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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.

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.

2023/12/03

December 3, 2023
A person wearing a long cloak and top hat stands near a light. The person's face is disturbingly clownish, with garish pink makeup on their lips and eyes. The person appears to loom towards the viewer. The drawing looks like it is rendered in oil; the texture is rough, the details blurry. The background of the drawing is yellow, and the figure is blue. The left side of the figure has white light reflecting off of it; the right side has a bluish-green tint, as though reflecting a pale green light from somewhere else.

2023/11/27

November 27, 2023
A large golden helmet, like that worn with a suit of medieval armor, seen from the side. While clearly made of metal, the helmet also has folds and striations that suggest cloth. The visor is down, and instead of a grill pattern, it has a smiley face: two eyeholes and a mouth. Since this is viewed from the side, only one of the eyeholes is visible. The helmet has a white plume on the top, and two legs emerging from below; someone is wearing it as a full body costume. This is either a very small person, or a very large helmet. The person has dark slacks and white shoes. The helmet is gold-colored on a bright purple background.

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.

2023/11/18

November 18, 2023
An intricate pattern of geometric shapes, lines, and textures that form a rough, robotic face. It looks like a blueprint for a mask or a microchip. The drawing is mostly white ink on a medium-blue background, with some shapes drawn in yellow, green, and a translucent highlighter pink.

2023/11/11

November 11, 2023
A face that appears to be carved into a rectangular block of wood or stone. The face is craggy with a hooked nose, a mouth straight as a ruler, and two round eye sockets without eyes. The left eye socket is empty; not a hole, but a circular indentation, as if you pressed a sphere into clay. The right eye socket is a round black hole, like you'd find on a mask. Sitting inside that hole, as though looking out a window, is a small figure with antlers and a suit jacket. That eye socket is surrounded by odd striations and wrinkles. The drawing is black ink on a green background.

2023/11/07

November 7, 2023
A hunched-over creature holds a large, triangular sign up to its face, covering its head entirely. The sign looks like one of those warning signs with the exclamation point in a triangle, but this design is slightly different: the dot in the exclamation point has been replaced with a wide, frowning mouth. The drawing is bright, neon green on a black background.

2023/11/05

November 5, 2023
A figure with two feet planted in the ground like a statue and a spherical, featureless head. In the figure's left hand, it holds a head or a mask out in front of it. Its right hand is planted on its hip. The head is looking back at the figure. The ground is rocky, with plants and weeds. In the background is a blurry suggestion of a mountainous horizon. The drawing is black ink on a salmon-pink background.

2023/10/22

October 22, 2023
A rough, misshapen mask of a face—more suggestive of a fragment than a single object itself—with a large nose, open mouth, and bony, irregular striations. The eyes are two blank spheres that seem to float next to the mask. The mask is bright green on a black background.

2023/10/15

October 15, 2023
A chunk of misshapen metal with ripples and striations across it, as though it's partially melted. At various locations on the metal are neat round holes, like for bolts or or screws. The metal resembles a roughly crafted mask of a cyclops, with a large single eye at the top, a straight rudimentary nose, and a gaping horizontal hole for a mouth.

2023/10/14

October 14, 2023
A misshapen mask assembled from several different chunks of metal that seem to have been melted onto each other. The eyes and mouth appear to be filled with glass. In the mask's left eye stands the blurry silhouette of a person, as though the eye is a window.

2023/10/13

October 13, 2023
A collection of colored scraps that have been assembled to form a face. They could be metal, plastic, or some other material. They are irregular shapes with straight edges and holes that are placed to form a rough mask. The center one has a nose; the bottom one has a large elliptical opening resembling a mouth. Visible through some of the holes are glowing green eyes.

2023/10/11

October 11, 2023
A figure stands looking at its phone. The figure has two short legs, a heavy barrel-shaped body, and a face that looks like a smiley-face mask. The face is lit eerily from below with green light from the phone screen. There are no background details, and the ground is hazy in a way that suggests the figure is standing in front of fog.

2023/10/09

October 9, 2023
A thin, almost skeletal figure, wearing an expressionless mask with no facial features except two empty eyeholes, stands on a small, barren mound, holding a crooked stick. The figure is also wearing a heavy fur cloak piled on its back, giving it a hunchbacked appearance, as well as some ragged clothing.

2023/10/04

October 4, 2023
A rough mask of a human face. The left and right sides of the mask also contain smaller faces in profile.

2023/09/20

September 20, 2023
A white, mask-like face. Most of the face is nondescript, like a mask; the eyes and mouth blaze with colored stripes. The eyes have geometric star-shaped designs.

2023/09/03

September 3, 2023
A rough, sketch-like rendering of a mask. The technique suggests a blend of pencil and paint. The right side of the mask is crimson, and has dimensionality, as though molded or carved from a material; the left is black, and, while the area around the eyesocket looks three-dimensional, most of it is flat, as though sketched out in charcoal. The mouth is stretched wide in a smile revealing a white surface, suggesting teeth. The right side of the mouth has blurry vertical lines on it, as though dissolving into static.

2023/08/27

August 27, 2023
A face shaped like a tall shield: flat on top, with a curved, pointed bottom. The top half of the face is occupied by a single eye on a dark, textured background, roughly suggestive of a Cyclops wearing a leather mask. The lower half of the face is red and ordinary looking: nose, closed mouth. Surrounding the face is a textured gradient. The colors of the gradient are the inverse of the face: a red gradient on the top, a black gradient below.

2023/08/14

August 14, 2023
A figure wearing a blazing red-orange mask, which stands out starkly against a dull, winter-gray background. The mask looks like it is carved from wood, with a ferocious expression: a sharp, frowning mouth with white teeth exposed; a precise, curved mustache; and two large, staring eyes underneath thick, heavy eyebrows. The mask is vaguely shield-shaped, and someone paying attention might note a similarity to one of the monster mask emoji in iOS. The mask is disproportionately large compared to the figure—they're the same size—and the figure, clad in featureless gray clothing, is also holding a staff. There is a dull moon in the sky. In front of the figure stands a small leafless tree.

2023/08/12

August 12, 2023
A black background. In the foreground is a blue, octopus-like creature with four short, triangular tentacles. The creature has empty eyes, and extending from the middle of the right eye downwards is a straight-edged seam that suggests this may be a mask or a costume. No one appears to be inside it. The creature is illuminated on two sides by a neon green light and a bright crimson light.

2023/07/24

July 24, 2023
A strange, mask-like object. It has an arrangement of details that suggest a face, but a weird and mechanical one: a perfectly round eye in the top right, a semicircular indentation in the middle left, a nose that looks more like a metal spike or machine part. The right side of the face has several carved, curving indentations, like a wooden mask. There are a few tendrils of something hanging off the bottom of the mask, suggesting attempts at facial hair.

2023/07/22

July 22, 2023
A large, furry, headless figure holds up a large mask on a stick. The mask is a big-nosed, bearded face with its mouth slightly open. Sitting on top of the figure, where its head would normally be, is a person sitting in a chair. The mask is positioned directly in front of the seated person, obscuring it totally from view if you were approaching the headless figure, er, head-on. The seated person is holding an umbrella with two horns on top. The overall effect is of a large, horned, furry monster, with most of its head replaced by a person sitting in a chair.

2023/07/17

July 17, 2023
Someone who is either shirtless or wearing a skin-tight outfit, viewed from the waist up, their back to the viewer. The person has a shiny domed helmet with a black visor that looks like some sort of heads-up display or augmented-reality headpiece. There is a headphone visible in one ear. On their lower back are striations that imply cables. Under one arm is a small boxy device with a screen and buttons on it.

2023/07/12

July 12, 2023
A crude white face on a black background. The face has two cavernous eyes, a frowning mouth, and no nose. It is roughly scribbled in crayon, as though drawn by a toddler. Above the face is a more carefully drawn wide-brimmed hat, floating in space. Below the face is a shirt, also more realistically drawn. The shirt is upright, as though someone is standing in it, but empty, as though the person is invisible. The overall effect is that of an invisible figure wearing a hat, a shirt, and a disproportionately large, misshapen face drawn by an upset child.

2023/07/08

July 8, 2023
A roughly cut rocky slab with a large arched window in it stands among grass. It's a puppet theater, in which a production is taking place: two round faces on sticks interact. The two faces resemble Facebook's "angry" and "haha" emoji. The angry face is looking up at the laughing face. The angry face has a beard; the laughing face, placed above it, has spiky hair. Above the two figures hang items intended as scenery: a cloud and a lightning bolt, both suspended from the top of the window by threads. There's a wispy suggestion of clouds in the top left of the sky. Perched on top of the right side of the theater is a black bird that looks a little like a crow. Below the window, on the front of the theater, is carved a mask, one side of which is frowning, and one side of which is smiling.

2023/07/01

July 1, 2023
A rectangular shape that looks like a boxy human head without ears, similar to a mask. The face has tired eyes with bags under them, craggy features, and a prominent nose. Set into the person's forehead is a small, roundish cathode ray tube display, like something you would have seen on an early personal computer (to be specific, any Mac made between 1984 and 1986). Nothing is being displayed on the screen, however. The person's mouth is a disk drive: the kind designed for those 3.5-inch Sony diskettes, to be specific. The steam engine that powered these very early computing devices is not shown.

2023/06/11

June 11, 2023
A face in profile, with a blur of short, dark hair. The face is sterile, minimalist, and expressionless, like that of a mannequin. It appears to be a mask, but other lines and seams make it look as though the entire head is assembled of multiple parts, as if the entire figure in the drawing is a machine or robot of some sort.

2023/05/28

May 28, 2023
A figure with three legs and a face made of two masks, each mask itself half a face. It looks as though one three-legged person—or maybe one one-legged person next to a two-legged person—are standing behind two giant half-faced masks, holding them together. The eyes of both masks are empty; one seems to be a hole with light behind it, one is totally dark. This bizarre assemblage stands outside, the suggestions of grass and cloud around it.

2023/05/25

May 25, 2023
A black, furry, slightly hunched over creature dances while juggling balls. The creature is wearing a mask that looks vaguely like a jester's face and cap, except more minimal and eerie: blank and white, with black holes for eyes and a mouth.

2023/05/19

May 19, 2023
A large person wearing a shirt, a tie, a vast overcoat, and heavy military boots stands alone. The person's head is shaved; they have an analog clock for a face. Pinned to the overcoat is a wild, ostentatious array of various medals, pins, and badges.

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