High Art
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Back in the old days (1996) when I could barely do a “File->Save As” and get a file successfully saved to a disk I created two little pieces of art with Microsoft Paint on a Windows 95 machine. I ran across those today and thought I’d throw them out here. One is an ocean scene and the other is my rendition of Mars (probably as seen from Phobos). I think they’re kinda humorous (in their simplicity) and, probably more importantly, remind me of a very different time in my life.
I actually drew these on my best friend Dave’s computer when we lived together on Eastwood Avenue in South Charleston, West Virginia. Dave worked at AT&T and was pretty highly paid by West Virginia standards. I had a very low paying job at McJunkin Corporation but was going to school in the evenings. Dave, making fat cash, was able to afford a Pentium I 133 HP computer so I was mooching from him since I couldn’t afford one. This was in the days when AOL was charging a small fortune for Internet access in 15 hour per month increments. Unlimited always-on broadband was unthinkable. I’d just starting dating Traci the previous summer and I had just quit my band. In many ways it was the start of a new chapter in my life. Little did I know then that four years later I’d be moving to St. Louis and would be working as a programmer! Now, twelve years later, I’m still in IT, I’m married to Traci, and I have two little boys. It’s nostalgic and amusing to look back on stuff like this, given current circumstances.
So here they are, my computer art, and little bit of my history to go along with it.
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