Alex Fort

Digital painting, a ship defies gravity hovering above three figures in a bleak landscape

Mileships outtake

Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️) YouTube video by Avie Sheck

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

Small sketch of Michael Sheen. Acrylic on paper, A6.

#acrylicpainting #portraitpainting #acrylicart #artist #sketch

Sketch of Ella Purnell. Acrylic on paper, A6.

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Ruins of Skaro, Doctor Who. Acrylic on paper, A5.

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Thank you.

Doctor Who sketch, Oodsphere. Acrylic on paper, A5.

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Pencil drawings, Ormiscaig village in North West Scotland

Pencil drawings, Ormiscaig village in North West Scotland

Ink drawing, Ormiscaig village in North West Scotland

Ink drawing, a house on the road to Ullapool in North West Scotland

Some straight drawings

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

“The goal now has to be nothing less than a new alliance of western democracies no longer dependent on the US for their defence”. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was

Was honored to get the call to be one of The Guardian’s Big Interviews in G2. A thorough and thoughtful piece that digs into the real fundaments of the AI bubble narrative.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Quick sketch of Mia Goth. Gouache on paper, A6.

#gouachepainting #portraitpainting #sketchbook #artist

There has to be a way On the future of art and labor in the age of American AI and authoritarianism.

Last week, hundreds of creative workers amassed at a public hearing for an AI transparency bill to testify how AI was corroding their lives. Days later, Disney cut a deal with OpenAI, and Trump moved to stamp out state AI laws.

On art and labor in the age of AI and American authoritarianism:

Greed is Destroying the World YouTube video by Drew Gooden

Hot dang this video essay hits hard, is well researched, and aligns so well with what I think ails this world.

I feel that now, more than ever, solidarity of the 99% will truly be one of the few things that can fix this absolute mess of a techno feudal-ish world.

Mega worth the watch:

Acrylic doodle, A6.

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Sketch of Elle Fanning. Acrylic on paper, A6.

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Here's the clip!
youtu.be/ZGVKZQQSJkg

How we're all changing under the gaze of AI, as we learn to see ourselves as the machine sees us

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It's here: An absolute beast of an episode. The story of the worst speech in post-war Britain - how it came to be, what it said, and what happened afterwards.

Nick Clegg being a shit over artists rights

The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.

On the day Joe Biden accuses Trump of appeasing Putin, we just happen to have a new two parter on the story of appeasement and how the pursuit of peace and justice mutated into a moral and strategic catastrophe. Part one takes us from the aftermath of the First World War to the Anschluss

This post very much blew up. It's on track to be one of, if not *the* most-read on the newsletter. There are a few points I think I could have underlined better—that I think the thesis is true whether the jobs data in the pictured graph reflects AI impacts or not—but it clearly struck a nerve.

Gil Elvgren style time-lapse. Sketchbook Pro, iPad 9.

#timelapse #digitalportrait #gilelvgren #portraitpainting #sketchbookpro

i hated making this video but not as much as i hate billionaires

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Time-lapse sketch based on a painting by John Singer Sargent. Sketchbook Pro, iPad 9.

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Another Gil Elvgren style sketch. Acrylic on paper, A6.

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