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2024/04/19

April 19, 2024
A tall house on a grassy hill. The front of the house, illuminated by the sunlight, has no windows and only one door, an arched opening. In front of the door stands the small figure of a person. The side of the house, in shadow, has two large, staring eyes looking at the person. Both eyes have an iridescent green glow. The sky is red-orange, with a glowing yellow sun. The building and hill are reddish. A black bird, perhaps a crow or raven, is perched on top of the house.

2024/04/18

April 18, 2024
A bright yellow background, and a glowing white sun. In the foreground, a blue figure walks, seemingly covered by a ghost-shaped night sky. The figure is set against the night sky, which is dark blue, has a crescent moon, and is covered with stars. It looks as though the night is a cloak that the figure is wearing during the day. (I realize this person looks like Dr. Manhattan and it is not Dr. Manhattan.)

2024/04/17

April 17, 2024
A large gold coin with a face in profile on it. The face is, like that on most currency, a bald man with a hard, vacant stare. Unlike most currency figureheads, this one has devil horns. The coin serves as a head for a figure wearing a dark suit. The figure stands on a blue background.

2024/04/16

April 16, 2024
A person wearing a dark gray suit dances, playing an instrument. They are facing away from us, one leg lifted as though skipping or prancing. The instrument they are playing is a large snakelike creature with gray skin and large, iridescent green eyes. The creature's tail is in their mouth, and its large head is above and behind them, its mouth open.

2024/04/15

April 15, 2024
A dark, dungeon-like room. There is only one window in the top left: narrow, gothic-looking, and glowing red. To the right is some sort of dimly visible pillar or arch. In the center of the room is a glowing pile of coals, gray smoke billowing from it. Rising up from the very center of the coals is what appears to be a small, black plant with leaves that look like claws. The underside of the plant is illuminated red in the glow from the embers. The flower part of the plant suggests a creature, or a Venus flytrap: two mandibles open, belching yellow fire.

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.

2024/04/13

April 13, 2024
A small, rocky path winds beneath a steep cliff. The path is on the right side of the drawing and the cliff is on the left side of the drawing. Standing on the path is a small figure with a wide-brimmed hat and a staff. In front of the figure, far in the distance, is the dim, vast shape of a mountain. The sky is clear blue. Standing on top of the cliff, in the top left of the drawing, is the bulky figure of a horned monster. The monster is peering down at the traveler, looking ominously focused.

2024/04/12

April 12, 2024
A mountain in the middle of nowhere, under a blazing yellow and crimson sky. Planted at the very peak of the mountain is a signpost with two signs: one pointing forward, reading "OK", and one pointing backwards, reading "Cancel".

2024/04/11

April 11, 2024
A dark, starry night. A large crescent moon hangs in the sky, so large and close that the craters and surface texture are visible. Below is a small pond, surrounded by grass and a few trees. Standing by the pond, white glow reflected in the water, is a ghostly white figure.

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.

2024/04/09

April 9, 2024
A large black figure with angel wings sits on a small, rocky promontory, on top of a grassy hill. The figure is shining a flashlight directly downwards at the foot of the promontory. In the beam of a flashlight, as though caught in a spotlight, a smaller figure stands, seemingly praying. This is a mostly green drawing.

2024/04/08

April 8, 2024
A full solar eclipse. The sun hangs in an eerie, purple sky, fully obscured, only a green and white corona visible. Below are several craggy mountains, also illuminated with a weird green light. On top of the closer mountain stands a small figure wearing a cloak, both arms raised to the sky, a staff clutched in the right arm. The figure appears to be staring directly at the sun without eclipse glasses, which one should never do, even if one is a sorcerer summoning the apocalypse.

2024/04/07

April 7, 2024
A surreal, deserted city. A small silhouette of a person is hemmed in by large, blocky buildings that have almost no windows or doors. Behind the person is a blazing sun, a yellow sky, and the blurry silhouette of a building engulfed in sunlight and heat. In front of the person is a cool blue area: another building that seems to be in shadow, with only one illuminated window and an open doorway, casting a greenish white light onto the blue ground. Above the door is a small, neon pink sign that says "open". At the top of the building is a single, illuminated yellow window—the only visible window on the entire building—in which sits a cat.

2024/04/06

April 6, 2024
A dark, cloudy night. In the foreground is a bare, rocky hillside overlooking a flat plane. In the distance, but not too far away, is the wooded slope of another hill. Someone is standing on the rocky hillside, holding a long cable. The cable curves up to where an enormous yellow smiley-face hangs in the sky. Yellow light from the face is reflecting off the person and the plane. Most of the drawing is gray and black, except for the yellow smiley-face.

2024/04/05

April 5, 2024
A person stands in a rocky, mountainous area. The person is on a craggy open peak, with wooded skylines on both sides. Directly below the person, as if carved into the rock, is the huge form of a stone giant that may or may not be in the process of waking up. The giant is bald with a heavy, jowly face and eyes hidden beneath a heavy brow. The horizon is afire with either a sunrise or a sunset. Above, a hawk turns in the sky. This is probably not what Lebanon, New Jersey looks like, but then again, I've never been there.

2024/04/04

April 4, 2024
A tall, glowing white figure stands astride the curved horizon of a dark planet, reaching over to touch hands with another glowing white figure, this one slightly smaller, on the other side of the planet. There is an eerie green auroral glow on the horizon. Above, many green-tailed meteors hurtle through a starry sky. Anyone who remembers browsing the web in the late 1990s might be reminded of something.

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2024/04/03

April 3, 2024
A small figure wearing a gray-black jumpsuit with a glowing green lightning bolt on the front of it, and a small orange lightning bolt on the shoulder, walks in an empty space that's entirely a light periwinkle blue. The figure is wearing a very large, bulky orange helmet, the front of which is occupied entirely by a giant eyeball with an iridescent green iris. The helmet has horns. In front of the figure, attached to a string that the figure is holding in its left hand, is a small, orange sphere, also with an eyeball in the front of it. That eye is blue. In its right hand, the figure is holding an orange sphere with no eyeball. The shadowy silhouette of a zeppelin hovers bizarrely in the background.

2024/04/02

April 2, 2024
A structure about the size of a very small two-story building sits in a desolate, remote area: high grass on the ground, a suggestion of forest in the background. The structure has only two large, round windows in the front of it. The lower window is a bright, fluorescent green; the upper-story window is red. Both stories are defined by metal panels bolted to the front of the building. The overall effect is that of a building that looks like an old-fashioned traffic light. Visible in the green window is a horned devil figure. In the upper red window, an angel stands with arms outstretched, a glowing halo over its head. These windows are the only colored items in the drawing; other than that, everything is a dull, charcoal gray. To the right of the building stands a small figure looking at the building, the red and green light from the windows reflecting off of it. Perched on the top of the building is a large black bird that looks like a crow or raven.

2024/04/01

April 1, 2024
A person with fiery red hair, a formal suit jacket, and a severely striped black-and-white shirt sings in front of a microphone about how he's never going to give you up and let you down. The background is lavender, because the 1980s.

2024/03/31

March 31, 2024
A glowing white humanoid figure climbs out of a trap door in the ground. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a wooded hill. The sun hangs high in yellow sky. Two birds fly overhead.

2024/03/30

March 30, 2024
A person stands in a clearing at night, a full moon visible in the sky. There are indications of low trees, or a meadow. The person is flying a huge, shield-shaped purple kite with a frowning monster's face on it. The kite has a single red eye, a long nose, and exposed yellow teeth, with red stripes on it as well. Its tail resembles a beard. It is the only colored object in an otherwise grayscale drawing.

2024/03/29

March 29, 2024
A strange, alien object—shapeless, with weird striations that make it look almost like a boulder, and moss and roots hanging off it—stands on two legs. Standing on top of it is a figure in an astronaut suit, planting an American flag. The flag is in colors; everything else in the drawing is in shades of gray. A dim sun or moon is visible in the sky.

2024/03/28

March 28, 2024
A dark gray, hunched-over, humanoid monster prowls a remote area. The sky is a dismal, grayish green. The monster stands on what looks like a meadow with a forested hill rising up in the distance. There appears to be a layer of fog over the ground. The monster has a tail, long claws, and a reddish eye. A black speech balloon is above the monster's head. The balloon looks like a computer error message without any text; it contains a triangular yellow warning icon, and a blue button that says "OK". But things are not OK.

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.

2024/03/26

March 26, 2024
A person and a cat stand together on a dark surface, silhouetted in front of a dark gray background. It's unclear whether this is a wall or simply empty space. A white full moon hangs in the top left. Both the person and the cat appear to be painting; the person's right hand is up, the cat's left paw is up, and blazing rainbow colors are streaming from them, dripping down the gray space as though made of runny neon paint. Both the person and the cat have rainbow light reflecting off them, suggesting that the colors are actually glowing.

2024/03/25

March 25, 2024
A dark, cloudy evening—or perhaps morning—at sea. The sky is a dark blue, and the water is a very dark blue. Standing up in a very small boat is a ghostly greenish figure holding up a glowing green lantern. Far away, nearly on the horizon, is another small boat, with another pale figure holding up a lantern. Time passes slowly out here.

2024/03/24

March 24, 2024
A large purple head with an unsettling smile, exposed iridescent-green teeth, and no hair or ears. The head is lit from behind with green light, and looks sort of like an Easter Island statue. The head's eye is a round yellow window in which the silhouette of a person's head can be seen. The person appears to be wearing the head like a costume; their legs are visible. The background of the drawing is red-orange.

2024/03/23

March 23, 2024
A river winds through a flat meadow with trees on the horizon. Above is a vast, open sky, covered with banded clouds. In the top left of the sky is a black hot-air balloon.

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.

2024/03/20

March 20, 2024
An eerie scene that looks like it was created in either charcoal or watercolor. A tall, thin apartment building rises up out of a ground covered with undergrowth. The building has  only one window in the top left. It is lit, with the blurry silhouette of a person in it. Stalking around the base of the building in the lower right of the drawing is the huge form of a shapeless creature with glowing white eyes. In the background is a blurry suggestion of a forest. The scene appears to be at night.

2024/03/19

March 19, 2024
A black and white charcoal drawing of a blurry meadow with a thick metal pipe sticking up out of it. On the right side of the pipe is a small keyhole. Exploding up out of the top of the pipe is a jack-in-the-box-looking creature. Its body is blurry, almost as though it is made of smoke or extremely furry. Its head looks like a bowling ball with a smiley-face embossed on it. It has a pointed jester's cap with a bell. Mid-air is a round lid that must have been on the pipe before the creature blew it off. Also mid-air is a key, ejected from the keyhole.

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