finally updated.. mostly personal projects, cos my work in the animation industry for the past 3 years has not been as an animator, but in other roles.
Thank you very much to Kozmodrum for letting me use their music! "R. Daneel Olivaw is a song from their album "Na tragu satelita".
Gonna add this gem of a blog - Folk Costume & Embroidery. I found it while looking for folk dress from the Balkans, and indeed I found what I was looking for, in detail.
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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.
Credits to @wizard_bisan1 (go follow her if you haven鈥檛)
All eyes on Rafah. We cannot let this lose traction
I鈥檝e said it before and I鈥檒l say it again, I鈥檝e seen so many posts of people arguing or being upset over this celebrity or that musician being shitty and supporting a genocide, not to say these conversations of people being held responsible shouldn鈥檛 happen, (they should). But if you鈥檙e going to spend so much time obsessing over celebrities, the least you can do is spend 2 minutes watching a video of someone who is actually in Palestine.
Back in 2018 I got to host a short little workshop of stop-motion animation, using coffee powder under the camera. Thank you to the organisers! Center for Girls in Ni拧 (where I attended a feminist painting colony prior to the workshop <3)
Finally got around to putting together some of the scenes I coloured on Cartoon Saloon's My Father's Dragon... It was a wonderful film to work on, I enjoyed it a lot, in large part thanks to having really great colleagues!
They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.
various past eurovision contestants are campaigning for the removal of israel and some national finalists are now choosing to boycott. olly alexander, who will rep the uk, condemned the palestinian genocide and was subsequently attacked by israeli media (in a blatant rule violation the ebu did nothing about)
slovenian broadcaster rtvslo is purportedly trying to negotiate the removal of israel
1000 artists from host country sweden are preparing to send an open letter to the ebu to ban israel; the swedish left wing has also called for israel to be removed immediately
iceland is officially threatening to boycott eurovision pending the removal of israel
word on the street is that if iceland does compete, it will send palestinian artist bashar murad who is openly anti-israel and has collabed with previous icelandic reps hatari, aka the guys who did this back in 2019
iceland is now leading in the odds whereas israel has been steadily dropping, suggesting that the bookies are aware israel is becoming increasingly unpopular
lastly, in a move so ridiculous i'm beginning to suspect eurovision is a figment of our collective imagination, israel is seemingly gearing up to enter eden golan, a moscow-based russian singer. while russia is still banned for terrorism.
if you're european: please contact your participating broadcaster and demand for the removal of israel, or try to contact your nation's selected artist to put pressure on the broadcaster. if you're swedish, please try contacting svt or authorities with security concerns regarding the inclusion of israel. if israel does enter eden golan, complain about her selection and ties to russia. and absolutely DO NOT vote on, watch or promote this show if israel does end up competing.