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Michael Pinto

@michaelpinto.bsky.social
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Founder of a Brooklyn based design firm which focuses on digital product design, storytelling marketing, and branding. This is my personal account.

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Justin Sevakis @worldofcrap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Laserdisc player died. Totally dead, won't power on. Fuse is fine. The only place I could find that would repair it held onto it for 3 months without giving me an estimate. If anyone knows a place, hmu, I'm resigned to buying another player.
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Concept video of the iPhone Duo made by Apple in 1987 youtu.be/welKoeoK6zI
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Apple "Knowledge Navigator" (High resolution)
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is a really wonderful series of videos on Stanley Kubrick's Pinocchio Project film which sadly never happened in his life time youtu.be/SVBIhFHfqsY
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Stanleyandus The Pinocchio project Part ONE
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rhoda
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a really wonderful interview with bjo trimble on the very early days of star trek fandom #startrek www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmu...
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How One Fan Influenced Star Trek | INSIDE THE RODDENBERRY ARCHIVE
YouTube video by BEAM by Roddenberry
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Early TV ads were a lifeline for Japanese animators. This stuff allowed for amazing creativity, even when other avenues didn't. Japan had world-class animated ads from the '50s onward. We're looking into a few of them today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/japans-oth...
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Over 40+ years this soundtrack track (Metropolis, 1984) really holds up which is a testament to the power of Bonnie Tyler's vocals and the craftsmanship of Giorgio Moroder's composition — rest in peace Bonnie www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FrL...
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Here She Comes (From "Metropolis" Soundtrack)
YouTube video by Bonnie Tyler - Topic
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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Souce: Steven Heller/Print Mag www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
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The Daily Heller: More Precision By Walter Allner – PRINT Magazine
When a graphic designer lives to be 97, he tends to accumulate a lot of published and unpublished work.
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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Walter Allner's (1909-2006) covers for "Modern Packaging"
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Have written something about David Hockney and his 1987 adventures with Quantel Paintbox open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...
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Painting with Light with David Hockney
How a 1987 TV documentary with Hockney using Quantel paintbox blew my narrow little mind
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Star Blazers model kit spotted at the BookOff in NYC at the NoHo Location: Small shop but very cute, was sort of sad to not see anything Yamato related then found this box in the model kit section on the last row... #starblazers #vintageanime
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
paid my final visit to the famous cozy soup n burger, had french toast with a vanilla shake, sadly as time goes on there are fewer greek diners to be found
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
David Hockney and Ruby in Normandy – photo Jean-Pierre Gonçalves De Lima, © David Hockney
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/06/2026
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
i've been playing this charli xcx song again and again, the beat is really solid and catchy, plus there's a really nice low-fi quality to the vocals (her making fun of the commercial side of the medium reminds me of paperback writer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl8...
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charli xcx - playboy bunny
YouTube video by andrzej kopiejka
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Nat Gertler, man of easily-solved mystery @nat.gertler.com · 22/06/2025
Occasionally I run across the question of whether Charles Schulz invented the term "good grief!", used so frequently in Peanuts. He wasn't even the one who introduced it to the comic page. "Tillie the Toiler" used it 16 times in 1921, before Schulz was born.
Tillie the Toiler sits at a dining table, saying "Good grief! Is he. ever going to bring that sandwich? The service is terriblle."
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
a silly song to cheer you up #sanrio www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr98...
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もっちま〜い
YouTube video by がおぱわるぅ【Sanrio Official】
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Before he was famous: Video of a 24-year-old George Lucas fresh out of USC film school, working on set with Francis Ford Coppola and dreaming up a feature film called THX 1138 #starwars www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW5S...
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George Lucas Before Star Wars | THIRTEEN
YouTube video by THIRTEEN
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...
O WASOW: Papa, can I ask you a question? Just how does it feel to watch the Voting Rights Act get eviscerated by a thousand cuts?

B WASOW: I just don't understand how people like the judges on the Supreme Court can do that. I mean, how could they have so little sense of history? Or is it truly that they are - that they have ill will? I find it astonishing.
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I never tried Assam tea until I walked into Trader Joe's and now it seems to be discontinued (according to the person stocking the tea shelves section at my local store), so can anyone recommend an alternative brand that comes close? 🫖☕️
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A really well stated video: Is a Brand a Moat? 🌟 Rex Woodbury, Founder of Daybreak Ventures via The Information www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmf5...
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Is Brand a Moat?
YouTube video by The Information
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Gatchaman movie (1978) was just added to the Criterion Channel #anime
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🌙 a bit of sunshine on a rainy day...
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
artemistracker.com
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Artemis II Mission Tracker
🚀 -2 days until Artemis II launch window opens! Track NASA's mission to the Moon in real-time 3D. Launch: Apr 1, 2026.
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tina Modotti by Edward Weston, 1921. ⬇️
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Today is the birthday of artist Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919-Jan. 8, 1990). He drew for EC Comics & Mad magazine, and illustrated books, magazines, & albums. Also a painter & teacher, he is best remembered in comics for Master Race, the 1955 EC Comics story about the horrors of the holocaust.
A black and white photo of Krigstein.A page from "Master Race" showing book burnings, attacks on the Jewish community, and prisoners at concentration camps.
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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Meadow Gold Ice Cream ad from 1953 with illustration by Mary Blair. #wardsmorguefile
Close up of an ice cream ad from 1953 featuring a little girl dressed up in Irish traditional attire, doing an Irish jig, holding up a box of ice cream.Ad from 1953 for Meadow Gold Ice Cream with a photo of Emerald Mint ice cream in a bowl and some cookies with a shamrock drawn on them in icing. There's the illustrated girl mentioned before in the corner.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Sam Kieth's solo exhibition at the Cartoon Art Museum in 2013.
A wall of framed art from Sam Kieth's comics with the exhibition title, "Sam Kieth: Samplings and Dabblings."More of Kieth's art, including a sculpture that looks sort of like an old-fashioned movie camera with feet.Sam Kieth at the Cartoon Art Museum.A label from the show: "this display case contains numerous trout artifacts from the trout brush (ca. 1904) to the trout 8-track (ca. 1978). Sam Kieth's trout-inspired sketchbook is also featured in this collection of rare and unusual trout ephemera."
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Not only was Martha the only true 5th Beatle, but she clearly had the best hair in the band Photo by by Don McCullin, 1968
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Unsurprisingly Shinichiro Watanabe has really good taste in film! Here is his video of Criterion Closet Picks 🎥 #anime www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoC...
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Shinichiro Watanabe’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The best art exhibit I've ever had the joy of poring over was a huge, inspiring Sendak exhibit visiting Columbus a few years back; I wrote about it on the Patreon (some pics, too): www.patreon.com/posts/mauric...
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Maurice Sendak exhibit in Columbus (and a visit to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Research Library) | Chris Schweizer
Get more from Chris Schweizer on Patreon
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You know what's amazing about this illustration? The lady in purple is holding an old school computer printout which just came out around 1953 (and notice how the guy sitting down is clutching a slide ruler) #retrocomputing
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we're bringing back some of our most beloved comics, including Naughty Bits #1 by Roberta Gregory: originally launched in 1991, it became the longest-running solo alternative comic book series by a female cartoonist--out 5/20! ow.ly/VWUr50YmLU4
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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Happy Valentines Day! Are these pink enough?? (All watercolor or ink and watercolor)
A grand dame in a huge elaborate eighteenth century wig smirks flirtatiously behind her fan. The wig is topped with a full rigged ship, adorned with hearts and cupids. A battleship under full sail! The ship’s cannons shoot off a broadside of little pink hearts that fly everywhere. (Watercolor on paper.)A damsel in elaborate golden armor walks on the parapet of a castle. She wears a tall golden helmet with a cascade of pink plumes, and on her breastplate is an ornate golden lock in the shape of a heart. Surely she is armored against Love! But a dastardly masked Cupid, fashionably dressed in black satin, wig, and lace, flies in with bow at the ready, and an arrow in the form of a golden key! Will it fit the lock?It’s a cupcake! It’s a dragon! It’s a cupcake dragon! Made of living frosting, decked with cherries, and curled up neatly atop a cupcake, munching on a cherry. Tiny watercolor of two white kittens with orange tinted ears and tails, playing with a pink ribbon
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Arthur C. Clarke explains cloud computing and remote working over 50 years ago in 1974 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdW...
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One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Inspiration for Creatives: You Can Do So Much More Than You Think You Can www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrkj...
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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Necronomitron @necronomitron.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The story goes like this, in 1967 a little girl called Takara’s customer service number, and asked to speak to Licca-chan. Not wanting to crush a little kid’s dreams, the operator quickly replied “Hello, this is Licca-chan!” Very cute, totally harmless. …right?
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Retired Mascots @retiredmascots.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Miklac TineMelk 2000-2014 To market their range of milk for schools in Norway, Tine hired Lars Fiske to design a series of quirky, angular characters, led by shapeshifting cow mascot, Miklac. They appeared on cartons of Skolemelk and on school equipment. Requested by @malcmanishere.bsky.social.
Designs of Miklac, an anthropomorphic, angular young cow wearing shorts, by Lars Fiske. He is seen as the moon pouring a Milky Way out of a carton, drawing a diagram as a pencil while painting a red, wavy line over it with a paintbrush, walking around with milk cartons for shoes, whatever he is doing in the fifth sketch and as a pile of faeces.Cartons of chocolate Skolemelk, featuring Miklac with his classmates at a beach, in a classroom teaching them about recycling and performing winter sports with them in an Alpine settingCartons of TineMelk featuring the girl from the previous cartons kicking Miklac as a football, cows in tutus, Miklac playing a guitar and singing so loudly that it shocks the milk out of another cow, two fishermen startled by Miklac jumping out as a big fish and Miklac merged with the black spots on another cow while an orange alien cow flies in the backgroundMiklac doodling a Skolemelk carton on the school chalkboard behind the teacher's back as students walk in well-prepared
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This ad for Claude is brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-_...
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What do you think of my business idea?
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
i owe a huge chuck of my career to flash, rest in peace old friend
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Designed 99 years ago (1927), and I'm amazed to see that they're still manufacturing them today: "Otis Brannock played around with the idea for a couple of years and finally built a prototype using an Erector set. In 1926 and 1927, Brannock patented the device and created a company to build it."
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Professor Tim Wilson on the lasting brilliance of the 70's BBC series I, Claudius — I think his insights into the series being a good example of leveraging the immediacy of television (over say the grand scale largeness of cinema) are dead on www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJ1...
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I claudius remains one of the greatest tv achievements-
YouTube video by Professor Tim Wilson
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
On January 29, 1920, 18-year-old Walt Disney,l started working at the Kansas City Film Ad Co. for $40 a week.
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is a wonderful video tour of the home of art collector Barbara Jakobson (1933-2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=y--K...
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Temple of Style: The Barbara Jakobson Collection | Christie's
YouTube video by Christie's
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is an inspiring short video on artist Liliana Porter who creates artwork with her collection of miniature toys, her whimsical style reminds me of the some of the work of Charles and Ray Eames www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKB...
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The artist who makes miniature figures attempt the impossible
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This wonderful video is on Japanese names of colors which can be based on a time of day or even be the result of a textile design from years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUz...
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IRO Vol.1 : The Japanese Philosophy of Color and Imperfection
YouTube video by mono Japan
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 11/01/2026
Vintage TV Station identification WDR-SWF The fixed stationary patterns WDR-SWF mark the beginning and end of a film whose length can be adapted to time requirements. Scanned from Gebrauchsgraphik, 8, 1967. designreviewed.com/artefacts/ge... #gebrauchsgraphik #vintagedesign #digitaldesign
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Soviet artists, Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg in their studio with a backdrop of some of their posters including Tamilla (1927), A Real Gentleman (1928) and The Three Million Trial (1926).
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Michael Pinto @michaelpinto.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Mary Tyler Moore and Ed Asner hanging out in the 70s
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