Anyway, though, last weekend, on a short jaunt out of town to attend a wedding, I ended up in a restaurant for breakfast on Sunday. I don't recall whether they actually had paper placemats there, but it did not matter because I'd thought to bring along a small pad of art paper in the army-surplus shoulder bag I usually carry around (as it is of a nice size to contain my nifty netbook computer, camera, wallet, etc.).
So, while I was waiting for my food I drew the following (or rather, a sketched version of it; this version has been colored and edited in GIMP graphics software):
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It is a longstanding personal philosophy of mine that when it comes to drawing, you really can't go wrong with robots or kittens. But lo and behold, here we have a robot and a kitten! I had to work for a while getting the kitten just right (she kept looking like a wolf cub to me until I fixed the nose/muzzle to be properly feline) but overall I am reasonably pleased with the result.
Click here to see (and order, if you are so inclined) the shirt on Zazzle.com.
(As always, I am not doing this to try and make any actual money -- I just figure that perhaps a few Existence is Wonderful readers might share my delight in all things robot and kitten!)
7 comments:
I think Star Trek: The Next Generation beat you to it regarding relationships between robots and cats.
Mark: Hee! Oh yes, I do remember Data and Spot. My favorite bit ever was when Data put on a poetry reading featuring an Ode to Spot. (Though I disagree with the bit about cats supposedly not being sentient -- I've spent well enough time around cats to know that there's plenty going on in their heads, and that they're way more aware than many give them credit for).
I still love it when I walk into a place and they have the brown paper spread all over the table (either with or without the crayons.)
I'm so ridiculous that if they don't have them--I ask. Crayons, please?
It's okay. Everyone I know knows I'm a spaz.
And I can't draw to save my life.
It's still fun anyway.
Also, I'm a big geek too.
And on WP even though this is showing my old Blogger account.
Take Care,
PA
> [Y]ou really can't go wrong with robots
> or kittens. But lo and behold, here we
> have a robot and a kitten!
So, is the little one perchance "Robokoneko"?
jimf said: So, is the little one perchance "Robokoneko"?*eeee*! Possibly!
Patient Anonymous wrote:
I still love it when I walk into a place and they have the brown paper spread all over the table (either with or without the crayons.)Yes!!! Me too. I don't restaurant very often but when I do I like nothing better than a big swath of drawing material. It just didn't occur to me until fairly recently that I could actually bring my own paper just in case there wasn't any handy!
Heh. I just discovered, while trawling through Linux repositories, that there is actually an ASCII "zen simulation" called robotfindskitten, in which you play a robot trying to identify which of various scattered characters is a kitten.
You ought to submit this to the author as fan art! :-p
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