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You are driving through the desert and you find a bottle of turtle wax

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A short video of the thoughts that I kept having while watching an episode of Game Grumps

Link to the episode here

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Don't steal art, and especially don't try to sell it as if it were condoned by the artist.

Before you buy that shirt…

We have been experiencing a serious uptick in copyright violations recently, specifically in advertisements from “Fans of…” Facebook pages.

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been playing whack-a-mole with a Dark Tower “community” that has been ripping off Michael Whelan’s KA symbol. I suspect this is the same group of thieves I had banned from Facebook last year for rampant copyright violation.

The ads in question are for t-shirts, mugs, etc printed almost exclusively through Teechip, a campaign driven t-shirt printer that has a disturbing number of alternatively branded websites out there.

If you see a Michael Whelan product that doesn’t look legitimate, please let us know and we can confirm whether the product has been properly licensed. We have a lot of fans doing this already and the extra eyes help enormously.

Was your artwork ripped off?

If you are an artist with a similar experience, please reach out and share the details of the copyright infringement.

I’m trying to open a dialogue with Facebook’s intellectual property department to see if we can find a better way to protect artist rights on social media. The more evidence I have, the easier it will be to get their attention.

This is something I’m doing on my own time as a fan, and I’m happy to share my experience to help others navigate the process.

Signal boost please. Thank you!

Mike Jackson webmaster@michaelwhelan.com

P.S. If you see a cool shirt out there, find out who the artist is. Then you can make sure you’re supporting their work.

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Hollywood's Greatest Trick

A short documentary on why the VFX industry is essentially broken

See the video along with a good article discussing the topic in further detail HERE

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LoFree Retro Mechanical Typewriter Keyboard

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Osaka based photographer, hot.kenobi, takes pictures of his action figures that are awesome.

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Oh look, each pantone color has its own hashtag, how trendy is that!

A client who doesn’t understand hex codes.     (via clientsfromhell)

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The story of how Mass Effect came to be.

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Adventures of the Ampersand 

This comic appears in the latest issue of The Southampton Review.

Posters are available at my shop.

You can now pre-order my book, The Shape of Ideas.

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Akira: How to Animate Light

Great video describing light in animation< but also reafirming my love of Akira.

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I always try to cite any source when I make a gif or post any pictures. Heck there have even been times I have not posted something because I couldn't find a proper source. I just hope I never sourced something to a fake.

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ANA

A great short that deserves a lot more views.

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Click here to see a bonus panel!

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Borrowed Time

Amazing short directed by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj.

Also watch he featurette - Why We Made Borrowed Time

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Titans of the Earth

This is a great and funny documentary about the life of excavators by GK Films.

Here is a link to the original german version - Titanen des Erdreichs