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Magnus Champlin
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PBS says I’m an Artist.
Creative with a home base in the little city of Rochester NY.
Since we aren’t getting the northern lights due to all this cloud cover, here is your runner up #roc
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This Sunday you have the chance to check the first episode of Melvin the Devourer part of the @anomalyfilmfest.com lineup!

With the Direction from Roy of Will Work For Fame productions.

Here are some of the cast
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The French detective in charge of the Louvre jewelry heist looks exactly like what I expected a French detective in charge of a Louvre jewelry heist should look like!
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Figured I'd share, this was my proposal for a sculpture at the Sister Cities bridge in rochester. It was timbers fished from the river, cured, then messages from rochestarians carved into the wood & filled, the whole thing sealed and then built into the roc logo.
I didn't get the grant.
October 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Tonight!!!

Drunken Pumpkin Party and Artist Hangout!

Come hang out and make art and just chill and be part of the rochester creative scene.
No Cover
Free art Supplies
Pumpkin Carving
Prizes
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I wish now that I took more trips to dive coral reefs when I had the chance. I never would have imagined 20 years ago that I would be seeing a world where we are having the news that we are going to lose our reefs.
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’m not usually a person that lowers himself to body shame another person, but since these guys decided to be on that side of the line in the proverbial sand…

I give you the Texas National Guard that showed up in Illinois to do the bidding of the Trump loyalists.

Everything IS bigger in Texas…
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The coffin from the Spirit Room is for sale at Greenovation if anyone needs a creepy old coffin for Halloween display.
October 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Super honored to be nominated for the title of Best Arts + Cultural Community Leader in the 2025 City Magazine best of ROC event.
October 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I do not condone decorations like this.

No matter what your views are, having Halloween decorations depicting hanging your fellow Americans is disgusting.

This is what the power hungry 🍊 goon squad wants people to do. To be aggressive, use force, etc. don’t play into their hands.
September 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Make sure to check on your entrepreneurial friends.

This past week there were multiple art shows & events, while turn out was good, nearly everyone I spoke to had done a quarter to a third of their expected sales.😢

Daily I hear from friends/former colleagues struggling & looking for work.
September 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One of the more unique posters I found for the Horst Wessel martyr marketing campaign was a sign that would help people learn the song they needed to chant. Which before audio recording and sharing was a thing this is how they were able to teach the masses the melody.
September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Since the Nazi party only had a couple pics of Horst Wessel you will notice a lot of the same poses and similarities. So Kirk has loads of pics & videos to pull from. So I expect the poster designs to have more variety.
September 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I legit appreciate friends that sit, talk & discuss a topic.
A friend from the Midwest wrote me asking about anti-CK rhetoric & they knew I’d discuss it calmly. They only saw the good videos. When I showed her what I was exposed to she was flabbergasted.
This isn’t mine but same experience:
September 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Heathcliff literally has his Meat Tank on the ready and Garfield rarely leaves the house.

The cat of the streets, stealing fish and causing chaos will win against the shut-in lasagna addict.
September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A glimpse into my studio.

Expect some mountain lion reports at the fringe fest.

#rawrchester
September 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Making art outside to get the most out of summer nights.
August 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I Was trying to get with the lightning bolts. I literally stopped video recording as one shot across the entire sky.
August 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
One thing I now have in my life is a desire for Indian breakfast. Something I haven’t been able to really find.

Mentally I’m here: sitting on a rooftop in Mumbai enjoying delicious breakfast of things I have no idea what they were called.
Soaking up the sun as I escaped subzero NY January temps.
August 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Years back I made a joke that Trump is the type of guy that would put a gift shop on the Oval Office. And even myself, who made the joke, didn’t actually think he’d disgrace the Oval Office that way.

Yet, here we are. The man who has desecrated the most powerful seat in the world…
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Put a table outside to work tonight.
The cosmos did not let down.
August 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Cleaning out the studio, and there has been an enormous cutter for printing taking up space from a previous tenant that had moved out over half a decade ago.

Please share this around, if anyone wants it it’s free to pick up. It has to leave here asap.

If not it’s going to go to a scrap yard.
August 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I keep getting suggestions for podcasts & I do love a good Sasquatch one.
But…
I had to stop listening to some because they do this really annoying thing of going absolutely nuts w/ ads.
Example: the circled area is literally continuous ads.
Yes…
45 Minutes straight of the same five ads repeating!
August 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Road trips and adventures do make the current chaos seem less existential dread-y.
July 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Curtis Jones and #Rawrchester making that money.

#roc commercials are forever my fav part of this city.
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM