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2025/02/19

February 19, 2025
A tall, craggy, conical mountain rises out of the gloom of fog. The sky is a heavy, dark gray. Extending out of the mountain's left side is a long dock, jutting into space. The doorway casts white light along the dock. Above the dock, high in the air, is a small figure wearing what appears to be a jet pack. White flames are shooting out of the jet pack, leaving a trail of light gray smoke. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/09

February 9, 2025
A short, rust-colored robot wanders through a reddish field under a yellow sky. The sun sits in the top right of the sky. The robot's head and torso are large and boxy, with thin pipe-like arms and legs. The robot's head has three googly eyes stuck to it. On the front of its torso are some knobs, dials, vents, and a rectangular exposed compartment with red wires in it. It is facing the viewer, holding up its left hand. Perched on its hand is a reddish bird with a green iridescent tinge to it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/04

February 4, 2025
A silvery flying saucer hovers in a clear blue sky, the sunlight glinting off it. On the underside is a glowing white opening from which a beam of light extends down. Directly under the saucer is a conical hill covered in green trees. In front of the hill is a small yellow diamond-shaped sign; the kind you'd see on any North American road. The sign has a black icon of a flying saucer on it that matches the saucer behind it perfectly. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/23

January 23, 2025
An uneven brown desert surface sits under a reddish-orange Martian sky. A small brown Mars lander sits on the surface. The lander has three feet, a large parabolic dish aimed at the sky, and a smaller blue solar panel. Two large googly eyes are stuck on the side of the Mars lander. There is a ventilation slot on the side of the lander as well. The eyes are oriented up and to the left.

2025/01/16

January 16, 2025
A person in a top hat strides purposefully along, a gigantic metal wheel under their feet. The wheel is as tall as they are. They look like they are balanced on top of the wheel like a circus performer. The wheel looks like some sort of industrial component: five spokes, with a slight rusty tinge to it. It's traveling pretty fast, in the air slightly above the ground, kicking up bits of gravel. The ground around it is barren and rocky. On the horizon are blurry suggestions of trees. The person above is holding a gentleman's cane and an umbrella. Above, the sun hangs in the sky. This is a primarily grayscale painting. It is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/10

January 10, 2025
An object streaks through space, wrapped in greenish-blue fire. The object is vaguely spherical and looks like a space rock with the tail of a comet. However, it also looks like the front of a bus: green windows, orange running lights, white headlights, people visible inside, and a sign above the windshield with green letters that read "M1 via 5 Av". Stars are visible in the black sky.

2025/01/08

January 8, 2025
A small, orange, bullet-shaped rocket ship with two orange fins at the lower end and two round, bluish portals on its side. There is a yellow stripe across each fin, and another yellow stripe across the tip of the rocket. The tip of the rocket also has a glowing red light, with a green light on the left fin and a bluish light on the right fin. The ship is streaking upwards through black, starry space, leaving a trail of glowing greenish fire.

2024/12/11

December 11, 2024
A bright orange vehicle with three legs. The vehicle looks like what you'd get if you put a helmet from a hazardous waste outfit on top of three human legs. The visor of the helmet is the windshield. Sitting behind the windshield is the shadowy silhouette of the driver. The vehicle has another smaller round window, revealing a small potted tree wrapped in white holiday lights. The vehicle is in a dark area, and has a single white headlight casting a beam of light. Sitting behind the rearmost leg of the vehicle is a black cat with glowing green eyes.

2024/11/27

November 27, 2024
A dark concrete room, lit only by a bright orange torch on the left side of the wall. In the center, dominating the room, is a tall black cabinet that looks like a server rack, filled with complex machines and red and green lights. At the bottom of the cabinet, a small door is open. Snaking out from the door is a large black arm with clawed fingers.

2024/11/21

November 21, 2024
A figure with a large, bulbously awkward body and two thin legs makes its way across a bridge. The figure is carrying two suitcases. It does not have a head, and a large arched window in its body reveals a person sitting inside, as though it is a vehicle. Attached to the top of it is a flashlight-like lamp. In front of it is a glowing streetlight. The sky is reddish yellow, and the red light of dawn or dusk reflects off the figure and the bridge.

2024/11/18

November 18, 2024
A small concrete building in the middle of a grassy meadow. It is either dawn or dusk. The sky is pink, still with stars visible, and the horizon blazes with yellow. The grass is lavender. The building has a large dish antenna sticking off of the roof, and a few other smaller antennas. A doorway and a small window are visible. Both glow with greenish light. The door is ajar. There is a sign to the right of the door, with a triangular warning symbol on it, and indecipherable text below. A person is running away from the building.

2024/11/12

November 12, 2024
A small, grass-covered chunk of earth hovers in the air, like a tiny island in the vast blue sky. Sitting on top of the chunk of earth is a boxy, dark blue robot, its back to the viewer. The robot is holding onto a large red balloon, which might be keeping the island aloft. A few birds are in the distance.

2024/11/09

November 9, 2024
A foggy gray woodland. Floating over it is a dark navy-blue metal sphere with several round glowing openings. Two are green, and one is red. Projecting from below the sphere is a long thornlike rod with radio dishes and antennas sticking off of it. A single bird flies over the trees.

2024/11/03

November 3, 2024
A small shack at night, under a starry sky. The shack has a roof sloping down to the right, and a single door with no windows. On the door is what appears to be a warning sign, although what it's warning against isn't legible. There is a green glow under the door. Directly to the left of the shack is a giant test tube, taller than the shack, with a glowing greenish substance in it. Glowing green pipes connect the test tube to the shack. Rising from the test tube is a faint column of smoke.

2024/10/23

October 23, 2024
A tall, rusty contraption stands in the middle of a bright green field under a cloudless blue sky. The purpose of the contraption is unclear; it looks vaguely robotic, with two dilapidated legs and a boxy body with various protrusions and openings. A rust-colored cat is looking out of the largest opening, a circular window that looks like a pipe may have plugged into it. On top of the body is a rusty dome with another round hole in it. Protruding from the front of the contraption is a long metal pipe from which hangs a rusty mailbox. Whatever this machine once did, it sure isn't doing it now.

2024/10/20

October 20, 2024
The sea floor. Sticking up from it is a large rock. The rock has a glowing red opening that looks like an entry to the interior of the earth. Hovering above the sea floor, directly in front of the red opening, is a small spherical submersible with a large dorsal fin and a small camera on a robot arm. A person can be seen through a round yellow porthole on the side. In the distance swims a school of small iridescent green fish.

2024/10/16

October 16, 2024
The old factory room was dark. Too dark for my liking. Heavy beams and wires dominated the ceiling. The mottled gray concrete walls were covered in dust and grime. Some unnamable object—a large metal cylinder with rusty pipes emerging from it—squatted to my right, in the darkest corner of the room. I trained the blinding white flashlight beam on the dirty wall and started in horror, even though I knew in my bones what I would find: that damned mark. The crude red circle, the smile, an O and X for the eyes, the dripping paint. He had been here, sure enough. He was out there. And tonight, I was sure, another dirty wall somewhere would bear his mark.

2024/10/14

October 14, 2024
A hilly brown desert under a yellow sky. Rolling across the hill is a small, brown, six-wheeled contraption reminiscent of a Mars rover. The machine is comprised of two metal boxes: a small one up front and a longer one in the back, sort of like a truck. Protruding off the boxes are various antennae, a small solar panel, a camera on an arm, and a robotic hand. The boxes have a few lights and vents on them. A slightly faded sun hangs in the sky. There is no sign of anything living.

2024/09/24

September 24, 2024
An irregular geometric shape on a purple background. On the right side is the abstracted profile of a human face that should be familiar to anyone who used a Mac in the 80s or 90s. The shape is a mix of red, yellow, and iridescent blue, and has many straight lines connecting to it. The lines look like lines on a printed circuit board.

2024/09/18

September 18, 2024
A weird spherical house with a large circular window and a circular door. On the surface of the house are glowing colored circles, their purpose unclear. Sitting in the open doorway is a cat. The interior of the house glows blue, but no details are visible. It is a deep blue night. The house is surrounded by forest. In the sky are several aircraft, shapes indeterminate, white lights glowing.

2024/09/15

September 15, 2024
A yellow-green object with three legs floating in a starry blue sky. The object is shaped roughly like one of those large American mailboxes that you see on street corners. On one side, there is a round glass portal window. On the other side, there is a small door with its own round window. The object has a few antennae and spikes sticking off it. Floating in the larger portal window is a goldfish.

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.

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