based in Delaware or all ships in the Bahamas?
Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright?
Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright?
More than 48,000 creators including Kate Bush and Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus say Labour’s preferred option is unfair and unworkable
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I wonder: Could some country set up very artist-friendly, AI-hostile copyright laws, and then could all artists register and publish their work in that country, sort of an opposite of how all companies are based in Delaware or all ships in the Bahamas?
Reposted by Bård Edlund
You could spend a whole day exploring art in a single area of New York, but we hope you’ll follow the paths in our spring guide that call out to you most, or that you’ve never taken.
Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide
Your guide to this season’s must-see museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City.
hyperallergic.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You could spend a whole day exploring art in a single area of New York, but we hope you’ll follow the paths in our spring guide that call out to you most, or that you’ve never taken.
A stylish lotto machine I animated through a combination of Blender and After Effects and human patience. [Client for these loops I'm posting: Stack Overflow].
February 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A stylish lotto machine I animated through a combination of Blender and After Effects and human patience. [Client for these loops I'm posting: Stack Overflow].
Recently found out about someone plagiarizing some of my old work, and it’s been a while since I’ve felt this successful
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Recently found out about someone plagiarizing some of my old work, and it’s been a while since I’ve felt this successful
Reposted by Bård Edlund
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
A little short-short film I made once upon a time. Moral of the story: Never trust a paper plane, especially if it's carrying a USB stick. #animation #motiondesign #animator
February 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A little short-short film I made once upon a time. Moral of the story: Never trust a paper plane, especially if it's carrying a USB stick. #animation #motiondesign #animator