Missed Doing Yesterday’s Daily Doodle Post Because The Migraine I’ve Spent Today With Was Coming

My contribution to the Ghostbusters collab, now slowly being released at whoyougonnacollab.  I'm in some insanely brilliant company here, everyone's contributions are great!

I’m in a hurry, so let’s not dawdle. @rob_t_firefly

Jude "St. Jude" Milhon (March 12, 1939-July 19, 2003)

Jude Milhon, generally known as St. Jude, was an author and hacker whose achievements span many corners of hacker culture. Her work with seminal cyberpunk showcases Mondo 2000 and Boing Boing, her work in cypherpunk (a term she coined, and movement she founded), and her righteous and mischievous persona continue to inspire.

Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″.  From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.

I'm rather proud of the doodles in this one. Plus, I have a logo now!

I seem to be settling into a "Ripley's Believe it or Not!" sort of feel for the WHOFAX illustrations, which I quite like.

Another fact from the archives, illustrated.

In today’s daily doodle, President William McKinley wishes he had a Nintendo Game Boy.

fuckyeahtrollface:

Trollface stencil.  U jelly, hand-painters?

I stencilized Trollface.  It was my first shot at making a stencil out of someone else's image and it came out ugly as hell, but the original Trollface is also ugly as hell and that has done nothing to diminish my eternal love for him.

More info on Trollface for the uninitiated:

Encyclopedia Dramatica (NSFW)

KnowYourMeme (SFW?)

Trollface fans new and old should be following these tumblrs (all NSFW):

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trollphysics

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Delia Derbyshire (May 5, 1937-July 3, 2001)

Delia Derbyshire was an English musician, composer, and pioneer in the early days of electronic music. Her developments in and use of musique concrète and other innovative methods of early synthesis led to soundscapes like none heard before, including the iconic Doctor Who theme.

Acrylic on canvas, 7x5″.  From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.

Motorola MicroTAC 9800X 1989

The MicroTAC 9800X was not only the smallest and lightest mobile phone of its time, it was the first to feature the trend-setting "clamshell" type design where a mouthpiece flipped to cover the keypad when not in use.

Featuring a dot-matrix LED display, very advanced for the day, the MicroTAC and its immediate variants remained in production well into the 1990s and formed the basis for much of the world’s idea of what a "cellular phone" looked like.

Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″.  From my series of paintings of historical telephones.

This is a quick five-minute doodle of everyone I've ever seriously dated, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, in no particular order, for no apparent reason.  While some of you who know me might also know one or more of these individuals, I'm not naming names and will not comment on which squiggle is meant to be who (unless you are one of the squiggles, in which case feel free to ask me privately which one you are.)

No idea why I felt the need to get this out of my head and onto pixels, but I do know I'm grateful these individuals will probably never end up gathering in a group like this in real life.  I'd be doomed.  DOOMED.

I didn’t want to draw David Bowie today.  I don’t feel capable of accurately portraying anything close to what his work has done for me over the course of my entire life.  My drawing hand had other ideas, no other drawings would work until I got this onto the screen.

I haven’t felt this personally screwed up over the passing of an artist I’d never met since Freddie Mercury in 1991.

One thing I've been coming back to a lot recently is a song by Information Society called "Where the I Divides."

This is me getting some emotional stuff through my system by singing it to myself, accompanied only by a soft drizzle and some late-night/early-morning city traffic outside my apartment window.