Bauwerks
@bauwerks.net
Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time.
https://bauwerks.net
Tags: #art / #animation / #photography
https://bauwerks.net
Tags: #art / #animation / #photography
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Bauwerks
@bauwerks.net
· Oct 17
Now's probably a good time to finally make a pinned post. Hey there! Writing for tech is my day job, but I also draw, animate, and take photos when I'm not working. I do all four on my website.
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with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
Enjoying this cold, rainy Sunday morning bundled up, eating a hot breakfast and drinking a big mug of tea, and contemplating this post as I wither into a tiny prune. 🫠
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Enjoying this cold, rainy Sunday morning bundled up, eating a hot breakfast and drinking a big mug of tea, and contemplating this post as I wither into a tiny prune. 🫠
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
The feeling of joy seeing old news I missed about Tatsuyuki Tanaka working on a new animation, quickly soured by seeing Tanaka talk about using web3 bullshit to make it. 😔
www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-releas...
www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-releas...
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The feeling of joy seeing old news I missed about Tatsuyuki Tanaka working on a new animation, quickly soured by seeing Tanaka talk about using web3 bullshit to make it. 😔
www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-releas...
www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-releas...
Looks a bit like Yoshinori Kanada's style? Not sure if he animated or designed this one.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Looks a bit like Yoshinori Kanada's style? Not sure if he animated or designed this one.
Puking brachiosaurs are just the timeline cleanse we need on a Friday in the year 2025.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Puking brachiosaurs are just the timeline cleanse we need on a Friday in the year 2025.
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For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
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this highlights something my brothers and I independently discovered decades ago: while it can be creepy to play a major key piece in a minor key, you fully enter uncanny valley territory if you play a minor key piece in a major key
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
this highlights something my brothers and I independently discovered decades ago: while it can be creepy to play a major key piece in a minor key, you fully enter uncanny valley territory if you play a minor key piece in a major key
*Stares in Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, etc.*
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
*Stares in Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, etc.*
A lot of the quotes and comments bring up the rotoscoping, but I wonder how many of them are only looking at how the character moves, instead of the more telling giveaways like a dude with frail-looking arms and v-shaped chest in a t-shirt suddenly becomes normally-proportioned in a button-down.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A lot of the quotes and comments bring up the rotoscoping, but I wonder how many of them are only looking at how the character moves, instead of the more telling giveaways like a dude with frail-looking arms and v-shaped chest in a t-shirt suddenly becomes normally-proportioned in a button-down.
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Factoring in Pritzker's views on Palestine and Israel, his letting ISP support ICE during the recent invasion, and his opposition to a large-corporation tax that would affect billionaires like himself — I don't think he's gonna cut it as prez.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/a...
Alderman yells at Gov. JB Pritzker over opposition to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s head tax plan
Southwest Side Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez stopped Gov. JB Pritzker after a Veteran’s Day ceremony in Little Village, demanding the governor explain how he would “tax the rich.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Factoring in Pritzker's views on Palestine and Israel, his letting ISP support ICE during the recent invasion, and his opposition to a large-corporation tax that would affect billionaires like himself — I don't think he's gonna cut it as prez.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/a...
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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On this day, we were introduced to 'Central OL', who was photographed on the front line in very nice workwear and shoes, wearing a not-cheap leather handbag. Absolute queen. You can understand why she inspired protest art!
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
November 10, 2024 at 10:18 PM
On this day, we were introduced to 'Central OL', who was photographed on the front line in very nice workwear and shoes, wearing a not-cheap leather handbag. Absolute queen. You can understand why she inspired protest art!
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
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Just a reminder that archive .is openly courts right-wing extremists to use their site to coordinate harassment campaigns and to filter any concerns about "preservation" accordingly
The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Just a reminder that archive .is openly courts right-wing extremists to use their site to coordinate harassment campaigns and to filter any concerns about "preservation" accordingly
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.
Totally besides the point of this grim article, but I can't help but laugh at Brad Bird going to WB to bring Ray Gunn back from the dead, then Lasseter convinces Bird to direct it at Skydance instead, and then David Ellison supposedly wants to buy WB anyway.
www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Totally besides the point of this grim article, but I can't help but laugh at Brad Bird going to WB to bring Ray Gunn back from the dead, then Lasseter convinces Bird to direct it at Skydance instead, and then David Ellison supposedly wants to buy WB anyway.
www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
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In case everything I typed doesn’t make any sense:
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In case everything I typed doesn’t make any sense:
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The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era.
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
Jessica Rabbit (Amy Irving) performing "Why Don't Ya Do Right?" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era.
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
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what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...
One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...
I guess LACMA didn't get the memo that Halloween was six days ago, because I shouldn't be saying "Boooooooo" in November.
Update: LACMA leadership did not voluntarily recognize the union
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I guess LACMA didn't get the memo that Halloween was six days ago, because I shouldn't be saying "Boooooooo" in November.
I *think* I spotted my first tropical orb weaver during a walk earlier this week. I'm not 100% though — my searching involved looking up "California spiders" and comparing my photo to whatever seemed to bear the closest resemblance.
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I *think* I spotted my first tropical orb weaver during a walk earlier this week. I'm not 100% though — my searching involved looking up "California spiders" and comparing my photo to whatever seemed to bear the closest resemblance.