JC
@jamescurcio
Artist, author. "Woke Philosopher." Various now defunct media startups. RPGs, Audio production, Podcasts. Possibly a wizard. JamesCurcio.com
"My neighbor is a cannibal who screams throughout the night" is fantastic. Really makes me want to make an avant post metal album just so I can use the title.
BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers #Art #BookCover #Books (OK, TFR was an album/EP. Still.)
Still primarily using the kyle's brush megapacks I bought in like 2010... I keep thinking about buying some new kits and then... don't. But they work pretty well.
I'll keep sharing digital paintings here... I did a ton 2021-2024ish after wrapping Tales From When I Had A Face that were vamping on past or future project vibes without any particular end intention other than not fully losing the stylus habit. One I did for the website just for "fun".
The downside of producing & editing a full season of a podcast before scheduling it is you don't get any of that release dopamine. But anyway, I'm maybe 30-40 hrs or so from having season 6 of the Fallen Cycle ready to go.
It's not cut and paste. It's not collage. It's not a 1:1 copy of any particular work or idea. :pinches bridge of nose: "So how does it work then mr smarty pants?" someone might ask. Well, in actuality it's incredibly complicated, but I've got a picture that'll do for now as broad strokes:
504 pages at 12 pt times roman on 8.5"x11". We'll see what I can prune & flag on the hard copy pass.
I don't know if it was our most instructive episode but it may be one of the more entertaining ones. Discussion of D&D alignment, and the weirdness of "morality as cosmology" in the most recent episode of the Modern Mythology podcast. www.modernmythology.net/podcast/epis...
Covid acute symptoms seem to be improving, which is good. Because trying to check in on the outside world when the only means you've got at your disposal is a phone / pc right now is like
Spent like 30 hours on this one last summer. Probably one of my favorite that I did for that book. Sharing apropos of nothing really other than surprise at how fast the time goes now.
In a post on Truth Social, US president Donald Trump said he is “possibly the least pressured person ever” to end the war in Iran.
People who think that numbers present an unambiguous narrative are just as bad tbh. Of course the real common factor here is probably people.
May be in luck. If there's one thing randos on Bluesky will do it's probably that. (That is because it is spiritually Tumblr).
Maybe? Their core tiers seem about right, the vanity tiers are ludicrous but they pretty much always are. Though I know firsthand that you can't factor in a lot of profit on a crowdfund campaign after production costs unless your plan is to cut and run to Costa rica or something.
He's really just posting through it, huh Shortly after saying he wants to "wind the war down" whatever that means: