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2024/05/20

May 20, 2024
A scene that shows either a blazing sunrise or sunset. The sun is low towards the horizon; above it hangs a much larger planet, like the moon if it was several sizes bigger than it actually is. In the foreground stands a tall building, like a tenement, rising up out of an uneven landscape. The building does not appear to be in a city. It only has one window: a glowing red window at the very top. This is a primarily red and yellow drawing, with the building in navy blue.

2024/05/11

May 11, 2024
A house on the edge of a steep cliff at night. The house is small, with two lit windows, and a back porch that faces the cliff. A white light is glowing on the back porch. About halfway down the cliff is a small ledge on which is standing a very tall creature, about the size of the house, with two glowing eyes. There appears to be a staircase, or some sort of path, down the side of the cliff. There is no moon or stars. This is a grayscale drawing.

2024/05/01

May 1, 2024
A metal sphere, floating in deep space. The sphere is a dull greenish color, the color of tarnished metal. On its left side is a round door with a round portal window in the center of it. Hanging above the door is a small bell. On the right side of the sphere is a round, open window with a small plant in an orange flower pot. On the top of the sphere is a glowing red light, suggesting this is some sort of buoy. Also similar to a buoy is the orange cable, extending from the bottom of the sphere, seemingly anchoring it in place. In the background, the black sky is filled with stars.

2024/04/23

April 23, 2024
A desolate street winds through an abandoned town at night. The road looks bumpy and uneven, and curves among abandoned apartment blocks and a factory with a tall smoke stack. It is mostly dark; the scene is illuminated only by a full moon. The sky looks partly cloudy. In the sky, directly to the right of the moon and a little above it, is a witch on a broomstick.

2024/04/19

April 19, 2024
A tall house on a grassy hill. The front of the house, illuminated by the sunlight, has no windows and only one door, an arched opening. In front of the door stands the small figure of a person. The side of the house, in shadow, has two large, staring eyes looking at the person. Both eyes have an iridescent green glow. The sky is red-orange, with a glowing yellow sun. The building and hill are reddish. A black bird, perhaps a crow or raven, is perched on top of the house.

2024/04/14

April 14, 2024
A boxy, robotic figure that resembles a steel shack with arms and legs. Its torso is the shack, with an open rectangular door on the right side and a round window in front. Also on the front of the robot are glowing colored lights. The door has yellow warning stripes above it. The robot has a boxy head on a long, boxy neck; its face is a glowing white window. It is wearing a brimmed hat with a white feather. Its neck also has yellow warning stripes. It is standing against a blue background.

2024/04/07

April 7, 2024
A surreal, deserted city. A small silhouette of a person is hemmed in by large, blocky buildings that have almost no windows or doors. Behind the person is a blazing sun, a yellow sky, and the blurry silhouette of a building engulfed in sunlight and heat. In front of the person is a cool blue area: another building that seems to be in shadow, with only one illuminated window and an open doorway, casting a greenish white light onto the blue ground. Above the door is a small, neon pink sign that says "open". At the top of the building is a single, illuminated yellow window—the only visible window on the entire building—in which sits a cat.

2024/03/22

March 22, 2024
A black and white charcoal rendering of a small cabin in a clearing, surrounded by trees. It is a foggy night. Hovering above the cabin is a large, black, saucer-shaped spaceship. In the center of the underside is a glowing white opening from which a straight beam of light extends down, illuminating the roof of the cabin. The saucer has a few smaller, glowing lights on the sides and undersides as well.

2024/03/20

March 20, 2024
An eerie scene that looks like it was created in either charcoal or watercolor. A tall, thin apartment building rises up out of a ground covered with undergrowth. The building has  only one window in the top left. It is lit, with the blurry silhouette of a person in it. Stalking around the base of the building in the lower right of the drawing is the huge form of a shapeless creature with glowing white eyes. In the background is a blurry suggestion of a forest. The scene appears to be at night.

2024/03/18

March 18, 2024
A giant head that looks like it is made of reddish iron, mounted on a rickety-looking tower of beams and crossbeams. The head is the size of a small house and has an open, arched doorway in the back, and an open, arched window for an eye in which a lit candle is placed. On top of the head sits a person operating a quad copter. The only thing visible in the background is blue sky, suggesting that the tower is quite tall.

2024/03/14

March 14, 2024
A flat landscape with a blurry suggestion of trees in the background. On the left side is a tall, cylindrical pillar with a chunk missing from the lower left near the base. Perched precariously at the top of the pillar is a giant boulder that looks like it's seconds away from tipping off. Keeping it balanced is an ominously thin metal support that looks like something you'd find supporting a sign or streetlight. On the side of the boulder is a small window, lit crimson from the inside. It's not clear what's happening inside the boulder. Hanging from the metal support is a small birdhouse. The sun hangs low in the yellow sky. No people are visible.

2024/02/19

February 19, 2024
A huge, rocky cliff jutting into the ocean. At the top of the cliff, somewhat set back from the edge, is a small white house with an orange roof. Someone is walking away from the house towards the edge of the cliff. Farther down along the side of the cliff is the large black opening of a cave. Someone is standing in the cave, holding up a lantern that is illuminating the sides of the cave with yellow light. All around stretches the vast blue sky, with a scattering of seagulls in the top left. There is a hazy suggestion of white clouds on the horizon. The ocean is green.

2024/02/17

February 17, 2024
An ornate archway, the sort of thing you might find in the cathedral or a very old building. It's relatively small by architectural standards, about the size of the doorway to a large suburban home. You're viewing it from the interior of a dark building. It opens out onto what seems to be a desert, or a barren, sun-bleached area. Dimly visible is the blurry outline of some natural formation, and a ghostly sun high in the sky. Standing in the doorway is a person, silhouetted in the light coming through. They are wearing a fedora and a leather jacket with a lightning bolt on the back.

2024/02/16

February 16, 2024
A cloudy night. A sleek military aircraft sits on a tarmac. A large building looms behind it, windows glowing green in the fog, antennas with red lights on top. The plane is seen from the front, straight on. A small green light glows on its underside; a bright white light is lit on the left wing. This is a mostly blue drawing: the blue of a cloudy, rainy night.

2024/02/12

February 12, 2024
A crimson sky, suggesting sunrise or sunset. Dominating the foreground is a vast radio dish, rendered in black and cement gray, mounted on a heavy industrial base of beams, pipes, and concrete. There is a red light mounted at the top of the dish, and a small green light over the doorway to the installation. In the sky, to the right, in the direction that the telescope is pointed at, is a single bright star.

2024/02/03

February 3, 2024
A small house with a pointed conical roof, placed on stilts in the water at the end of a dock. It has a single yellow glowing window, and there is a slight fog around it. From the right side, under the roof, hangs a red lantern. There is a full moon in the sky. It's night: a cold winter night with a gray sky.

2024/01/25

January 25, 2024
A huge factory with three smokestacks billowing smoke. The factory is heavy, rendered in black and dark purple; it stands against a blazing yellow and orange sky that appears to be on fire. The smoke from the smokestacks is yellow. In one square window, on the right side of the factory, a single silhouette of a person is visible.

2024/01/22

January 22, 2024
A cavernous, gloomy corridor, with heavy, oppressive walls on both side and no visible ceiling, as though this is in a vast building. In the center is a small figure running towards the viewer, wearing a white tank top and red shorts and holding a giant sledgehammer in both hands. Behind the runner are the shadowy figures of pursuers. This is one of the more iconic frames from the commercial that Apple ran in the 1984 Super Bowl, announcing the Macintosh. The drawing is rendered mostly in black and dull indigo. The figure is blue.

2024/01/02

January 2, 2024
A vast, eerily green sky. The dark silhouette of a house sits alone on a flat landscape. Facing the viewer is an open door, like one would find on a barn or garage. The house has two small windows in the top left of it: dull green, more like they're reflecting the light of the sky than illuminated from within. Above the house, as though something has punched a small hole in the sky, is a bright dot of white light surrounded by glowing clouds. Tendrils of lightning snake out of the dot. Something is brewing.

2023/12/27

December 27, 2023
A hazy, almost ethereal view of a city. Bluish skyscrapers loom out of a low fog in the distance. In the foreground is a dark hill with a small, stubby building perched on it. The hill appears to be covered in foliage or trees. The building has a cluster of antennae sticking up out of it, and two windows on it are lit. The hill and building are a dark blue. Hovering in the distant sky is a blurry oval shape that looks like a flying saucer. The saucer has a blazing white beam of light shining from below like a spotlight, bathing some of the skyscrapers in a white light.

2023/12/25

December 25, 2023
A slate-gray night sky, almost completely overcast. The ground is covered in gray snow. A narrow, concrete building, perhaps two stories, stands in the middle of the scene. It has only one window set at the top. Sitting in the window, bathed in the glow of a screen, is Santa Claus. Extending from the right side of the building are several wire poles supporting a glowing neon star. Hung at the base of the building is a desolate string of colored Christmas lights. Parked behind the building is an Amazon delivery van. A single bright star is visible in the top right of the sky. This is mostly a gray drawing; the building and van are dark gray.

2023/12/23

December 23, 2023
A barren landscape at night; a clear sky filled with stars. A weird, conical structure protrudes up from the ground, sort of a cross between a drillbit and a wasp nest. Inset into the structure is a window—the silhouette of a person is visible. In the sky is a glowing celestial object. The drawing is yellow lines on a black background, with white highlights.

2023/12/21

December 21, 2023
A view over a vast, mountainous forest: hills covered with heavy woods. The hill closest to the viewer is dark brown, with a small cabin on top of it. There is a light on, and smoke drifting up from the chimney. On the hill beyond it looms a massive dish antenna; something the size of a football field or larger. The sky is heavy with wispy clouds, a weak sun filtering through. The whole scene is a brownish yellow, suggesting a hazy, muggy day. Above it all circles the small form of a hawk or eagle.

2023/12/17

December 17, 2023
A tall, oddly narrow brick building in the middle of a snowy field. The sky is slate-gray, the way it is when snow is right around the corner. The building is roughly three stories tall, with a small closet-like door at the base and a single small window in the top right, directly under the pointed roof. The roof is covered with snow. The door is covered with illegible graffiti. The window is boarded up. Bolted to the right side of the building is a metal pipe chimney. While the building appears abandoned, there is smoke rising out of the top of the chimney, and numerous footprints in the snow around the door, implying that someone is inside. Most strangely of all is the sign—a slab suspended from a metal arm, similar to a shopkeeper's sign—extending off of the left side of the building, with the word "exit" on it. Behind the building is the blurry mound of a snow-covered hill, and then nothing: just the heavy gray sky. The building is drawn in black ink.

2023/12/16

December 16, 2023
A small hill on which is built a chaotically complex steel tower. It looks like a short radio mast, with many beams and crossbeams. At the top of the tower is a compact dish antenna. Extending off the left side of the tower is a network of horizontal beams that are supporting a small metal chamber with a door and a round portal window, in which is visible a dim figure. The effect is that of someone living in a treehouse made from a safe and an erector set. Below the chamber is a black mailbox. The sky has a few wispy suggestions of clouds. The drawing is black linework on a light gray background, with white used for the clouds and a few highlights.

2023/12/09

December 9, 2023
A person stands under a streetlight, holding a phone. The streetlight looks like it may be placed in a city park at night. The scene is rendered in an impressionist style; the light is surrounded by a blast of yellow, neon green, and white. The glow is rendered in thick brushstrokes. Behind the light is the suggestion of a deep blue night, and symmetric rows of lights suggesting buildings. There are a few bright red dots that might be traffic lights or warning lights on buildings. In the top right is a smaller glowing object that could be the moon.

2023/12/05

December 5, 2023
A spooky, abandoned castle looms out of the fog on a dim evening. Visible is a tall, wide tower the size and shape of an apartment building, with a crenellated top, and—in front of it—a smaller wing with a sloped roof and a round window at the top. Behind it is a forest. Standing in front of the castle is a small figure holding a glowing yellow lantern. The figure appears to be standing in a low layer of fog. At the top of the tower, looking back, is another figure: a glowing white one. The background is mostly a dull blue with hints of green and yellow. The drawing is shades of dark blue.

2023/11/21

November 21, 2023
A grassy field with a tall, thin building placed to the left of it. The building looks like the profile of a human face: more specifically, that "talking head" icon designed by Susan Kare for classic Mac operating systems. It's a thin, blocky head, comprised entirely of rectangles. The eye is a rectangular window high on the face; the mouth is just a horizontal line. To the right of the building is a misty white speech bubble, with a window set in it directly across from the building/face's eye. Both the window in the building and the window in the speech bubble have the profile of a human figure standing inside. The drawing is indigo ink on a bright yellow background. The speech bubble is white.

2023/11/12

November 12, 2023
A scene at night. A ramshackle construction sits on a beach: a small shack, with another shack raised on stilts, fused into one corner of the first one. Both have windows, but the window in the ground-floor shack is lit. A television aerial is planted on the roof of the second shack. Flying over both of them is a large pirate flag, fixed to a pole emerging from roof of the ground-floor shack. This is a slightly different design of a pirate flag, though: instead of a skull, there's a smiley-face. The moon sits right above the horizon, reflecting on the ocean, either rising or setting. The drawing is rendered in black ink; the lit window is yellow; the moon is a pale white, and the rest of the scene is dark blue.

2023/11/03

November 3, 2023
An underwater scene: the ocean floor, craggy and uneven, with plants and coral rising up. It is very dark—the deep indigo you would see after sunset. Also on the ocean floor is what looks like the ruins of a submerged building with an eerie green light in one of the windows, as though someone is home. Above it hovers the huge, blurry shape of a submersible, its portals also eerily lit. The drawing is mostly black ink on deep indigo, with watery green-blue for the lights.

2023/10/30

October 30, 2023
A structure that looks like something between a building and a face. The structure is a flat, rectangular slab with a rounded top, roughly resembling a generic tombstone. It has a sharp, slanting nose. The mouth is an archway; the right eye is an elongated windowlike hole; the left eye is a circular clock. This structure is more like a wall and does not have an interior. A small path winds through the mouth, and there are sparse weeds growing around the base. The drawing is fluorescent blue-green on a dark indigo background.

2023/10/25

October 25, 2023
A flat, winding road with large hills on both sides. The road leads to a tall archway up ahead with buildings on both sides, like the gate to an old city. There are a few clouds in the sky. Close to the viewer, in the steep side of the left hill, is a small arched doorway; the entrance to a tunnel that looks almost like a mousehole. The color scheme is black ink on a gold-yellow background.

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