SmugMug Appreciation Sunday — No. 099

In brief, these posts served to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

This is the last post of the series

Why? Well, if people aren’t moved to explore my SmugMug site after 99 posts, I don’t think more posts will do it.

Today, I’m featuring zero photos from a SmugMug gallery<<click containing 408 images. The blog post associated with the gallery is here: Palm Vx and I<<link.

What does that gallery contain?

A glimpse into the mind of yours truly. Mind you, it is a confusing glimpse, but a glimpse still.

“What in the name of all that’s Holy is that!?”

Well, I suggest you read the post linked above, but the quick explanation is . . . doodles.

“Doodles?”

Doodles. Not only that, each one is titled. For instance . . .

I know, I know, it should be “from” not “of”, but English is my second language, so please tolerate the occasional oddity in my writing. (That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it.)

Some of these —like the one above — are evolutions from simpler doodles.

See what I did there? The Young are simple(tons), proven by today’s younger generations who favor simple answers to complex problems, whereas the Ancients knew nothing in life was simple.

As a side note, one hopes the Young will eventually find their way to wisdom, but given their preference for soundbites over understanding, for the cocksureness of ignorance over the wisdom of knowledge, and for their phones over reading books, I, for one, am not optimistic at least not in the short run.

Anyway, the doodles.

Some doodles are barely a couple of lines. Others are more involved. Even now, I wonder how I drew something on a 160 x 160-pixel screen and managed to represent complex scenes and objects. Note: these are shown at 2X the size.

Mind you, it was easy for abstract scratchings. By their nature, they don’t represent anything, and their beauty — such as it is — is in the patterns.

But I also drew scenes and objects . . .

But most are abstracts, mindless scratchings with a stylus on a small screen.

OK, so maybe I’m not good at naming them, but I tried my best and all in one sitting.

Anyway, 408 doodles. Here’s the slideshow, which I doubt anyone will watch:

Note: The transition is set to 2sec. If it’s too fast, move the cursor anywhere within the photo — you’ll see a pause button on the lower left, and once paused, you can use the left and right arrows on both sides of the photo to navigate the slideshow.

Slideshow of the Palm Vx Doodles – 2000-2004 Gallery — (408 images)

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