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2025/01/13

January 13, 2025
A single wall with an uneven top stands in a barren, yellow space that suggests a desert. The side of the wall facing the viewer is in shadow, and is nearly black. Nevertheless, one can make out the dim outlines of several large sheets of paper fixed to the wall. It's not visible what's on most of them, but the largest appears to have a portrait of someone wearing a dark jacket and tie. Two large, plastic googly eyes are pasted on the person's face. They are facing right. To the right of the wall and slightly behind it, walking out from behind it, is a dark silhouette of a person. The figure is casting a shadow towards the viewer. The person has a googly eye fixed to their head as well, and that eye is looking towards the wall. A bright white sun burns in the sky.

2025/01/12

January 12, 2025
A yellow creature with three legs, no arms, and a bright red beanie with a red propeller on it. The creature's face is a collection of four googly eyes affixed to its body. It is standing against a dark gray background.

2025/01/11

January 11, 2025
A rusty, dilapidated metal mailbox on a decrepit-looking post. The flag is up. The surrounding environment is the dull blue of late evening or early morning. A low fog covers the weedy ground; a blurry treeline is visible in the background. The mailbox has moss hanging from the underside. Wherever this is, it's been a long while since anyone's put a letter in it. That doesn't mean it's empty, though; a hazy, ghostlike blur is drifting from the mailbox's door-less opening. Nature—or however we define the wild expanse of the non-human universe—abhors an empty mailbox.

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.

2025/01/09

January 9, 2025
A bright yellow sky. In the top right of the sky is a round white sun. Hanging from the top of the sky is a light with a gray, metal, hemispherical shade, like the sort of light you'd find hanging from a ceiling. The light is casting a cone of darkness. Standing under the cone is a dark purple figure holding a lantern. The lantern casts a warm, yellow glow in the darkness of the anti-light coming from above. Stars are visible in the darkness, as though the lamp isn't just casting darkness, but night.

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.

2025/01/07

January 7, 2025
A scene at dusk or dawn: a purple sky that still has stars, with pink clouds on the horizon. Standing in the foreground is a crude, gray, roughly humanoid-shaped wooden cutout, propped up by a clearly visible board. Spray-painted on the front in white paint is a clumsy approximation of a suit and tie. Two irregularly cut eyeholes are the closest thing it has to a face. Someone has placed a black fedora on its head. Standing behind it is a dark silhouette of a much smaller person, approximately a third the height of the cutout. The person is holding a hammer and seems to be the one who has created this in the first place.

2025/01/06

January 6, 2025
An arched doorway, leading from one white room to another white room. A dark shadow falls across the light streaming in through the doorway. The figure casting the shadow is not visible, but it's close by. Illegitimi non carborundorum.

2025/01/05

January 5, 2025
A tall, dark, greenish tower with a pointed roof and an arched belfry. Sitting in the belfry, where a bell would otherwise be, is a blurry dark shapeless figure with two glowing eyes and a white halo above its head. Protruding from the right side of the belfry is a rod with a small yellow sign hanging from it. The sign has the word "open" on it. In front of the tower, about half its height, is a small mustard-yellow booth, also with a pointed roof and a large arched window. Sitting in it like a ticket taker is a figure who looks a little like a monk: shaved head, greenish robes. There is a suggestion of trees in the background. A bright white sun sits in the top right of the yellow sky. Sitting on the roof of the larger tower is a dark bird. This painting is done primarily in shades of gold, brown, and dark green.

2025/01/04

January 4, 2025
A snowy landscape. The sky is the dark blue of early morning or evening. On the left side of the painting is a blurry suggestion of snow covered trees. On the right side is the dark outline of a house with snow on the roof. The house has two dark, arched windows. In the leftmost window is a single burning candle. Looming behind the candle is a large, shadowy silhouette with two dim gray eyes. In the sky, hovering around the house, are three white shapes that look vaguely like comets, except that they are clearly moving independently and of their own volition. They look almost as though they are trying to find a way into the house.

2025/01/03

January 3, 2025
A dark, slightly blurry figure with one hand placed on its hip and another hand raised in greeting. Its head looks like something from a plastic toy: bright pink skin, minimalist yellow hair, and a simple smiley-face expression. Fixed to its chest is a shiny pink heart that also looks like a toy. The figure is standing against a neutral gray background.

2025/01/02

January 2, 2025
A figure wearing a long dark buttoned coat stands with its right hand placed in its pocket, its left hand holding a glowing phone out in front of it. It is looking at the white screen. It is wearing a dark fedora with a white feather stuck in it. Its head is a sphere with a round lens on the front, like a diving helmet. The figure is standing against a neutral gray background. This is a painting rendered primarily in shades of gray.

2025/01/01

January 1, 2025
On the right side of the painting is a sheer, dark blue cliff. The sky behind is blue with pinkish clouds. Standing on the cliff is a lone figure. The person is about to push a very large brown suitcase off the cliff. The suitcase is about the size of a refrigerator and looks worse for wear, with numerous dents, patches, and even spray paint marks.

2024/12/31

December 31, 2024
A blue night sky filled with exploding bursts of color: red, yellow, various shades of green and blue that cover most of the sky. A small building sits on a hill illuminated by the fireworks. One window in the side of the building is illuminated. Happy 2025.

2024/12/30

December 30, 2024
A large, menacing figure stands against a dark blue background. The figure has unusually long arms and long, clawlike figures. The figure is mostly white, with tinges of green and pink on its hands. Its head is red-orange, with one round, staring eye. A blurry, multicolored halo hangs above its head.

2024/12/29

December 29, 2024
An impressionist scene of an abandoned building at night. The building is an old stone house missing a roof. One inner wall of the house is visible; an arched window lets in moonlight. On the wall facing the viewer is an empty arched doorway with a few stairs beneath it. A small stony hill leads down from the building. Greenish moonlight reflects off the hill. In the sky, the moon blazes white. This is a predominantly blue painting composed with heavy brushwork and bright colors. The brushstrokes surrounding the moon are a mix of white, yellow, bright, green, and various shades of blue.

2024/12/28

December 28, 2024
An abstract, impressionist painting with long, wavy brushstrokes. At the center of the painting is an elongated, slightly curved object painted in bright pink, yellow, and various shades of green. The right side of it is brightly illuminated, giving the impression that it is dimensional. It is surrounded by blue. The overall effect is of a multicolored bubble rising up through water.

2024/12/27

December 27, 2024
A tall figure stands against a yellow green background, holding a sword in one hand. The point of the sword is against the ground. Where the figure's head would be is a balcony with a small roof over it. A person is leaning over the balcony, releasing a large bird into the sky. A yellow sun hangs in the top right of the painting.

2024/12/26

December 26, 2024
A blazing red and yellow sky over a dark purpleish meadow. On the left stands a small person in front of a large old-fashioned camera on a tripod. The person is photographing a monstrous figure wearing a top hat and fashionable coat. The figure is posing, one leg placed on a small rock, one hand on its hip. It looks like a rhinoceros from hell: enormous snout, multiple horns, several fangs, and a large, soulless red eye. Both parties are mostly silhouetted in profile, but are reflecting reddish light from the sky. In the sky, two large birds fly overhead.

2024/12/25

December 25, 2024
A bright starry night. Three tall, robed figures stand on a train station platform. While they are mostly silhouetted, the approximate colors of their robes are still visible. The leftmost figure, wearing reddish robes, is staring at its phone. The middle figure wears yellowish robes; the rightmost figure wears blue, and is facing left. All three are wearing crowns. They are standing under a small roof, from which is hanging a sign with glowing red lettering. What the sign says is unclear, but this is presumably a station timetable. High in the sky, on the right, a white star blazes.

2024/12/24

December 24, 2024
A bright sunny day: the sky is clear and blue, and the ground is covered with snow. On the left side of the painting is an enormous snowman. It is leaning forward, its stick arms raised menacingly. It has an open mouth, a carrot for a nose, and two black eyes. Snow is flying around it. It is leaning towards a person in front of it. The person is wearing dark pants, an orange jacket, and red mittens and hat, and is stepping back in shock, as though the snowman has only just come to life by the power of the great and terrible snow demons.

2024/12/23

December 23, 2024
A person stands in what appears to be a museum, phone upraised, aimed at a giant sculpture of a head. The head is large and misshapen, and appears to be carved from dark gray stone. It is easily the size of a small hut, towering over the person. It is mounted on a thin pole, which itself is planted in a large block of concrete. There's a small red barricade between the head and the person. The eye of the head is a glowing yellow window, in which is seen the silhouette of another person.

2024/12/22

December 22, 2024
A reddish meadow under a reddish-yellow sky. Sticking up from the meadow is an extremely rickety, haphazardly constructed collection of nailed-together wood scraps that form a column of sorts. The column winds upward, looking more like a plant than something artificial. At the top, balanced impossibly on one of the boards and hammering in a nail, is the person building it. The person is mostly a silhouette. Below sits an equally disorganized pile of wood.

2024/12/21

December 21, 2024
A dark space. A single light hangs from the top, casting a lurid blue conical glow like a spotlight. Standing under it is a dark silhouetted figure holding a black umbrella, as though trying to ward off the light like rain.

2024/12/20

December 20, 2024
A scene early in the morning or early in the evening. The sun is down, and the world is various shades of blue, with a dim gold tint around the horizon. In the foreground is a very tall, narrow, conical mountain peak. The mountain is black against the sky. At the top of the peak, seemingly built into the mountain, is a building with a pointed steeple. It's unclear where the building ends and the mountain begins. A single glowing window is visible below the steeple. Winding past the mountain below is a narrow road. In the distance is the faded treeline of a distant hill. In the sky to the upper right is the dull sliver of a crescent moon.

2024/12/19

December 19, 2024
A tall, thin figure with the head of an animal—maybe a wolf, maybe something else—strides forward, holding a red shield in its left hand and a gleaming white sword in its right. On the shield is the yellow symbol of an eye, rotated 90° to run lengthwise down the shield. The figure is a reddish brown. It stands against a gold yellow background. There is a glowing white halo above its head.

2024/12/18

December 18, 2024
An orange person balances on top of a large, shapeless, green monster. The monster is walking on two legs. The closest thing it has to a face is an opening where its mouth would be. The opening is shaped like a cleanly removed puzzle piece. The person on top of the monster is holding a fishing pole from which is dangling a glowing white puzzle piece, the exact shape of the creature's mouth. The piece is hanging right in front of the creature's face, The creature is clearly looking at it, and reaching for it. The background is a dull gray.

2024/12/17

December 17, 2024
A winter night. The ground is covered in snow. The sky is deep blue and filled with stars. A hazy, bluish humanoid form that looks like a ghost stands next to a round sign with a bus icon on it. On the left side of the painting is a blurry collection of dark tree branches in the distance. On the right side are black, more sharply defined branches with snow on them.

2024/12/16

December 16, 2024
A tall, thin, dark blue figure with an empty glass sphere for a head stands against a bright orange-yellow background. The figure is wearing a lighter blue tie and holding a phone with a glowing white screen in its left hand. Hovering inside the sphere of its head is a yellow fish.

2024/12/15

December 15, 2024
A bright yellow-green four-legged creature with a short, stubby tail and a long, giraffe-like neck. The creature is wearing four orange boots with white stripes on them, and a brown hat with a brim. The hat has a yellow-green feather sticking out of it. The creature has an orange necktie with yellow stripes dangling from its mouth, and a small white ID card hanging around its neck. Its body is facing to the right, but its head is turned around and is facing to the left. It is standing against a dark blue background.

2024/12/14

December 14, 2024
A small, churchlike building sits on a platform high in the air. The building has a clock tower and a single arched window. The platform is supported by a rickety, patched-together tower of what appear to be haphazardly connected boards. Dangling from the platform is a rope ladder that ends in the middle of the air. This is set against a greenish yellow sky, with no other details except a few birds in the background.

2024/12/13

December 13, 2024
A clear blue night with a full moon. The ground is covered in light bluish fog. Emerging through the fog is an ominous figure: humanoid, but misshapen and bulky, as though hastily assembled from rock or clay. The figure's face is not visible. The moonlight glints dully off it. Hovering above its head is a glowing white halo. This is a mostly blue painting.

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