Christopher Lepkowski

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Former agency technical director & exited founder, now building a game studio in greater Los Angeles/Pasadena christopherlepkowski.com

Purported sketch of upcoming Lego set
Scene from the graduate where a businessman advises a graduating student to go into plastics
In 1961, Progressive editor William Evjue wrote of the Wisconsin Socialist legislators he had known by saying: "They never were approached by the lobbyists, because the lobbyists knew it was not possible to influence these men. They were incorruptible."
In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the character of Hunter S Thompson reminds himself to learn to enjoy losing
Poster art for Primary Trust By Eboni Booth Directed by Knud Adams
Sky Commanders, American animated television series co-produced by Hanna-Barbera and Toei Animation. It premiered in July 1987 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera and lasted for thirteen episodes. It was based on the action figure line from Kenner Toys.
“Mr Wheeler” and the demonic persona he takes on behind the wheel in Disney’s Motor Mania, 1950
ARCADIA: LAPD SWAT will conduct training at Santa Anita Park near Gates 5 & 6. This training will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. and will include helicopters & police personnel in the area. There is no threat to the public and no action is required, according to Arcadia PD.
Tonight, the US military will be conducting a training exercise in northeast Pasadena until 1:00 a.m. During this time may hear limited helicopter activity, controlled explosions, and simulated weapons fire. Pasadena Police will be assisting with pedestrian and vehicle safety in the immediate area. This event is not open to the public or media.
"This is an important message from the city of Pasadena. Please listen to this message in its entirety and follow the instructions at the end. Thank you tonight. The US military will be conducting a training exercise in Northeast Pasadena until 1 AM during this time the public may hear, limited helicopter activity controlled explosions and simulated weapons fire. This is a military training with Pasadena police assisting with pedestrian and vehicle safety in the immediate area. This event is not open to the public or media.
Jack Black of Tenacious D excitedly speaking
Copies of the animator‘s survival kit and the animator‘s workbook on a desk
Capcom’s Project Justice on Switch as part of Capcom Fighting Games Vol 2
Nintendo power glove resting on table
A “missed” result from a colorblindness quiz
The War Pig man who ended up on the Black Sabbath Paranoid single
I'm one of these people who is very anti-robot rights, as it were, because I believe it's essentially a degradation of human rights. It doesn't elevate robots to the same status as humans, it degrades humans to the same status as robots. I think we should always, when we're looking at these machines, treat them as what they are, which is avatars of capital. You're not being nice to a conscious being if you help a robot cross the street, you are helping capital in some way. I think we're very susceptible to being manipulated, for the same reason that I've talked about over exaggerations of capability. We see a human form and we start treating it like a human.
Winnie the Pooh meme: smug and fancy when he dresses in a tuxedo
A guitar sitting face up on a desk, as if ready for restringing or repair
There was one recent study of populists, we looked at every populist over the past century around the world, and it found that 15 years after the election of a populist, average income in a country was 10 to 15 percent lower. In a country like the United States, that means your children will be $15,000 a year worse off because of this president, and they'll be that for the rest of their lives, right? So that, if your children live a long and healthy life, your children will be a million dollars worths of if this president follows the pattern that past populists have.
Printout taped to screen says “one foot in from of the other.”
In a panel from the Superman comics, we see a parallel to modern Maga ideology in Bizarro World: pure contrarianism. Things that are good are bad, things that are bad are good.
Cow-spotted dog at a local dog park in East Pasadena with the San Gabriel mountains in the background
Text message snapshot reads: If anyone has an Amazon Alexa, an important note: you CAN successfully tell Alexa to “set thy chronometer for 12 minutes” In big King Henry voice
More in reliably bad takes from Ezra Klein: he gushes that Weiss is good at finding clowns to write for her
Portrait of Zoidberg reveals his skull was the model for Kash Patel‘s extremely pathetic FBI challenge coin
September 2023, saying people don’t talk about it enough “but the project 2025 Shit is some real Nazi shit”
Instead of shoes, the transparent pockets of a shoe organizer hanging on the back of a door are filled with office junk (mostly various kinds of short cables and adapters)
Desk has two keyboards, two monitors and then a third portable monitor standing vertically, an Intel NUC mini computer, a webcam on a stand flipped onto its side, several mice, and a crap load of cables
Old trade paperbacks of Dave Berg cartoons from Mad magazine and Batman comics from the 40s. Some John Stanley (best known for Little Lulu in the 40s and 50s) is poking out from behind the Batman book
Chihuahua rat mix looks up at camera
Two dogs walking on a concrete patio
Various scribblings and crude drawings regarding 3D camera movement, notably a box has been drawn around an exclamation that “you’re just moving a boom!”
SpongeBob mocks Slotkin’s adoption of the language of idiots by parroting “AlpHaW eNrRgY” at her
A portion of the poster’s work desk with keyboard and mouse, trackpad, two brown drinks (which are coffee and soda) and a few other small items
Two dogs lying on an ottoman look at the camera.
The Bug Club playing some of their song, “Lonsdale Slip-Ons” live in Highland Park, Los Angeles, April 10, 2025
Tim Sweeney appears on the inside unreal twitch stream in December, dressed in Holiday gear for the 2024 year in review
A spotted dog sits curled up in the foreground as a copper chihuahua mix looks away behind it.
“The title of this ode to industrial waste refers to Sauget, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis. It’s a town without a population, a place that exists only as a means of getting tax breaks for the Monsanto Corporation. As the lyrics make clear, the air in Sauget is terribly polluted because of the Monsanto factory there, such that it’s quite difficult to breathe.”
Three books are shown. The first is “Starting Point: 1979-1996”, a collection of essays, interviews, and memoirs that go back to the roots of director Hayao Miyazaki's childhood, the formulation of his theories of animation, and the founding of Studio Ghibli. Next is Walt Disney's Donald Duck "The Secret of Hondorica", Vol. 17 from The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, comics originally published in 1956, in which the Disney Ducks go on a perilous jungle quest. The third is Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Six, the sixth and final trade paperback reprinting Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing.
An artist’s illustration of an unnamed street in Europe circa 100 CE. Architects have built baths and toilets, running water and public fountains. From “A Street Though Time”.
Lone Wolf gamebook 1, Flight from the Dark