Chris Silverman

A thin figure paints a giant red devil, comparatively the size of a house, on a gray surface. While the devil's right leg is rough and unfinished, and parts of it have red paint drips, the rest of the devil looks quite realistic and appears to be coming alive. The devil has turned its head and is looking down at the painter, an expression of dark suspicion on its face. The painter has a white halo above its head. A small silver and red paint can sits on the ground. The painting—this painting, the meta-painting, if you will—is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A postcard print of a gouache painting of a stone lantern in front of a house surrounded by a few small trees, rocks, and foliage. Two small black blobs with white eyes are peeking out from inside the lantern.

An art print of an acrylic painting of a tree trunk split down the middle into three pieces, surrounded by small rocks and a smattering of green weeds and other foliage. A small black blob with eyes and tiny hands is peering out over the inside edge of the trunk. Another identical black blob is further back behind the trunk, at the left side, crawling on the ground.

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A complex landscape of craggy green mountains under an orange dusk sky. Flying over the mountains is a witch on a broomstick, the yellow light from the setting sun glinting off them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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I feel like such a genius every time I pull off a neat hack with :has(). Especially if it targets an element in the DOM hierarchy that would have been previously inaccessible with CSS alone.

I love CSS.

A bright red-orange background. Falling from the sky like a safe tossed off a skyscraper is a large, brass-colored cube that looks like it is made of metal or stone. Embossed on the slightly cracked front is a chunky question mark with four bolts around it, like the question boxes in the Mario universe. It is, judging from the size of the person running away from its anticipated point of impact, the size of a small house. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A vast, green meadow with small white and yellow flowers dotting it. In the background is a row of trees. In the far distance is a bluish mountain. High in the cloudless sky are two white birds and someone piloting a brightly colored rainbow hang glider. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

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A simple line drawing of a person with a large body and a small head. The person is wearing a hat with a brim. Their head is the blue Mac OS logo: the classic one that looks like a smiling face logo divided into two blue halves. They are carrying a suitcase with an icon of a small compact Mac on it. On the front of their shirt is a minimalist, colorful painting of a compact Mac. For the most part, though, the composition is a canvas-colored tan. This, as some might recognize, is Mr Macintosh, a drawing initially commissioned by Steve Jobs from the Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon. He wasn't carrying a System suitcase in the original version, though. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A barren, reddish-pink landscape under a black, starry sky. It looks like a desert on another planet. In the middle of it is a small mound of rock, with a boulder balanced on top of the rock. The rocky pile casts a dark purple shadow on the flat ground. Sitting on top of the boulder is a blue person, its back to the viewer. It has one hand on the rock and another hand on its knee, and it is staring up at the starry blackness, undoubtedly thinking that it is tired of earth. These people. It is tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A dull blue hallway with a door. Over the door is an arched transom. To the left of the door is a blurry collage of sheets of paper: the sort of chaotic collection of posters, flyers, and detritus that you'd see accumulate in a public area. Above the doorway are several thick pipes. A spherical white light is hanging from one of them, although it is off. Visible in the dark doorway is a slightly hunched, ghostly greenish figure. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A lighthouse at the edge of a rocky shore at dusk. The lighthouse is small and dark-colored, with a single dark window in its side. The sky is a bluish-purple; a crescent moon is in the upper right of the sky. The lighthouse appears abandoned. The beacon housing, a dull glassy green, is not lit inside. The base of the lighthouse is covered in faded graffiti. Nevertheless, there is one resident, and possibly a permanent one: a white figure on the balcony encircling the beacon housing. The figure has one arm outstretched, releasing a large black bird into the night. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A red clock tower stands in the middle of a town square. The tower has a conical red roof and a red pennant flying from the top. The clock is also red, with Roman numerals. The time it displays is 9:41. The tower appears to be in shadow, a yellow sun blazing in the orange sky behind it. Standing in the arched doorway of the tower is a person pulling on a rope. In the background are the shadowy silhouettes of towers and buildings. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A vast, rocky, underground cavern. Heavy craggy walls loom in from both sides. Jutting up from below is a small rocky hill, on which is precariously balanced a small boulder. Dancing on top of the boulder, waving its fists, is a childlike figure wearing a large crown. Hellish flames erupt from below, casting the entire scene in a reddish-yellow light. This state of the union is delivered by Chris Silverman.

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A single streetlamp stands next to a small path winding through a wooded park. It's at night, and in the middle of a blizzard. The sky is a dull, slate gray. The ground is mostly covered with snow. The lamp casts a cone of white light, thick with snowflakes. The surrounding trees are just blurs. The path is in the process of being covered up by snow. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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I think this is one of the very early ones where they were attempting to have him resemble an actual bear, rather than a frightful man in a Mickey Mouse outfit

A vast lake on a gray night. In the foreground is a dark shoreline jutting out into the water. Most of the shoreline has trees. At the very end is a small castle: just a turret, really, with a few small buildings at its base. There is a window on the top floor of the turret, and another window in one of the buildings. Both glow white, the light reflecting off the water. In the distance is the blurry shape of another shoreline. Above the horizon sits a hazy moon, mostly obscured by clouds, seen as a series of glowing white stripes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

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A strange, dark figure stalks along a grassy hillside under a bleak, grayish-yellow sky. The figure has long arms, thin legs, and a heavy body. It looks like it's wearing a suit and tie, but the upper and lower parts are one garment. It has a small green ID badge. Its head is covered by a hood with antennas, a zipper running down the middle of it. The eyes are round and glowing green, accompanied by a few small green LEDs. Its right hand has been replaced by a tool of some sort. In the background is the ridgeline of a mountain; a hazy white sun hangs in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A room that looks like it may have belonged to a child at one point. It appears abandoned now: almost nothing hanging on the walls, and no toys on the floor. There's a white dresser with two pink drawers, and a few books and a red clock on top of it. The drawers have a few random stickers: stars, a smiley-face. The wall is bright yellow, with long shadows suggesting it is drenched with sunlight. The dresser casts a long, greenish shadow as well. There are a few faded patches where pictures once hung. Still taped to the wall are two rough, crayon drawings of a face and a tree. Also drawn on the wall are some red sketches that do not look like they were drawn by a child: several running animals and figures with bows and arrows that look like those seen in cave paintings. The floor is a light tan color. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Hey so I just ordered mini 4 x 6" prints of the lantern painting and 8 x 10" prints of the stump painting, watch this space 👀

A clear evening. The sky is an indigo blue, and clear, except for a large black flying saucer hovering overhead. A greenish-white beam of light extends from the underside of the saucer to the ground. The saucer is hovering over a house. The door to the house is open, green light spilling onto the grass, but no one is visible. Several of the windows are also lit with greenish light. In the background is a purple blur of trees. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A tiny, rocky speck of an island somewhere in the middle of a vast blue ocean, under a vast and cloudless sky. Mounted on top of the island is a large red "location" symbol, that teardrop-shaped icon that you see on Google maps. This one looks like it's made of metal. It's at an angle, held up on a rickety framework of beams. A small white boat with a red stripe along it is docked at the island. Someone wearing an orange life jacket is on top of the island, repairing the beams. A white seabird is sitting on the top of the icon, while a few more circle above. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A deep hole at night, under a deep blue-indigo sky. The hole is viewed from the side through a cutaway perspective. The soil is gray, like concrete. The interior of the hole is rough and irregular. The end of the hole isn't visible, but whatever's down there is giving off an eerie radioactive green glow, illuminating the rocks on the side of the hole in sharp relief. Someone has placed a barbed wire fence around the hole, as well as a triangular warning sign. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A vast, green meadow under a mostly cloudless blue sky. The meadow is dotted with white and yellow flowers. In the distance are some blue mountains. Sticking up out of the grass is something unmistakably artificial, and yet unidentifiable: a bent, rusty pipe that resembles a tree trunk, with small pipes, wires, and a large hole towards the top. Extending out of the hole is what could be either a tail or a tentacle: a shiny green appendage with bioluminescent red and green dots on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A dark, dull night—the world is a slate-green color. A figure wearing a hat and coat stands over a perfectly round, cylindrical hole in the ground, illuminated only by the yellow glow of a lantern. A ladder protrudes from the hole. In the immediate background is the blurry suggestion of bushes; in the far background loom two tall cooling towers reminiscent of a nuclear power plant. The towers have small, glowing red lights on them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A strange and disturbing figure, rendered entirely in dark, dull, monochromatic blue-green against a pale tan background. The figure is lurching forward, the way a zombie would, arms hanging down. One arm is longer than the other. Its legs are oddly thin compared to its upper body. It is wearing a suit coat and tie, but the left arm of the coat is short, like a short-sleeved shirt, and the left side of the coat is higher than the right. Also pinned to the left breast of the coat is what looks like an ID card, although whatever is printed on it is not visible. The figure wears mismatched boots, one of which is open, and appears generally dysfunctional. Where its head would be is a shapeless black smudge; a void that looks like a large ink blot. At the center of the void is a small orange icon of a gas pump—the icon a car displays when it is close to running out of fuel. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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An eerie scene: a crimson sky smeared with purple clouds; a purple mountain range in the background; and a craggy mountainside in the foreground. The mountainside has several small caves that make it resemble the skull of some unknown animal. Taking off into the sky is a vast, black bird that may be living in one of the caves. It is heading towards a yellow moon that is partially obscured by clouds. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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The view from a Zoom meeting: a dark gray background with two people in the meeting. The video screens are stacked one on the other. The upper person's video screen is completely black, with a small, red crossed-out-microphone icon that indicates they are muted. The label on the screen says "God" in small, white letters. The lower video screen shows a girl with long dark hair and a dark short-sleeved shirt. She is in a small room with a few dimly visible posters on the wall. The entire scene is rendered in shades of pale blue that suggest a dark room lit only by a computer screen. Her name is displayed as "Margaret", and there is a green border around her video screen, indicating that she is speaking. Someone familiar with classic children's novels will recognize this as a reference to the book "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret", by Judy Blume, whose birthday is today. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Wishing Judy Blume a very happy birthday today.

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Two planets hang in a reddish-purple space. The planet in the foreground is purplish and has the sun on the horizon, casting a blazing yellow glow. The surface of the planet has many tiny white and green dots, arranged in clusters that indicate roads and cities. The second, farther planet is smaller, perhaps a moon. It has a greenish highlight from the sun, but does not show any signs of life. Heading past it into space, a trail of fire and smoke behind it, is a tiny rocket that has launched from the larger planet. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A small asteroid floats in the starry indigo expanse of deep space. Somewhat unusually, the asteroid has a tractor-style seat, a steering wheel, and red taillights. There's no sign of a driver. The front of the asteroid is illuminated with red light, as though catching sunlight from an unseen star. Stenciled on the side of the asteroid, as though it belongs to a fleet, is the number 4 inside a gray circle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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