Liz Gumbinner

5 days ago | lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner

There are some statements I see a lot online. They’re used in response to MAGA voters expressing varying degrees of remorse, or elected GOP officials, expressing varying degrees of concern or disagreement with the White House. Womp wompOh, lookie who’s just hit the FO phase of FAFO. Leopards/FacesHope you have the day you voted for!You know what I don’t see enough? Welcome! We’ve been waiting for you. So here’s a hastily coined acronym to consider:JOWO: The Joy of Welcoming Onboard.

1 week ago | lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner

On LinkedIn, I’m privy to plenty of debates among the advertising, media, production, and creator crowd about AI. Can it be a useful tool? Yes. Can it create visuals that are a lot less impressive than what a talented artist or designer can create, while also compromising the life’s work, belief system, and even their livelihood? Also yes. With an exclamation point and in all caps. (YES!)And is it okay to pronounce AI A-One? I’ll just leave that there for now.

2 weeks ago | lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner

A few weeks ago, Sage ran into my room to ask if I could spend the day with her at the Accepted Students Day at one of her top two college choices. (Here we go again.) “Of course!” I said, without even thinking of the date:April 5. I spent the past week grappling with my decision: Lending my voice (and a yet-to-be-written though undoubtedly wildly clever sign) to one of the most important causes of my lifetime.

3 weeks ago | printmag.com | Liz Gumbinner |Kim Tidwell

If you have not yet watched (or finished) Severance, consider this the requisite spoiler warning. Also, watch Severance already. Keep up!I first fell in love with Severance because the concept is so brilliantly innovative and compellingly told, with themes that manage to hit me in all the right places: Work-life balance. Office culture. The separation between our work and home lives. Mistaking distraction for self-care.

3 weeks ago | lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner

I know there is a lot going on in the world. Like, so much, that it’s hard to keep track of it all, let alone to determine what to prioritize and where to direct our limited energiesWhile I’m focused on quite a few issues, I am reeling tremendously from last month’s takeover of the Kennedy Center as a form of petty vengeance by this regime against artists, and an effort to exert unprecedented authoritarian influence over what constitutes “acceptable” art. Well, unprecedented in this country.