Thanks so much! That's really nice to hear. Glad you like it.

A glowing, translucent, indigo-green blob that resembles a Pac-Man ghost hovers in a dark space. The blob has two round eyes and a fixed smile, like the face of a toy. Above the blob is a glowing blue-green halo from which fog is rising. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Christ.

I'll never understand why people choose to work at Meta. Their public image only gets worse and the culture/leadership is abominable. If you can get hired there, it's not like you're lacking better options.

Maybe it's the paycheck/resume boost? I can't imagine the work makes it worth it.

A surreal landscape: a mountainous desert under a striking purple sky. Streaks of heavy clouds fade into a starry night sky. Hovering at various locations on the desert are glowing green bubbles. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Good luck, John 🍎. We're counting on you.

Man, I haven't been this excited about a game in a while.

This looks amazing.

Thank you!

A fortified castle tower—really just a stone cylinder—stands at the top of a very craggy, very sharp hill overlooking the ocean. The sky is a pale greenish color. The tower has two slitlike windows and an open, arched door, and is crumbling at the top. The only signs of life are the two birds flying about the top of it, and the UFO hovering in the sky to its right, glinting in the sun. On the underside of the UFO is a circular opening that is glowing white. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A person sits at a small table on the edge of a rocky cliff. The front of the cliff face is illuminated reddish, and the sky is pink on the horizon. Across from the person, on the other end of the table, is a puppet: a white ghost, manipulated by some very large, offscreen entity. The person and the ghost are playing chess. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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An eerie scene: a blurry gray landscape with a crooked road; a stormy sky filled with heavy fluorescent green clouds; and a greenish-white lighting bolt jumping from one side of the sky to the other. Balanced on the lightning bolt is a tightrope walker, walking along the lightning, holding a long balancing pole. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A knight in armor, carrying a shield and sword, stands on the edge of a greenish brown, perfectly rectangular cliff. The shield is red, with a gold cross on it. Across from the cliff, hovering in the air, are 10 gold coins, arranged in two perfectly parallel columns. The overall scene suggests a classic video game such as Mario. Below, in the distance, are some purple mountains, and there are a few white clouds in the otherwise blue sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A tall figure wearing a suit and a top hat stands on top of a craggy mountain on a dark, cloudy night. The figure is holding a lantern that illuminates the rock with an eerie green light. In the distance is the blurry outline of another mountain. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A person in a dull blue space. Something not so good is on their minds; a large, ominous thought balloon, like that out of a comic strip, hovers above them. The balloon is various shades of purple, yellow, and green, and is so heavy that it's dripping, pooling like paint on the ground. The person is standing in a puddle of thought-balloon liquid, lifting their leg in horror as viscous purple strings of whatever this is extend from their shoe to the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A large orange robot, with an iridescent greenish sheen to it, stands in a dark space. Its head is placed on a green pedestal in front of it. The head is plugged into a wall outlet, and the eye displays a green "charging" lightning bolt icon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A dark figure pushes a cart through a bright green meadow under a mostly clear, blue sky. In the cart is a large, rusty, metal cube with a white question mark roughly spray-painted on one side. The cube looks like those question boxes in Nintendo games. There are a few colorful wildflowers dotting the meadow, and a wispy cloud or two in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A dark stone bridge over a swampy brook in the middle of nowhere. The sky is an eerie yellow-green. Hanging beneath the bridge is a batlike figure wearing a coat and a top hat. The figure has glowing green eyes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A person seen in profile. Or something that resembles a person, anyway: perfectly smooth head; hard, straight nose; unsettling smile; and glowing green round spectacles. The person is purple, and looks they are made from metal. The outlines of a few rectangular panels are visible. In addition to the bright blue sky around them, they are slightly illuminated from the rear by a reddish light. Perched on top of their head is a white bird, tiny by comparison, with a few more birds in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Thanks so much, Dallas! That's really nice to hear.

A signpost standing at a crossroads in a barren place, under a pink and purple sky. It has two signs: "Accept", pointing right, and "Decline", pointing left. In the distance is a treeline. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A thin, rickety bridge extends through a raging red and yellow inferno. Marching along the bridge is an eerie procession, led by a person wearing a tall top hat. The person is blowing a trumpet. Behind them, a hulking figure with a windup key sticking out of its back thumps a drum with a red star on it, hung around its neck. In the rear is a small, hunched figure with horns and a tail, playing a saxophone. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A tall, narrow tower with a pointed roof sits on a snowy mountain peak under a blue evening sky. The tower is yellow, with a small red door and steps leading down the mountain away from the door. At the top of the tower is a round, dark, shiny window that looks very much like a camera lens. Several antennae stick up from the roof of the house. In the background is the blurry suggestion of trees or other mountains. A white crescent moon sits in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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notes art – explorations in iphone notes notes art

Drawn with a finger on a screen the size of a 3x5 card. Notes Art: explorations in iPhone notes by @csilverman.bsky.social.

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Really enjoyed this interview with my friend Tim Brown, Head of Typography at Adobe. Tim wrote the book on typography—one of them*, at least—and he's one of the most insightful people I know; definitely someone whose perspective I value on just about anything.

* abookapart.com/products/fle...

A view out the window of a spaceship. The window is tall, with rounded sides, and surrounded by a heavy metal frame. The gray wall of the spaceship, with various beams and bolts, is visible beyond the frame. Out the window is the starry black of space, with a bright white-gray moon in the center. We're pretty close to the moon. The surface shadows are sharp and visible. Clamped to the upper frame of the window is a small consumer GPS unit, the kind you'd have in your car, displaying the words "keep right" in white lettering, along with "50 thousand km". The GPS displays the usual pink route and arrows indicating how to get to the moon. In the lower left of the screen is a small round icon indicating that the local speed limit is 90km/h. Fortunately there are no cops in space, yet. Good luck out there, Artemis crew. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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I wish America was more about building, and doing, things like this.

And less like, well—what we are.

My parents still talk about watching the moon landing on a small monochrome screen. I don't think any of the wildest minds at that time imagined something like the Artemis live tracker. You had to already be pretty out there to envision even the basic technologies underpinning artemislivetracker.com

This guy is enormous! I remember you sharing photos of him when he was like a quarter that size.

Yeah, this is why I was homeschooled. My parents didn't want my formative years to be spent dealing with hostile, unintelligent bureaucrats the way theirs were.

It'll happen to everyone eventually, but at least I had a better sense of who I was by the time the world got its claws into me.

A rocky mountainous landscape under a desert sky. On the left is a dark, drab, rocky face with a smaller, round rock placed against it. Climbing up towards the round rock are two figures wearing robes. One of them is pointing to the rock, on which is hung a white sign that says "Do not disturb." The round white sun sits high in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". Happy Easter.

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Thank you!