The Bird II dot jpg

Tom_Moody_CC_904_The_Bird_I

From my CCDS page. The source is a nascent/wannabe/lesser-known meme called "the bird" or "bird.jpg" Sterling Crispin did the first painted version.

This bird image has some internet juice, mostly as an avatar. Dump.fm and Moot's former site have helped.
The bird is a Common Grackle; related to the Great-Tailed Grackle, which has a hideous call [YouTube] that sounds like the word "grackle" but with extra consonants, whistles, and sounds beyond the range of human hearing.

Hat tips GucciSoFlosy, carjackcker, frederick, melipone, maryrachel, maxlabor, arjununcle and others.

building utility (2)

alexander_buildings3

More interactive, as-yet-unreconstructed web art--this time GIFs made with Duncan Alexander's build-a-building-that-looks-suspiciously-like-a-Peter-Halley-painting utility.
Previous example

alexander_buildings2

The above drawings were originally full-screen but were resized for the blog. Since browsers no longer read GIFs, these simulations were made using HTML5 from an app that draws horizontals and verticals in the cloud and pays Google and Apple 5 cents per rectangle. Just kidding about that last part!