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Undergrowth (1887) by Vincent van Gogh

painting of forest undergrowth, reduced to green dots with some explosions of yellow at the top of the painting. the trunks of two trees are also visible.
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painting of forest undergrowth, reduced to green dots with some explosions of yellow at the top of the painting. the trunks of two trees are also visible.
source: https://classicalcanvas.tumblr.com/post...
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joost 25 minutes ago
I recently saw this painting in Amsterdam, another one rather similar in Utrecht and another also glorious one in Otterlo (NL).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

If you like van Gogh and cycling and are thinking of going to Europe I can really recommend the Kröller-Müller museum in Otterlo!
It's in the middle of a national park. Lots of van Gogh, but also pointillism etc. And the only way to get to the museum is by free share bicycle.
poorusher

Signal (Art) box

Photographic print left in a secret but public art box.
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Photographic print left in a secret but public art box.
Finally left some prints and a couple of copies of a book in a funny little anonymous art box we have in the town, which my friend made.

Previously
https://mltshp.com/p/1RAM7
https://mltshp.com/p/1RJTH
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joost 23 minutes ago
That hidden art box is such a glorious idea.
Hidden in plain sight.
joffaboy

Final form

Edited Kennedy Centre wall
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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Edited Kennedy Centre wall
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
https://www.threads.com/@chixulu...
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mare pro 2 hours ago
That’s a weird barcode. My barcode scanner had problems recognizing it, but eventually settled on 86 47
O_C

“Stranger in Town”, Creepy #26, April 1969,, written by Bill Parente, art by Reed Crandall

"RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
THE WHOLE GARDEN'S ALIVE!
IT'LL KILL US ALL!!
AAAAAWK! AAARGH!!"

Illustration art shows a group of scientists in apparent mortal peril from a gigantic, tendrilled living plant that takes up almost the entire comic panel.
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"RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
THE WHOLE GARDEN'S ALIVE!
IT'LL KILL US ALL!!
AAAAAWK! AAARGH!!"

Illustration art shows a group of scientists in apparent mortal peril from a gigantic, tendrilled living plant that takes up almost the entire comic panel.
source: https://danskjavlarna.tumblr.com/post...
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roonie pro 15 hours ago
Yes, yes, I'll mow today, I promise.
MackReed pro 15 hours ago
The line work / shading is luscious.
artwells

Additional gnome habitat

Three pictures of doors in a stump
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Three pictures of doors in a stump
Made another door in the stump

Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1RG5L
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poorusher 22 hours ago
One day I'll make the pilgrimage here.
0y3ahSansAcut3 13 hours ago
Completely hinged. Looking well made, and truly quaint.
artwells pro 11 hours ago
@poorusher admission is free
ardgedee

you really don't need this but in case you do...

Screenshot of some font samples, including the classic Mac system font Chicago, here called "Chicago15", used for all menus, window bar titles, system messages, and so on for Mac systems 1-7.5. There is "Chicago30", which is a 2x upscale from Chicago15. Below them are "Monaco11" and "Monaco15", the sans-serif monospace font which has been a default system font from the very first Mac through today, over 40 years later, albeit looking very different due to how much the technology has changed.
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Screenshot of some font samples, including the classic Mac system font Chicago, here called "Chicago15", used for all menus, window bar titles, system messages, and so on for Mac systems 1-7.5. There is "Chicago30", which is a 2x upscale from Chicago15. Below them are "Monaco11" and "Monaco15", the sans-serif monospace font which has been a default system font from the very first Mac through today, over 40 years later, albeit looking very different due to how much the technology has changed.
...a kind soul has made the effort of compiling various dumps people have made of old Macintosh system fonts (and other user-inaccessible fonts, such as "eWorld Tight 18"!), including bitmap and early OpenType fonts, and released them as uniform FontFactory and Truetype files.

There are hundreds of fonts and variations here. In the days before live onscreen vector graphics each size had to be drawn separately, so they look different in ways you can't replicate just by up/downscaling one font.

https://github.com/JohnDDun...

Chicago15 is my madeline.
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idogcow 13 hours ago
Always was a sucker for Cairo (AKA easy access to the DogCow)
poorusher 10 hours ago
Yes! I have ChiTown light but it's aliased and smoothed unless you use it at pt11 or what have you.
0y3ahSansAcut3 31 minutes ago
I collected so many fonts back in the day, it was like unlimited funding for the candy store.
MackReed

sound check

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It's done. I installed everything this morning, and within about 10 minutes, neighbors started coming by to play.

This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.

I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.

It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.

It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.
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ArtVandelay Yesterday
Love this so much! The open access, the DIY street art nature of it, and the dreamy notes drifting up for you to enjoy. Great idea and top work 😊♥️💯
mikenmar Yesterday
Perhaps a xylophone virtuoso will pay a visit one day, and you'll suddenly hear some masterful melodies floating into your living room.
bencmeissner pro Yesterday
Love it! I love my wind chime that has similar sound qualities.
samh pro Yesterday
This brings me such joy!
mare pro 2 hours ago
This triggers Steve Reich for me, and it’s a good trigger.

(Playing Six Marimbas right now.
Yay for streaming in the Apple Classical app. I doubt this was on the mp3 pile…)
MackReed pro an hour ago
Thanks for the kind words, all. Pretty sure this is a Good Thing, but we former Big City dwellers occasionally fret about Something Bad Happening to it.

That said, it survived multiple burns off-playa abuse (a homeless guy once was so entranced he tried to play it with his head) and 10 years on the street in LA, so …

@mikenmar we’ve had all sorts of amazing pros bang on it - can’t wait!

@mare Ooo, I’ll go look that up - thanx!
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pastranaut

6.6.2026

A cloud formation with pink edges that looks more like smoke from a giant fire
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A cloud formation with pink edges that looks more like smoke from a giant fire
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BooBounder 8 hours ago
Wow. I take some good ones, but ... wow. Location? Date?
BooBounder 8 hours ago
Oops. Location will be just fine.
LocalStain

She seems nice.

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thelonius 2 hours ago
"We drank PBR from the garden hose"
Argie

Word

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cottenwess 2 days ago
more of this energy. every where.
me3dia pro 2 days ago
Nutfield close indeed
MackReed pro 2 days ago
i would pay good money to see Wayne from Letterkenny unload on that knob - first verbally, then physically.
WikiAdam Yesterday
mass murderer
mare pro 2 hours ago
Cunt is too flattering.
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Steve Ditko Journey Into Mystery #87 1962

"The Man on the Endless Stairway!"

"The stairway had to end somewhere! But, perhaps it would be better for Carl Cragg if he never found out where!"

Illustration art shows a man climbing an endless staircase shrouded in gray clouds. He is carrying a gun.
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"The Man on the Endless Stairway!"

"The stairway had to end somewhere! But, perhaps it would be better for Carl Cragg if he never found out where!"

Illustration art shows a man climbing an endless staircase shrouded in gray clouds. He is carrying a gun.
source: https://rhade-zapan.tumblr.com/post...
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dreyfusslugado 16 hours ago
Partway up he meets a lady who insists she bought the stairway.
idogcow 16 hours ago
Fixin' to steal that boulder from that guy, must be so valuable!
artwells pro 16 hours ago
Oops? All Escher.
ba pro 15 hours ago
Wasn't there a scene like this in The Phantom Tollbooth?
roonie pro 15 hours ago
Yesterday upon the stair...
MackReed pro 15 hours ago
Thomas M. Disch wrote an exceptionally creepy existential short story based in this sort of premise.

The story text and several dramatic readings can be found here: https://www.google.com/search...
mare pro an hour ago
The stairway starts banking slightly in the distance, I bet it’s on a Möbius strip. We all know what will happen next.
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MackReed

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via https://mastodon.world/@MsMissy...
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bencmeissner pro 2 days ago
I chortled!
billturner pro 2 days ago
Amazing
cristin pro Yesterday
at least babies are getting enrichment things.

the fascists are just getting money, drugs, and booze.
poorusher

P

A crew worker removes the letter R or P from Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Centre. The worker is on a scaffold and has been photographed through tarpaulin.
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A crew worker removes the letter R or P from Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Centre. The worker is on a scaffold and has been photographed through tarpaulin.
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0y3ahSansAcut3 37 minutes ago
Underrr the cover of whatever that is made of, even reality is going to take a knee, for the madman. Already the price is heady for the return of our country. Let us find the heaviest feet to drag, to prevent the other usurpations of our national identity.
dreyfusslugado 18 minutes ago
I wonder what's going to happen to the letters. If Trump gets a hold of them, I'm guessing he'll sell them off at some ridiculously inflated price.
jpoulos

Up all night

Marge Simpson in her bed clothes:

"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
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Marge Simpson in her bed clothes:

"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
https://bsky.app/profile...
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jpoulos pro Yesterday
Good dry run for when we're staring all day at a live shot of Walter Reed.
dogwelder pro Yesterday
Hey, he only needed 22 specialists for his last checkup.
MackReed pro Yesterday
@jpoulos inshallah.
artwells pro Yesterday
Maybe it will happen today
dad Yesterday
Fuckers with the tarp now.
Ok, just this once - somebody AI that shit
m3moellering Yesterday
I want him to last until November. They will have some sort of recovery if he goes before with massive cries of “He held us hostage!” and the like.
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neuracnu

tag yourself

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idogcow 20 hours ago
Crime Think and heading North little by little
bencmeissner pro 19 hours ago
100% Obligation to Disrupt
MackReed pro 18 hours ago
@idogcow same
0y3ahSansAcut3 17 hours ago
Let's get hurt.
m3moellering 16 hours ago
@bencmeissner Same!
roonie pro 15 hours ago
John Hurt? Get him now.
pastranaut pro 12 hours ago
Safety second body last
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intervalometer

 

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heyitsal pro 22 hours ago
Holy shit! Aside from the actual face and lack of at least one gold necklace, this was my grandfather. Hair, glasses, shirt open with a white tank top underneath. That lamp and box fan. Everything!
m3moellering

I’m not a doctor but I….

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idogcow 20 hours ago
How do you like your Pier Review now, jerk-face?
m3moellering 16 hours ago
@idogcow Hehehehehe
roonie pro 14 hours ago
Steroids and AI
m3moellering 2 hours ago
@roonie 😳
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O_C

congo

The 'Congo' pinball machine (1995, Williams Electronic Games) sits in what appears to be a theater lobby space. A person in a gorilla costume is posing next to the machine.
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The 'Congo' pinball machine (1995, Williams Electronic Games) sits in what appears to be a theater lobby space. A person in a gorilla costume is posing next to the machine.
source: https://pinside.com/pinball...
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neuracnu pro 21 hours ago
👁️ 🫵
deaduncledave

Art Car

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Built on an airplane tug frame according to the steward caring for the vehicle. Has a lower and upper deck for lounging, projecting music system, several hundred watts of LEDs, and powered by two propane alternators and an ungodly amount of lithium ion batteries. Did not get a chance to see it lit up since it was blazingly bright out today.

Seen at the Currents New Media exhibition in SFe.

https://currentsnewmedia.org/
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BennyTheIcepick pro 19 minutes ago
Neat! Maybe I’ll take the RailRunner up to see it
MackReed

watch this space

An angular aluminum tube frame 8 feet long stands on 4 short tube legs set into a lawn in front of a pale green 1929 house against a blue sky.
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An angular aluminum tube frame 8 feet long stands on 4 short tube legs set into a lawn in front of a pale green 1929 house against a blue sky.
(previously: https://www.xylovan.com/xylovan/)

I’ve dreamed of installing the big xylophone in front of the house ever since we moved in five years ago.

My son and I finally picked up the all instruments from storage in LA and brought them home in January. I have another project in the works using keys from the other big keyboard - details to come as it comes together.

Over the past few weeks I polished up all the keys, built new resonators, and rebuilt the top end of the frame to fix the ugly gap that used to be there to allow it to mount cleanly on the van’s flanks. It’s a lot purtier now.

This morning I dug holes for the four legs with a posthole digger and then lowered the frame into place with the help of friends and neighbors.

I plumbed and leveled things with the frame parallel to the little slope in front of the house ( at a nice, playable 40-degree angle), set the legs in place with small stones to steady them, and poured in and then doused a bag of quickset concrete for each.

Tomorrow I mount the new resonators and reinstall 2-1/2 octaves worth of aluminum keys.

It’s happening. I’m stoked.
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ba pro 2 days ago
Was this a Burning Man thing? Or am I mixing up my narratives?
MackReed pro 2 days ago
@ba that it was. See link in the description.
samh pro 2 days ago
Wow!
otaman pro 2 days ago
Xylolawn?
thelonius 2 days ago
Xylo, xylo van
I want to drive
The Xylovan!
MackReed pro 2 days ago
@thelonius would that you could, but she is no more:
https://www.xylovan.com/2019...
mare pro Yesterday
And NIMBYs complain about wind chimes…
MackReed pro Yesterday
@mare Not in this neighborhood. I softened them up for a solid year by setting these little things up in the tree out front. Now we have people playing it multiple times a day. It’s a pretty gentle sound and young and old enjoy banging on them.

A guy stopped by during the xylophone installation this morning to gawp at the big frame and said “My kid’s gonna love this, we always stop and play on those (the gongs).”
mare pro Yesterday
@MackReed You live in a great neighbourhood.
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0y3ahSansAcut3

A Man And His Dog...

The shadows of the photographer Tony Hertz, and his dog Lolly, on a wall in Pismo Beach, California. He was working on a series about shadows when he looked over, and saw this. Lolly has since passed on, leaving this farewell image.
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The shadows of the photographer Tony Hertz, and his dog Lolly, on a wall in Pismo Beach, California. He was working on a series about shadows when he looked over, and saw this. Lolly has since passed on, leaving this farewell image.
Tony Hertz and Lolly were living in Pismo Beach, California, when he took this shot. At the time he was working on a photography series and book based around shadows, and he had taken her along on one of his regular sunset walks.

#photography #TonyHertz

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...
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niicholas

Bigger Trees Near Warter

A giant painting of trees in a landscape.
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A giant painting of trees in a landscape.
David Hockney, 2007. 4.6 × 12.2 meters, painted on 50 separate panels in a tiny attic studio in Yorkshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

One of the few paintings that has ever brought me to tears in a museum full of people.

RIP Mr. Hockney, your work has inspired me since I was a child.
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nikkuneko pro 2 days ago
this is lovely. the branches momentarily made me think of eyvind earle.

also, wow, "painted on 50 separate panels in a tiny attic studio in Yorkshire", what a feat!
ffg

White House, South Lawn

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Insert obligatory “I liked _Idiocracy_ better when it wasn’t a documentary“ here.
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catbird

Weirdest episode of Cheers ever

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LocalStain pro 12 hours ago
Such a great movie.
dogwelder pro 11 hours ago
I CAN HOLD MY BREATH A LONG, LONG TIME
BooBounder 8 hours ago
Not a "great movie", but definitely living rent free in my head. Especially this scene.
LocalStain

by Althea

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On Beach Road in Vineyard Haven.

The first time Andrea and I stopped in I said; I know I’m not the first to ask but “Althea” like Jerry Garcia..?

-No, like reggae…

Uptown, I interrupted..?

-Top Reggae

She finished.

She is one of the good ones. Mostly works in Lino. This is her first painting in a long time. She was visibly energized by the process.

https://www.altheadesignsmv.com/
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1f2frfbf

Thinking of California Sun...

A large collage of Polaroid photographs of swimmers in a pool. The text at the bottom of the poster reads: In Color: Ten California Photographers. The Oakland Museum Oakland, Cal. May 21-July 17, 1983.

The show, like the moments captured, was apparently fleeting, but the serene blue of the waters lasts in the mind.
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A large collage of Polaroid photographs of swimmers in a pool. The text at the bottom of the poster reads: In Color: Ten California Photographers. The Oakland Museum Oakland, Cal. May 21-July 17, 1983.

The show, like the moments captured, was apparently fleeting, but the serene blue of the waters lasts in the mind.
This signed Hockney print of "Ian Swimming, Los Angeles, 1982" was recently donated to the art collection at my wife's employer. I always loved his Polaroid constructions and this one has a lovely, serene motion timelapse feel to it. Perfect for a summer's afternoon.
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LocalStain

Yes, you aren't.

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CDN media
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m3moellering 2 days ago
/heard
hertz pro 2 days ago
George Carlin has entered the chat
waa

My first mural update #2

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This a couple of days ago. Nearing completion. It’s one of the few shots where the scissor lift isn’t in the way. Since then, I’ve done a lot more work and added lots of lines. Today I decided it to be finished. Tomorrow we’re going to add a top coat.

And on Saturday, there is going to be an official opening and neighborhood party, because two other murals in my neighborhood accidentally have been finished in the last two months as well. So we decided to team up our festivities.

If you’re in Rotterdam on Saturday, June 13, drop by at the corner of Assendelftstraat and Adamshofstraat. 15 PM sharp!

On Google Maps, you can still get a glimpse of what the previous rather dilapidated mural looked like. Nobody was happy with it:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yM4zbyUP...

#mural #rotterdam #painting
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joost 4 days ago
I love how it rises naturally from the grass.
I'm sure the people in the neighbourhood will love it.
Well done you.
urlnotfound pro 4 days ago
It's beautiful. I wish it was in my neighborhood.
waa pro 4 days ago
@joost thanx! I have to add I did take a little the most favorable spot to take a picture from. If you stand right in front of it a rather small tree is in the way. I do hope it won’t get too big 🙂

It’s so cute because there’s a school on the square as well, and every day these primary school kids come by and they all look at the mural for minutes and minutes, inspecting all the creatures and flowers I have put into it. It’s super rewarding.
me3dia pro 4 days ago
Lovely!
snarkout pro 4 days ago
@waa aaaahhh, I just imagined the little kids looking at it and it's so great.
BennyTheIcepick pro 4 days ago
This makes me so happy in so many ways
nikkuneko pro 4 days ago
A++ work! it's shaping up beautifully. love your art, and love seeing it out in the world like this.

also, as a bonus, i was swiveling about the google street view and saw a li'l black cat on the sidewalk 🐈‍⬛🥹
tonyb pro 4 days ago
Now that I see it in context of its surroundings, it's even more lovely <3
waa pro 4 days ago
@nikkuneko it’ll be interesting to see how quickly Google street view updates.
ba pro 4 days ago
1. Lovely!
2. The mention of scissor lift reminded me that my museum designer wife just purchased one of these: https://mltshp.com/p/1RRB2
Sailormom pro 4 days ago
This is wonderful!
roonie pro 4 days ago
Fantastic! And, yeah, the old mural - and surrounds - needed this.
So much better.
Congratulations. I hope this leads to more commissions.
0y3ahSansAcut3 4 days ago
It makes me happy even over here!
waa pro 4 days ago
@ba that’s an amazing shirt!
ardgedee pro 4 days ago
Really wonderful! I wish I could see it in person.
wjcstp pro 4 days ago
This is such a great style for mural work, I hope you get many more commissions from this (and the others, post pix!)
kokogiak 4 days ago
Beautiful!
williwaw pro 4 days ago
I'm with @BennyTheIcepick, this makes me so happy in so many ways!!!

Also wou addressed this in your last post but still gobsmacked at how well your style still comes across! Would not have thought that possible! So amazing and cool and full of joy!
poorusher 4 days ago
Epic, wonderfully integrated but it also seems quite different compared to other murals I've seen. Really lovely complement to your style
poorusher 4 days ago
One day I'll see it and have Kapsalon here also ❤️
waa pro 4 days ago
@poorusher thank you sooooo much! The kapsalon will be on me! ❤️
m3moellering 3 days ago
I’m so happy for you! And more than a little in awe.
joost 3 days ago
@poorusher no no, resist the lure of the kapsalon!
Maybe buy an Edam cheese instead? (Infamous red cheese ball)
poorusher 2 days ago
@joost we've talked about this
https://mltshp.com/search...
waa pro 2 days ago
@poorusher @joost I just googled a bit and it seems like there is just one single rather bad mural of a kapsalon in an outskirt of Rotterdam (Spijkenisse). It would be so much fun to make a gigantic and glorious one somewhere in the middle of town! (on top of that, this is the kind of thing that you could probably actually find funding for)
joost 2 days ago
@poorusher I see I'm consistent in my lack of appreciation for kapsalon. :-)
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scruss

oh no, not again

Fixed width dot matrix font sample
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Fixed width dot matrix font sample
more descender-free dot-matrix rubbish from me

source: https://scruss.com/blog...
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1f2frfbf pro Yesterday
I just want you to know, all of these are extremely my thing and really cool. Thanks!
Lockjaw

Pomplamoose - If You Think You Need Some Lovin

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