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2023/06/01

June 1, 2023
A person stands in a barren, empty area, juggling three huge boulders and an assortment of smaller rocks and debris (also known as "multitasking").

2023/05/27

May 27, 2023
A giant pair of what roughly resemble legs and a torso. It looks like a cross between something carved from stone and a giant machine: craggy, cracked, with strange contours and bolts and pipes sticking out of it. On top of this sits a person playing a tuba-like musical instrument. This is placed in the middle of nowhere, with weeds around and on it, and the vague suggestion of clouds above.

2023/05/26

May 26, 2023
An old-style telephone booth stands on a small hillock at night, overlooking the ocean. The full moon is high in the sky. The sky is clear, filled with stars. No one is in the booth. Perhaps no one has been for quite some time.

2023/05/24

May 24, 2023
A tiny concrete house sits, perched on top of a large boulder. The house has one arched window that takes up most of the wall, and a conical, pointed, shiny roof. To the right of it is a small balcony; the sun blazes overhead in a way that could be construed as hellish. But perhaps the most striking feature is the fact that the boulder the house is on is balanced incredibly precariously on a stack of three other boulders, some large, some small, similar to a hazardously constructed cairn. It looks as though the slightest breeze could send it all toppling.

2023/05/21

May 21, 2023
A faceless figure staggers along, a large salad bowl (or maybe a wok) balanced on its head. Inside the bowl is a collection of large, heavy, unrecognizable bits and pieces. Most look like industrial detritus; one looks like a boulder with an eye.

2023/05/20

May 20, 2023
A large, high-ceilinged room with an old-style mainframe computer in it. The room is somewhat dismal, containing a wall clock, bucket, and mop. The computer has a data cassette on the front, and a steel-framed door and window below it. The computer has many large pipes coming out of it, as though it is a furnace. Below the computer room, in a basement area, the base of the computer extends into a large concrete fireplace with a fire burning brightly inside. The basement is dark; there's no light except for that cast by the fire. A figure stands next to the fireplace holding a shovel. The effect is of a large computer with a door that opens into a coal burning furnace below.

2023/05/19

May 19, 2023
A large person wearing a shirt, a tie, a vast overcoat, and heavy military boots stands alone. The person's head is shaved; they have an analog clock for a face. Pinned to the overcoat is a wild, ostentatious array of various medals, pins, and badges.

2023/05/14

May 14, 2023
A single person stands on top of a large, crumbling, concrete tower of indeterminate purpose. The tower has a large number 3 stenciled on the side, the remains of antennas on the top, and two narrow windows on the side. There is also a concrete porch with a tattered chicken-wire fence on it, as well as a pole that seems to have a light or security camera on it. The tower is alone, with no suggestion of a landscape or surrounding natural features. It might as well be in the desert. Above, a few wispy clouds surround it, with a few hawks circling overhead.

2023/05/10

May 10, 2023
A person stands on a barren hilltop on a gray, cloudy night. Next to the figure is a phosphor-green bonfire, pouring smoke; the smoke forms an enormous figure looming overhead, wearing a formal hat. The person is holding a phone and seems to be looking up in surprise at the figure. This is not what DoorDash deliveries typically look like.

2023/05/05

May 5, 2023
A lonely, sharp mountain top on which stands a small, twisted tree with few branches and no leaves. Hanging from the tree is a mailbox and a red decorative sphere. Built into the branches is a small, spherical dwelling that looks a little like a wasp nest. The dwelling has a circular window in it, brightly lit. Also built into the branches is a platform with several brown cardboard boxes stacked on top of it; the kind that would be delivered from Amazon.

2023/05/03

May 3, 2023
A traveler stands on a road in a wide meadow, a mountain and clouds in the background. Next to the traveler is an abandoned telephone pole with wires dangling from it. At the top of the pole sits a large, furry creature with horns and bat wings, dangling a television as if it were a lure. The television screen is filled with static.

2023/04/26

April 26, 2023
A barren, scrubby hill. On it is a crumbling stone arch, as though a building was removed with only the doorway left behind. Standing in the arch is a figure with a large eye on its chest. The figure also has a head with two long, batlike ears and glowing eyes. Surrounding both the archway and the figure is a tall, chicken-wire fence, the sort of thing you might see placed around some off-limits facility. The fence is tattered and has a small sign affixed to it, the letters too small to read. Above all of this is a giant, ghostly planet; imagine if the moon were a lot closer to earth than it actually is. There are a few wispy clouds in the sky.

2023/04/24

April 24, 2023
A fellow wearing a top hat rides in an odd conveyance with only one truck wheel on either side. It's a dismal night: no stars, no moon. The only light comes from the phosphor-green lantern held by the rider, whose face is eerily lit. There is also a red taillight. There's a suggestion of clouds overhead, but the general environment is barren and featureless.

2023/04/23

April 23, 2023
Three large fragments of rock, surrounded by smaller bits and pieces. The three largest pieces have a human eye, looking towards the center part of the work. At the center stands a small figure, holding a lantern. The placement of the three large rocks with eyes in them forms a cavelike passageway, and the lantern-holding figure appears to be exploring the cave.

2023/04/21

April 21, 2023
A shadowy figure with circular glowing eyes—possibly glasses—stands in a dim, foggy area. There are suggestions of blurry trees and vines in the background. This is not a nice place, and one is left with the suspicion that this may not be a nice person, either—if it is a person at all.

2023/04/20

April 20, 2023
A grassy hillside in the moonlight. On the hillside are two boulders, one stacked on top of the other. The lower one looks vaguely like a body; the upper one definitely has a face carved into it, looking at the viewer. One side of the figure is eerily lit by the full moon. The boulders are balanced precariously, propped up with rickety supports. A forest tree line is visible in the background.

2023/04/16

April 16, 2023
An eerie figure that seems to be carved from stone stands in the light of a moon that looks like the Facebook "haha" reaction. The figure has no ears, a strange smile, and wears a suit and fedora. One side of the figure's face is hidden in shadow; on the side that isn't, there's a smiley face instead of an eye.

2023/04/15

April 15, 2023
A desolately expressionless figure made of scrap metal. The figure's head is a blend of yellow and crimson; the rest is metal-gray. The various pieces that comprise the figure are misshapen and have no clear purpose or origin; some have holes, as though they were once bolted onto something else. The overall effect is that of a junkpile assembled into the world's bleakest knight.

2023/04/14

April 14, 2023
A house with a clock cupola stands on two legs. The feet of the legs are wearing yellow Chuck Taylor All-Stars. The setting appears to be evening; there is moonlight, but no moon. The house has three windows: two small, on either side of it, and one large. One small window is lit, one is dark. The largest window, in the center, is brightly lit. The silhouette of a human figure with antlers stands looking out.

2023/04/12

April 12, 2023
A bleak, featureless setting: no scenery or landscape, nothing except for a dark, staticky background. A gray figure who looks sort of like an early all-in-one Macintosh with legs and an antenna wanders forward. Where the figure's face would be is a glowing white screen, showing nothing except blazing white light that illuminates the area in front of it, as though the air is slightly foggy. The figure has a disk drive for a mouth and knobs on the side. In the immortal words of Gary Larson, "it was late and I was tired."

2023/04/11

April 11, 2023
A scarecrow-esque figure that appears to be constructed entirely from burlap sacks slouches against a wall in a dark place. The only light is the blue glow from the scarecrow's phone, which it is transfixed by. This is totally not an allegory for anything.

2023/04/10

April 10, 2023
Someone wearing a very unique diving suit walks on the ocean floor. The suit has furry pant legs, a giant blue glass sphere for a faceplate, and a fedora, because one doesn't relinquish one's fashion sensibilities simply because one is at the bottom of the sea. The suit is connected to something by a black hose extending off the top of the screen. There are fish swimming near the figure.

2023/04/06

April 6, 2023
A vast, flat, desert floor. Rising up from it are huge blocks the size of an apartment building, but they have no windows or doors. They're not arranged in a city grid, or connected by streets; they're placed at random places, in a sort of staggered pattern. One is nearest the viewer, one is a little ways away, and one is barely a ghost in the distance. The sun sits in a partly cloudy sky, at what looks like late afternoon; the buildings cast long shadows. Walking between the buildings, across the desert, is a very small figure, alone, also casting a long shadow. Above, the only other living thing is a large bird circling in the dry heat of the far desert.

2023/04/03

April 3, 2023
A small figure stands next to a huge, fanglike spike rising out of the ground. Other spikes can be seen in the distance, faded, as though the air is thick and heavy. A low layer of fog seems to sit right above the ground. The ground itself is barren and scrubby, devoid of all plants except the occasional weed. The wind isn't strong by somehow never stops. You have never felt more alone, and somehow—unsettlingly—not alone. Oh...and don't drink the water.

2023/03/30

March 30, 2023
A tall horned devil-figure, seen from the back. The figure is wearing a hat and a large, furry coat. Smoke is coming from the hat. In the back of the figure is a red window in which sits a person with a coffee mug. Also on the back of the figure are crimson neon signs that say "Diner open 24"

2023/03/29

March 29, 2023
A person stands in a dark space, holding a huge amorphous speech balloon filled with bizarre, alien lettering in red-crimson. The person is holding it like a literal balloon, grasping the tail of the speech balloon.

2023/03/27

March 27, 2023
A grassy hilltop, except it's a man with a huge long beard. The man's head is like a boulder sticking up from the hilltop. The man's head looks mostly shaved, except for a grassy area on the top like hair. On top of the man's head stands a small figure holding binoculars, watching a bird circle overhead.

2023/03/26

March 26, 2023
Evening: that time when it's not yet dark and the world is a deep blue. A hiker out in some barren wilderness stumbles on three large black boxes stacked on each other. Above them floats a glowing white box with a question mark in it. All the boxes look like they're from a level in one of the classic Mario platform games.

2023/03/21

March 21, 2023
A figure hauling a sack slung over its back staggers along a wasteland. Sticking out of the sack is a giant obelisk with a terrible empty-eyed face, mouth agape.

2023/03/16

March 16, 2023
A person raises a giant boulder over their head. The boulder has grass and a tree on the top, and dirt and roots on the bottom, suggesting it was ripped out of the ground. More notably, it also has a giant eye on the front.

2023/03/14

March 14, 2023
Huge, Stonehenge-like obelisks that form an archway that resembles the Greek letter Pi. This is because I'm a nerd and today is March 14. The arch has a layer of snow on top of it, stands in the middle of a snowy field on a gray day; the kind of day where the sky is the gray-white of an incoming blizzard. This was inspired by the fact that there is currently a heavy snowstorm going on outside my apartment. I love this weather and apparently I'm the only one.

2023/03/13

March 13, 2023
A lone figure walks on a moonlit night, pulling a small tenement building seemingly placed in a two-wheeled cart. Most of the windows in the building are lit. A cat is visible in one; a plant is in the other.

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