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graphic design is my sisyphean mandate Robin Beelow | she/they | AI is a fascist tool tip jar: @bumblebeelow on venmo

a book called "Brenda Turner's Legacy" laid out on a wooden table with candles, tomes, and wax covered potions. The book's cover, my own design, has immigration documents in the background and shows a continent with a journey plotted across the ocean.
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Will To Power" edited to say "The Will To Stancil"
picture of a novelty t-shirt with a sinful amount of various fonts. Text reads: "I Was Telling My Son About LOUIS ARMSTRONG [trumpet image] And He Said 'What's his Website?' Kids These Day Will NEVER Understand that LOUIS ARMSTRONG does not have a WEBSITE"
screenshot of the Datacolor SpyderX Elite post-calibration report. I've highlighted the AdobeRGB color space, of which my monitor (post-calibration) scores 100% on.
Article by David Aldridge in The Athletic. Title: We have lost the impact of shame in our society.
First post from the now deleted @adobe.com account: "Hey, we're Adobe! We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life. What's fueling your creativity right now? Drop a reply, tag a creator, or share your latest work- we'd love to see what inspires you!" First reply is their stock price in the red, down $150. There's 1.6k comments, 1k quotes, and only 50 likes.
A book is staged with dramatic lighting on a weathered wood panel floor. The book is called Listening for Candor: Building Trust in Relationships that Matter, by Peter Yaholkovsky MD. It has a plain beige cover with some dark grey accents and modern typography.
linkedin post where I (Robin Beelow: Chief Brand Designer | Graphics, Motion, Web, UI/UX) post "really makes you think!" while linking a Business Insider article discussing Adobe's HR chief rolling back DEI. I comment and tag adobe directly and say "what's the deal here champ"
reddit post from user [deleted]: From urban dictionary: «A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang. The opposite of cringe, some times the opposite of biased.»
screenshot of me replying to balenciaga mcdonalds using the cursed text generator. The characters spill vertically above and below the confines of my post's UI allotment. underneath the satanic glyphs, barely decipherable, is written "benihana moronalds"
a pixel art rendering of a woman among some leaves. it's extremely close cut on her face. The piece uses a technique called "mixels", which includes (in this case) 1x, 4x, and 16x sized pixels in the final image. This piece uses the DB32 palette.
a monkey with a hat that says "I heart wieners". He has chili fries with corn dogs in there. She looks resoundingly joyful.
Pixel art using a technique called Mixels, where you upscale the art in stages to achieve a blocky, strange effect. This image has a large black frame to get proper scaling on mobile. It's labeled "THE MIXEL GIANT", and a towering, purplish figure blots out the sun above you. Whispy lens flare like effects shine out, and swirling grey clouds frame the blue sky and sun. The figure is somewhat grotesque and trollish, but perhaps its just the technique making it look that way.
an image of a bearded person with a barbed crown on their head backlit by the sunset, attempting to look like White Jesus. A speech bubble was added to make it look like the quoted post is being said by him
A song I wrote for twitch streaming, as lobby music. It has a cacophony of esoteric digital instruments, like strange creatures of the night howling to each other, and lively energetic drums. The picture is a still image. On the left there's an illustration in a pixel art style of a wizard on a monodeck turntable, which has some eccentric tube amps crackling with green electricity. On the right, some sensate objects like a green paper and ancient illustration on it, and a woven talisman. The text reads: "Lobby Music: Copyright 2025 Strange Makery LLC | Made by Robin Beelow using Affinity Software & FL Studio"
Twitch stream overlay of mine. Swirling, smokey shadows take up the lower third; Grundleween the wizard looks toward the content (presently a filler image of a house in the woods). A scary tree occupies the left margin. The bottom left has a title that reads "Balatro"
Final update on this project. CRT scanlines have been cheated onto the overall image, as well as a subtle bloat effect and tweaked bloom algorithm.
same as the last image, but the burning eye-fire is now more blobby and cartooinsh, and the lens blur methodology and levels have changed. In a word: finishing touches
a tall and thin pixelart drawing of a wizard cowboy. It reminds one of early computer educational point and click adventure game art, which relied on jagged pixelated illustrations otherwise made with great care.
screenshot of the original Anoney Snufftan liking my quoted animatic
screenshot from Avatar the Last Airbender. A pleasant content looking man scratches his belly surrounded by boats and wearing only simple underwear fashioned from leaves. Subtitle that says "Pants are an illusion and so is death."
poster for the Will Smith movie i, ROBOT edited to the title says Im ROBOT?
captain ahab with a speech bubble containing the post im replying to
ballerina in a white tutu taking a bow
Animatic of a crashout experienced earlier today on this very app by user AnoneySnufftan. I've drawn him with glasses and curly brown hair and a green shirt. Transcript: "When I say or ask explain how that is not "so and so horrible thing that was just said or implied", or, this reads as though you're saying or doing "so and so horrible thing", it's RHETORICAL. I UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING SAID OR IMPLIED. WHAT I AM SAYING IS. THAT THING IS WRONG AND UNACCEPTABLE. AND EVIL. AND CANNOT BE SAID. AT ALL. IT IS ILLEGAL SPEECH. HATE SPEECH. AND I AM BEING NAIVE ON PURPOSE TO GIVE THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THOSE HORRIBLE THINGS THE OPPORTUNITY TO WALK BACK ..." He waves about emphatically at first, until the camera slow pans out to reveal his computer has some badly done porn on his laptop and the entire room of people is looking at him as if he is crazy.
screenshot of my downloads folder on my computer showing that I downloaded the quoted post and renamed the video file "AnoneySnufftan Crash Out 20250312"
A watercolor painting of a woman sitting in her garden, in a wooden chair. She is having a cup of tea with at least five garden gnomes, who are cheerily pouring tea for the assembled guests. One gnome sports an impossibly tall tophat and striped pants. Another wears a hat on top of a hat with bright, curly hair. Another has a wrinkled pink shirt and a wisened, burled manner.
A watercolor illustration with thick inking. A women peers down over a table top, where she looks with amazement at a tiny gnome! This gnome is an animate stone carving, and sports a tiny red hate and THREE bowties, where shirt buttons might be.
screenshot from the movie Starship Troopers - a soldier stood in line with others looks at the camera and says "I'm doing my part!"
Cover page for a small handheld rulebook called SPITBALL: See what sticks. Nameplate for title is a blobby, nickelodeon-style glob of spit hurtling through the air. Bottom text reads: "A no-prep role playing game by Strange Makery. Version 7, 2024
A box of Captain Crunch cereal. Where the cartoon blue-fatigues wearing british naval officer usually resides, the worst possible photo of Elon Musk has been placed. The box is now called "Cap'n Ketamine: Public Divorce Crash Out!".
abstract creature - humanoid bent over in paint with two huge butterfly shaped wings. the one facing the camera looks at the viewer with a huge three dimensional eyeball. Chromatic bright sparkles linger in the air, and the subject appears to be standing in a shallow white pool.
a vibrant digital oil painting of a chihuahua with a big floppy wizard hat on. it is nonplussed
Book I designed sitting on a table with fantasy set dressing (tomes, candles, etc). The book shown here is called "Brenda Turner's Legacy". It has a bright splash of color near the title, which is set in a dignified font. Plotting paint strokes show the author's immigration journey to escape their homeland for the USA during WW2. Travel documents are woven into the cover design.
big brother esque propaganda poster featuring a painting of an albatross, rather large. Text superimposed underneath saying "OLD YOKAM WATCHES". Composed in Affinity Photo. Composites from Texturelabs. Font is Bahianita.
pixelart in Apple II palette of a knight on top of a mountain holding a barrel of wine. Header that reads "Jubilance"
another reupload
reuploading again upscaled to 2000px 1:1 myself because I saw that server-side will increase and then compress to jpeg
reupload in .JPEG to test bluesky's compression threshold
digital poster for a march taking place just a few days ago. simple design, black and white with duct tape patches all over. text reads: Fight for our People: March due unity against Trump and project 2025. City Gallery by water tower, on Michigan and Chicago, January 29th, 4pm.
"conservative fascists took everything from us" overlaid onto a frutiger metro graphic featuring generic flowers and swirls of the style
some optimistic jumping clownfish (I think) with text saying "a heroic act can be small"
frutiger aero ass photo of a woman in front of an abstract technoscape. text reads "DID YOU KNOW FEDS CAN READ YOUR TEXTS?"
overly attached girlfriend meme's head badly added onto bad luck brian's body. comic sans and calibri text over all saying "the world we knew is dying faster than we can dream." "it is urgent to find cause for being"
An animation set to a narration of the above poem. The animation features a moth-like creature, made from the moon itself and church stained glass, flying in and settling upon a sweeping point. It figets throughout until it finally flies off the screen towards the end, as the background starts to become darker. Two bell tones sound in the video, which cause a glow to emerge throughout the frame.
vigorous pen drawing of a person looking at their cell phone. squiggly lines indicate they are perhaps radioactively decaying in real time or vibrating to death. their face is one of extreme displeasure and alarm.
tiny drawing in pen. little type of guy has knees bent, shoulders up, and arms OUT, thinking with blank expression. buffering
88x31 size badge (see replies) of a wooden table and pixel text saying Strange Makery. It shimmers and floats.
screenshot of the quoted skeet showing how the new York times account is tagged as transphobic and enbyphobic and transmisogynistic with Asuka's moderation tool
press still from Wicked (2024) of Wizard of Oz characters before the larger than life animatronic Oz Head. it uses low hanging vine-like cords of fabric like long hair or a curtain to add a strong sense of unease to the bronze animatronic Oz Head.
Pencil sketch, completed in a coffee-induced frenzy just before it was due. A parent in a suit takes a little girl to the movies; they stand comfortably under the awning of a somewhat dated-looking movie theater. The movie theater is called "DISTRACTIONS" and the movie showing is called "DON'T LOOK". Just beyond them at the edge of the frame, the entire fabric of reality is being destroyed by some unknowable void. It's probably fascism
Linocut print with bold garish colors. A woman looks at herself in a mirror. Her reflection is composed of negative self-talk words: Old, Ugly, Fat, Disgusting. Behind the mirror, her closet is an abstraction of exploding clothes- hangers, shirts, wardrobes break the laws of physics around the focal point of the mirror. She is being consumed.
A cover image for the Tangle Podcast, a political show dedicated to disseminating both right and left wing political news transparently. The design features an american flag, composed entirely out of red and blue gradients, with a microphone overlaid. Text reads "Tangle PODCAST: Episode 1."
Painting of an imagined industrial scene. Cargo containers scattered around the scene, with a few workers in the foreground. The subject is a large automaton of sorts, with parts like a ship but legs like a mech, and a large central clock gear in the middle. This piece was the result of a game of artistic telephone with other artists. Final piece is my own.
A gaunt man (or something that is trying to look like a man) is pictured in this inked drawing. It looms over you as if it is much taller. It wears a pinstripe suit with a tophat, both rather worn through - and importantly has a glowing green brooch to match its expressionless eyes. It looks beyond you, but nonetheless is offering you a cup of "tea".
graphic poster with woodcut style. A baby's crib has a large skull where you'd expect the baby to be. a couple embraces nearby in confusion. Text on the image reads: "IT WON'T STOP SLEEPING"
sketch with light watercolors of a very round goblin. Huge ol ears, and eyes. He looks at YOU!!!! he says: *bargle?* and a videogame dialogue window appears that says "ACCEPT: YES? NO?" the "no" option is highlighted.