Art Director: I asked you all to come up with your own ideas this month, let's take a look. What is this?
Illustrator: Well, John Tenniel's birthday's coming up, so I put Alice in the place of the "L" in the company logo.
Art Director: He's not a company-approved "other" but we'll let that pass. I see that Alice is facing the Cheshire Cat and one arm is forming an "L" shape, that's good.
Illustrator: Yeah, isn't that cool--
Art Director: But what about her other arm? Is she making some sort of semaphore or turn signal? What does that do to the "L"? Look, let's shop out Alice's body and just leave the arms. You see? What letter is that? Not an "L," right?
Illustrator: I didn't think--
Art Director: Right, you didn't think. This level of mediocrity is exactly in line with our usual daily artwork. Approved.
art as criticism
so...
This recent series of nature photos lost me one Feedly follower so I guess I didn't do too badly. ("I thought that guy was gonna be ranting about new media and he starts posting these pretty pictures. Unsubscribe!")
"Normal" posting will resume as I gradually move some studio operations to "New York West" (a virtual New York that includes trees and clouds).
Trees and clouds may also continue.
first 8 bars (experimental)
hat tip chat soup
Update, May 2020: Revised and reposted. Missed fanfare's joke the first time around. My reference to musical bars in an earlier post was linked with bars, a slang name for Xanax pills. Apparently people time-graphing their experiences while eating pills handfuls at a time is an internet thing -- yikes.