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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 22 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Holy shit the pic with Caroline Ellison is amazing lmao

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is this the guy who starred in The Bankman?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

They are artists, not magicians.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

The narcissism doesn't fall far from the tree

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Ah, like father like son I see

[–] Stuka@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Taigagaai@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Stuka@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

But why? Seems arbitrary and antiquated

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

Think it's to protect the identities of people

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

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

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

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

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

Then who’s it supposed to protect?

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Witnesses, the jury, people like that

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

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

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

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

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

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

Artist is better for privacy.

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

Only proportionally to how much they suck at their craft

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

More like for not accidentally including jury members in the shot

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Classy guy like that? No way.

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

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They captured his stank cloud well

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They’re sketch artists not magicians

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

They are an artist Jr not a miracle worker.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

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

He looks like the portrait of Dorian Grey

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 6 points 1 year ago

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