A Pen-and-ink Drawing Of A Candlestick Phone.  My Separate Obsessions With Telephones And The Design

A Pen-and-ink Drawing Of A Candlestick Phone.  My Separate Obsessions With Telephones And The Design

A pen-and-ink drawing of a candlestick phone.  My separate obsessions with telephones and the design sensibilities of the early 20th century work well together.

Felt pen on 2.5x3.5" bristol board.  Incidentally, this happens to be the first ACEO I ever made.

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14 years ago

chiaestevez:

I definitely put my faith in Blast Hardcheese. 

I made this remix at least 100 years ago, it never fails to make me happy that other folks keep circulating it, making it into videos like this, etc.  It's the reason I ended up choosing the domain SpaceMutiny.com for my music.

8 years ago
Sharp J-SH04 2001

Sharp J-SH04 2001

Manufactured by Sharp for the J-Phone brand, the J-SH04 is generally recognized as the world’s first camera phone.

The J-SH04 innovatively integrated a mobile phone and digital camera, devices many people of the day regularly kept on-hand, into a single unit with the camera functionality integrated into the phone itself.   For the first time, users could use a single device to take digital photos (at a then-impressive 0.11 megapixels) and share them via the mobile network.

The device (and photo-sharing in general) took off among young users and set the model for all future camera phones, devices which forever changed how we take and share photos and document our world.

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


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12 years ago
This Is A Digital Painting Of Mrs. Ho, The Cook From The Wonderful Film Clue.  Mrs. Ho Was Played By

This is a digital painting of Mrs. Ho, the Cook from the wonderful film Clue.  Mrs. Ho was played by Kellye Nakahara, and her only line of dialogue is represented here.

I scratched this out with the classic/modelling brush in MyPaint.


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14 years ago
More The Wicker Man nonsense.  My Extra-derpy Nicholas Cage From my Earlier Piece is Now A Brand

More The Wicker Man nonsense.  My extra-derpy Nicholas Cage from my earlier piece is now a brand mascot, paying tribute to another memorable line from that cinematic bee-sting.  Would you buy your next bottle of God Damn Honey from this man?

Inspired by the ending of this rather brilliant Wicker Man YouTube Poop.

Original photo by Flickr user TheTruthAbout (cc by-sa)


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13 years ago
This Is A Quick Five-minute Doodle Of Everyone I've Ever Seriously Dated, Standing Shoulder-to-shoulder,

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.


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

Missed doing yesterday’s daily doodle post because the migraine I’ve spent today with was coming on.  So, today’s daily post is inspired by the migraine which is still, as of this writing, in progress.

I look forward to seeing what it looks like once I can turn my monitor brightness back up to full again.


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11 years ago
Over On Twitter, Patrickfedo Has Been Organizing A Neat Ghostbusters Fan-art Collaboration.  I'm Pitching

Over on Twitter, patrickfedo has been organizing a neat Ghostbusters fan-art collaboration.  I'm pitching in with this pic of one of my favorite ghosts from the series, the taxi-driving ghost from the first film.


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11 years ago

They have lots of new gTLDs you can put a website on nowadays.

I acquired ascii.bike and put an ASCII bike on it.


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14 years ago
My Dragnet-flavored Contribution To The "How Do I Shot Web?" Meme.

My Dragnet-flavored contribution to the "How do I shot web?" meme.

More info on the meme: SFW / NSFW


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robtfirefly - Art by RTF
Art by RTF

Hello there. I'm Rob. This used to be my art blog until I left Tumblr; here's why you won't see me around here anymore. This is my website, you can find the rest of what I do from there. Here's a bunch of social media I do still use. Here's how to contact me directly if you wish, please feel free. All my original artwork posted on this Tumblr is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Feel free to reuse, remix, etc. any of my stuff under the terms of this license.

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