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yamamanamaLike last time, I drew Erica, who has dark hair and a swan pendant, on the Commuter Rail and then went back to reading Monk and Robot. There was also a shih tzu bijon mix named Rose.
Hope explained the situation as “we moved to Somerville because there’s more space. We’re not doing Figment After Dark right now but maybe some day.” Hope has a Labubu in a Figment shirt.
I said it was a good thing we revived Figment because we need the safe spaces, god fucking damn it.
It actually came back last year but it conflicted with Artbeat. Hope was like yeah, there were a lot of things that day. And we have twice as many art installations as last year.
Discoscope: a disco ball orrery
Chalkus de Milo two statues you could draw on with chalk.
The Leave A Secret Garden. Write a secret on a paper, roll it up, put it in a cubby for people to read.
The write crowd. Read words for a collaborative poem.
A mailbox where you could write a love letter and take a love letter.
“this is my submarine, where I go when I need quiet” which wasn’t there but a guy said that maybe it was an invisible submarine. The description made it sound really cool (a fabric submarine you could go inside and you’d see fabric fish swimming by when you pedal and there was a periscope you could look through) and maybe they’ll bring it next year.
Waterfall, a grid of painted squares that formed a waterfall.
“a friend in the dark” two three-dimensional cubist black cats.
Moire. Two wheels with holes drilled in them. Spin them to make the installation behind them look like an old fashioned projector.
The installation behind them was the Discorn. I’m not sure why it was called that. Oh, discorn as in corn, as in maize, not as in unicorn. There was also a Discow, which was a giant metal cow that shot water out of her udders.
The garden of whimsy. Make a flower.
Roll 4 Henna. You’d roll a d4, a d6, a d8, a d12, and a d20, which are the only platonic solids, and she’d draw a henna design based on those results. I got a flower on my hand. Giocchina has a crescent moon and two dolphins in an eternal circle, maybe henna but maybe actual tattooing, a moon pendant made from white stone or white glass, an amethyst pendant, a phial of dark violet powder, maple pods on the sides of her face, a bandana, a utility belt but not necessarily a Bat utility belt. I mean, one of the philtres or phials may contain carousel reversal spray or shark repellant bat spray but no one can say.
Partial Eclipse of the Heart: Write words on a heart.
Some hanging fuzzy worms with little googly eyes.
Natural Reflections: A kaleidoscope that you could look at flowers but you can’t rotate the scopes, just the potted plants.
2 oujia boards that were linked together with syringes and tubing. they got a bit out of whack and desynced over time.
Finger-Pained Boston
The Metapiano.
Smoke and Mirrors: you might have a hard time getting off of the air mattresses because they're just super squooshy. There's a smoke machine and a speaker playing what sounded like Stars of the Lid. Ash was lying down in one of them, saw me, and was like "cool sketches," and later, I drew a picture of her and her friend. I can’t tell if I made him look like Karl Heisenberg or Weird Al. maybe the vaccine turned his hands magnetic.
She's never seen Final Space. You know why? Because they didn't promote it or anything.
There was a guy with an Umbrella Corporation logo. Another guy with various Studio Ghibli characters tattooed on his leg.
Chelsea has a tattoo of all the characters from Young Frankenstein and people always think it’s Willy Wonka and she’s like “no, but the same actor.” She was raised on Mel Brooks movies. She also has a peacock on her other arm and a portrait of her dog, a paw, and her other dog's favorite toy, and she's trying to think of something from Stu. She also has Tina Belcher on her leg which is how I recognized her in the first place.
Stu is a Great Dane, which means he's a big baby. They had this bison skull and he was fine with it until one day he realized it existed and became terrified by it. And there was the inflatable cartoon moose head. Nope. Too scary for Stu. Meanwhile, the only thing shih tzus fear is bath time.
There was a ride-able fuzzy-cushioned giant tarantula with lights wrapped around the legs and pedipalps that glow green or vioolet, but since it was summer-bright out there and they make the batteries drain even faster, they opted not to use them. and a ride-able turtle sandbox on wheels. When the turtle is under the shade of the trees, you can see the lights underneath. Someone described it as an out of body experience. Someone else said we could joust with them, in fact, we should put a chainsaw or a hammer on them like Battlebots.
The artist of the spider, Arlene, has a luna moth pendant and a crown of flowers.
They put a horn on the turtle because there are a lot of people at some of these things who are just completely out of it.
In Limba Mea, which I recognized as Romanian and recommended A Princess of Roumania to the artist, where you could take letters and use them for poems in your own native languages.
There was a wood nymph with various critters (a woolly bear caterpillar, a snail, a butterfly, a swallowtail caterpillar) on its bark skin and stilts. Wait, that was Sarah. Maybe I’m just so used to seeing her in ballgowns instead.
There was a trash can “robot” covered in stickers that visited every installation
Melissa has tattoos of various fungus: shelf fungus on her arm, some morels and amanitas (?) and some pines (not a fungus) on her leg.
The lavender made her look like she was doing aromatherapy or a reporter. The "CakeTime!" glasses she was wearing gave her a headache so she put them on her hat instead.
Jason was talking about some herb that grows on Mount Olympus and how his grandmother is like "oh, your leg is gone, have some Mount Olympus."
The only Olympos I recognize is the one on Mars. It's 2 and a half times taller than Everest and is about the size of France.
Lily has tattoos of various horrors of the deep and Lovecraft himself, whom I thought was The Tall Man at first but no it makes sense because he’s surrounded by a monster and even has an octopus’ arm coiled around his neck.
They’re not accurate in my drawing but it works because they’re indescribable horrors of the deep. Lily also has a tattoo of the card The Tower, a broken sword.
Taylor has a tattoo of a nude mermaid-cephalopod.
A guy says the ducks here are gentrified. Maybe he was trying to get a silk bag to live longer.
Laurel has a shirt with eyes printed on it and rollerskates with butterflies. She was pushing a guy on the turtle.
George, who was wearing floral overalls, while we were waiting in line for a raspberry lime rickey (me) and a something-chino (George) and I don’t even know (Laurel) (though what I do know is that laurels in your soup enhance its aroma) explained the goings on in the wider world of figment.
it was held on a park that used to be a military base from the colonial era to the 50s and then got really gentrified in the last few years.
and I asked what happened to half of Brooklyn’s plan to flee New York now that Mamdani is mayor and alas, nothing is coming of that.
I recognized Andrew because of his name and he recognized me because of my sketchbook
On the other hand, I thought someone else was Andrew. His name is Tim. There are some who call him… …Tim.
Jeli met me before but at ArtBeat and not Figment.
I wanted An Nam for dinner but everything was some sort of soup and that might have been a bad idea. So I got Cava instead.
I had peri-peri fusion fries from Tribos for lunch.
One of the train passengers I drew had a jellyfish tattooed on her shoulder. one of them had some stuff their niece made, a guy with radiant spokes and a blank white face and black cloak, some abstract sigils, a triangular spiral glyph. I almost missed my stop. I'm not used to the Orange Line. I've used it once since they got rid of the 1960s trains and only one stop, In fact, I've only used it twice before since the pandemic began.
Jules, who has no visible tattoos, really liked my Kurt Vonnegut t-shirt.
I met Cali, a dog, on the Red Line who was mostly white, with spots on one ear, and half her face along with most of her other ear was black.
burning question: guys, can you seriously design your video pages to not jump to the next video in the sequence if my finger so much as gently brushes the surface of the mouse?
Hope explained the situation as “we moved to Somerville because there’s more space. We’re not doing Figment After Dark right now but maybe some day.” Hope has a Labubu in a Figment shirt.
I said it was a good thing we revived Figment because we need the safe spaces, god fucking damn it.
It actually came back last year but it conflicted with Artbeat. Hope was like yeah, there were a lot of things that day. And we have twice as many art installations as last year.
Discoscope: a disco ball orrery
Chalkus de Milo two statues you could draw on with chalk.
The Leave A Secret Garden. Write a secret on a paper, roll it up, put it in a cubby for people to read.
The write crowd. Read words for a collaborative poem.
A mailbox where you could write a love letter and take a love letter.
“this is my submarine, where I go when I need quiet” which wasn’t there but a guy said that maybe it was an invisible submarine. The description made it sound really cool (a fabric submarine you could go inside and you’d see fabric fish swimming by when you pedal and there was a periscope you could look through) and maybe they’ll bring it next year.
Waterfall, a grid of painted squares that formed a waterfall.
“a friend in the dark” two three-dimensional cubist black cats.
Moire. Two wheels with holes drilled in them. Spin them to make the installation behind them look like an old fashioned projector.
The installation behind them was the Discorn. I’m not sure why it was called that. Oh, discorn as in corn, as in maize, not as in unicorn. There was also a Discow, which was a giant metal cow that shot water out of her udders.
The garden of whimsy. Make a flower.
Roll 4 Henna. You’d roll a d4, a d6, a d8, a d12, and a d20, which are the only platonic solids, and she’d draw a henna design based on those results. I got a flower on my hand. Giocchina has a crescent moon and two dolphins in an eternal circle, maybe henna but maybe actual tattooing, a moon pendant made from white stone or white glass, an amethyst pendant, a phial of dark violet powder, maple pods on the sides of her face, a bandana, a utility belt but not necessarily a Bat utility belt. I mean, one of the philtres or phials may contain carousel reversal spray or shark repellant bat spray but no one can say.
Partial Eclipse of the Heart: Write words on a heart.
Some hanging fuzzy worms with little googly eyes.
Natural Reflections: A kaleidoscope that you could look at flowers but you can’t rotate the scopes, just the potted plants.
2 oujia boards that were linked together with syringes and tubing. they got a bit out of whack and desynced over time.
Finger-Pained Boston
The Metapiano.
Smoke and Mirrors: you might have a hard time getting off of the air mattresses because they're just super squooshy. There's a smoke machine and a speaker playing what sounded like Stars of the Lid. Ash was lying down in one of them, saw me, and was like "cool sketches," and later, I drew a picture of her and her friend. I can’t tell if I made him look like Karl Heisenberg or Weird Al. maybe the vaccine turned his hands magnetic.
She's never seen Final Space. You know why? Because they didn't promote it or anything.
There was a guy with an Umbrella Corporation logo. Another guy with various Studio Ghibli characters tattooed on his leg.
Chelsea has a tattoo of all the characters from Young Frankenstein and people always think it’s Willy Wonka and she’s like “no, but the same actor.” She was raised on Mel Brooks movies. She also has a peacock on her other arm and a portrait of her dog, a paw, and her other dog's favorite toy, and she's trying to think of something from Stu. She also has Tina Belcher on her leg which is how I recognized her in the first place.
Stu is a Great Dane, which means he's a big baby. They had this bison skull and he was fine with it until one day he realized it existed and became terrified by it. And there was the inflatable cartoon moose head. Nope. Too scary for Stu. Meanwhile, the only thing shih tzus fear is bath time.
There was a ride-able fuzzy-cushioned giant tarantula with lights wrapped around the legs and pedipalps that glow green or vioolet, but since it was summer-bright out there and they make the batteries drain even faster, they opted not to use them. and a ride-able turtle sandbox on wheels. When the turtle is under the shade of the trees, you can see the lights underneath. Someone described it as an out of body experience. Someone else said we could joust with them, in fact, we should put a chainsaw or a hammer on them like Battlebots.
The artist of the spider, Arlene, has a luna moth pendant and a crown of flowers.
They put a horn on the turtle because there are a lot of people at some of these things who are just completely out of it.
In Limba Mea, which I recognized as Romanian and recommended A Princess of Roumania to the artist, where you could take letters and use them for poems in your own native languages.
There was a wood nymph with various critters (a woolly bear caterpillar, a snail, a butterfly, a swallowtail caterpillar) on its bark skin and stilts. Wait, that was Sarah. Maybe I’m just so used to seeing her in ballgowns instead.
There was a trash can “robot” covered in stickers that visited every installation
Melissa has tattoos of various fungus: shelf fungus on her arm, some morels and amanitas (?) and some pines (not a fungus) on her leg.
The lavender made her look like she was doing aromatherapy or a reporter. The "CakeTime!" glasses she was wearing gave her a headache so she put them on her hat instead.
Jason was talking about some herb that grows on Mount Olympus and how his grandmother is like "oh, your leg is gone, have some Mount Olympus."
The only Olympos I recognize is the one on Mars. It's 2 and a half times taller than Everest and is about the size of France.
Lily has tattoos of various horrors of the deep and Lovecraft himself, whom I thought was The Tall Man at first but no it makes sense because he’s surrounded by a monster and even has an octopus’ arm coiled around his neck.
They’re not accurate in my drawing but it works because they’re indescribable horrors of the deep. Lily also has a tattoo of the card The Tower, a broken sword.
Taylor has a tattoo of a nude mermaid-cephalopod.
A guy says the ducks here are gentrified. Maybe he was trying to get a silk bag to live longer.
Laurel has a shirt with eyes printed on it and rollerskates with butterflies. She was pushing a guy on the turtle.
George, who was wearing floral overalls, while we were waiting in line for a raspberry lime rickey (me) and a something-chino (George) and I don’t even know (Laurel) (though what I do know is that laurels in your soup enhance its aroma) explained the goings on in the wider world of figment.
it was held on a park that used to be a military base from the colonial era to the 50s and then got really gentrified in the last few years.
and I asked what happened to half of Brooklyn’s plan to flee New York now that Mamdani is mayor and alas, nothing is coming of that.
I recognized Andrew because of his name and he recognized me because of my sketchbook
On the other hand, I thought someone else was Andrew. His name is Tim. There are some who call him… …Tim.
Jeli met me before but at ArtBeat and not Figment.
I wanted An Nam for dinner but everything was some sort of soup and that might have been a bad idea. So I got Cava instead.
I had peri-peri fusion fries from Tribos for lunch.
One of the train passengers I drew had a jellyfish tattooed on her shoulder. one of them had some stuff their niece made, a guy with radiant spokes and a blank white face and black cloak, some abstract sigils, a triangular spiral glyph. I almost missed my stop. I'm not used to the Orange Line. I've used it once since they got rid of the 1960s trains and only one stop, In fact, I've only used it twice before since the pandemic began.
Jules, who has no visible tattoos, really liked my Kurt Vonnegut t-shirt.
I met Cali, a dog, on the Red Line who was mostly white, with spots on one ear, and half her face along with most of her other ear was black.
burning question: guys, can you seriously design your video pages to not jump to the next video in the sequence if my finger so much as gently brushes the surface of the mouse?
