Hi, friends. I’m Stephen Heath Weidman. I write, draw, and animate things. You can find my essays, illustrations, and long-term projects here. I’m based in Los Angeles.
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Pumpkin Spider
I'm getting back into the FancySchmancy Creature Feature on a regular basis! We're getting spooky season started early. This week's theme is arachnids. The suggestion for "Pumpkin Spider" comes courtesy …
“This Will Destroy You, Buy It Anyway”
The apocalyptic warnings of a departing AI researcher are little more than an ad slogan, and we’re not the buyers.
Media Share: “I Went to the Olympics of Truck Driving” by Phil Edwards
https://youtu.be/KkKmLTcyxio “Competency porn” is a genre of media where the audience gets to revel in the ecstasy of people doing their jobs well. Some of the best examples to me …
Film Review: Backrooms
A psychologist wakes up tied to a chair in the warped simulacra of a mid-century dining room, surrounded by mute Escher-esque homunculi and the spiraling, knife-wielding furniture salesman she was …
Film Review: The Odyssey
A spiritual successor to Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is part of Nolan’s lifelong musing on brainiacs haunted by their own ingenuity.
We Are The Walrus
It freaks me out that walruses can whistle. Instagram’s For You page algorithm is like an eager child who discovered one joke that makes the adults laugh and now feels …
The Gaping Maw of Google
The open internet might be dead, and Google might have killed it. Last week my coworker sent me a TechCrunch article about how Google Search, at least as we’ve known …
Cough and Turn Heads
Since the pandemic, I’ve become super paranoid about coughing in public. It doesn’t matter that years of working as a bartender have trained me like Pavlov’s dog to bury my …
The Line-Go-Uppigator
Buy Sticker The Line-Go-Uppigator, or reptilius adlunamus, is a serpentine dragon with a zigzagging neck that grows indefinitely towards the moon. Its eyes and snout are locked in a permanent …
The Pugnacious Pigcock
Buy the Sticker The Pugnacious Pigcock is an irascible avian-porcine hybrid with a proclivity for displays of feckless aggression. When provoked, it flourishes a tail made of red-tipped elliptical feathers, …
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