This Past Wednesday I Volunteered To Add Something Unique To The Thank-you Gifts We Gave To Off The Hook

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CAPTCHArt is a beautiful thing!  I made this one.  Source images were public domain photos from Wikimedia Commons.

A rough Doctor Who sketch from 2000 or 2001, done to stave off the boredom of the retail job I had back then.  I wasn't allowed to nap, so the Doctor got to instead.

I sketched this clandestinely behind the store's counter in black ballpoint.  This scan is color-corrected to counteract the old cheap ink having gone a bit violet over the years.  Around 9x6".

I could explain that this is a photo of Walt, my character in the surreal dark comedy theatrical musical Aisle Six, who long ago had Hondo the hand puppet as his best friend and co-conspirator in mischief such as trying out the toilets at Home Depot, and this image was among those used in the show during a flashback slideshow of Hondo explaining his and Walt's storied past.

I could justify posting this to my art blog by pointing out that I did a serviceable photo manipulation job; at the photocall I was actually seated in front of a plain wall on a plastic chair.

I could reinforce this picture's value as a portfolio piece by pointing out the fact that I sourced a copyright-free public domain image to use as the background, so as not to cause the production any potential problems or costs.  I could then invite the viewer to hunt down and examine the aspects of the original I had to manipulate to get a usable background.

But I won't do any of that.  Instead, I'll just announce that this will probably be the most awesome photo I'll ever appear in and leave it here.

Lobster Telephone Salvador Dali, 1936

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali wrote of wanting to know why, when he ordered lobster in a restaurant, the waiter never brought him a boiled telephone.

Dali brought this fanciful idea into the material world in his Lobster Telephone, melding a plaster-cast sculpture of a lobster (a recurring theme in Dali’s work) with a common telephone of the day.

Acrylic on canvas, 7x5″.  From my series of paintings of historical telephones.

So I’ve missed a few days of daily doodles.  Sue me! :-D  Life happens, and I’ve chosen not to let slipping on my own self-imposed challenge bother me.  I’ll just do my best to pick it up again.

I drew this at a bar. It doesn’t represent anyone in particular, just this freaking guy.

I subtly altered a scene from the Blake's 7 episode "Bounty."  I wonder if you can spot what I changed.

Another piece of captchart.

Stupid Twitter trick: 1) Crop an image down to 338x83px (or a multiple thereof.) 2) Slice it out into four 83x83px blocks with 2px gaps in between (or your multiple thereof.) 3) Tweet the images via Twitter's internal photo-uploading gadget, from right-to-left. 4) ??? 5) Profit!

Leeloo from The Fifth Element wearing a pith helmet.  I’m not sorry.

I multitrack a capella'd "Tom's Diner."

I'm your Suzanne Vega now.

This also exists on Soundcloud.