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2025/03/15

March 15, 2025
A bright pink figure with very slight undertones of green and yellow stands against a light blue background. The figure is wearing a mask that looks like Susan Kare's "talking head" icon: a black-and-white, minimalist, rectangular face with a neutral expression. The figure is holding up a spray can that looks like the MacPaint spray can icon: again, a mostly black-and-white icon with square dots spraying from it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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.

2023/11/21

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.

2023/11/19

November 19, 2023
A creature with a giant head, in profile, and three legs. The head looks vaguely like the talking head icon from old Macintosh operating systems: elongated nose; very simple facial features; a vertical line for an eye and a horizontal line for a mouth. On the side of its head, where its cheek would be, is a large, slightly dimensional speech balloon with a blue lightning bolt inside it. The drawing is blue ink on a green background. The creature's eye, and some of the shading on the speech balloon, is white.

2023/11/09

November 9, 2023
An irregular, vaguely oval shape, like a scrap of cloth or a hole. On the left side of the shape is a highly simplified human face in profile; the "talking head" icon designed by Susan Kare for pre-OS X Macintosh computers. The eye is a vertical line, the nose is a simple rectangle, and the mouth is another line. On the right is a very tall speech bubble with no speech inside it. The bubble is blurry around the edges and slightly dimensional, as though it's dissolving into fog.

2023/08/05

August 5, 2023
A purple, two-legged creature, with no arms, no face, and two horns on its head. Sprouting from its back are three more horns. Its skin looks shiny and iridescent. On its chest is a large "warning" icon: an exclamation point set in a triangle.

2023/03/06

March 6, 2023
A black and white sketch of the immortal Happy Mac icon: a simple line drawing of a 1980s-era all-in-one Mac, with a happy face displayed on its screen.

2022/07/26

July 26, 2022

2022/01/24

January 24, 2022
The Happy Mac icon, with that scripty "hello" message that Apple used on the first Mac

2021/12/22

December 22, 2021
A suit-wearing figure with a warning icon (triangle, exclamation point) for a head
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