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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I'm inside my apartment on the other side of the Atlantic and I too can smell it.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 47 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Brad Pitt was his stand in, can't you tell?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 22 points 10 months ago

I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume the sketch artist makes money on Patreon selling custom Edward Cullen "art" and just couldn't stop the habit.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Holy shit the pic with Caroline Ellison is amazing lmao

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Is this the guy who starred in The Bankman?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Sketch artist: "No can do, but if you slip me a Bennie, I can make it look like you have a chin"

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He should have asked to sketch artist to make him look not guilty.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

They are artists, not magicians.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago

It's early and I thought this was The Onion for a good 2 minutes. Wow.

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Wow, I’m shocked! Well, maybe not that shocked.

[–] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

The narcissism doesn't fall far from the tree

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Ah, like father like son I see

[–] Stuka@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

...why are courtroom sketch artist still a thing?

[–] Taigagaai@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because it's usually not allowed to take pictures in court

[–] Stuka@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's not a real reason. Most courts are recorded, have stenographer and apparently sketch artists. There's absolutely no reason for court sketch artists to exist in modern society. It's just silly and wreaks of some conservative tradition.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I don't think providing steady employment to a local artist is the worst thing taxes support.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Those recordings are not available to the public though, right? Isn’t that the difference? Or am I just mislead here?

I see why the tradition of it feels conservative. But I dunno. I think it’s cool. Seems like good culture.

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But why? Seems arbitrary and antiquated

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Think it's to protect the identities of people

[–] Stuka@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's working well, I definitely do not know it's trump Jr there.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not who it's supposed to be protecting lol

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then who’s it supposed to protect?

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Witnesses, the jury, people like that

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because AI aren't allowed in court, yet...

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Why does the defendant have a different number of fingers in every scene?"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

-AI flips you off with 13 middle fingers on each hand

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Artist is better for privacy.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only proportionally to how much they suck at their craft

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

More like for not accidentally including jury members in the shot

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Classy guy like that? No way.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's even worse if you see him do it on camera. He did everything but wink and do an air kiss.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

That would at least have made me laugh. This made me want to retch.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

They captured his stank cloud well

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

They’re sketch artists not magicians

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

They are an artist Jr not a miracle worker.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Well if the artist honored that request they wouldn't have gotten a likeness

[–] Txcfe@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago
[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He looks like the portrait of Dorian Grey

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 6 points 10 months ago

I'd make a joke about Jr saying, "Before, right? Right?!??" but he wouldn't get the reference.