Good morning! I just #sketched some poppies and geranium rose type flowers outside the dentist's office in early morning light. #art #artist #pleinair #landscape #bloomscrolling #watercolor #watercolour

Mara Jade #fanart based on a cosplay by Vampisaurus.
#starwars #skywalker #draw #drawing #sketch #sketched #sketches #marker #markerart #markerartwork

Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes

Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025

"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'

"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.

"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.

"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.

"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York.

"But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.

"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine.

"They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.

"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine

First drawing since before I fell!

Wasn't able to buy a #Christmas #Card for a local friend & it's all she asked for! So I pulled out my pens & #sketched this for her (#Snoopy is her fave -- never drawn him before) & borrowed @retrosponge coloured #pencils 🙂 I definitely need more time & warmups until I can get back into the swing of things.

Wanted to share here as a thank you. It's been an especially rough year & we're not all the way through it yet, but almost! Couldn't have done it alone.

A quick self portrait I #sketched up recently.

#art #drawing #procreate #sketch

#Samsung #Galaxy Z #Flip and #Fold 5 #sketched their ways into #OneUI 6.1.1! #Fold to #Sketch to #Image your way to #update your #foldables to experience the new #AI features!

#TeamGalaxy #OneUI6

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/samsung-officially-rolls-out-one-ui-6-1-1-for-z-fold-flip-5/

I #sketched the dream I had last night. #oilpastel #art #mastoart #abstractart #artist #dream #dreamart

I #sketched a #clown. #ElonMusk #Tesla

#Sketched up another promotional #illustration for my #comic called #SnackFacts.

Pick up your own copy of each and every issue at http://candycritic.org/snackfacts/

#art #drawing #makemorecomics

A #pie, a #cake and some #nuts are what I just #sketched for candycritic.org to celebrate some upcoming #NationalDays.

#art #drawing

#Sketched out 3 more #treats to celebrate some upcoming #NationalDays for candycritic.org.

#art #drawing

3 more yummy #treats #sketched out to celebrate upcoming #NationalDays for candycritic.org.

#art #drawing

Some of my latest Ko-Fi headshots!
Dragons :blobfoxheart:

#art #furry #furrya #furryfedi #furryfan #dragon #dragons #furrydragon #headshot #BlackAndW #sketch #sketchs #sketched #digital #DigitalArt #commissions

#Sketched up three more #doodles to celebrate some upcoming #NationalDays for candycritic.org.

#art #drawing

An odd combination of items that I’ve #sketched to celebrate some upcoming #NationalDays for candycritic.org.

#art #drawing

#Sketched out three more #drawings to celebrate some upcoming #NationalDays for candycritic.org.

#art #doodle

Ko-Fi headshot commission for @mossweaver

Thanks for the support!

#commissions #commissioner #commissionme #sketch #sketchs #furry #furrya #furryart #sketched #fediart #mastoart #art

#Sketched out a few more #drawings representing some upcoming #NationalDays for candycritic.org. One of them didn’t work out, but I’ll try again later.

#art #doodle

Forse ho trovato una casetta :blobderpy:

(In realtà sì, dico forse perché finché non firmo contratto non ci credo)

#illustration #sketched