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Chris Silverman
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Designer, artist, iPhone Notes limit pusher. I know the difference between a "font" and a "typeface", but I'm not obnoxious about it.

🌈 https://notes.art

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A person stands in front of a large, misshapen stone house, chipping away at it. On closer inspection, the person appears to be carving a house out of a tall pillar of rock. The sky is yellow, a blazing white sun in the middle of it, and the rock is reddish. The building has a few windows, two of which are already illuminated. The person stands on a large mound of rocky debris, hammering away. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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A clear blue sky, with a few stars visible, sometime around dusk or dawn. In the background is a blurry treeline, with a yellow-green glow about it. In the foreground is a small dark mailbox in the middle of a grassy area. Hovering in the sky above is a vast black UFO. A circular hatch is open underneath it, revealing a glowing green interior. The UFO is surrounded by an eerie glow. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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The interior of a church or cathedral: a hallway, tall arches, and tall windows with arched tops glowing white in a darkened area. The light from the windows reflects dully off the shiny floor. The walls and floor are the dull grayish-pink of stone in shadow. Dimly visible through the windows are the shapes of what looks like a crowd gathered outside. Inside, mostly silhouetted in the glare of the window and peering back, is a large, slightly hunched figure with horns. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A person dances on a giant gray mound of garbage, the sort of thing you'd see in a landfill: a colorless mountain of unidentifiable objects. The person is holding a trumpet. The sky is pink on the horizon and blue above. Two birds circle in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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A dim hallway; something one would find in the basement of a huge building at night. A complex network of enormous dull-colored pipes stretches from one side of the scene to the other. Suspended below the pipes is a long white-green fluorescent light casting a pallid glare over everything. Below the light is a brown bulletin board with scraps of various pastel-colored papers attached to it. To the right of the board is a door with a glowing red "Exit" sign above it. The hallway itself has a colorless, possibly burgundy carpet—the kind of soulless decor one finds in underconsidered public spaces. Snaking along the floor, halfway out of the frame, is a creature. The only visible part of the creature is a long greenish tail with patches of symmetrically patterned red and blue dots that look bioluminescent. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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A bizarre, dark-colored chunk of something hangs in a dismal drab-green and orange vacuum. The something looks like a large fragment of a building or infrastructure; maybe several fragments combined. It has numerous pipes and beams sticking off it at odd angles. Part of it is a large boxy chunk that contains a glowing yellow-green arched window. A figure wearing a suit and tie stands in the window, looking out. Attached to the left side of the box is a tall smokestack. A dish antenna is on top of the box. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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A small, strange figure wearing a metallic suit and giant mask stands against a reddish sky. The mask is a dull reddish-brass color, square, and made from several ragged chunks of metal welded together. It has two round holes for eyes and a smaller hole where the mouth would be. Each hole is very precisely machined, with a bezel around it. Sticking out of the right side of the mask is a small smoking chimney that looks like a snorkel tube. The figure's suit is also a tarnished brassy gold. Its arms are oddly long and thin, suggesting either a robot or an insect. A dull orange sun hangs in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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A person drives a bizarre contraption that looks like it is one bump in the road away from collapsing into a pile of rusty parts. The vehicle has four wheels like a car, but the front is slightly smaller than the rear. It is taller than it is long, with an open cockpit like a tractor and a heavy, L-shaped body. It looks like something between a farm machine and a zamboni. The body is a dull rust-covered greenish brown, complex with beams, pipes, and patches. A red warning triangle is painted at the top; a yellow and black hazard strip is along one fender. It has a smokestack-like tailpipe, a glowing white light mounted on a pipe, and a headlight. The sky is a greenish-yellow; the ground is dark and shows evenly mowed grass. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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(Yesterday's late one, thanks to not having power last night)
A dim forest: evening-blue background, tall purple trees looming out of the fog. In the foreground is a ground of dark grass and the trunk of a huge tree. Hovering at the base of the tree is a glowing yellow orb, a trail of light behind it. The light it casts turns the trunk a yellowish-red. In the background are a few other, dimmer orbs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A clear blue evening. At the edge of a cliff, a bizarre rocky structure extends into the air. It best resembles some weird crystalline outgrowth; a tower made of cubical boulders that have been fused together. Sitting on the top boulder is a person, dimly illuminated by a glowing yellow lantern. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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I miss when software contained stuff like this.

(LaserWriter Pro installer app)

#rsrcSpelunking #retrocomputing
A screenshot of a classic Mac dialog box being edited in ResEdit. The text reads "Installer 3.4. The hottest installation technology anywhere! Bobby Carp, Kevin Aitken, et al.". A screenshot of a classic Mac dialog box being edited in ResEdit. The text reads "Quality. The best testing ever! Guaranteed by: Rob "lunatic" Moore and thousands of wily Beta testers.". A screenshot of a classic Mac dialog box being edited in ResEdit. The text reads "Friends. Thanks for your ideas, support, and patience: Phac Le Tuan, Ron Lichty, Bruce Jones, Rich Kubota, Wayne Correia, Owen Rubin, Chris Derossi Cindy Frost, and Francis Stanbach.".
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A ghastly, monstrous face; maybe a mask, maybe a monster. The face is garish red, illuminated yellow on the right side, with deep purple shadows on the left. It has a furrowed brow and craggy, heavily wrinkled skin. Its eyes are hollow and empty, and its mouth is sagging open, revealing a chaotic series of long teeth. Above its mostly hairless head is an incongruous white halo. The entire scene is on a gray background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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A craggy mountain peak, cast red in the late afternoon sun. At the very top of the peak, appearing to grow out of it as the trunk of a tree might emerge from roots, is an odd towerlike structure that is clearly a dwelling, but looks more organic than architected. It has a winding staircase leading up to it, a small door, and two glowing windows. A few antennas are placed at the top. A blazing white sun hangs in the yellow sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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A clear blue evening. Walking alone in the dark is a figure wearing a dark suit and a hat with a brim. The figure is invisible; only its clothes are seen. It has a windup clock key sticking out of its back. In one invisible hand, it is carrying a glowing white smiley-face emoji like a lantern. The emoji has a soft yellow glow around it and is giving off yellow-green smoke. It casts a blazing greenish-white glare on the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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A small, winding country road at night. The road—barely more than a path—cuts through a scrubby hill, dimly illuminated by the clear blue starry sky and the full white moon. The moon appears to be a glowing hole in the sky; a round, bank-vault-like door is next to it, and swung open. A rope dangles out of the moon. Clinging to it like a cat burglar is a dark figure, about halfway down to the ground, carrying a small suitcase. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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A smiley-face emoji with eerily empty black eyes, set on a black background. Below, it are two crossed lines, conveying the impression of a skull and crossbones. Both the face and the lines are rendered in blazing neon rainbow colors. A pattern of vertical lines partially covers the face and the crossbones. The vertical lines have their own colors which blur as they intersect the face and crossbones, giving the overall painting, a sort of drippy/rasterized effect. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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A lone figure walks through an abandoned city street on a pale green night illuminated by a full white moon. On the left, the buildings loom up and away. The street is just an empty space where no buildings are. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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A hunched-over figure wearing a dark purple coat stands against a yellow background. The figure has a red hand, and is concealing its face with a round, red, wooden mask held on a stick. The mask has two round yellow circles for eyes, a large, rigidly triangular nose, and an empty, open mouth. The figure has, on its coat like badges, a smaller green mask that looks very similar to the red one, and a yellow button with the line-and-circle "power" icon. Three speech bubbles are coming from the figure, none of which has text in it. One is green, with a minimalist angry face in yellow lines; one is white on one side and navy blue on the other, with a flat mouth and X's for eyes; and one is white and contains a red triangle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A strange object—somewhere between a boulder, a spaceship, and a rusty machine—hangs in the blue emptiness of a starry sky. The object is roughly obelisk-shaped, with a craggy purple-gray surface that has an iridescent sheen to it. It has a glowing yellow window at the top, and a set of green windows below, and a small, smoking pipe of a chimney on the left. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A strange figure stands against a crimson-red sky. The figure is mostly dark, wearing a white shield-shaped mask with a single eyehole and no nose or mouth. The figure is holding a glowing yellow sword that resembles a lightsaber, and has a clock key sticking out of its back. In the background is the blurry purple skyline of a city. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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A tall figure with horns and a pointed tail stands in a dark green meadow under a greenish-yellow sky. The figure is holding out its hand. Streaking upwards from its hand is a blazing yellow ball of light that hangs in the sky like a sun. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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The word "Vote", in blazing, blurry rainbow colors on a black background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Octopus Crossing
Next 4 miles
One of those yellow diamond shaped "caution: animal crossing" signs but it's an octopus
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A crimson sunset, somewhere barren and snow-covered. The sun is a blazing yellow dot on a purple horizon, casting yellow light across the snow. To the left is a small shack that looks like a convenience store. It has a large window, the harsh white light reflecting off the snow, with a small sign that reads "open" in neon green letters. Towering over the shack is a large illuminated sign like something you'd see for a gas station. The sign has a glowing yellow smiley face at the top, and a smaller white sign that says "open" in red letters. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM