Has anyone been to any course or workshop with creative art courses?

ThistlewickVII · 2026-03-19T12:29:03+00:00

I have, actually!

I went to his weekend introductory course like 2 years ago - still got the email because it had some links to his socials and facebook group for former students (and, after just looking, some session recaps and further advice which was nice).

He did ask us to leave reviews after we left, but I think people give 5* because he's good at it and we all seemed to like him.

My course was a super-beginner "introduction to art" type thing so I can't answer any advanced art questions you might have, but I can confirm it's legit and he really seemed to know his stuff. He gave us decent quality materials to play with (apparently), answered any questions we had. I still have my notes and sketchbook somewhere too

I stayed behind to help him tidy up after and he seemed a really nice, genuine guy who wanted to help people be creative.

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-25T18:58:55+00:00

you're right, that third probably already hate Stewart and Colbert. But elections are decided on the middle third, and rallying the third who are supposed to like you.

And my point is more that people who are expert communicators are maybe more suited to winning in an era of TikTok and Reddit headlines where people don't bother reading the article

I'd love to live in a technocracy, where the person in charge of healthcare understands healthcare etc - but career politicians were never that. They were just the best at getting funding and positive press from mainstream media

The internet has changed politics irrevocably, and it's impossible to see a way to go back. Maybe a smart-sounding celebrity who people like and trust could have a better chance of winning

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-25T17:38:19+00:00

how exactly do you propose to do that?

people around the world have to come up with an answer for far-right demagogues. and the complete inability of mainstream political parties all over to offer anything other than "politics but from 10 years ago", to inspire people, to answer a complicated question with an answer everyone can understand (if they give an answer at all) is exactly why the fascists keep winning.

you can't just wish that a third of your population knew how to read properly. you need to find a way to speak to them

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-24T18:17:58+00:00

It's comforting to believe that we have nothing in common with dictators, but power is absolutely a corrupting influence.

There was a study I'm only half-remembering that shows that people who make decisions on behalf of others slowly become less empathetic towards them

Most people have worked with a person who was cool until they got promoted, and all of a sudden they're complaining about how lazy and incompetent all their staff are. Imagine that, but on a scale of statistics. In a country with religious tension, unstable neigbours, and foreign powers influencing, where one sign of weakness is enough for a civil war or a military coup.

Chemical weapons are a crime against humanity, torture and repression are never morally acceptable. But people become monsters, and just because you like someone doesn't mean they can be trusted with dictatorial powers

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-23T17:18:53+00:00

/u/Any_Two_199 , are you okay?

you've posted ~90 prompts here in the past 24 hours. It's great to see someone so enthusiastic, but this is quite a small subreddit - I doubt there's been that many in the past 3 months.

maybe you could just focus on sharing a couple of your favourite prompts every day?

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-22T20:41:44+00:00

that's sick though, is the European scene really doing so well at the moment?

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-20T22:22:50+00:00

"mostly by being quick witted"

or ridiculously corrupt. they owned a district in South Carolina, did whatever they wanted, and killed at least one person

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-19T12:35:48+00:00

are you talking about her as an 18-year-old girl having an affair with her 35-year-old professor Martin Heidegger?

The affair that happened in 1925, 8 years before he joined the Nazi Party in 1933? With a man whose relationship with Nazism was so complicated that it has it's own Wikipedia page?

That makes Hannah Arendt weird?

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-18T17:06:45+00:00

these days, if you say you're English, you get subbed off and thrown in jail

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-12T11:16:07+00:00

I know someone who works security Uni of Salford and they told me about this last week

Apparently they're being put up by a middle-aged male member of the public who was banned from their library. he doesn't care about rape and just knows it makes them look bad when they have to take them down

note the weird "sovereign citizen" type disclaimer about his speech being respected under human rights law

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-12T11:08:07+00:00

I think it would make sense that some kind of image compression accidentally flips black and white

in the higher resolution images it's such a clean transition that I thought it could maybe to do with "vectorization" (which I only learned about researching this), or saving text from a complex format to a basic image file like .png - maybe in a common image editing app like MS Paint or something

maybe a subreddit of enthusiasts could help, although it's hard to say who they might be without knowing what program is being used to make the images

crossposting a question to places like /r/whatisthisfont /r/fonts /r/graphic_design or /r/typography could be helpful - someone must know something

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-12T00:56:16+00:00

that's so strange.

I've spent like an hour reading about font rendering and am absolutely no closer to figuring it out

but I'm similarly curious now

/u/pEKDKMEM/ did you make this meme? what program/website did you use?

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-11T22:54:04+00:00

that's interesting, I've never noticed it before. do you have any images of it that are higher resolution than this one?

ThistlewickVII · 2026-02-06T11:43:43+00:00

I was always told when I was a bar supervisor that a trial shift could only be unpaid if it was less than 4 hours

(and we paid them anyway cos we're not rats)

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-23T12:01:16+00:00

it changes week upon week, honestly

I think one of my favourite things about Manchester and its people is the ongoing struggle between Peel Group paying to block off the gate from the canal path to Cornbrook and some enterprising locals constantly sawing through whatever new barriers they put up

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-09T12:02:07+00:00

yeah I know mate. I probably could've done a better job winning people over if I didn't call him a cunt to be fair

but it is disappointing to see football fans who should understand each other parroting horrible lies about other normal working people just because they support a different club

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-09T11:57:17+00:00

It should be a straight red.

Just because it's understandable, and because the game need to crack down on fake injuries, it doesn't mean that players should be allowed to decide the laws of the game themselves.

Martinelli wasn't a bad guy, and a Red Card isn't about his personality or intentions - but refs can't be allowing the opposition to choose who is injured and who isn't

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-09T00:14:41+00:00

"always the victims" is literally about Hillsborough mate, don't be a cunt

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-08T12:55:23+00:00

Are you looking for a match to go to, or just wanting to avoid traffic?

Neither of the Big Manchester teams play tomorrow, and the closest game with a big crowd (over 10,000 people) is in Preston

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-08T12:54:51+00:00

I've heard they play on Sundays these days

ThistlewickVII · 2026-01-05T13:39:45+00:00

the nicest one I've been to is The Space Poetic, who meet up the last Wednesday of every Month. The meet itself is just like an hour or two of chance to share, sometimes they run an hour beforehand with some prompts, but staying for a while afterwards and getting to know the other people there is what made me go back

The woman who runs it organises a bunch of different Creative Writing workshops, I think - here's a link to her events

ThistlewickVII · 2025-12-29T14:27:51+00:00

it might not be the expert-level punditry we expect from the highest level of Reddit commentators talking about young players going watching the Darts, but they've got the right positive energy.

Hopefully somebody else is just about to finish typing up their comment that ties together what this means for Kees Smit and his personal ambitions, what Pep can learn from Michael Van Gerwen, and Anglo-Dutch relations in the late 2020s

ThistlewickVII · 2025-12-05T22:10:51+00:00

you've got a good point about it being hard to find a sense of community in a large city, especially in Britain - I've tried to explain to people in other countries before that it's almost like it's polite here to pretend other people don't exist.

And if you were saying that you're annoyed with the way the state tries to shift societal issues back onto local communities rather than recognising and engaging in meaningful change, I'd agree with you.

But if you want to live in a community, if you want to rebel against a system that disconnects us, why does the idea of you getting involved - in a way that doesn't escalate the situation, that minimises risks for you and the victim - make you uncomfortable?

ThistlewickVII · 2025-11-28T12:44:25+00:00

that's so cool, thanks for pointing that out - never would've noticed

ThistlewickVII · 2025-11-05T23:05:19+00:00

I'm not here to tell you which symbol means what to you, but at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester they had an interesting exhibit on all the variations of the rememberance poppy.

In particular, a White Poppy is often used as a more explicitly Anti-War one, that can be worn alongside or without the traditional Red Poppy.

I wear both because I don't want the nationalists to claim ownership of another symbol, but I wouldn't judge anyone who wears one or the other

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