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Aabhinav

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Aabhinav @aabhinavkandwal.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Aabhinav

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Visualising turbulence through chaos and flow

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#turbulence #chaos #art #motion #physics #generative #fluid-dynamics #procreate #framebyframe

September 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Blaise Faint

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Arrived today #BookSky Lotería @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social

Front cover of "Lotería by Cynthia Pelayo: *Stories*" A black and white image of a right hand with sharp black nails holds 3 Lotería cards. The top card is yellow with a black skull and the words "La Calavera". The second card is obscured, black and white with "ablito" visible. The third card is also obscured, black and blue, "zon" visible.

Back cover of "Loteria" by Cynthia Pelayo, features an image of the author in the woods during the day wearing a dress.

Bram Stoker Award Winner

"A short, sharp hit of horror and magic... Pelayo is an award-winning poet, and it shows in her ability to present a startling image without wasting a word." -- Esquire

Lotería is a collection of short stories and poems inspired by the Mexican card game of the same name, which features 54 cards with iconic imagery and symbolism. This collection highlights each of the cards, and every tale is inspired by a unique Latin American folkore, legend, or myth, or belief that existed in the Americas long before their European counterparts. The stories explore the quiet and uncanny, and sometimes the gruesome and the grim, to provide a glimpse into the rich history of fairy tales and folk stories from across a number of Latin American countries and communities.

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award and International Latino Book Award-winning author. Her novels include Children of Chicago and The Shoemaker's Magician. She holds an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Cover design by Kaylie Pendleton. Image credit: Elisanth/Shutterstock.com (hand)

September 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM

Aabhinav

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Visualizing turbulence through chaos and flow

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#turbulence #chaos #art #motion #physics #generative #fluid-dynamics #procreate

September 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM

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Stephen Collins

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In today's Guardian (not online yet) I drew a section cover and column illos for a great piece by @heritage.bsky.social about parents' WhatsApp groups. It was one of those jobs where I got *way* too into details/narrative design, trying to make single illustrations read across page like a comic.

This is a supplement cover and interior illustrations for the Guardian's Saturday Lifestyle section, for a piece about school Whatsapp groups for parents. The scene is a primary school playground, signed 'St Ping's Primary', and at the gates is a mum who's just dropped her daughter off to school. The mum is looking at her school whatsapp on her phone, and above her is superimposed a string of recent messages from the chat. At the top is her message, saying "Finally convinced her to wear the costume", accompanied by a photo of her daughter dressed in a bumble bee costume, looking furious at her mum for making her wear it. Underneath that message, is a series of messages from the other parents trying to tell her it's not fancy dress day today - but the mum is already in the car and doesn't see those messages. So the whole image of the playground has lots of kids at drop-off wearing normal school uniform, all looking at the little girl standing in the middle of the playground in her bee custume, looking furious at her mum who has just dropped her off, and is realising her mistake while reading the Whatsapp. In the interior illustrations, there is a series of parents who have just woken up, all posting to each other trying to work out if it's is swimming lessons today - and then suddenly one of the mums accidentally posts a picture of her privates to the group - then posts "Oops sorry wrong group" and then leaves the group. We see all the other parents looking very surprised.

August 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM

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The New Yorker

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If A.I. continues to speed or automate creative work, the total volume of cultural “stuff”—podcasts, videos, books, songs, articles, films, shows, plays, online personae, and so on—will increase. Will human-created content be able to cut through the noise?