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Ian

@laughingcricket.bsky.social
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An old punk (54) disabled from degenerative disc disease, lifelong pacifist, liberal, and traditional artist. I work in oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, stoneware, and porcelain. Joyfully married cat dad www.saatchiart.com/ianlangham

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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 11h
Artist! Quote with your art with the best shadows!
A watercolor painting of a yard and a wooden fence at night. Behind the fence is a little house.
 
The mom just touches this side of the roof and the top of the little elm tree next to the fence and casts shadows in to the yard in the foreground
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21h
2019 #art #artsky
A watercolor painting of a raven against a bright orange background
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21h
This was the thumbnail for my 2-D final my first semester in 1993. The original that I woke up and started painting at 3am in 1990 Still wish to do a proper canvas of this but canvas is expensive so, we wait...
A drawing of a matchstick man sitting on a mesa with a field that is empty except for one rose. On the left side of the sky is a giant eye and abstract lines that loosely define a face. On the right side the sun has been punctured and is hanging from a hook and the eye that punctured it is flying across the sky. The sun has leaked on to the mesa behind the matchstick man and formed a puddle in the foreground. At the bottom, it reads " a thousand thoughts fly across the surface of my soul, each one crying out for oneness, that fleeting divinity, the aha beyond which lay patience, acceptance, and understanding A matchstick man sitting on a mesa in a barren landscape with the sun behind it leaking onto the mesa and forming a puddle at the base. There is an eye leaving a trail of fire rising behind the mesa
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This performance humbles me as an artist. To be able to push your medium and yourself to an absolutely amazing result like this. The performance of "Getting married today" from this same production is also amazing. Raúl Esparza has a voice like thunder and silk music.youtube.com/watch?v=xGst...
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Being Alive
YouTube video by Stephen Sondheim - Topic
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A watercolor painting of a jackdaw wing feather against an orange background
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He ain't wrong.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Starvation peak" 2022 #art #artsky #watercolor #landscape #southwest
A watercolor painting of a distant sharp mesa in the middle of a huge evergreen forest seen from the roadside behind a line and f evergreens and a fall cottonwood.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Second. 🤘👇🤘
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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly how I talk about it too! I've seen Gen AI try to write good comms and it's always completely terrible (see - most of LinkedIn, a bunch of the newer FB 'nz politics influencer' types.
Screenshot of a tumblr post reading: recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Artist! Quote with your most cursed artwork 🖤 "Bird lips" I was messing around with bird anatomy and I had a brain fart... 😅
A pencil drawing of a humanoid head with giant teeth shaped like a parrot beak protruding from its lips
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Putting a few of my pastel paintings up on Saatchi. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-...
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Old friends Drawing by Ian Langham | Saatchi Art
Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the drawing, "Old friends," by Ian Langham, available for purchase at $590 USD. Original Drawing: Pastel on Paper. Size is 16 H x 12 W x 0.1 in.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you see this, post some cats
A little pencil sketch of a long haired cat laying on his back An oil painting of a calico cat sitting on the top of a tower glaring straight ahead A pencil drawing of a calico cat laying down in the corner of a couch A pencil drawing of a calico cat laying on a pillow
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
X is owned by the GOP's largest donor and the platform's algorithm forces everyone on the site to see all of his Tweets. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤘👇❤️👇🤘
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Random faces
A pencil drawing of a humanoid bird character with long face and worried eyes A pencil drawing of a humanoid bird character
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fooling around with character design again... #drawing #art #artsky
A pencil drawing of a humanoid bird character with dark decorations in its feathers around it's shoulders, neck, chin, cheeks, and a dark stripe on its head
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🐕 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/all-bark-132436320
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Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline @mickeybiz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don’t want to talk about the art discourse anymore. I promise you. But why are so many artists denouncing the article and then creating their own lines between “illustration” and “fine art”? Spoiler: everybody’s line is different. They are all moot at this point and don’t stand up historically
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A screenshot of a thread 

The first post says "the best part of owning a bidet is if your puking in the toilet you can take a sip out of the fountain"

The second says "there it is, my sign to put my phone today"

The third says "what a day to be literate"
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These AI guys want to have the prestige of being knowledgeable or capable without the work. Whether it’s fake art, pretending to be a novelist, coding, whatever. The reason they frame it as a democratizing force is that they think it’s unfair that we don’t praise them for existing as much.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Four days of migraine now... More chores I shouldn't be doing for health reasons. *Sigh*
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Eeyore Fml
Alt: Eeyore running into a tree and saying "oh bother"
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.
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The TARDIS flying over London
Alt: The TARDIS flying over London
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Birds! QRP your bird art ❤️
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
A opossum with wings and the words "I don't know how I got here but I'm your problem now"
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21st Ed @21sted.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Idk. Some of us have been screaming about this since @ 2017 when it appeared trump didn't condemn neo-nazi marches in our streets proclaiming "The Jews will not replace us," continuing through trump pressuring President Zelenskyy in a quid pro quo for saying he had 'dirt on the Bidens'.
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I'm movin' on... @alyssonfergison.com · 20/09/2026
Art isn't art without a human behind it. I don't just love Vincent van Gogh's artwork. I'm fascinated by his story... his path... the suffering that molded the man who created that art. AI can't make real art, because there's no soul behind it. It's just pictures. Just words. It's hollow.
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Pete McDonald @pete-mcdonald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I put it to the world that the difference is that illustrations are art created for a purpose, usually in exchange for money, and these guys don't like the idea of artists getting paid. They like the idea that art is valuable, but only they can realise the value, not the artist.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In honor of snobbery and clueless criticism here is some lowbrow surrealism. Fuck the classics those guys are dead. We're here now. Those who can't create, critique. #lowbrowsurrealism #art #artsky
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also, I forgot to add, thank you deeply to George Lucas for celebrating 'orphaned artists'. I deeply appreciate that he loves art in all its forms.
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🍖LunchMeat🍖 @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Artists, quote with a piece you are still obsessed with. Got the weird just right in this one.
Abstract amalgamation of shapes, colors, cartoon-like facial features, and graffiti style markings.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This WSJ article makes me want to make more lowbrow art. I have never seen such complete snobbery on display. He even bags on Wyeth. He understands only what he has been told is art. He sits and appreciates brushwork without seeing it. This man has no soul or humor. This is why art is dying.
But most commercial illustration, however beloved, is not great art. Illustrations—where details are telegraphed and nothing is left to chance—are designed for immediate emotional access. They merely depict. Great artworks, like poetry, transform their subjects through rhythm, tension and metaphor, inviting viewers on explorations that unfold, deepen and surprise. As Paul Klee, an abstract—sometimes narrative—artist, insisted: “A picture is not an illustration of an idea, but the idea itself.”
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With every update, I have to turn off all the a.i. settings. And with every update it gets more insistent...
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Artists QRP with a piece you are still obsessed with. This is a watercolor of a snow storm moving over the foothills towards Vegas from our backyard.
A watercolor painting of a snow storm moving over foothills in the distance seen from a little hill overlooking a valley
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1996 #art #artsky
A pastel draw of a pair of wire framed glasses on a table
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Snuck out to the living room at midnight and recorded this off of KUNM. One of my all time favorite songs. 🤘😤 youtube.com/watch?v=dcl6...
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Bad Brains - 03 - House Of Suffering (I Against i)
YouTube video by larry Euthanazor
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🤘🔥🔥🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥🤘
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do you believe that laughable lie? She had zilch to do with it. At all. Hell, the people of Gaza wanted her to win because they knew she would stand up to BiBi. Why don't YOU know that? This is stupid. Utterly stupid. You'd let MAGA win again because you believe a lie. Stop being stupid.
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Freddie Mercury's Pajamas @libbityboo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm in NJ, a "safe" state. My rep got elected & immediately switched from Dem to Republican. We had Chris fucking Christie less than 10 years ago. There is no such thing as a guaranteed "safe" state. Fucking VOTE
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And it's not just about all the things we could have had (competence, progress, rights, democracy, affordability), it's about all the things we wouldn't have LOST (science, reason, reputation, standards, lives). Trump winning has resulted in a million unnecessary deaths and counting. Heartbreaking.
NOTHING fills me with more rage
than to think about all we could have
had if we'd just elected the women.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🐢 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/share-care-132206373
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Nora @nora.thestrongs.info · 19/09/2026
Live footage of the FBI interview process
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Wayne's World: He Blows Goats
Alt: Interview scene from Wayne’s World where Wayne is holding a cue card that he’s written “He blows goats, I have proof” on the back.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I had a friend in highschool who used to do this. I hammered him about it one day and all he would say was he loved it when I was angry. Yeah, fuck that game.
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#art #artsky #watercolor #landscape #painting
A watercolor painting of a little house behind a wooden fence with a medium sized elm on the left side on a hazy day
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MsKitty @michelec64.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To all the white and white-adjacent people telling us Black folks that we're: overreacting actively looking for racism where it doesn't exist it isn't what we think we see regarding that Converse ad, this is my message to you:
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yup... 🫠😮‍💨🫠
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Who Marie is??? @aglover15.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nah why my son start moving like it’s And 1 🤣🤣🤣
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It gives me a wry dystopian chuckle that all these news people sold America out for access that they just lost. If you ticked them off in the past, there is no amount of capitulation that will stop them from screwing you. They might eat your face last, but they will eat your face...
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Migraine day. Slowly improving finally. Jeanie is helping by taking the heating pad... 😂
A long haired tortoise shell cat laying on pillows and a heating pad A close up of long haired tortoise shell cat laying on pillows and a heating pad
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Hey! You're Talking To My Guy All Wrong
Alt: Hey! You're Talking To My Guy All Wrong
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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#art #artsky #pastel #nightscape #nocturn
A pastel painting of a tree in the corner of a yard with a barbwire fence running behind it and a large field behind that with a house far off in the distance on the right side and little hills behind under a deep blue start sky
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