#kaepernicking

[arinzechukwuture]

[wardsutton]

A Gentle Reminder for Black History Month and Superbowl Sunday: Colin Kaepernick took a knee for social justice and the NFL blackballed him for life. Now the NFL is taking a knee for Trump, erasing their message of "End Racism" from the Superbowl field.

[sadyetpredictable]

[auntierayeraye]

[porterdavis]

[eddiemauldin]

Happy Black History Month! If you want a depiction of real heroism look no further than my mashup “Kaeptain America.”

[theconcealedweapon]

When Colin Kaepernick kneeled, many people wanted him banned from the league.

They insisted that free speech doesn't apply when you're at work and representing the team or the league.

But now, many of those same people are insisting that what happened here is a violation of free speech.

They flip-flop their support of free speech when it's convenient. They support free speech only when it benefits them. I'm not surprised at all.

[worldwide-blackfolk]

[democracyunderground]

[arinzechukwuture]

[wouldyourecognizethisperson-poll]

[michaelpaul7]

[porterdavis]

Hypocrisy much?

[deepdreamnights]

From this post, a conversation between Mrs. Nice and Dr. Underfang, about how there's more than one way to make a comic.

While the linked post goes into the process in much more detail, the short version is that making a comic with AI involves all the steps of making a photocomic or a Wondermark-esq collage comic.

Here, each panel is a combination of one or more gens through direct compositing and inpainting ('gumby Underfang' is a basic crop-job but the others are multi-image composites, inpainted edits, or both), with graphic design and non-AI composited elements. `

I like to use AI art to achieve forms of 'fauxstalgia', weaving concepts into the aesthetics of artifacts of the past. I consider myself a nostalgia artist (not a nostalgic artist, tho I can sometimes be that), but you can get as experimental with it as you want.

And people are already doing it, they just don't call them comics.

Those sequences of AI-generated photos that tell a horror story that pop up on Tumblr? Those are comics.

We are very much in the "plastic wrap and lens flare" phase of AI art, where the newest and (often literally) shiniest effects take center stage because like an early 2000s kid with a cracked copy of photoshop, it's the new toy.

(I have a feeling Colin Kaepernick is going to give us, at most, a few adventures of a D-rate Borgorroth of Coolswordoorroth before absconding with the bag.)

Feel free to reblog with folks that are doing innovative stuff.

I will start by recommending @reachartwork, where you're going to find all kinds of interesting new stuff, and a fun illustrated prose super-verse under the CHUM title.

[tommylindholm]

MLK Day 2025. On the day we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's life and legacy, we inaugurate a president who is the antithesis of everything MLK stood for. Everything he fought for. Everything he died for. It means nothing to this alleged administration.

Until inauguration day 2029 (at the absolute earliest), I will never stand up for the national anthem. I won't even take off my hat if I'm wearing one. That song and flag don't deserve it.

Colin Kaepernick was right about everything he said. You know it even if you don't want to admit it.

[akonoadham]

Two 49er NFL players.

Two political statements.

Black Lives Matter v. MAGA.

Only one is allowed by the NFL.