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Sam White roguetech.substack.com What is pixel art? Well, it’s art made from pixels. Pretty simple. Except most digital images are made from pixels, so we should add that pixel art tends to mean retro 8-bit or 16-bit looking compositions. Think ’80s and ’90s console graphics, repurposed simply
How Walt Disney Conquered the World
Ben McCann Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide mercatornet.com On October 16 1923, brothers Walt and Roy set up a modest cartoon studio. Their goal was to produce short animated films. They created a new character: a mouse, with large ears. Named “Mickey”, he soon
Are They Gone and Is It Really for Good?
Old folk have been grumbling about ‘young people these days’ at least since Socrates allegedly groused that the youth of Athens “have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise”. No doubt, there were misery-gutses on the African savannah who warned
Watching Casablanca on Its 80th Anniversary, We Remain in Awe of Its Simplicity – And Profound Depth
Ben McCann University of Adelaide In November 1942, a romantic drama directed by a Hungarian immigrant and starring an ex-naval officer and an obscure Swedish actress was released. The film began shooting without a finished script. Many at Warner Brothers Studios thought the film would quickly disappear into obscurity. It
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