A. Marmot 🌱

@aminus

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A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· 27d

buildings and a park #pixelart #ドット絵

isometric pixel art in light yellow-tan, a vibrant green, blue and dark blue colors. A square platform floats in space, tapered beneath with three square holes on each side of the tapering edge, and floating arrows to the left and right aligned above with the surface edge of the platform. On top of the platform are eight tall buildings of varying shapes and heights in a square three-by-three grid, and one walled park in one of the nine spaces (lower middle right), that has two entrances. Streaks of light reflect off the windows on the green-color face of the buildings. The buildings have different styles of windows, design elements and caps, some flat, one with a rising edge and one pointed. Street lines are visible on the dark asphalt between the buildings

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 26

finally found where Dune is made

raised cylindrical tower on wooden platform in arid central California along the 5 freeway that reads "The Dune Company / Chualar, CA." In the distance are low hills, in the foreground are various trucks stirring up dust, tractors, storage and a warehouse

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 21

recent little pixel experiment🕔

pixel art with a large size and a smaller version in the corner: a round wall clock with red hands and blue rim that reads about 5:03, against a medium dark blue background that dithers to lighter teal colors just surrounding the clock. The central art takes about 1/9 the canvas and the same art is previewed at 1/4 the size in the lower right corner of the canvas.

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 20

all three stars together

pixel art, a side-by-side comparison of the same star at tiny resolution on the left, double resolution in the middle, and four times the resolution on the right; the largest star has other tiny stars around it. Gold colors on a dark red-brown background, each star has light flares and is encircled with a ring of light (largest star has two rings)

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 20

+ x4

pixel art in gold colors on a dark red-brown background, centered on a single large star with light flaring out in a plus shape and at diagonals to the larger flares, with ringed circles of light around it. Ten other tiny stars are scattered across the background

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 19

what the fuck is all this?? Who wants this?

a screenshot of a whole bunch of bullshit YouTube just added to its search bar. Nonsense-ass AI prompts like "how to organize a successful art exhibition" and "epic strategy game big brain plays"

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 18

pixel logo and one of the animation details from a commission! You can see the full animation on @helenor.bsky.social and @daiquiriheiress.bsky.social's Born Digital podcast (link in reply!)

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 14

I have so much I want to say about my dad, and to honor his memory, but now is not the time, and I don't have words right now. But I want to share some of his he wrote for me

WHILE SOARING WITHOUT SANCTION—FEELING FREE

On ﬂights like this you like to listen to
Corelli and Scarlatti, lots of Bach,
In tune with lakes and rivers, mountains that
Are beckoning like friends you’ve known for years.
There’s so much you will grow—dreaming aright
After you land and camp, your guy lines taut.
Your poet’s headband will make certain sweat
Not blind you to the truths of being and time.
If we obeyed all that the wilderness
Suggests, no dam would block anadromous
Species in their migration, and the spawn
Of wisdom would swiftly enlighten us.

For my son, Alex, on Father’s Day
VI.16.2024

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Jun 7

me right now (and pretty much anytime I check out clearsky)

blonde kid in a red shirt with '9" on it, shrugging in confusion, a bluesky behind him. Screenshot from the reworked GI Joe PSAs, "just wanna ride my motorcycle" clip

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· May 11

Screenshot of SimCity 2000 with a B&W photo of a bearded man with glasses. His text has been altered to say "DAMN IT, MAYOR MARMOT! YOU CAN'T SPEND THE ENTIRE CITY BUDGET ON VIDEO GAMES!"

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· May 3

afternoon nap

laying on my side with my cat, a tortoiseshell kitto, who is curled up by me on her side with paw in front of face. All that's visible of me is my shirt and part of my arm

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· May 1

I've been trying to keep up a goal of posting a new pixel piece each month. I'm going to miss that this month, but I have been busy! There are a couple exciting projects in the works

simple pixel art with underlined teal pixel text that reads PIXELS and a darker blue shadow beneath it, against a dark purple-blue background

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Apr 26

oh man

Porco Rosso anime soundtrack on vinyl, propped up in front of other records in a record store

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Apr 14

apropos, I am bringing back my Amazon logo redesign

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Apr 4

happy birthday @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social !!

simple pixel art birthday card, blue on light blue-green, with a very large, sphere-shaped, happy-looking round cat wearing a collar, eyes wide open and ears up, tail curled up to the side. Text reads "happy bday!" And party streamers are falling to either side

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Mar 18

What do you think about it, Fancy Catte?

pixel art with simple pixel graphics with dark brown and tan colors, details in the upper three quarters of the image, a simple band of dark below. A round black cat with tiny front legs folded in front, a tail and ears, a monocle over one eye with chain trailing to the side, plus quizzical eyebrows and eyes half-closed, sits very largely on a boxy leather studio chair, the cushion sagging under his weight some. A cup of some coffee or tea is steaming on the chair arm to his left. To his right is a globe on a stand. In the background is a bookshelf filled with books of all sizes, some stacked haphazardly, most upright. There are also various objects including a small sphere and a fan decoration, and a potted plant. Pixel text in tan beneath on the dark color band, reads caption "INDUBITABLY."

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Mar 12

Bird for my father.

pixel art of a male Townsend's warbler perched on a small branch and looking up, its legs and feet partially obscured by two oak leaves protruding forward and to the right. The warbler has bright yellow colorings on its face and breast with a black eye-ear patch and smaller yellow band just beneath the eye within that patch, and stripes of black and gray following just underneath the wing, giving way to white, gray and brown colors below. The wing feathers are dark with light edges and two wing bars. A subtle beam of light crosses behind the bird from the upper right to the lower left, against a light reddish-tan background

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Mar 6

pixel art of a teal blue sphere with a small cartoonish angry frowning face. Text below in pixel letters reads "4. MAKE SPHERE ANGERY"

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Mar 3

when it's another Blood Moon

screenshot from Castlevania Symphony of the Night showing Richter talking to Dracula in the throne room, Dracula leaning on elbow on throne, Richter saying in the caption "Ahh, so it's another Blood Moon"

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Mar 1

how to draw a pixel sphere in just four steps #pixelart #ドット絵

pixel art in four panels depicting how to draw a sphere. Step 1 reads "draw a circle" and has a basic line circle. Step 2 reads "add basic shading" and has four shades of flat color including a couple teal highlights toward the upper left and darker blue-green shadow colors. Step 3 reads "add highlights and shadows. Blend colors" and the teal-blue sphere introduces two more highlight colors and two more shadow colors, which are now blended with excessive dithering. There is also slight reflected light on the lower right edge. Step 4 reads "make sphere angery" and the sphere now has a cartoonish frowning angry face in the highlight area. On the lower right of the image is a bar showing the eight colors in the palette.

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus· Feb 28

in 2020 people were sharing the B&W "No War on Iran" image on the right, but twitter began suppressing it by auto-locking any account that posted it. So I made this glitched version to share and it was enough to avoid image recognition