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@reichart.bsky.social
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I make things, do you? I rub people the wrong way. Shame people can't be rubbed in all directions. 0 politics. Neither attacking or defending, I care about the result, not the colour of the person's tie, or what it's tied around. I mostly hate ties.

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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 5m
= The Island Check = Here is a page from a book I'm writing www.tinygnomes.com/qwiki.cgi?mo...
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Chapter - The Island Check (draft)
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Federal law (8 USC.§1357), Customs & Border (CBP) & ICE have EXPANDED authority to DETAIL & SEARCH ANYONE within 100 miles of a border Summed up: That covers 2/3rs of the U.S. population (200M) people. I live on a tiny island; I carry my passport on me now in my own country. #ICE #CBP #PASSPORT
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Would you read a Poker book from someone who always loses? What if they’re an elite End Boss/Pro? Table of 8 pros, 7 will lose each hand. Just like a room full of beginners. Variance doesn't care about your win rate. #RedQueen #Statistics
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not done as a teen, but I wanted to conclude my set with it (~1988) Was working with a wonderful Disney animator on #WhoFramedRogerRabbit (Game) - inspired to try my hand at drawing cartoon characters tl;dr - Doodled this while on the phone with a group of banally evil execs
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
50 years ago. I drew this in 1977. This is one of my favourite sketches I found. It marks my jump from drawing what I thought of as 'fake things' to drawing what I wanted to build. Note: the optical mouse was not invented (by others) until the 80s. #invention #Pioneering
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I drew this half a century ago, at 17, I finally began studying da Vinci's art. Then it hit me: he drew in ink with a simple goose feather he cut himself, or, to be more dramatic, with literally pure silver or rough, custom-made paper. I still need to try both.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You Don’t Learn, You Soak brkvw.medium.com/you-dont-lea... #consciousness
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over 50 years ago. Know where and when this was; back in the old country. This was my first attempt at logos (I could not spell, still can't), so this is more like Russlish. Probably trying for ВРУН (Vrun), Russian for 'Storyteller' Hey! What were you drawing at 13? #comic
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 50 years ago. I try to remember what inspired me as a teen to doodle these. I was always inspired by Metropolis (1927), but what is odd is that everyone else was NOT! Probably had just seen the movie Sleeper and got annoyed. #humoid #robots #anthropomorphic
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sketched this over 50 years ago as a teen. Akira Kurosawa was to Japanese Samurai cinema what John Ford was to American Westerns I never got the urge to draw cowboys; not sure why, really. The ronin is still a great starting point for a story. #ninja #art
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This one, I know exactly when I drew it, because I know what motivated me to draw it. 1974. Like archaeology, I'm trying to date-stamp my work as a child, as a teenager. Pentagram added to piss off adults. #DND #ODND #sketches #fighter #roleplaying #games #art
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What did you draw when you were 13yo? I drew this well over half a century ago. Before D&D existed. Don't know why I drew these together, and for no sane reason, I feel odd sharing such horrid work. I always knew the 'eyes' were the power of a face. #sketch #AI #13yo #art
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very rough sketch I did when I was about 13 years old (well over half a century ago) I like that AI is more modest than I was as a teen. #sketche #doodle #drawing #experiment
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dionysus checking his Tinder
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I drew these 3 images 50 years ago on the same piece of paper. They have nothing to do with one another. Artists will notice that this AI (Gemini) does a horrible job of capturing the original intent of the sketches. I tried a dozen times. #sketch #AI #quality #doodles
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My Jack Handy thoughts: I know it is strange to feel sorry for the CIA. But when you realise just how many people with Schizophrenia must contact them... wow. It's like being a pastry chef and opening a doughnut shop, only to learn you spend a lot of time with the police.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is 15 years old. It is a masterpiece; I watch it about every year. This is all news about AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmd...
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Hardly Working: Start-up Guys
YouTube video by Dropout
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sketched this in 1976. I was working on a bigger piece (a painting) for Gygax. I don't recall the original goal, but DM popping in (floating), etc. I asked someone at TSR what Gary looked like; although wrong, this is what I came up with. AI has issues with symmetry.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Almost exactly 50 years ago, I sketched this. I was not one for religious iconography, although I did study Greek and Aramaic around then. Jesus Christ Superstar was popular (released ' 71, by 80 did over $230M) #Jesus #Iconography #Composition #Sketch #Art
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I made this sketch over 50 years ago. I'll often #sketch several characters in juxtaposition (daughter, father, etc.). AI had a tough time with this: first Christopher Lloyd, then Donald Sutherland. If #AI were a human, we would need to prescribe an #SSRI.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A #sketch I #doodled as a #teen just over 50 years ago. It was amazingly difficult to get AI to colour these as they lay on the paper. So I chopped them up. No theme, just exploring #Incongruent thoughts. #art #ai #experiment #thoughts #70s
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sketched 50 years ago. I wasn't one of those angsty, depressed, angry teens. Nor did I have a great love of horror. I did get the chance to work with Rick Baker on a movie once due to my sculpting ability. As an artist, how AI fails is so annoying. #sketch #art #horror
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'This is why China, and a ton of other countries are trying to Psyop the US population to be anti-AI and hurt their best interests' And again I will also point out (as I do with #robots) - notice Russia is not even on the list? There is a 'bigger' war out there.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
50 years ago, I would doodle very quickly. A game I played (with myself) was to set a timer and see how much I could render in 10 seconds or so. I suspect this was just 30 seconds. Not enough time to detail a face. Seeing what AI does with it is insightful for me.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sketched half a century ago. What does any of it mean? I was 16. Don't recall who said it (J. Watson, perhaps) 'A scientist is someone who thinks about sex less than three times a day.' And this is how I went from artist to scientist. #avantgarde #sketch #art #fatalbert
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.tinygnomes.com/qwiki.cgi?mo...
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I especially love how this sketch I drew, perhaps at the age of 13, reveals how I failed - and how AI (Gemini) still fails. Even I don't know why there is an extra hand in here. I prompted the AI with Yellow, Pink, Brown, Black. #creepy #sketch #ai
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When I doodled like this as a young teenager, I was unaware that it was a special ability. Only later in life did I become aware that most people were denied this freedom. And later still, to learn of #aphantasia #imagination #archives #aliens #creativity #sketches
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I sketched this over half a century ago as a 14yo. Most think a drawing is just an image, but true art is an inquiry: that exact moment when curiosity demands to know the what, how, and why. #ConceptArt #SciFiArt #ArtisticProcess #DrawingFromLife #VisualThinking
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sketched this ~1 year before Star Wars came out I recall what motivated me: @DrSeuss! Aliens at the time looked horrible; Seuss' art was both gritty and elegant @GigerArt was 4y away #SciFiArt #ConceptArt #CreatureDesign #VintageArt #CharacterDesign #AlienArt #Sketchbook
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In my early teens, I became obsessed with body dysmorphia (homunculus). This sketch is about a man in his head, forced to keep his pants up. #ThrowbackThursday #ArtHistory #Homunculus #Sketchbook #1970s #OriginalArt #TeenArt #Dysmorphia #PortraitOfAThought #sketches
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I sketched this as a teen back in ~1976. Most 70s Western sci-fi #robots were clunky, dumb trash cans, though the Japanese at least brought some real style. Ran my old drawing through AI to bring it to life - not bad for a 50-year-old concept. #mecha #70sscifi #conceptart
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At 13 years of age, I sketched in my notebook. Half a century later, I’m using AI to bring these doodles to life in photorealistic detail. Never stop creating. 🎨✨ #AIArt #ConceptArt #DigitalArt #GenerativeAI #CreativeProcess #RetroFuturism #ArtTransformation #AICommunity
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Drawn over half a century ago I love seeing the edges of what this AI does with them The more creative I was, the less the AI knows how to deal with it It suffers from 'Rubber-Forehead Alien Syndrome' If it looks slightly camel - or horse-like - well... #sketches #Aliens
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A sketch I did half a century ago Now, using AI, fighting the reference material. The last image is me prompting that it's not a chimpanzee, that his hair comes to his brow, his nose is not flared, and the subtle sneer- oh, and to COPY THE ORIGINAL! #AIFails #sketches #AI
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Half a century apart My childhood doodles vs AI today (Yes, teachers would complain; yes, I made millions doing what teachers complained about, blah blah blah) #nastalgia #handdrawn #art #AI
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This photo perfectly captures what lies sound like when I'm forensically cross-examining someone's testimony
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My doodles in my early teens (1970's) I find that AI fails to be the most insightful. #AI #Art #Vintage #Doodles #Sketches
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is what one Russian can do if when they're not attacking other countries I can't prepare you for what this is. But, this is ONE GUY who hand-drew ALL OF THIS! #OCD #Animation #PavelSannikau floor796.com
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Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wrote this 10 years ago Pays off every single day brkvw.medium.com/march-to-the... #advice #life #optimise
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March to the beat of your own drum
You can’t cheat off someone else’s Do List
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
16yo Doodle Some mockup work I did for Gygax/TSR in the mid-70s. AI has a tough time matching a face to a sketch; I don't like what it did here, but it's close. #DND #CharacterSheet #Sketch #AI
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Doodle 16yo Ten years later, I would build my first video game. First real-time multiplayer game in history to support joystick and texting over a 300 BAUD modem #RetroGaming #GameDev #GameArt #VintageTech
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Doodle 14yo
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Perhaps it would be worth having an ad for a proofreading book?
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thoughts? www.tinygnomes.com/qwiki.cgi?mo...
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Chapter - Think Deeper (draft)
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brace yourselves for a WILD RIDE. [If you didn't catch the MiniFig Lego, well, we have something new for you] #sextrafficing #cult www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES82...
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Exposing the largest human trafficking ring in the world
YouTube video by Reckless Ben
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I asked my wife to make a sign to post on our gate with a pic of the dog. The former art teacher in me caused a momentary shutdown of my nervous system. The husband in me slapped it on the fridge with a pineapple magnet. My favourite art in the house.
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As a Taxonomical Ontological Epistemologist (#TOE), I spend most of my time in Epistemology. But sometimes I must return to Taxonomy. Working on locking down terms here - for all groups. Thoughts welcome... #retro #vintage #emulated #simulated #taxonomy
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Don't tend to get starstruck, but I did get the chance to meet Dolly. Let me say, every single person (even the stoics, me included) was noticeably in awe of her, which she earned 100%. Early 80s, I learned she was adorable, and he can't sing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KAS...
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Dolly Parton & Kris Kristofferson - Ping Pong
YouTube video by Mostly Brenda
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Ki @reichart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I've been asked by many friends to write their divorce agreements. One term I share with everyone: Stop the 50% talk. You're EACH 100% responsible. [ Always confirm contracts with a lawyer ] #divorce #love #coparenting
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