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2024/04/25

April 25, 2024
A ghostly blue-green figure standing against a dark background. The figure is wearing a suit jacket and black tie, with an ID badge on its left breast and three stars on its right shoulder. The figure does not have a head. Floating above its empty neck is a round, blazing orange object that looks like a coin. The head on the coin is gaunt, with staring, empty eyes and two horns. Floating above the coin is a pale blue halo.

2024/04/22

April 22, 2024
A ghostly white figure in a meadowlike wasteland holds up a large white mask with a cartoonish smiley-face on it. Far away, on a hill, another ghostly figure holds up a similar white mask, but it's too small to see an actual face. This is a primarily black and teal drawing.

2024/04/21

April 21, 2024
A grim-faced bald man with a disproportionately large head and tiny legs stand in a dark area, holding a scepter or baton with a smiley face on it. A closer look at the head suggests that this may be rubber mask: the eye looks more like a hole. There is a very real, very red eye behind the mask. This is a primarily monochrome drawing, rendered in shades of black and eerie green.

2024/04/17

April 17, 2024
A large gold coin with a face in profile on it. The face is, like that on most currency, a bald man with a hard, vacant stare. Unlike most currency figureheads, this one has devil horns. The coin serves as a head for a figure wearing a dark suit. The figure stands on a blue background.

2024/04/06

April 6, 2024
A dark, cloudy night. In the foreground is a bare, rocky hillside overlooking a flat plane. In the distance, but not too far away, is the wooded slope of another hill. Someone is standing on the rocky hillside, holding a long cable. The cable curves up to where an enormous yellow smiley-face hangs in the sky. Yellow light from the face is reflecting off the person and the plane. Most of the drawing is gray and black, except for the yellow smiley-face.

2024/03/30

March 30, 2024
A person stands in a clearing at night, a full moon visible in the sky. There are indications of low trees, or a meadow. The person is flying a huge, shield-shaped purple kite with a frowning monster's face on it. The kite has a single red eye, a long nose, and exposed yellow teeth, with red stripes on it as well. Its tail resembles a beard. It is the only colored object in an otherwise grayscale drawing.

2024/03/24

March 24, 2024
A large purple head with an unsettling smile, exposed iridescent-green teeth, and no hair or ears. The head is lit from behind with green light, and looks sort of like an Easter Island statue. The head's eye is a round yellow window in which the silhouette of a person's head can be seen. The person appears to be wearing the head like a costume; their legs are visible. The background of the drawing is red-orange.

2024/03/19

March 19, 2024
A black and white charcoal drawing of a blurry meadow with a thick metal pipe sticking up out of it. On the right side of the pipe is a small keyhole. Exploding up out of the top of the pipe is a jack-in-the-box-looking creature. Its body is blurry, almost as though it is made of smoke or extremely furry. Its head looks like a bowling ball with a smiley-face embossed on it. It has a pointed jester's cap with a bell. Mid-air is a round lid that must have been on the pipe before the creature blew it off. Also mid-air is a key, ejected from the keyhole.

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.

2024/03/12

March 12, 2024
A statue of a person stands on a small conical rise that looks like the very tip of a mountain. The statue, vaguely Soviet-ish, appears to be made of metal or concrete. It is wearing a coat and its left arm is raised in a wave, as though to a crowd. Its head, though, does not look like the rest of the statue: a spherical, bright yellow emoji with a laughing face. There is a bird perched on top of it. Below, to the right, two small figures about a quarter of the size of the statue are standing together, taking a selfie. The sky is an orange-red and the statue and mountaintop, mostly black, are tinged red.

2024/03/08

March 8, 2024
A rectangular machine with two legs and no arms. The machine has a complex, intricate exterior of interconnecting pipes and wires, interspersed with round, colorful, glassy panels that look like lights, buttons, or perhaps screens. Centered at the top of the machine, where a face would be, is the largest of the round panels. It is glowing green, with a smiling face on it rendered in blocky, white pixels, reminiscent of the Happy Mac icon. The round panels are red, yellow, and green. The body of the machine is a rust brown. The machine is wearing bright orange high-top sneakers. It is set against a blue background.

2024/02/22

February 22, 2024
A gray monster with three legs and one large arm with a huge, clawlike hand. The hand has three figures and is about half the size of the monster. The monster's head is obscured by—or perhaps composed of—a number of colored circles with small, emoji-like faces in them. Most are angry or unhappy-looking. The monster is on a light gray textured background.

2024/02/18

February 18, 2024
A huge stone head sits in a remote area at night. It's a cloudy night; a heavy gray sky, no stars or moon. The head is obelisk-shaped, covered in graffiti, and seen in profile, with an open mouth; its eye is a single hole drilled through the stone. In front of it is a small yellow bonfire, into which a person is feeding papers. This is a mostly black and dark gray drawing, with yellow and white for the fire and reflections.

2024/02/10

February 10, 2024
A disturbing figure wearing a black coat and a black bowtie, and a round black head with no ears, no nose, and a wide, neon-pink mouth with yellow teeth. The figure has two round eyes, both different colors: the right eye is concentric circles of red, yellow, blue, and orange; the left eye is crimson and blue. The face has wrinkles on it as though it is made of leather. The figure is wearing a cartoonish fedora-esque hat. The drawing is on a pink and orange background.

2024/02/09

February 9, 2024
A ghostlike yellow-green monster with a craggy-toothed smile, three eyes—brightly colored in red, orange, blue, and purple—and three horns. The monster has several stars printed on it and is on a dark blue background.

2024/02/08

February 8, 2024
A bizarre, neon-pink figure: a giant head on five legs. The head has a panicked expression. This is a pink and yellow drawing on a black background.

2024/02/07

February 7, 2024
A head, rendered in a series of bright colors: red, bright, yellow, blue, crimson. The head is floating in space on a white textured background. Its mouth is open, its eyes are wide, and it has a surprised expression. It has three horns and bristly crimson hair. It looks like a monster.

2024/02/01

February 1, 2024
Two figures. The one on the left has a purple, almost cat-like body with two legs, a curved tail, and no visible arms. Its head is about twice the size of its body and looks like a mask: shield-shaped and pale green, with a giant single eye in the center. Its eye is an iridescent green iris on a black background. To the right of it is a small crimson creature with four pointed, triangular legs, a domed body, and two horns. The creature also has a shiny green eye in the middle of its face. Both of these are set against a dark blue background. Above them both, in the top-right corner, is a sharp, white, five-pointed star.

2024/01/31

January 31, 2024
A large, blue jar with a short, narrow bottleneck, like a wine bottle if the bottle part expanded to about twice its size but the neck stayed the same. Inside the jar is a dimly visible skull. The light reflecting off the right side of the jar is an iridescent green. The left side of the jar has a blue sheen to it. The jar is set against a textured white background, casting a translucent blue shadow.

2024/01/24

January 24, 2024
A colorful, abstract background of reds, yellows, greens, and blues. In the center is a minimalist sketch of a Macintosh, rendered in a few quick lines: the "Picasso" logo featured on the branding for the first Macintosh. There is a smiling face on the screen, and a rainbow apple with a bite out of it placed to the left of the Macintosh.

2024/01/24

January 24, 2024
A blue background, heavily textured, with brushstrokes of various blues and greens. Placed in the middle is a glowing red, "happy Mac" icon, framed by rough, yellow, white, and neon green brushstrokes.

2024/01/19

January 19, 2024
A person with a set, hard face that looks like a golden mask. A greenish light from off-screen is reflected on the person's shoulders. The person is wearing a tight-fitting hat with two large Steamboat Willie ears. The person is a mostly dark blue and indigo, silhouette, with highlights of iridescent green. The background is a textured mix of white blue and purple.

2024/01/12

January 12, 2024
A short, squat creature wearing a giant mask. The mask looks similar to those classic theatrical ones: shield-shaped and minimal, with two empty eyes and a smiling open mouth. There are several wrinkles in the forehead. Visible in the mouth is the single eye of the creature wearing the mask. The creature has two furry arms and legs, and is wearing an orange shirt. This is a mostly black drawing on a light blue background.

2024/01/11

January 11, 2024
A milk carton sits on a barren, perhaps snow-covered hill. The lighting suggests sunrise or sunset. Orange cirrus clouds cover a deep, indigo sky. The milk carton has "found" printed on the back of it, like those advertisements for lost children. Where the photo would be is a window, with someone looking out of it.

2024/01/10

January 10, 2024
A simply rendered robot: a small box for the head, a larger box for the body, and two blocky legs with triangular feet. The robot is different shades of red, purple, and black. The face is two large, staring, round eyes and a simple mouth that looks like a tally mark. The head has two curved horns. The robot has one left hand on the end of a curvy, tubelike arm, which it is raising. It also has an electric plug for a tail. Centered on its body is a large television screen—the old-style, round-cornered kind, rendered in blue, phosphorescent, green, and white. There is a blurry figure wearing a suit speaking on the screen. The robot is standing on a yellow background.

2024/01/06

January 6, 2024
A humanoid figure facing to the right. The person, if that's what it is, has no hair; a long straight nose; a small, set mouth; and eyes narrowed to slits. This is not a pleasant face to look at. Especially because the one visible eye has an eerie green glow, as though the figure is not human. The right cheek is covered with small wrinkles and veins. Behind and above the figure are a glow of vertical yellow beams—not sunlight, but something technological, like the transporter "beam" effect from Star Trek.

2023/12/18

December 18, 2023
A gold sword or dagger stands, or perhaps hovers, point-up in a large dark space. The blade has a face in profile, looking to the right. The eye of the face is shaped like a regular human eye, but rotated 90 degrees, and has a red stone set in the pupil. Standing on a ledge at the right is the yellow silhouette of a person. The sword and the person seem to be talking.

2023/12/10

December 10, 2023
A skull and crossbones, except the skull is that "grimace" emoji: a round face with two dots for eyes and a mouth in a straight, horizontal line showing teeth. The face and bones are white, on a black background.

2023/12/07

December 7, 2023
A person wearing a sharp blue suit and tie stands, arms akimbo, controlling a small marionette-figure in each hand. The person's head is a giant rage emoji, styled to look like the one used by Facebook: a scowling icon with the top part flushed red-orange, flames appearing to leap from the top. The background is white, and the marionettes and the ground they stand on is a dark navy blue.

2023/11/30

November 30, 2023
A large yellow speech balloon, containing no text, just an enormous face with two round, empty eyes and a large toothy smile. It looks like a cross between the standard smiley-face icon and a monstrous jack-o'-lantern. The speech balloon is coming from a small figure in the lower right of the drawing. The figure is a silhouette with no defining features and stands in the middle of a small round shadow. The background of the drawing is bright red; the speech balloon and face is yellow; the figure is off-white; and the shadow is dark purple.

2023/11/29

November 29, 2023
A large, blobby, red smiley-face that seems to be made of candy, melted plastic, or some sticky substance. The smiley-face looks like it is suspended in the air; dangling from it is a long drippy strand. Standing below the face is a small person, holding the strand as though it's a balloon string. The face is much bigger than the person, and looks like it's the size of a weather balloon in comparison. The background of the drawing is light gray, and the person is midnight blue.

2023/11/22

November 22, 2023
A chaotic background of black and white stripes, like television static. In the foreground is a grotesque figure, visible from the chest up. It's a man with a broad, sallow face, wearing sunglasses with thick white rims. The man has a wide nose; a solid, cleft jaw; and short blondish hair the same color of his skin, arranged in an unnaturally neat style that looks like a parody of a fashionable haircut. The man's mouth is twisted into a leer, one thick pink lower lip visible. The man is wearing an ugly brown suit with a white shirt and a black tie. This, to anybody who's vaguely familiar with weird happenings, is Max Headroom—more specifically, the version of him that unexpectedly showed up on Chicago TV stations on this day in 1987. If you're wondering what's happened, so am I.

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