Drawist flipped the page of her new sketchbook and drew on the backside of page one, instead of starting page two. Urania applauded her thrift. “Nicely done! You’ve just doubled our possibilities.” As the image on side two took shape, Calliope noticed a shadow near the bulb’s base. She tried to erase what she thought was graphite smudge. No luck. “Now what? We have unexpected… cat booty… sticking out of our bulb!”
Can I plan lucidity? My episodes of unplanned, unintended lucidity seem to have fallen on hard times. 🤔
As I viewed your two drawings, like Billy Pilgrim in Vonnegut’s writings, I became unstuck in time. Transported back to my 35 mm camera-using days. The effect I observed was like you selected a small F-stop, F-1.7 or so, then you focused first on the bulb/terrarium then re-focused on the cat. Of course the short focal length works to crisply render the desired part and blur the rest. My fascination with your two-legged cat, in sharper focus on page 2, influences my selecting that drawing.
I found Gapingvoid’s thoughts on robots and the future quite interesting! I’m aware of countries facing population declines and the associated shortfall in revenue of all types. China experienced a population decline for 2022 and is considering measures like IVF to increase their birth rate. Who will be impregnated? (Likely not male leaders) Not so many years ago China’s policy was one child per family!
Even our demographics present problems. Our burgeoning boomer ranks (🙋🏼♂️) along with declines in payroll withholdings for Social Security and Medicare will increase shortfalls for those programs. As manufacturing here has declined and service jobs (lower paying) have increased, the McDonald’s robot test brings even more pressure on payroll deductions. Curiouser and curiouser!
The cat looking into the bulb of possibility is my favorite.
T-shirt: “I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.” 😁
Love the first one! Happy cat at a distance, looking through the light bulb/terrarium.
I like how the drawings turned out. Pretty clever.
I love both of them!! O happy coincidences...
And the blog from Gaping Void is good too. I know those checkouts. Great idea...
Can I plan lucidity? My episodes of unplanned, unintended lucidity seem to have fallen on hard times. 🤔
As I viewed your two drawings, like Billy Pilgrim in Vonnegut’s writings, I became unstuck in time. Transported back to my 35 mm camera-using days. The effect I observed was like you selected a small F-stop, F-1.7 or so, then you focused first on the bulb/terrarium then re-focused on the cat. Of course the short focal length works to crisply render the desired part and blur the rest. My fascination with your two-legged cat, in sharper focus on page 2, influences my selecting that drawing.
I found Gapingvoid’s thoughts on robots and the future quite interesting! I’m aware of countries facing population declines and the associated shortfall in revenue of all types. China experienced a population decline for 2022 and is considering measures like IVF to increase their birth rate. Who will be impregnated? (Likely not male leaders) Not so many years ago China’s policy was one child per family!
Even our demographics present problems. Our burgeoning boomer ranks (🙋🏼♂️) along with declines in payroll withholdings for Social Security and Medicare will increase shortfalls for those programs. As manufacturing here has declined and service jobs (lower paying) have increased, the McDonald’s robot test brings even more pressure on payroll deductions. Curiouser and curiouser!
Time for more cat drawings! 😉 Go creators!!