solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es
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Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
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A greener future doesn't involve surveillance capitalism. It involves a small, lightweight web which isn't recording your every move in some data center and then running a bunch of servers to extract a pattern they can sell to advertisers. This trend has to stop.
A green future relies on a small web, where services are hosted close to the people, in small human-scale facilities, which don't upgrade their hardware because they made some custom silicon to better sell you (TPUs)
Aaand the final incarnation of my mountains:
removed all paper and rubber cement and used fine brushes for outlines, rocks and structures. White ink for rivers in the valley.
Usually, this stage ruins everything, so although it doesn't capture the essence of this place, it's no disaster, either.
(I think I will add some digital structures later on in the computer phase, to make it a bit more iridescent...)
But for the moment, that's it!
Whew!
Phase 4 of my mountain range:
Peeled off the rubber cement here and there, applied it in other places in hope of getting more shades and nuances.
Then sprayed ink again - it's so important to know when to stop.
(I can always make it darker in the ink stage, but making it lighter needs white ink and destroys the sprayed base.)
I must say I like it so far! Surprised I didn't ruin it yet.
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#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot
Berlin's virtual Comic Invasion festival in full swing!
Visit the booth of my incredibly talented workshop people and buy their amazing stuff:
https://comicinvasion.de/aussteller/werkstatt-fuer-comics-dirk-schwieger/
On to Phase 3
Applying the “poor people's air brush“, my trusty tooth brush, to create mineral-looking lighter and darker areas.
Not too much, as I will go over it a second time.
(White areas have been covered with rubber cement.)
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#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot
Tomorrow: first ever chance to visit #Berlin's #ComicInvasion festival from wherever you live: all virtual, all weekend!
Readings, interviews, awards shows and virtual tables full of #comics and #zines in a digital artist's alley.
Say hi to my students at the Werkstatt für Comics table, to my publisher #Reprodukt, and check out the live stream starting at 10 am CET:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdRiaGPEmN0
As always „für alle und für umme!“ – for everyone and for free!
Phase 2:
Still blue pencil, but filling in structures, currents, and a little light and dark.
So far, so good...
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Current work in progress: This double-spread landscape.
I have to try to do it justice, it's just too close to my heart to fuck it up.
Well, let's find our... 😅
Phase 1: Outlines with blue pencil.
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@Erdrandbewohner Tausend Dank, das hilft mir sehr!
@Erdrandbewohner Hab nie so ganz begriffen, wie ich Defender am besten einsetze - sollte ich möglichst viele Adblock-Listen aktivieren? Oder irgendwoher wissen, welche eine effektive/vertrauenswürdige ist...?!
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Together with a group of Berlin based artists, students, and event organizers we want to open a Berlin instance of the new federated event platform Mobilizon @mobilizon (part of @fediverse) and get people out of the Facebook Events. We are looking for people to help us with the installation, maintenance, code of conduct etc.
@gnuHU_linux @clubdiscordia @cryptoparty_berlin @reclaim_club_culture
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The EU Council is pushing for encryption backdoors to messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Signal to fight terrorism (German article): https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/
Despite the fact that errors of investigation in Austrian authorities had made the attack possible in the first place and not a lack of digital surveillance powers. Politicians must start to understand that more surveillance will not lead to more security. That's why we fight any attempt for an encryption backdoor: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/
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A reminder: Apple does not end-to-end encrypt iCloud data. Apple routinely provides iCloud data to the FBI. Apple encourages you to sync your iMessage store to iCloud, where it is not end-to-end encrypted. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-fbi-icloud-investigation-seattle-protester-arson-2020-9
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Somewhere in Florida, a bag of expensive golf clubs is now floating in a lake.
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Via @FreeJeremyNet@twitter.com
"Oct 26
I have some AMAZING NEWS.
Jeremy will be RELEASED to a halfway house come mid-November!
We are SO EXCITED that Jeremy will FINALLY be able to come home to his friends, family, & community, & overwhelmed with gratitude towards everyone who has supported him through this journey."
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things I learned during the years I was a pirate manga translator:
- there's no such thing as faithful translation. all translation is rewriting, some just try to mask it.
- the hard part is not having the skills to read source lang, but to write well in target lang
- and the hardest part of that is keeping character voices clearly distinct, while making dialogue feel natural
- the biggest temptation and the downfall of translators is to explain, to make clearer, to unweird, to homogenise
Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
