Chalk the Walk 2018

by on September 2, 2018 at 4:42 am
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Hi, I am back with another update. It is that time of year again and I tried Chalk the Walk at the local library again.

At last year’s Chalk the Walk, someone asked me about the 3D entries. The general idea is you draw something that looks superimposed on reality and 3D/real. If you search for 3D chalk art a lot of it are pits with monsters coming out or underground scenery. I decided to take a stab at it this year. So here is my picture of an alligator coming out of a sewer.

Not really all that 3D looking but I still like it. The manhole cover is really the only convincing part.

Anyway, I hope you like it. Do you have a suggestion for next year?

Sorry can’t remember the hash tag they wanted people to use.

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Pumpkinpalooza

by on October 26, 2017 at 5:26 pm
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Last blog entry I asked if I should make a Jack O Lantern for Pumkinpalooza at the viridian center  Well, I have always wanted to try carving a 3D one so I got some clay sculpting tools and ended up with this. The colors are from left over sidewalk pastels from the Chalk the Walk event.

I think it is the most terrifying Jack O Lantern I have ever made. I did hollow it out, so you can put a light inside. 

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Chalk the Walk 2017

by on October 23, 2017 at 9:18 pm
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Back in early September, I participated in Chalk the Walk at the Viridian Library with some relatives. It was my first time trying a sidewalk chalk competition. The chalks are actually pastels which made things easier. Still, my poor index finger was raw and scabbed for weeks afterward. Anyway, I thought I should share a picture.

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It was about a five foot square of Cement. Unfortunately we didn’t win anything. My sister wants to do the pumpkin carving contest. Should I?

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Tumblr and Twitter are broken and rude

by on February 1, 2017 at 12:58 am
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So, seeing as how tomorrow is hourly comic day. I actually wanted the world to be able to find my comic. So I decided I would post a copy on tumblr and twitter like all the cool kids do now a days. That should be easy right? Not so much.

I was under the assumption you could have a twitter account without handing over your phone number. Just tweet from your computer. Was I wrong?

They decided to captcha me and make me click store-fronts to prove I wasn’t a robot. Silly me I didn’t know I would have to click on several dozen and they would keep replacing images over and over and over. It yelled at me to keep clicking store-fronts when I didn’t notice the image replacement trick the first time around. Super obnoxious, I must have failed. 

They probably decided I was a bot or something (I do run uBlock and noscript). Other than the obnoxious captcha that yells at you to KEEP CLICKING STORE-FRONTS, I thought the process was going well. That is until it requested a phone number. I’m not giving you a phone number. There was no way around the phone number screen. I decided fine, just delete the account then. Nope, can’t even do that. Thou shalt not pass the phone number screen. Great now I have a broken zombie account I can’t do anything with. Thanks twitter.

Is tumblr any better. Well I guess so, sort of. At least they let me delete the yahoo account I never asked for out of spite. I thought I signed up ok. But I got an error. No real message just Error with an unhelpful link that says servers may be busy, try again. I tried several times and it made a yahoo account I didn’t want but wouldn’t let me in to tumblr. So yeah since it wouldn’t work I googled how to delete it, and deleted it. That is better than Twitter I guess.

So that is my tale of bad customer service from major websites. I am annoyed, and probably won’t be back.

Just think how annoyed you would be if you walked into a grocery store and they demanded you do puzzles to prove you aren’t a robot. I guess they do try to demand you phone number now a days, but I shop elsewhere as much as possible instead.

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