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2023/07/07

July 7, 2023
A very pointed, nearly perfectly conical hill, covered with grass. Balanced on the point of the hill, sort of like a platter on someone's head, is a flat platform, on which stands a large, stone statue. The statue has a humanoid face, but is roughly cut, with no arms or legs, and looks like a religious figurine. Sitting right under the platform, keeping it balanced on the tip of the hill, are two figures. One of them is looking at a phone. The sky is mostly clear, with a few wispy clouds.

2023/07/06

July 6, 2023
It is very late evening or very early morning. Standing in a grassy meadow is a giant round sign, maybe 10 feet in diameter: a smiley-face that appears to be constructed from metal and plastic, like a sign for a gas station or roadside attraction. The sign is falling apart: panels are missing or broken, revealing the metal framework underneath, and plants dangle from the frame. In the background is the suggestion of a foggy tree line. Standing to the right of the sign is a person, shining a flashlight up at it. The darkness and the beam from the flashlight throw the seams and contours of the sign into sharp relief, making the smile empty and menacing. As Lon Chaney once said, "There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."

2023/07/05

July 5, 2023
Two very tall, very thin, very rickety towers stand side-by-side. They look like skyscrapers, but each has only one window at the very top, and each looks about the width and depth of a closet. In each window sits a person. Farther down, the towers are connected by a small bridge and a slapdash brace of some sort. The towers themselves have flaking plaster and boards fixed to the side, showing serious dilapidation and haphazard attempts at repair. In the background are shadows that suggest there may be other buildings of this sort. In the sky is a hazy sun.

2023/07/04

July 4, 2023
A creature with heavy, primitive facial features, pointed ears, fur all over its face, and eerily expressive eyes stares pensively at a small sphere suspended by a string above its head. Only the creature's conical, gorilla-esque head is shown.

2023/07/03

July 3, 2023
A very tall, complex facility stands in the middle of a grassy space. It's about as tall as a narrow tenement building—maybe three to four stories high—but it isn't a building; it's a collection of pipes, wires, and metal scaffolding. It looks like a cross between an electrical substation and some sort of pump. There's a box with a high-voltage symbol on it, and a small set of steps leading up to the concrete base. It looks like something related to energy or infrastructure. On the ground, a person is walking away from it. In the sky, the sun shines.

2023/07/02

July 2, 2023
A dark, starless night. A small, barren island in the middle of a large body of water, which is perhaps the ocean, since no other land is visible. Rising straight up from the island is a tall, craggy tower of rock. The bulk of the tower is rough and misshapen, and, while bizarre, still looks naturally formed; the top is an actual, cylindrical turret that appears to be crumbling. There is a dark window on one side of the turret, and a limp flag at the very top. About halfway up the tower, standing on one of the more prominent crags, is a dark figure holding out a blazing white lantern. Far out on the water is another white light from a ship. The figure and the ship seem to be signaling each other. Something is afoot.

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.

2023/06/30

June 30, 2023
A tall, slightly crumbling building on a bright, cloudless day. The building looks like a tenement building with no windows, except for one in the top-right. There is a small, closet-like entrance in the lower left. The building is surrounded by grass, and very tall, wild plants that look sort of like foxtails. The building has a satellite dish and two security cameras fixed to the side of it, as well as a small birdhouse. Halfway up the side of the building is a birdhouse with a few birds around it. In the window at the top, a shadowy figure is seen.

2023/06/29

June 29, 2023
A chunk of carved stone or clay, with an imprint in it. It's an irregularly shaped object with the carved imprint of a bird on it. The bird, which looks like a sparrow or some small songbird, is vaguely anthropomorphic: it has humanoid legs, wings spread, and it appears to be wearing a shirt with pockets and a tie. If I was still in college, I'm sure I could conjure up some paragraphs explaining how meaningful this is, but I'm not, so it's a bloody sparrow wearing a tie and let's leave it at that.

2023/06/28

June 28, 2023
A house stands on a rocky hill at night. Behind the house, the sky is filled with billowing phosphorescent green clouds: could be fog or maybe even the aurora. Fog appears to be hanging low to the ground as well. On the second floor of the house, two windows are lit.

2023/06/27

June 27, 2023
A tall chunk of wall, standing by itself, surrounded by weeds. This is not the wall of a house or garden so much like a wall you'd find on the border of a country: nearly three stories in height, and you get the impression that it's thick. It's not a simple, smooth wall, either; looks like it's comprised of several other large slabs of concrete or stone haphazardly cemented together. At the base of the wall is an arched doorway in which is tentatively placed a collapsing iron gate. There is, bizarrely, a very neat circular window with crossbars about halfway up the right side of the wall. At the top of the wall is a gap formed by the intersection of several different slabs. All are unevenly sized and missing corners, leaving a person-sized gap in the wall. And for purposes of comparison, there is also a person in the gap, peering out, totally silhouetted—a dark shape, except for the eyes which are eerily visible.

2023/06/26

June 26, 2023
A hiker stands on barren ground, dotted with rocks and patches of grass. We are looking at the back of the hiker. The hiker is wearing a backpack and carrying a walking-stick in their right hand. Above them, looming out of what appears to be fog, is a vast creature whose shape could best be described as "large". The creature is mostly shapeless, with a large body, head, and horns. The creature's face is just a giant, staring eye. It does not appear to have any appendages.

2023/06/25

June 25, 2023
A person wearing a v-neck sweater and T-shirt. Just the person's upper half and head are visible, like a portrait. The thing about this person is that their head is a large, spherical boulder. On top of their head is perched a small bird.

2023/06/24

June 24, 2023
A small railroad station—just a covered platform and signal—sits by a single track, far out in the middle of nowhere. A locomotive is visible in the distance, the headlamps lit. The blurry surroundings suggest fog. Above are a few wispy clouds, and either the sun or the moon.

2023/06/23

June 23, 2023
A robed figure with a strange, oddly round, alien face stands in a glow of light. The figure's expression is very quiet and peaceful, almost monklike.

2023/06/22

June 22, 2023
A figure stands with its back to the viewer. On the back of the figure's shirt is a high-voltage symbol. The figure is clutching a spitting arc of electricity that is leaping up from the ground as though it's a fountain.

2023/06/21

June 21, 2023
A large, asteroid-like chunk of soil-covered rock hangs in space as though it's floating. The space it hangs in is not black, like night; more a deep blue, like early morning or late evening. Weeds and grass sprout from the asteroid; sand and debris crumble from the sides, falling downwards. The asteroid has a door and a window in it. Both are illuminated, as if the interior is inhabited, or at least inhabitable. A cable has been run out the door and dangles into the emptiness, the end of it unseen. Hanging from the cable is a person who is either climbing into or out of the asteroid.

2023/06/20

June 20, 2023
A tall, narrow, houselike building made of brick and concrete. The roof has various antennas. The house has a large circular window, right under the roof, and a smaller, arched window to the lower right. There is an arched overhang directly under the house; sort of an open porch. A person paces on the porch, staring at a phone. On a platform in front of it—an extension that looks like a large front porch—stands a small rocket ship.

2023/06/19

June 19, 2023
A two legged creature with horns and/or pointed ears stands in the grass. It seems as though the interior of the creature is visible, perhaps a cutaway view, like a biological diagram. This cutaway view obscures the creatures face. Inside the creature are various beakers and tubes containing glowing green liquid, connected by piping. The creature holds a test tube with the same glowing liquid in one of its hands. The overall effect is of a furry, walking chemistry set.

2023/06/18

June 18, 2023
Three boulders stacked, one on top of each other, on top of a small, grassy hill. The lowest boulder has a mouth; the middle boulder has a nose; the topmost boulder has a single eye. Moss hangs from the boulders, and two birds perch on top of the top boulder. There are no clouds or sun.

2023/06/17

June 17, 2023
Imagine a mountain-shaped boulder mixed with a house: a rough chunk of rock with arched windows and roof-points sticking out of it. At the top is a small cupola with a bell; atop the cupola is a vaguely cross-shaped lightning rod. Now imagine that this entire thing has four wheels and a large, spacious windshield up front, like a cargo van. The effect is of a mobile home that's also a mountain, with various architectural enhancements. Visible in the windshield is a driver, shadowy, and indeterminate.

2023/06/16

June 16, 2023
A small, extremely localized thunderstorm unleashes a downpour and lightning bolt in one specific spot. The entire storm is maybe not more than 12 feet in diameter. Other than the storm, the sky is completely blue; above, the sun shines. Standing directly under the cloud is a person, grasping the thin, jagged lightning bolt as though it's a string attached to a balloon.

2023/06/15

June 15, 2023
A rickety tower: a shack on top of tall scaffolding that looks like something that might hold up a water tower. The shack has a sloped roof and sits on a platform surrounded by guardrails. It's a dim, foggy day; the fog hangs so heavy in the air that it's hard to tell whether it's day or night. On the side of the platform is an area light casting a dim beam. Standing on top of the shack is a person aiming a flashlight towards the sky. The surrounding area is filled with weeds. The overall effect is that of a mostly abandoned guard tower occupied by one person.

2023/06/14

June 14, 2023
A figure stands on a blurry plain in front of a vast, snow-covered mountain. Above the mountain hangs a giant moonlike planet.

2023/06/13

June 13, 2023
A spike-shaped, rocky mound with three protrusions at the top, sort of like a rough, lopsided turret. It's rough enough to look like a natural formation, but weird enough to make you wonder. above it is a hazy blaze of light, as though something divine is about to appear on the turret.

2023/06/12

June 12, 2023
A vast, looming building that looks like a dystopian, amorphous skyscraper: a superstructure from Blade Runner or a similar film. It is mostly windowless, with a few small green lights and lines here and there. At the top of it is a cluster of lines and antennas, some of which have white lights on top of them. In the background are blurry silhouettes of what look like similar buildings. The time of day could be early morning or evening. There are no stars, just a ghost of a greenish cloud overhead.

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.

2023/06/10

June 10, 2023
Several people are walking around in a space. They are wearing full-body suits, almost like space suits, with only their faces visible. The suits have fur, horns, and various odd and indeterminate details.

2023/06/09

June 9, 2023
A huge, wrinkled face rises out of the desert floor, seemingly carved from stone. It looks like an obelisk. All of it is fully formed, except for the mouth area: a giant, rocky hollow which someone is carving out, hacking away at with a miner's pick.

2023/06/08

June 8, 2023
A hellishly crimson day: a cloud-choked sun at high noon hangs over a wooded mountainside. The sun is dimly reflected in the lake below. Everything is red, everything is washed out. The air looks heavy, either with humidity or smoke.

2023/06/07

June 7, 2023
An assortment of rocks and fragments. The biggest rock, in the center, has an arched doorway carved into it. In the doorway stands a shadowy figure.

2023/06/06

June 6, 2023
A large human face in profile, both eyes and mouth wide open. The eye contains a blurry television screen; the cavernous mouth contains a stereo speaker.

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