✍️ Today, 23 organisations from across Europe's music sector, including ECSA, call for a strong budget and an ambitious sectoral approach for music within the future #AgoraEU programme.
➡️ Read our letter: bit.ly/4rHQWQL
What if you could only keep 100 personal objects?
Not as a trend. Not as minimalism.
As a way to understand who you are. kristiansensini.substack.com/p/ode-to-min...
Congratulazioni!
Animation First Festival invited me to be one of the panelists on the Sound and Animation panel. It is a perfect balance of 3 composers and 2 filmmakers to get plenty of insight on sound in animation.
It takes place at French Alliance New York! Come!
lallianceny.org/event/profes...
As I've just made a history of documentary cinema, I'm interested in this review of the Melania doc:
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
✅ The European Parliament’s JURI Committee just adopted its report “Copyright and generative AI – opportunities and challenges”.
ECSA welcomes the report and encourages all MEPs to adopt it in plenary session.
⤵️ Read our press release below or via: bit.ly/3M41ABU
We absolutely need lot of quotes here and there from the original Tv Theme. And of course don’t forget some synth sounds from the 80
Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar A baby was hospitalized after being tear gassed by ICE. The family was not illegal, and not even protesting—just driving home from their son's basketball game. This can't be reformed. Time to abolish ICE.
Every Dem should be saying it
What the fuck is going on? Enough is enough. #AbolishICE
"KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS: You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. You have the right to photograph or film anything in plain view, including federal buildings and law enforcement, so long as you are not trespassing or violating a lawful order. You should not interfere with the actions of the government officials you are recording. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement officer at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you'll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney-no matter your citizenship or immigration status."
"If you interact with ICE in public: Ask if you are free to leave. If so, you may calmly walk away. You have the right to refuse consent to a search. You have the right to remain silent. You do not have to discuss your immigration status with anyone, such as about where you were born, whether you are a citizen, or how you entered the country. If you have valid immigration documents, you should show them. Never provide fake documents. If you are arrested, say that you wish to remain silent until speaking with a lawyer. You have the right to record your interaction with immigration agents as long as you do not interfere."
If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.
She died a hero.
I will never understand, as long as I live, how he wasn't put in a straitjacket with a Dr. Lecter mask on long ago
Every nation and people should be asking this question. The answer is that anything you are doing that interfaces with US tech is a weapon being used against you.
US services are a noose around your neck that will be exploited to enslave you.
This will only get worse.
Declare independence
A whole generation of fresh and unnecessary sickness at the hands of these lying goddamn clowns.
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
We had a good run
✨ The GRAMMY Awards are the only major music awards decided by peers — by people who know what it means to sit with a score at night, to rewrite the same eight bars twenty times, to question every choice until the music finally tells the truth.
#grammys
In the moments of feeling the imminent doom when you doubt working on your project remember that Salinger wrote Catcher in the Rye while he was on the D-Day mission. The war ended, the book was published and life continued on. Making Art during the end of the world actually makes the world go on .
What he said: 💯 🎯
My first animated feature film ROCKS IN MY POCKETS will screen at Kino Suns cinema in Riga as part of Studija Lokomotive 30-year anniversary celebration retrospective!
www.bezrindas.lv/en/akmeni-ma...
While everybody is flipping out about AI and future, we are slowly chugging along the old fashioned way - with our digits directly connected to our brains. Making an animated feature film with hands is fun. Check out and follow us for more updates here:
www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/in-our-...
Today's my birthday!
And for my birthday all I ask is your love and support for my new animated feature film KARMIC KNOT.
You can also subscribe to the film's mailing list and get cool updates from time to time. THANK YOU!
www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/karmic-...
Congratulations Marlon
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
Animation linetest image of a birthing scene.
Animating a scene for my new film KARMIC KNOT.
YES, pencil on paper. YES, the midwife is yelling: Push!
YES, the baby is coming.
A photo of a delivery room set for a stop motion animated feature film KARMIC KNOT
Getting ready to shoot the giving birth scene for my new film KARMIC KNOT. The buckets will fill with blood.
Hoy se cumplen 10 años de la muerte de James Horner en un trágico accidente con su avioneta. Un accidente que nos privó de 10 años con un puñado de, seguro, obras maestras. En el recuerdo eterno, su música nunca morirá.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUrx...
A photo of stop motion set
Puppets march! Straight into a computer!
A photo of a stop motion animation set, with lights and camera in place.
The world may be nearing the end but we set up our next shot for my new animated feature and keep working. Animators have to be optimistic people or they never get anything done!
A drawing of a sad young single mother filled with anxiety and uncertainty about her future breastfeeds her baby.
What would make her smile?
Happy MOTHER's Day!
