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A whole lot of texture, patterning, and filtering here, but very few objects, for a change. I thought I'd give 'em the long weekend off. ;) Without quite meaning to, I nostalgia-tripped for the small and simple art cards of almost two decades ago. (link) . Before my eyesight started to really go, uh... downhill. :P Hope you enjoy it! Shown smaller than the original completed size of 1300 X 879 pixels.

I haven't used this more greenish blue color very much recently. So I thought it would make a nice change. I hope you enjoy it. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 4000 X 3300 pixels. See one original source here .

Appropriately, Ellington *also* had a piece called "Like Late." :D Though it was Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" that was playing when I finally wrapped this up. (R.I.P. Quincy Jones.) Shown smaller than the original completed size of 4500 X 3502 pixels.

The return of Nina Ballerina! Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3500 X 3500 pixels.

When the stores are all out of Halloween candy, so you have to give out hunks of raw meat instead. You also must accept the fact that the neighbors will give you weird looks every day for the next year when you pass on the street. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 4050 X 4950 pixels.

Happy Saturday! (Or Sunday, depending on where you are.) That floral shape is the same one as in this year's "Space Spider", but heavily filtered and recolored. After its transformation, it made me think of candy corn. Hence the title and the kids' Western motif. Hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed making it. Song reference , give or take a spelling change. :D The accidental candy corn via filtration has happened before. Here , for instance. But that always was a favorite Halloween treat for me. So I'm good. ;) Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3900 X 3375.

That's a TON of text! What was I thinking?! The blood red, of course, comes from looking at the news when I really shouldn't. And waiting so long to update comes from there, too. :/ Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3000 X 4035 pixels. It's a beautiful day, so now I'm finally going outside. :D

The thick gray border and the beach scene are from a 1930s black and white photo by H.K. Job. "Royal and Cabot's terns. Air full of them. Battledore Island, Louisiana [USA]." Alas, I don't have the book anymore. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2950 X 3600 Pixels. Enjoy! :)

Another small group graduates to its own album today!! :) The music I listened to while putting this together was actually a modern group from Northern Nigeria: Etran de L'Air. Of course, multiple Jazz artists toured the world in the 20th Century and heard music from all over Africa. Then they brought what they learned back home. Had we not lost Parker so soon, perhaps he would have done so as well. The text is Bill Miner's, from the back of Savoy's 1977 reissue LP of 1949's "Charlie Parker: Live At The Royal Roost." Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3300 X 3525 pixels. Have a great week, Friends. <3

The spider is from a 1951 Spanish language dictionary from an estate sale. So I guess the alternate title could be "Araña Naranja." Sorry. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3500 X 3500 pixels.

1950s, 60s, and 70s source material, referencing an 80s club hit. Over the last month, I've been playing every version of "Pump Up The Volume" YouTube has to offer as I search for the version which seemed to show up on the NYC radio stations every night in 1987. I haven't found it yet, but I'll never give up! :D Shown smaller than the original completed size of 5100 X 3102 pixels.

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Royalty sure is strange, huh? :P Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3800 X 2828. See one original source here .

This series is now six years old. Until six minutes ago, I'd forgotten that the very first entry also had a clock in it. But not the same clock, so it's okay. :D Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3670 X 4486 pixels. See one original source here .

"Summertime, and the livin' is FOAMY!" :P Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3390 X 3150 pixels. See one original source here .

Still running two years behind schedule. Lol. I turned 58 today. I began this series in 2018, but lost a couple of years along the way. Even I wasn't sure that I knew why it became a series in the first place, until I remembered an obscure superhero comic from the late 1980s. A villain crashes a hero's birthday party, offers his arch foe a box of candy, and proclaims that the universe will end when the last candy is gone. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3600 X 3600 pixels.

Suddenly it's the Parade Of Tall Rectangles all the time. But it's also my first visit to this series since 2019!! Also, I'm breaking in new bifocals at last. Which may or may not make a difference. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2510 X 3067 pixels. See one original source here .