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The artist couldn't have used any form of a computer or cell phone in the courtroom. To be sure - I googled NYC courtrooms.

No use of laptop computers or personal stereos [...] All beepers and cell phones must be turned off.

I assume the artist must have done quickie pencil (or whatever) sketch in the courtroom, left court, and used an app.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    26
    1 month ago

    They should open it up to different artists. Ben Garrison, Scott Adams, Kelly, etc

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      17
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      +1000

      Trump shirt off looking like a 50 something man with perfect hair and a perfect tan who lifts four hours everyday [muscles gleaming and oiled]. Prosecutor [puny and stupid], Defense attorney (man) [Strong and powerful], defense attorney (woman) [sexy and glamorous] - Created and labelled by Ben Garrison

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    18
    1 month ago

    Meh, this is just one mediocre artist. The art form isn't dying, there are plenty of skilled artists putting out good courtroom sketches.

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  • AOCapitulator [they/them]
    hexbear
    15
    1 month ago

    what the fuck is the logic of no photos again?

    Any fucking reason whatsoever? At all????

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      9
      1 month ago

      The Lindbergh baby getting kidnapped ruined things for all of us angery

      About 700 members of the media, including 120 cameramen, attended the trial, in which Bruno Hauptmann was convicted. Messenger boys ran about, and unruly photographers climbed on witness tables to get shots, blinding witnesses with their flash bulbs. After Bruno Hauptmann was convicted, he appealed to the New Jersey Court of Appeals claiming that the presence of courtroom cameras and media activity in the courtroom, among other claims, denied him a fair trial.

      The appeals court rejected Hauptmann’s claim in State v. Hauptmann. However, concern about the media behavior during the trial caused the American Bar Association in 1937 to amend Canon 35 of its Canons of Judicial Ethics to forbid photographic, television and other broadcast coverage of trials.

      https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/cameras-in-the-courtroom/

      • AOCapitulator [they/them]
        hexbear
        13
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        Instead of making a basic ass rule like "no climbing on top of tables to do flash photography", we HAVE to ban ALL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ETERNITY!??

        CAN'T EVEN MANDATE A FUCKING COURT APPOINTED PHOTOGRAPHER FOR FUCKS SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE?????????????????????

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
          hexbear
          7
          1 month ago

          To be fair, in 1937 safety film was still fairly new (like 30 years old) and the only alternative was nitrocellulose whereas courtroom sketches were being done in the US as far back as John Brown's era and were definitively not 'distracting to a fair trial', so it isn't unreasonable to say "don't fix what's not broken" and just ban cameras outright at the time lol. Especially given even with safety film, flash photography was blinding and obnoxious (loud shutters, etc) even just assuming a single photographer.

          • AOCapitulator [they/them]
            hexbear
            5
            edit-2
            1 month ago

            Thats fair and all

            I'm Just really fuckin mad because its been 90 (300) years of no one changing any of the dumb shit stuff in this damn country

            Even small obvious things, fucks sake

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      3
      1 month ago

      You gave me a posting idea - https://hexbear.net/post/2530013

      I'll probably google what the fuck is the logic of no photos again? and put the results in a comment but don't quote me.

  • @SSJ2Marx
    hexbear
    13
    1 month ago

    it looks like it was drawn with a computer mouse.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      7
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      The artist couldn't have used any form of a computer or cell phone in the courtroom. To be sure - I googled NYC courtrooms.

      No use of laptop computers or personal stereos [...] All beepers and cell phones must be turned off.

      I assume the artist must have done quickie pencil (or whatever) sketch in the courtroom, left court, and used an app.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    10
    1 month ago

    This looks like that one Radiohead music video with the guy who drowns and gets his nuts chopped off and the mermaids make him a baby.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
    hexbear
    9
    1 month ago

    whatever the fuck this artist did makes everyone look like sweat stained political cartoons

    or maybe it's blood idk

  • cannibalbanquet [he/him]
    hexbear
    8
    1 month ago

    It looks like they're incorporating the lazy corporate Memphis style that every corporate website has been using for the past 10 years

  • RoabeArt [he/him]
    hexbear
    8
    1 month ago

    The hand in the lower right frame looks like an opossum reaching out for something.

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
      hexbear
      11
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      brush texture is too consistent for it. Not enough blending and no bleeding between the colors. Just feels like someone popped open photoshop and scribbled, really