David Chastain

You’re very welcome! We could all use a little positivity these days 😊✌️

I don’t get on here that often recently but it seems like every time I do, I see a new piece from you and it’s miles beyond the first images I remember you sharing. Very nice work!

I always just used a knife, but I may be uncivilized.

Wood Fired Fruit Cup

Well, the day is half over and my list is mostly done!

1. Minutiae - DONE!
2. Explain reality and why I can’t change it - DONE!
3. Write a bunch of non-snitty emails re:see above - DONE!
4. Complain on social media - DONE!
5. Do actual work - In progress….

Thanks!

Aww, always nice to see you here, and you seem to be figuring it out. Gracie appreciates the note.

Gracie the cat looking innocently at the camera.

Not to brag, but my cat has learned to press CTRL+N with her butt. She opened over a a thousand new documents when I stepped away for a second to get lunch.

#catsofblueskly

What a perfect cover. I loved that book until it was assigned reading in a college english course. I need to reread it probably, if only to remove the mental taint of “what are we to understand from…” and “marshal your textual evidence…”

We absolutely love these, they thrive in the bottom of our rain gardens and swales, survive in shade and sun, soaking wet clay soil in winter and baking sun in Summer.

Soon…very soon, so soon, not yet…um, okay fine, lunch is now.

This is gorgeous and I love the story of its creation too, thanks for sharing! Definitely real art I say.

Linux is its future
it just got to be free

Yeah, I guess the thing that scares me is that if nothing existed but two massive ai corporate entities, they could still trade resources goods and services between themselves and be a fully functioning system. Value doesn’t need to be for humans, that’s the most deeply horrific endgame to my mind.

Love this

Companies don’t actually need human customers, at a certain point they just trade amongst themselves. Money has never been more than a stand-in for wealth, it’s a fake token they can trade for valuable human labor, up to the point where human labor isn’t so valuable to them after all.

Oh, ha, there goes that theory then. Gracie does have excellent comic timing though, and that makes up for a lot.

Gracie the bitey cat, peeking out from behind her cat grass.

Wow that could be a sibling of our bitey cat, Gracie. I wonder if it’s a characteristic of the breed? Just always assumed it was because she was semi-feral when I found her as a kitten. It never seems mean, just more fun for her than us really….

Do I trust an entire crowd to behave well, not wear cologne, talk and text? Do I trust the actors to not mumble, sound mixers and the theater to not blast my eardrums and assault my eyes? Do I want to pay a fortune for the privilege and probably get the latest deadly virus to boot…? Ha I say. Ha.

Digital ink drawing of a bearded man in profile looking up from lower right of frame. A large finger is about to touch his nose from the upper left of frame.

The Boop of the Divine. Digital ink sketch.

Itching to get back to real paper and ink / graphite / conte / collage this coming year. Love being able to try out new ideas and styles with digital though. Less space, less mess, undo button…..

#art #digitalart #sketch #ink

This has been a thing for some time I believe.

Closeup photograph of a smoke tree bloom in Winter, with water droplets on a delicate tracery of bare stems.

Closeup photograph of smoke tree leaves in Fall, taken from above to show the spiraling arrangement of leaves.

Smoke tree leaves in Fall, on a gravel path, with water droplets.

Closeup photograph of a smoke tree bloom in Winter, bare stems with water droplets with background out of focus.

More Smoke Tree photos from Winter and Fall.

#art #photography #minimalism #blackandwhite #monochrome

Black and white photograph of a bare smoke tree bloom in winter. A delicate and ghostly lattice of stems and small seeds.

Smoke Tree in Winter. I think Smoke Trees are second only to my cat for photogenicicity (real word, because I say so.)

#art #photography #minimalism #blackandwhite #monochrome

How cool, one of my favorite books when I was little.

Celebrate the fact that I must be a privileged rich asshole who knows people who can gift an elephant just for giggles. And why can’t I give it away, is my brain broken, am I too rich to conceive of giving anything away? Maybe I need mental health help, perhaps the elephant isn’t even real?

I made almond pistachio biscottis.

This is fantastic in so many senses of the word.

I love this!

Photograph of Gracie the cat, with a look that is simultaneously smug, murderous, sleepy, annoyed, adoring, and hopeful for an early dinner. In other words she looks like a cat.

Haven’t paid my cat tax in a while.

#Caturday #photography #cats