ETNO: Inspector, Current, Dose

This is mostly just a test of the blog posting system, but by way of CONTENT...

Recently, a member of my extended familial micro-community suggested that we re-start an age old tradition; the reckless selection of three random words with which to fuel weekly creative challenges!

Now, this hasn't been the primary purpose of our little group for ages; the main point of ETNO for some time now has been to stay in touch, hang out remotely, blow off steam and commiserate about life. Back when they were meatspace meetings there was a focus on board games, video game consoles, and playing "show and tell" with things we'd learned or created.

A lot has changed, but there be creative bones left in these time-ravaged bodies yet apparently, because we were back at it last week with the randomly selected words Inspector, Current, and Dose!


Ah, the crayon tool; my favorite brush!

Drawn freehand with a mouse in mspaint at a 1:1 resolution of 500x500, then doubled in pixel count via Photoshop and copied/resaved at the lowest jpeg image quality a dozen times before being ingloriously crammed back to 666x666 using one of the less kind and gentle resampling algorithms...

The idea was to emulate the lightly crispy artifacting that was all over the internet of my youth, as if this weird logo thing was stolen off a geocities site and reposted on some forum that didn't support the original file format before being copied and rescaled poorly for use as someone's filesize-limited Livejournal avatar.

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