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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 06:20:44 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

...so nobody noticed the #notesArt rainbow I've been working on, huh
Now I’m wondering what other long-game subliminal things I can sneak in here.
In conversation about 6 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A grid of twelve images, four across and three high. The images are from the past twelve days of #notesArt. While the scenes in the images vary, and are not related, the backgrounds are coordinated to form a rainbow when taken sequentially. Jerry Falwell thinks that there is secret devil stuff in here. He’s right.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/100/106/492/665/038/original/57f0a65cca1aa61c.jpg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:26:14 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#100things - № 037
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1. A bright red warning symbol—a triangle with an exclamation point—is placed on a black background. The triangle is filled with an ornate black curving pattern. The design is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:26:09 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A small stone bridge crosses a river. It's night; the sky is a deep blue. Silhouetted against the sky is a cylindrical tower with a tall, conical roof. The bridge is connected to the tower, and a small doorway faces out onto the bridge. A slight haze hangs over the water. There is a dark, blurry suggestion of trees in the distance. The bridge and tower are dimly illuminated by a soft blue light that could be moonlight, but there is no visible moon. The only thing in the sky is a comet, glowing blue. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:25:44 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#100things - № 038
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1. Three lightning-bolt shapes, each formed from an arrangement of six yellow triangles. Aside from orientation, the triangles are identical, each with a complex, angular navy-blue pattern that suggests electricity. The design is on a dark navy-blue background and is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 14:13:46 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

"Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name."
—Robert Louis Stevenson
#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
In conversation about 19 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A yellow sky with orange clouds; beneath it, a flat orange-brown plain. On the right of the painting is a tall, perfectly vertical wall with a small arched doorway in it. At the very top of the wall is a horizontal rod with a large bell hanging from it. Also hanging from it is a small brown sign, suspended just above the doorway, with the word "Goal" on it in orange letters. The wall is a red-brown color, with the front face reflecting orange. Running towards the doorway is the silhouette of a person. One level down, who knows how many to go. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:28:57 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

Eight years ago today, I began a precursor to #notesArt: a project called #100things. The idea was to make one artwork per day, 100 times.
It was a very different and yet weirdly similar era. The country was looking down the barrel of dysfunction that we barely knew the scope of; I'd run across @benbarry 's One Hundred Patterns (https://v1.benbarry.com/project/one-hundred-patterns) and liked the idea of a regular experimental project that would take my mind off things.
Today, I'm digging these out of the closet. Enjoy.
In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
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2. An intricate orange hexagonal snowflake in the center of a white circle. The circle is placed on a lighter orange-yellow background.
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3. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: v1.benbarry.com
  
  One Hundred Patterns
  
  from @benbarry
  
  While I did still design a lot during my last couple years working at Facebook, I spent the majority of my time managing and art directing. As rewarding as that work was, I'd begun to feel my skills as a maker start to atrophy. I decided to embark on this 100 days project as a daily ritual and creative exercise. Below is a selection of 25 of the patterns—to see all 100 please visit onehundredpatterns.tumblr.com
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:28:56 JST Chris Silverman 🌻
in reply to
- skry
@skry heh yeah, it gets interesting. I think one of the coolest things about doing something creative every day—doesn't matter what—is that the work inevitably evolves, and you can see it shift.
Sometimes you don't notice the direction until you go back over it later; sort of an archaeological record of whatever was going through your mind at the time.

In conversation about 2 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:46:06 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A rusty, dilapidated metal mailbox on a decrepit-looking post. The flag is up. The surrounding environment is the dull blue of late evening or early morning. A low fog covers the weedy ground; a blurry treeline is visible in the background. The mailbox has moss hanging from the underside. Wherever this is, it's been a long while since anyone's put a letter in it. That doesn't mean it's empty, though; a hazy, ghostlike blur is drifting from the mailbox's door-less opening. Nature—or however we define the wild expanse of the non-human universe—abhors an empty mailbox.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/814/405/001/768/293/original/6b92278787082ca1.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 18:12:23 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A snowy landscape. The sky is the dark blue of early morning or evening. On the left side of the painting is a blurry suggestion of snow covered trees. On the right side is the dark outline of a house with snow on the roof. The house has two dark, arched windows. In the leftmost window is a single burning candle. Looming behind the candle is a large, shadowy silhouette with two dim gray eyes. In the sky, hovering around the house, are three white shapes that look vaguely like comets, except that they are clearly moving independently and of their own volition. They look almost as though they are trying to find a way into the house.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 04:47:30 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. An abstract, impressionist painting with long, wavy brushstrokes. At the center of the painting is an elongated, slightly curved object painted in bright pink, yellow, and various shades of green. The right side of it is brightly illuminated, giving the impression that it is dimensional. It is surrounded by blue. The overall effect is of a multicolored bubble rising up through water.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 18:24:41 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #artAdventCalendar
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A person stands in a gray, featureless space that appears to be a museum, phone upraised, aimed at a giant sculpture of a head. The head is large and misshapen, and appears to be carved from dark gray stone. It is easily the size of a small hut, towering over the person. It is mounted on a thin pole, which itself is planted in a large block of concrete. There's a small red barricade between the head and the person. The eye of the head is a glowing yellow window, in which is seen the silhouette of another person.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:16:23 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #artAdventCalendar
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1. A bright orange vehicle with three legs. The vehicle looks like what you'd get if you put a helmet from a hazardous waste outfit on top of three human legs. The visor of the helmet is the windshield. Sitting behind the windshield is the shadowy silhouette of the driver. The vehicle has another smaller round window, revealing a small potted tree wrapped in white holiday lights. The vehicle is in a dark area, and has a single white headlight casting a beam of light. Sitting behind the rearmost leg of the vehicle is a black cat with glowing green eyes.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 23:31:13 JST Chris Silverman 🌻
in reply to
- 404 Media
@404mediaco "at Digital Ocean, we believe that violent bigotry is an issue we can politely agree to disagree on."
Nice. Tell me your mentor belonged to a hate group without telling me your mentor belonged to a hate group.

In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 18:36:43 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A dark concrete room, lit only by a bright orange torch on the left side of the wall. In the center, dominating the room, is a tall black cabinet that looks like a server rack, filled with complex machines and red and green lights. At the bottom of the cabinet, a small door is open. Snaking out from the door is a large black arm with clawed fingers.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 08:15:35 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A large traffic light stands in the middle of nowhere, with only a wire fence in the background. The sky is the deep blue of either dawn or dusk, with golden light on the horizon. The red aspect is brightly lit, the yellow aspect is dimly lit, and where the green aspect would be is a black mouth with fangs. As if that weren't unsettling enough, a crow is perched on top of the light.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 08:15:22 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A scene at sunrise or sunset. The sky is a mix of blue and gold. The sun is hazy and close to the horizon. There is a large blue meadow in which sits a giant stone obelisk. There are two faces on either side of the obelisk. The largest face is on the right side. It is smiling, with its eyes mostly closed. The smaller face is above, on the left. It is craggier and frowning.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 08:15:07 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A small, grass-covered chunk of earth hovers in the air, like a tiny island in the vast blue sky. Sitting on top of the chunk of earth is a boxy, dark blue robot, its back to the viewer. The robot is holding onto a large red balloon, which might be keeping the island aloft. A few birds are in the distance.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 17:57:57 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A chaotic mixture of red and blue charts and graphs that form a frowning face. Two pie charts form the eyes, a bar chart defines the nose, and a jagged pair of red and blue lines are the mouth.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 16:16:16 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A large dark green metal sphere floats like a balloon in a blue-green sky. The balloon has a cable fixed to it below, and is haphazardly bolted together from various metal plates. Two small pipes are sticking off of it on the lower right. Sitting on top is a person in a chair, holding a telescope up to their eye. The telescope is trained on a bright round object in the distant sky.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 17:52:05 JST Chris Silverman 🌻
- Daniel Supernault
@dansup this sounds very cool. Running my own Pixelfed instance was a bit beyond my abilities, but I'm pretty experienced with hosted PHP/MySQL apps.
Will this look like Pixelfed, or have its own design?

In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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Designer, artist, iOS Notes limit pusher. I know the difference between a "font" and a "typeface", but I'm not obnoxious about it.A note: while I CW politics, and avoid offensive imagery entirely, I don't typically CW things like faces or food. My art is weird, often includes eyes/faces/masks, and can be (I'm told) somewhat eerie.

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