4 days ago

Ongoing digital drawing depicting the indoors of a tech office. There's an opened door labeled "CTO" revealing a desk with a "Hell" computer and "Ar-ctic" air conditione. The hall features a water cooler dispenser with "Poison fresh 7% Hg 20L" water jug, a coffee machine branded "Anxiety" spilling coffee next to a cup labeled "http 500", and an incomplete air conditioner. The entire place is entirely blueish.

In progress (believe it or not it'll have to do with PHP and the CA private key things).

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Somehow, I'm able to do this specific drawing entirely from my memories, without the need for looking up any visual references... Haunting memories, I'd say. I can even hear it: "trum-trum-trum... trum-trummm" (or whatever's the onomatopoeia for Windows XP startup sound). Oh, and the voices... The screeching voices (dial-up sound).

I'm not sure about the Skype icon, though: whether it's white on light blue, or light blue on white. I didn't look it up, yet.

Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks 4 days ago

Again, I drew this Windows XP screen entirely from visual memory with no recent references. Now I looked up the references in order to check the accuracy of my nostalgic-zennial visual memory. Not entirely bad, I guess?

Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks 4 days ago

Because of course, I ended up digressing and now I have drawn the outside landscape: Samhara Kali, majestically hovering with Her collar of skulls and sticking-out-tongue (it was definitely not easy to draw 9 hands, but I guess I got it).

Maybe I should do a higher-res version of this drawing...

(And several other absurd/surreal details briefly mentioned in my alt-text)

Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks 4 days ago

Then I checked the Tantra Sadhana website, headed into their Ma Kali gallery, then TIL'd about the Srishti Kali manifestation of Kali. While staring at the Srishti Kali depiction, I was suddenly caught by this "wait!" moment: Srishti Kali is trampling on a lion... Then I recalled about Qetesh, the Egyptian Goddess who's also trampling on a lion (and one of the only two Ancient Egyptian deities whose faces were originally depicted as looking towards the viewer with both eyes; all other Ancient Egyptian deities were depicted in profile face). And both resemble the Burney Relief.

(I was doing a drawing intending to make fun of the recent PHP CVS, I guess? Oh, my mind is so chaotic)