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2024/09/26

September 26, 2024
A person seen in profile plays a red, complex instrument that looks like a saxophone. The saxophone has a lot of odd buttons and switches that a normal saxophone wouldn't have. Coming out of the saxophone is a balloon of sound in blue, yellow, and iridescent green. The balloon appears to be glowing. The person, painted in bright yellow, also appears to be glowing. They are wearing a red fedora. The whole scene is set against a dark background.

2024/09/25

September 25, 2024
A large, arched window that appears to be in an ornate tower, like one you might find on a cathedral. The tower has several gargoyles. In the background is the blurry outline of a city, with a dirigible floating over it in the dirty yellow sky. Standing in the window is a figure wearing a pointed hat and a robe.

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.

2024/09/23

September 23, 2024
A red night sky over a dark landscape. In the foreground is a large sign, mostly hidden in shadow, with dimly visible letters that spell "Closed". In the background is a yellow fireball launching into the sky, its origin or purpose unclear. On the blue mountain ridge in the distance are some tall antennae and a small building with lit windows.

2024/09/22

September 22, 2024
A person stands on a tarmac, a suitcase to the right of them. To the right of the suitcase is a round sign with an arrow pointing to where they are standing, like what you might see at a bus stop. Hanging in the clear blue sky in front of them is a vast, iridescent bubble, with shades of green and yellow. A few white birds are in the sky.

2024/09/21

September 21, 2024
Two weird creatures walk under a red sky, the blurry suggestion of woods in the background. Both appear to be slightly demonic. One, the taller one, has horns and a tail. It has a hand extended, conjuring up a small fireball. The shorter creature behind it has a long, beaklike face with spikes on its back. This is a primarily red drawing.

2024/09/20

September 20, 2024
A dark figure dances on a small rocky promontory, framed by a hazy crimson backdrop. The figure is playing a long, thin horn from which a puff of fire is emerging. The figure has a white halo above its head.

2024/09/19

September 19, 2024
A dingy gray basement room, all concrete walls and sharp angles. Pipes run along the walls and across the ceiling. The room is oddly shaped, with various overhangs and a raised area that suggests a loading dock. There is a single dim white light that only emphasizes the darkness. Dominating the scene is a large display of six glowing red numbers, the kind you'd see on a clock radio. Ominously, this appears to display a countdown, with three seconds remaining. Below it sits a person tapping away at a laptop, staring at the white glow of the screen.

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.

2024/09/17

September 17, 2024
A figure wearing a fedora, a suit, and a tie stands at the end of a curving road. The figure is some distance from the viewer and illuminated by a blaze of yellow light, holding a flaming torch. The overall impression is that this is someone standing in the darkness holding a torch, but the overall painting is done in an impressionist style and composed of bright shades of blue, magenta, red, orange, and yellow.

2024/09/16

September 16, 2024
A tall, extremely narrow tower on top of a mountain, set against a bright, reddish-yellow sky. The tower has one window at the top, and a doorway with a light over it. A greenish light is visible in the window. There are a few antennae on the roof. Leading away from the doorway is a set of stone steps and a winding path. Behind the tower is the suggestion of another mountain in the distance, with a similar tower sticking up from it. This is rendered in red. A crescent moon is in the sky.

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.

2024/09/14

September 14, 2024
A red field under a dark blue cloudy sky. Planted in the middle of the field is a tall sign with the faded letters on it that spell "diner". Attached to the signpost is a street lamp, casting a lurid yellow light. To the left of the sign post is a rickety telephone pole, propped up by another, smaller pole. A tangle of wires coming from the telephone pole connect to the sign. Sitting on top of the sign are a row of birds. More birds are in the sky.

2024/09/13

September 13, 2024
A dull gray background. Hurtling from the sky is a huge asteroid, white heat glowing around it and streaming from behind. Directly in its path, seconds from impact, is a person holding up a phone, taking one last photo.

2024/09/12

September 12, 2024
A flat street, several outlines of buildings, and a streetlight sticking up out of the center of the street. The doors and windows look like holes in the buildings, as though the buildings are two-dimensional props. On top of the rightmost building is the silhouette of a water tower and a cat. A person is standing in the arched doorway of the rightmost building. A white sun hangs in the sky. The buildings are dark, navy blue; the sky is a yellowish green.

2024/09/11

September 11, 2024
A blurry, dark city skyline. Rising above it into a blue sky are the white shapes of the twin towers.

2024/09/10

September 10, 2024
A clown with a dark suit and tie, a top hat, and long indigo hair. The clown has a bright red nose, a white face, red lips, and is holding several colored balls, one of which has a smiling face on it. They are wearing several colored star stickers.

2024/09/09

September 9, 2024
A headless figure wearing a red suit with a yellow shirt and a blue-green tie balances on a blue-green ball. The ball has a frowning face crudely drawn on it. The figure's arms are up, as though it is juggling, and it is surrounded by random colored objects: stars, triangles with exclamation points in the center, spheres with smiling faces on them. There is a neon yellow heart with a red, frowning face and X's for eyes. Hovering above the figure's neck, where a head would be, is a red devil mask with empty eyes and an eerie smile. The figure is set against a dark blue background.

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.

2024/09/07

September 7, 2024
A mostly dark environment, illuminated only by a bright yellow bulb hanging from the top right of the drawing. Approaching the bulb from the left is a reddish figure holding up the frayed end of an electrical cable. There is a windup key sticking out of the figure’s back. The figure’s head is a sphere with a frowning emoji face on it, floating above its neck.

2024/09/06

September 6, 2024
A huge crescent moon hangs in the deep blue night sky. It's large enough and close enough to look spherical. Below it is a small mountain, blurry in the dark. Standing on top of the mountain next to a roaring yellow bonfire is a figure with wings.

2024/09/05

September 5, 2024
Two dark figures stand in a meadow of red and golden grass, speckled with small yellow and white flowers. The figure closest to the viewer is facing away from us. It is wearing a fedora hat, a coat with a yellow lightning bolt on the back, and it is holding a glowing white sword. In front of it, some distance away, crouches a figure wearing green armor and a horned mask. That creature has its right arm upraised, a ball of white fire hovering above its palm. Above, the sun hangs in a dull sky.

2024/09/04

September 4, 2024
A figure stands on a small stage under a dark sky. The stage is slightly conical with two shiny stripes towards the top, like the upper half of a barrel. The grass all around is glowing blue. In front of the stage is planted a small sign with a warning icon and illegible text on it. While it's not clear what the sign is warning against, the figure on top of the barrel is wearing a bright red-orange ghost costume with a single large blue eye on the front and holding a glowing wand with smoke coming off it. That, and it has a glowing halo above its head, and orange sneakers. Nature has its ways of indicating that some creatures are best left alone.

2024/09/03

September 3, 2024
A tall human figure with a traffic light for a head stands in grass, a small dog on a leash. The dog also has a traffic light for head, but a smaller light, with no orange signal. The human's light is set to red; the dog's is set to green. The green light is illuminating a patch of grass. This is drawn from ground perspective, looking up at both the dog and the person. The dog is closer to the viewer. In the background is the blurry suggestion of tall buildings. This is a blue painting that looks like early morning or evening.

2024/09/02

September 2, 2024
A figure, colored leather-brown, wearing a coat and tie and carrying a crooked walking stick. The figure's head is a combination of two faces: one looking forwards, and one seen in profile. The figure's right eye is shared by both faces. The face in profile is looking down and to the left, at the deep right pocket of the coat in which is seen a third face. The figure is wearing a dark brown top hat. The drawing is on a tan yellow background.

2024/09/01

September 1, 2024
A rocky mountaintop at night. On the right is a small plateau that looks a little like a platform, with stairs leading up to it. Hovering over the plateau is a tall, featureless ghost with two eyes and a halo. It is phosphorescent green. Near the stairs is a small sign with an icon of a ghost and an arrow pointing towards the actual ghost. To the left stands a person, one arm raised. In the distance is the tree-covered outline of another mountain. A crescent moon hangs in the sky. This is a mostly purple drawing.

2024/08/31

August 31, 2024
A small pond nestled at the foot of a forested hill. The hill is blurry, suggesting fog. The pond has mist rising off it. On the side of the pond, closest to the viewer stands the dark silhouette of one person; directly across from them, on the other side of the pond, stand a ghostly white figure, looking back. It appears to be a dull, foggy day. This is a primarily indigo drawing.

2024/08/30

August 30, 2024
A blue night sky filled with stars, and a yellow-green meadow beneath it that seems to be glowing. Standing to the left in the meadow is a dark figure, holding up a wand with a flaming blue light at the end. In front of the figure, hanging in the sky like a mirage, is the glowing green outline of an ornate church window. The three circular panes at the top of the window, arranged in a triangle, and the square panes below it, form a key.

2024/08/29

August 29, 2024
A large, rusty, spherical bomb embedded in a hillside. This is one of those cartoon grenades with the fuse sticking out of the side. The bomb has a smiley-face visible on one side. Approaching over the hillside are a number of people, one of which is ominously holding a shovel. The sky is a greenish yellow. A single bird circles overhead. Perhaps it will be the only remaining witness of whatever happens here.

2024/08/28

August 28, 2024
The left side of the drawing shows a wall, or the edge of a building, largely in shadow. On the right side is a lighter, open space. A creature with a large, staring eye and a sharp nose is peering around the edge of the building, only its face visible in profile. The outline of a body is roughly spray-painted in white on the building itself, and the creature's face aligns perfectly with the neck on the body. This is a black-and-white drawing that looks as though it was done in charcoal.

2024/08/27

August 27, 2024
A red sky with a tear in it: a blazing white and yellow streak that appears to be a rip in the sky. Below is a small house on supports with a sharp, conical roof. A path winds past the house. Next to the house is what looks like a warning sign with a red triangle on it. The ground is barren, almost volcanic. This is not a good place to be.

2024/08/26

August 26, 2024
A grayscale drawing of a tall person walking at night under a full moon. There's a blurry forest in the background. The person has a scarf draped around their neck, and is wearing a very tall stovepipe hat. The hat has a hole and a small perch sticking out of it, like that of a birdfeeder. Flying in front of the moon is a large dark bird.

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