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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

It's #inktober day 17, and the word is 'contraption'. Are we all making Rube Goldberg machines?

The word "CONTRAPTION" is manhandled by various equipment, becoming CONTRACTION and finally CONTRACT'N.

Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

For #inktober day 16, the word is 'gangly', and I went with trying a caricature of Stephen Merchant. I'm pretty new at portraits, let alone caricatures, but this was fun.

A caricature of Stephen Merchant wearing a nice suit. His head, hands and feet have been drawn larger, emphasizing a certain gawkiness.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#inktober day 15! We're halfway through! So let's say "HOORAY!" Which is the word of the day. I'm actually saying "Who-ray", because Horton hears a Who. (Did you know the Whos down in Whoville were in both Horton Hears A Who and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?! I never made that connection.)

Horton the elephant is holding a clover. With a magnifying glass, we can see that on the clover little Cindy Lou Who is shouting WHO-RAY!

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

It's #inktober day 14, and today the word is 'lady'. Here's something based on a Mucha print!

A woman in an exotic headdress is surrounded by leaf and flower motifs.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

For #inktober day 13, I was supposed to do 'flimsy'. I had no ideas. But flimsy is sort of like film-see, and well... here we are.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

For #inktober day 12, the word is 'toss'. I started out wanting to draw a discus thrower, but that felt played out. How about shot put! This is Chasey Jackson, a world champion female shot putter, who has a lot of tattooes and is generally tough and lively as […] [Original post on ohai.social]

A woman is in the midst of throwing a shot put.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

It's #inktober day 11, and the word today is 'rescue'. I was confused about how to draw the ocean, but if I was starting over I wouldn't do it this way 😄

A b/w drawing of a nighttime ocean scene. The moon shines on the water. A lighthouse in the distance. A swimming person in the foreground waves to a small boat coming towards him.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

It's #inktober day 10, the word today is 'mystical'. This is thankfully one of the last Very Grey entries I'll make, the next few days are more old-fashioned and inkylicious.

Two hands are lit by a large central candle. A male winged creature flies up from below, as if summoned.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Today's #inktober day 9, and the word is Ram. Wasn't too interested in drawing four-footers or digital memory, so I drew Ram(a) from a Javanese dance performance of the Ramayana.

A hunter in elaborate clothing is in mid-pose.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

it's #inktober day 8, and the word is 'stinky'. I like this one, but I'm realizing that doing pictures with all these flat shades of grey is kind of dull. What a shocker, eh? So there will be less of that in future days...

In a forested bog, a big slime blob is using a tiny perfume sprayer to freshen up. It's having a great time!

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#inktober day 6, and the word is “ogre”. Here’s a Dunemaul Skirmisher, live from the shattered world of Outland.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's #inktober day 5, and the word is 'smack'. This made me think of Michael Rosen's famous quip about enjoying potatoes.

Michael Rosen smiling. The caption says: SMACK! .....nice

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petes_bread_eqn_xls @petes-bread-eqn-xls.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Business idea: post-mortem tattoos So you can finally get the edgy, weird, or unacceptable tattoos that you were too cowardly to get while you were alive.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It's #inktober day 3, and the prompt today is "miniature".

A black and white drawing of a very small easel being drawn on by a large artist

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's #inktober day 2, and the word is 'relic'. This is the Arm Reliquary of Charlemagne, held in Aachen Cathedral since 1481.

A black and white drawing of a hand atop a vertical cylinder. Light shines down from above, creating a flower-shaped pool of light. A black panel in the cylinder vaguely shows the outline of arm bones.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It's #inktober! I'm aiming to do 20 of the 31 days so I can skip a few days if I can't get into the prompt. Today's word is 'apple'; this is from a detail of a painting of Atalanta by Guido Reni.

A black and white drawing of a woman's hand holding an apple.

A woman bends down to pick up an apple that a man has thrown to distract her

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is a polished draft of my version of a photo by Bob Gruen of The Clash playing in Boston in 1979. One of the best rock photos I know of, but maybe that’s cuz I love the band so much. #digitalart #theclash

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

My first try at the #PortraitChallenge is of St. Francis and his bird pals.

St. Francis, in a brown robe, surrounded by blue birds

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Mamas, don’t let your children grow up to be insufferable Design Guys.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Siiiiick burn from "A Well-willer" in 1674, slamming men who lazed around uselessly in coffee shops. archive.org/details/bim_early-engli…

Never did Men wear greater Breeches, or carry less in them of any Mettle whatsoever.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I don't know why I decided to watch Robert Redford in All Is Lost (2013), because at the time I was in a holier-than-thou I'm-tired-of-his-puss mood, possibly induced by my allergy to A River Runs Through It and The Horse Whisperer. But gosh dang it that, was a fine film. Favorite line […]

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Time for me to listen to the Song of the Sea soundtrack again. Have you seen the movie? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ionOzjravQ

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I always have a left-hand and right-hand mouse, because I have lots of wrist and elbow pain. This weekend the left mouse finally died, and the new one will get here Wednesdayish. I don't mean to mope, but WOW I MISS MY LH MOUSE. #rsi #ergonomics #boring #selfabsorbedtwaddle

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Zuck was once a happy little boy, dead-eyed, mechanically mashing blocks together, alone, on the edge of the sandbox. How did it come to this?!

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This whole Dolly Parton thing has cemented it for me: we ought to put our heads together and find a way to eliminate death.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Squeaking in a drawing for August. I fell in love with this engraving, and wanted to remake it for a birthday card I’m working on. Crazy to imagine how much work is involved in carving all those lines….! piaille.fr/@S_ONE/117061132502535850

A futuristic tower emerges from a rock pillar into an orange sky. Birds circle it, and clouds swirl about.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

A question for @andrewreed, but all y'all are welcome to answer!

IDENTIFY THE ACTOR BASED ON THEIR
3 MOST POPULAR MOVIES ON LETTERBOXD
Alien, Avengers, The Godfather Part II.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

If God had wanted it to be legal for coffee cups to be smaller than 14oz, He would have put it somewhere in the Pentateuch

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Cats I saw while out on a walk. Two were shy and ran away, the one in front bravely ignored my entreaties to snuggle.

An empty grassy residential lot, with three black cats sitting in a row.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Going by Uncle “The Quality Goes In Before the Name Goes On” Vinny from now on.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

How long, Lord? How long must we wait before some flunkie at SpaceXAI releases the transcripts of Elon Musk's conversations with Grok?

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Working on a birthday card for a friend, and these are the basically-finished drawings. (Alt text: 3 ballerinas and a ballarino!)

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Would this LJB book title surprise you, really?

An altered cover of a Lillian Jackson Braun book: The Cat who Smelt it, Dealt it

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

I worry that future generations will only learn about MLK Jr when they trace back a sample of a sample of a house music track by the Chemical Brothers.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Making a mess of a portrait of Flannery O’Connor as a young woman. More importantly, it’s one of the few pictures I’ve ever seen of her looking stern, not warm and happy. I’m glad she was happy in real life, but hooooooboooy her short stories are grim (read […] [Original post on ohai.social]

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Caught 20 seconds of men’s athletic support football on the teevee and I dearly hope the grown adults I saw weeping in the stands were Farage voters.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

A femtosecond would be too long to spend mourning the loss of certain hollow-souled congressghouls. Now and then I stop, smile and chuckle, remembering that various people are no longer pestering the living.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

The ambassador to England from Spain, writing home in 1583, baffled, about a gender-fluid situation. www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state…

I cannot help mentioning a very strange thing that has happened in this country, as I am assured by very trustworthy persons. In a place called Beaumaris, in the province of Chester, there is a hermaphrodite, who has hitherto chosen to dress as a man, and, as such, was married and had children. A few months ago, however, he changed his functions and is now pregnant. It seems contrary to nature that he should both conceive and engender as well.— London, 4th June 1583.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Taking a haitus to write haikus about coitus.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

I'm crazy about the open ocean, and all the patterns that the waves get up to when nobody's interfering with them. This is based on a photo I found online. I also had to take a big chill pill and accept that this was going to take me forever, and I had to slow […] [Original post on ohai.social]

We are far out to sea. Ocean waves take up 2/3rds of the frame, and puffy clouds can be seen poking over the top.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

This is based on a 1977 photo from @roadside of maybe ...a retirement home? ohai.social/@roadside@tech.intersec… It was obviously going to be a challenge, and I was super impatient at first. But once I calmed down, did some better […] [Original post on ohai.social]

The dusky interior of a retirement home. Light floods in via a window two rooms away, but is absorbed by the old furniture.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

I wanna go back to 2023 and invest in em-dashes.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Here’s a jolly little duck, who is for some reason averse to getting wet. Unlike everything else I draw, this was done with no references at all, which is why it has the artistic depth of a bent 1/4 teaspoon! #illustration #digitalart

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Nobody has ever kidded me about being a fan of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, and in fact I didn’t know the band existed til today!

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