Bård Edlund

Popping in on this cursed platform to retweet that a bizarre project of mine is featured on It's Nice That! The article includes some of my thoughts on AI as an artist and designer, along with truly deranged renderings of celebrities kissing their doppelgängers. Check it out!

Just walked past an intense stove standoff here in #NYC

An oldie but GOALdie, as an animator of great wit would say. And I am one such animator, as evidenced by this tweet, which, for maximum impact, is expertly timed to current events.

I'm just going to announce now, before the World Cup starts, that Denmark will win the whole thing. They've been practicing together all season in the Premier League with their cunning Trojan horse strategy. I'll retweet this after the final to gain immense clout.

Everything that's happening on here is hilarious in a certain kind of way, but it's also really sad, not just for the employees. Twitter has been my place on the Internet for years. It has brought a few friends or at least acquaintances, a few jobs, and a lot of laughs.

Every visualization you've seen on the very real problem of space junk has enlarged the junk — otherwise you wouldn't really see it. This is an #animation loop I made about that, for Stack Overflow, using a combo of Blender 3D and After Effects for 2D-ification. 😀

I downloaded my Twitter archive, and lazily browsing through it later I went "this guy's got amazing taste and funny jokes and interesting links" until I remembered it was my feed and thus knew the data doesn't support this take

I created this #animation loop about faster space travel (illustrating a Stack Overflow question on the subject), which perhaps surprisingly gave me a chance to revel in bubble-based shapes. #aftereffects

Zuck's VR gamble seems to be doomed, yet he appears 100% committed. I'm fascinated by it. I don't see how it works out for Meta, but the size of the bet makes you wonder. Anyway, this bad review of their headset has a very worthwhile comments section! theverge.com/23451629/meta-q…

Placebos are the same thing as sugar pills, but has anyone thought about the possibility that it’s sugar that is healing all diseases? It’s time we stop vilifying sugar

When the ask was to illustrate a question about how tracking for early computer mice worked, I took the opportunity to riff on the old Amiga 500 design, and threw in some carbonated Coke in remembrance of the era that set me on the night owl path I still walk today! #animation

A common path for people who love to design looks something like this: designing > art directing > managing > running a business Eventually you're doing zero of the thing you loved. This will be Elon's fate owning Twitter, except he loves shitposting rather than designing.

I don’t need the help of a biased algorithm to be kept underground — I’ve been consistently underground for years and years!

I'm hopeful (though not super optimistic) that Twitter eventually gets past this period, and I'm even less super optimistic that Mastodon is the future, but I started an account on there anyway — so if you're heading that way, you can follow me @edlundart@mastodon.art

Hmm… What’s stopping Weibo from launching a proper US version of its Twitter-like service, following the strategy that ByteDance used to launch TikTok in the US?

My latest post on Instagram,my latest ten or so tweets, as well as my latest six TikToks, all received zero engagement and in some cases zero views. I don't believe I'm shadowbanned, I believe I'm weaponizing boring and social media companies are protecting you from this danger!

I've been trying to enjoy Taylor Swift, and it helps that I mishear her lyric in "Maroon" as: The mark you saw on my collarbone The rusted boob between telephones