Walkabout Phil

A wild expansive abstract face in bright smearing colours and lines.

Me worry?

By jingo

[Listening to roadworks at night while trying to sleep] Yep that’s the sound of us humans getting stuff done.

[Diary of a Takemusu Aikido Junkie, excerpt]: Here’s an idea… do a high fall out of tai-no-henko. Which is an idea I suspect Sensei would not approve of.

It’s a special kind of mindfulness; I invented it just then. It’s called <redacted> and think of everything at once.

An incomplete painting of a face, male presenting, short dark hair. He’s gently smiling.

I dived into this painting session thinking I’d work on his eyes but ended up doing only a small amount of work on the eyes and then making shadows darker on the face and when I put my paintbrush down it looked the same as when I had begun. So there’s more to do.

And then I realise there would be some engineering issues and maybe a giant vacuum might be needed too and then I realised if one day this is how they decide to dig for stuff underground well how about that.
Phew.

And there’s this image of the mindless snapping mouths like there’s a part of us that is nothing more than a snapping mouth. Is that what life is? Just a bunch of snappy mouths? Completely dispassionate snapping mouths?
🧵

<deep breath>
Like thinking of a new way of digging a hole. With this robot thing robot head that eats rock and there’s hundreds of them on this mechanism and everything swallowed goes for processing and the hole is dug by lowering this giant contraption slowly downwards.
🧵

The specific thing I have added to my training regimen is glue.

<bonus material>

A definition of “worth” that doesn’t rely on qualitative supposition or abstract thought? Also if it’s maths I hope it doesn’t converge to zero. Like one of them logs. Gotta watch out for them logs.

[Interview with the opposites brain clerk]

-What’s the opposite of right?
-Do you mean right, correct, or right and left right, or something else like “write” or “rite?”
-Ooh got anything for “wright?”
-“wleft”
-Bahaha nice.

(Some scraps of canvas with blue painted on them - the blue fading to a white/green colour in both is painted over the top of brown on one and black on another. Brown and black also fade to white. An oil paints experiment. Results: I think the blue on brown looks brighter. I think??)

No portraits update this week. Instead, here is a peek into the prep work for my next project. It will be a landscape and I wanted to see what different gradients of blue would look like with a brown or black gradient behind it. Yep. Looks like blue.

Meanwhile, please fill out our quick survey:
1. Covid
2. All of the above
Does this mean I’m part bat now? Oooh.

I bet biology knows. It’ll be somewhere in the brain, probably a little ball shaped cave and a little brain clerk carefully writing a word on one side of the wall and the opposite word directly opposite. The opposites processing centre! Sounds pretty wild.

…add as many new mirror dimensions to existing opposites as you like, like, add a z axis to the x and y and BAM a new dimension sideways to before. Now sideways is another opposite just kind of sideways and we still don’t know what’s at the centre.

Also what’s at the centre of two opposites? I’m beginning to think there’s nothing there. Except for… ~dimensional analysis time!~

I got Covid and so I’m no longer a Novid and my dreams to become the only human being ever to not get Covid have been squashed. Add it to the list, Jeeves.

++ Incoming brain pattern. Shove over monologue, it’s receptive brain feeling time where we push all the other voices to the side and focus only on what we can sense *moments later* ok back to monologue ++

[Reminder to ask the doctor next time 1) if it’s possible to have both a sweet tooth and a sweet ear because as well as enjoying sweet food I also like listening to catchy stuff that might be bad for me and 2) get painkillers.]

A work in progress painting of a person who doesn’t exist, mostly just the head, a male-presenting person with dark brown skin, oil on oil paper.

I feel I need to work on this painting a lot. The skin texture isn’t balanced, the teeth look like they’re glowing, and the shadows aren’t quite cutting it. The eyes aren’t too bad though.

(Work in progress, a person who doesn’t exist, oil on oil paper)

~Google edition~
Nope, Carry On Sergeant was the first. And now we know 😊

~Movie edition~
It was one of those Carry On films. Carry On Regardless. Black and white. I heard somewhere it was the first of the bunch but I don’t know how true that is.

Good thinking, movie.

I should start at the top and work down that’d make more sense I saw it in a movie once a bunch of people had to clean a house and some of them said they’d start at the top because the dust would only do down and if they started at the bottom they’d need to clean it twice.

~Cleansing edition~
Mop! Let’s mop first! The floor is… oh wait I should sweep first. Broom! No, VACUUM. Ha, also the vacuum doubles as a broom so I can just slide piles binwards…

*Sits bolt upright* I’M HAPPY WITH THIS MESS but, you know, I should probably clean up.

*quietly beatboxing while the priest baptizes my son

(The numeral one, crossed out) 0 days since the last I haven’t thought this through alarm 🤦

Once you cancelled it out you can just ignore it. And if you’re the third number it’s like yep this is nice I go here. Don’t need to worry about right or wrong here!

Oop there goes the I haven’t thought this through alarm.