Timothy Williams ⚴

The first five minutes of what would have been the greatest hand-drawn feature of all time, drawn solo by the greatest animator who ever lived. It is the prologue to Lysistrata by Aristophanes, working title: “Will I Live to Finish This?” He did not. Composed of 24 masterpiece drawings per second produced over the course of a decade, Prologue was nominated for a BAFTA, but lost to a Brazilian stop-motion short about a sentimental bear. The artist himself died of preventable causes in 2019 at age 86, young for an animator. He just missed the AI revolution. Posted today on X, it will get three likes — maybe four, if Harry joins in. Perhaps someday a suitably qualified artist will use AI to finish it. If that seems like cheating, consider that this artist’s canonical techniques are immortalized in the training data for that very same AI.

@tommydragna Thank you Tommy! The inscription says “XI Kalends April 2779 AUC Quinquatria II Dies”.

@TimothyBCE Beautiful as always

Felix Ostara! Behold our Hellenic equinox shrine which drenched Venice Beach in its numinous halo today. If you watch til the end, it will bless you too.

@majeikstagram @JonathanRawles Everyone gets the feed they deserve ⚖️

@JonathanRawles Mine is just filled with dudes crushing deadlifts. I’m ok with that.

Scrolling “For You”: “Bot.” “IRGC operative.” “Retard.” “AI Girl.” “Schizo.” “Mossad bot.” “Bot.”

@tommydragna One henchman and one photographer have confirmed so far. We have one shovel, one broom and one spear still up for grabs

@TimothyBCE is going out there and doing the thing. Even if the altar only lasts 1 day.

@LewisProth87741 @theralkia It seems we’re going to find out

@TimothyBCE @theralkia Fuck that! And what happens with old age anyway!?

Happy Ostara and Felix Æquinoctium, fam. We’re building at Venice Beach until sunset, if you can make it.

@BobMurphyEcon It’s tribal shorthand for 1908 AUC

hey i'm trying to see if Jesus has any advantages over this guy what does 1155 mean here? 1155 what?

@rexjonesnewz Fear not Rex, it’s pinned to my profile 🥂

I hate it when I’m on X and I see the perfect video to save/react to and then POOF it’s gone 🤨🤡

@aimeeterese Who will protect you from the protectors? Mate wisely!

I’m a girl, you’ll have to forgive me for deferring to legitimate male authority on matters of war, instead of pretending like I have any fucking idea how to protect a nation from psychotic Islamists.

@tommydragna It is also vernal equinox. Let her behold the sunset due west from a suitable shrine 🏛️

Quirties attend! Today is XI Kalends April 2779 AUC and is the second day of the Quinquatria, in honor of Minerva in all her aspects.

@MeinGottNiles @conan_esq Crushing it, Frasier. You show how AI can be a tool for excellence, foreshadowing far greater works to come.

@conan_esq Thank you. I know you don’t like this website’s shift in focus from text to video, so that means a lot to me. If video must dominate, the least I can do is try and make things that are worth watching.

Incredible stuff. Finally watched it. Wow!

@trouble_man90 It would be just like these people to release deepfakes to fuel rumors when he is very much alive. It would also be just like them to do the opposite. This is a case of Schrödinger’s Bibi.

I’m trying so hard not to buy in to the conspiracy. Can someone please just explain this to me. If he’s not dead or gravely injured, why is everything so weird all of a sudden?

Megha, I get what you are saying, but though my own art exists loudly in the physical world, would you not say that something like this is levels beyond? Even though it is only an illusion, it leaves a profound and indelible impression on the viewer. It is certainly not AI, but would it matter if it was? x.com/timothybce/sta…

Art is not whatever you feel like is cool. Art is craftsmanship which requires medium. Material. It is using material to tell stories in the physical world. Digital images only exist in the digital world and so it’s at the outskirts of the definition. AI cant even create, it can only generate. Therefore AI is not a chisel or a pencil. It’s simply an algorithmic illusion pretending you are making something when really you’re imagining that you are. You’re creating nothing. You know this. We all know this. AI cannot make “art” no matter how cool you think something looks. Just like tofu can never be steak.

@Madam_Pho3nix @eljean You are right, the story is more relevant than ever. Anyone with an ounce of talent should try telling it

@TimothyBCE @eljean Seems as though that would be a very plausible idea...especially now

The first five minutes of what would have been the greatest hand-drawn feature of all time, drawn solo by the greatest animator who ever lived. It is the prologue to Lysistrata by Aristophanes, working title: “Will I Live to Finish This?” He did not. Composed of 24 masterpiece drawings per second produced over the course of a decade, Prologue was nominated for a BAFTA, but lost to a Brazilian stop-motion short about a sentimental bear. The artist himself died of preventable causes in 2019 at age 86, young for an animator. He just missed the AI revolution. Posted today on X, it will get three likes — maybe four, if Harry joins in. Perhaps someday a suitably qualified artist will use AI to finish it. If that seems like cheating, consider that this artist’s canonical techniques are immortalized in the training data for that very same AI.

@JGuentherAuthor @HaveCakeEat2 Well done putting it off so long. Dick would have turned 93 today. His animation mentors kept working into their 90s and 100s and all felt like they were just starting to get good. There is a lesson for us there.

@HaveCakeEat2 @TimothyBCE Amen. I'm 86 and have just concluded that I'm old. Last week, I told a g.f. to meet me at the Starbucks "next to where the farmers' market used to be 10 years ago."

@BGatesIsaPyscho @grok please explain why white sleeves sliding of their own accord out of Bibi’s suit cuffs is not suspicious at all, and that this video is 100% real with no AI artifacts whatsoever

🚨 Watch Netanyahu’s latest speech & his magically appearing White sleeves under his jacket ‼️ Zoom in.

@MDTourist It’s been amazing to see his best work find a brand new audience on X. May it inspire a new generation of artistic pioneers.

@TimothyBCE This man was a Master at his craft. The original Imagineers on Hyperion Ave were also incredible animation artists like Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston but this work has a life force that even they couldn't capture. Thank you for sharing.

@MDell5648 There never was an artist like him, before or after.

@TimothyBCE I have never seen anything like this before.

@eljean Ironically, Lysistrata is a comedy, about the women of Athens and Sparta going on sex strike to stop the war. It would have been a wild pivot from here.

@TimothyBCE This was a crazy five minutes, wonder how it would have ended…