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2024/09/08

September 8, 2024
A dusty yellow desert at high noon. Birds circle in the sky. Below, rising out of the dust, is a pyramid with a giant eye on the side. The eye is looking skyward. Above, in the top left of the sky, is a dirigible: novus versus vetera in ordo seclorum.

2024/08/25

August 25, 2024
A large, engineered structure, somewhere between a building and the detail of a spaceship. It has various facets and panels. It does not look like a recognizable building; more something made out of metal. There are two tall windows on one side, glowing green, and a few windows on another side, reflecting the dark blue of an evening sky. A large door is open on one side, with a gangplank stretching down from it. A person is walking down the gangplank, pushing a suitcase on wheels. This whole thing seems to be positioned on a tarmac. In the background, a blurry large building is visible, antennas on the roof. This is a mostly blue drawing, with the structure being a metallic dark green.

2024/08/22

August 22, 2024
A movable platform, like that a window washer would use, attached to the side of some iron girders; perhaps an unfinished skyscraper. A person is standing on the platform applying a tool that looks like an acetylene torch to a spot on the girder. The white glow reflects off the person. Perched on top of the arm from which the platform is suspended is a large bird. The sun hangs in the yellow sky.

2024/08/16

August 16, 2024
A factory, bristling with smokestacks, that is also a small house. The sky is a heavy, slate gray. Several of the taller smokestacks are pouring smoke into the sky, and have small glowing green lights on them. On the front of the factory is a door and a glowing green window, which, by scale, suggest that the factory is the size of a cottage. Someone is silhouetted in the window, looking out.

2024/08/06

August 6, 2024
A lonely, wooded mountaintop under a greenish-yellow sky. Blazing in the top right of the sky is a white dot: not the moon, not the sun, something else. A small gray path winds up the mountain. At the top of the mountain is a crumbling, abandoned radio installation: a small shack and a large dish on a tower. A single bird is in the sky.

2024/07/31

July 31, 2024
A tall, narrow house with an upper story slightly overhanging the front porch and a sharp, sloping roof. A rear window on the first floor is lit with an eerie, greenish light. A tall window on the second floor is also lit with the same light. Framed in the window is a robot, staring out. The top of the roof has several antennas. Sitting on the steps of the front porch is a human figure, partly illuminated by the porch light. The sky is pink, as though the sun is going down or just coming up. The only visible celestial object is a bright white dot, too small to be the moon and too large to be a star.

2024/07/22

July 22, 2024
A strange, dark environment: a ground that has things that look like tree stumps poking out of it, an oppressive gray sky. Hovering above the ground is a blaze of greenish-yellow light. It looks like a portal through which a horned figure with angel wings is emerging, riding one of those razor scooters. The objects on the ground dully reflect the bluish-green, indigo-accented light.

2024/07/20

July 20, 2024
A dark, dingy laboratory with a high ceiling and pipes running along it. To the left, dominating the room, is a huge vertical glass tank with a rounded top that looks sort of like a wine bottle without a neck. Suspended in the tank, one glowing hand pressed against the glass, is the blurry form of a fluorescent greenish humanoid shape. A person stands to the right of the tank, looking at a glowing white tablet. Above, a long fluorescent bulb casts a lurid green light over the scene. Two computer monitors are bolted to the wall. One is displaying a green screen; one is displaying a blue screen. Guess which one is running Windows.

2024/07/14

July 14, 2024
A time machine, door open, sits abandoned on the ground. It's an odd looking device: large, bulky, and mostly a metallic gray. It has a glowing blue border around the door, an interior filled with glowing green controls, and a large analog clock at the top set to 6:44. A digital display above the door reads "07 13 2024" in bright green numerals. It has an electrode on either side; the right side electrode has bolts of electricity arcing from it. Behind it, the sky is the pinkish-gold of sunset. The ominous presence of several helicopters implies that this is not just any July evening.

2024/07/06

July 6, 2024
A small, weatherbeaten, wooden cabin. Only the right side is visible, including the right side of a window. Nothing is in the window. On top of the roof sits a cat. The cat is looking at a flying saucer hovering in the sky. The time of day is indeterminate; it could even be at night, although the sky looks quite bright. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a treeline. This is a monochrome drawing that looks like it was created in charcoal.

2024/07/03

July 3, 2024
A giant undersea creature, something between a whale and an anglerfish. It has a vast, yawning mouth and a yellow eye, which is a portal with the silhouette of a person in it. It appears to be a machine; the lure in front of it is on the end of a precisely geometrical support, like a streetlight. The fish has other mechanical trappings on it, such as things that look like metal plates, and bolts. Small fish swim nearby. This is a mostly blue drawing.

2024/06/24

June 24, 2024
The cavernous industrial interior of a spaceship. The walls appear to be made of some harsh, concrete-gray substance, and have various odd striations and geometric formations. The floor is flat and gray. In the lower right is a circular pipe or something in the wall; in the top right, there are three glowing vertical bars of greenish-white light. In the center is a huge round window through which is visible a black, deep-space sky full of stars and a blue planet. The planet has a slight blue color to it, and does not look like there is any life on it. Sitting on the lower part of the window is a gray cat with its tail hanging down, looking out through the window.

2024/06/18

June 18, 2024
It's early morning or early evening. The sky is an indigo blue. A small rocket takes off from a simple launchpad, blasting into the air and leaving a towering inferno on the ground. The problem is that the rocket has launched at an angle, bouncing off the support structure to the left of it before seemingly regaining its trajectory and heading for space. The support structure has two small, pale, white lights on it and is slightly faded towards the top, suggesting fog. On the side of the rocket is a single round portal, revealing a figure silhouette in greenish light.

2024/05/29

May 29, 2024
A traffic light out in the middle of nowhere, mounted on a small hill. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a mountain and a cloudy sky. Hovering above the traffic light, which is red, is a blurry halo. This is a monochrome drawing that looks like it was rendered in charcoal.

2024/05/19

May 19, 2024
A tablet, with a ghostly face reflected in the black screen. The tablet appears to be off, but a green light at the top next to the camera indicates that it is recording something. Reflected on its screen is a blurry, pale face with no expression and empty eyes. They say that sometimes, the abyss looks back. "When one looks long into nothingness, one becomes nothing, empty." –Theodore Van Rooy (totally random guy on StackExchange)

2024/05/16

May 16, 2024
A large sign with a word written in an alien language. Below the word on the sign is some indistinct lettering and two symbols: a triangle with lines radiating down from it, and something indicating that no photography is allowed. On the left leg of the sign is a smaller triangular sign with similarly mysterious glyphs on it. On the right leg of the sign is a small box and wires, leading to an antenna at the top of the sign. Behind the sign, in the sky, is the blurry form of a triangular dark aircraft with a single white light visible under it. This is a monochrome drawing, primarily in various shades of grayish blue.

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.

2024/04/24

April 24, 2024
The Voyager I spacecraft in deep space. The craft has a giant radio dish. Dimly visible behind it are some radio masts and panels. Floating below it is a small gray maintenance van with an orange flashing light on top and the NASA logo on the side. Floating in front of the dish, evidently making some repairs, is an astronaut tethered to the van. Behind is a black sky filled with stars.

2024/04/20

April 20, 2024
A three-legged orange entity, somewhere between a creature and a machine, with two horns and an enormous eye-like window in the middle of its body. The entity is in a dark area: at night, or maybe even under the water. A person is visible in the window, operating controls. A glowing green bolt of electricity jumps between the entity's horns. The light from the interior casts a hazy green glow out into the darkness.

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.

2024/04/10

April 10, 2024
Night, somewhere remote. A white crescent moon hangs in the sky. A squat, hunched-over creature with thin legs wears a fedora and carries a ball under its right arm, staring directly at the viewer. The creature's face is indistinct and oddly featureless, as though it is wearing a mask. The part of its face most in shadow from the hat has a glowing green circle where an eye would be; its mouth is a row of glowing red lines, like a robot's face. It is wearing a baggy T-shirt, and appears to be surrounded by grass, with a blurry suggestion of trees in the distance. This is a dark gray drawing, with the only color being the glowing green eye and red mouth.

2024/03/27

March 27, 2024
A hazy, yellow desert, with low mountains in the background. The sun sits high in the sky, as buzzards wheel above. Hovering about 30 feet above the desert floor is a house-sized metal sphere the color of the desert. There is only one opening in it: a circular hatchway, revealing a greenish glow from the interior. A ladder drops from the hatchway to the ground. Walking away from the ladder is a small figure carrying a staff.

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.

2024/03/21

March 21, 2024
A bizarre creature with a sharp beak like a bird and a large eye that looks human. The creature stands on two legs and is holding a cane or walking stick. It is wearing a hat with a brim and a white feather, and has a windup key sticking out of its back. This is a black and white charcoal drawing.

2024/03/17

March 17, 2024
A hulking, crimson devil-figure with horns, a crimson jacket, and a tie stands on what looks like a surfboard with a small jet engine mounted under it, soaring over a landscape. The figure is silhouetted against an orange sky. Its right arm is behind it for balance; its left arm is holding up a phone that it is staring at. The phone screen shows a head with horns, suggesting that the devil is taking a selfie. The screen is reflected in the devil's large, mirrored eyes.

2024/03/09

March 9, 2024
A small, sparrow-like bird with a red eye, oddly long, spindly legs, and no tail stands on top of a small, rocky promontory. The way it's standing is more like how a person would stand. The bird is mostly black, silhouetted against a blazing yellow and orange sky. It has highlights of iridescent green. The strangest thing is that it has a clockwork key sticking out of its back and a glowing white halo over its head.

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.

2024/03/04

March 4, 2024
A large, spacious room, like a warehouse or lab. A blazing white light hangs from the ceiling, casting a sterile glow over everything. Stand beneath it are two people and a robot. One of the people seems to be adjusting something on the robot. The other person, closest to the viewer, is seen from the back; they are wearing a black hoodie with a gray lightning bolt on the back of it. Above, on the far wall, are large windows through which other people are seen, observing what's going on in the lab. Various cables hang from beams below the ceiling.

2024/03/01

March 1, 2024
The interior of a large, mostly lightless, concrete room. Towards the top of it, white light blazes from a circular opening. Crouched in the opening is the figure of a robot with a spotlight for a face. A ladder descends from the opening. In the foreground, lurking in the darkness but silhouetted in the light, is a large furry figure with horns. This is a mostly black drawing, with pale-green-accented white highlights.

2024/02/29

February 29, 2024
A dark, cavernous war room. Hanging from the ceiling is a long, desolate fluorescent light. Projected onto a giant wall is a dim green aerial view of something, with indecipherable information overlaid onto the image. Below it is a bank of computer screens, showing blurry images of a tunnel pipe and a robot; yesterday's drawing. Three people are looking at the screens: a short person stands at the left, a taller person stands in the middle, and on the right, a third person sits in an office chair in front of two computer screens. This is a mostly black and dark-gray drawing, with the lighted areas rendered in dull, fluorescent green and white. One of the computer screens is blue.

2024/02/28

February 28, 2024
A desolate sun hangs in the sky. In the foreground is a concrete wall with a giant concrete pipe opening out of it. The ground appears to be scrubby grass. A short distance away, a robot with a spotlight on its head stands facing the tunnel. In the sky, a helicopter flies overhead. This is a primarily monochrome drawing: black on gray beige.

2024/02/27

February 27, 2024
A vast forest: mountain after mountain of heavy trees. The sky is indigo fading into the clear blue of an early dawn. Hovering above the purple trees is a black helicopter, a red light on the tail and a green light on its underbelly. The helicopter is pointing the brilliant white cone of a spotlight down into the trees below. Someone is looking for something.

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