Experiments to see if I can come up with an interesting colour scheme for the hive nurses, that isn't the "standard" black and blue with green. To be honest, that's a pretty hard one to beat, and my current colour selections don't seem so great. The bottom right looks a little bit like a rose-mantis, which is cute. Maybe I should look at some real bugs.

Anyhow, the observant will notice I have 'Bowie' in the keywords. This has nothing to do with him, except I'm going to talk about him now. I suppose I could use my journal, but ... I had other plans for it...

I've been unexpectedly broken up about this all day. He's not my favourite artist, I don't think I have one, and he's not the first that surface when I think of songs from a while ago, although I do love Commander Tom. I guess it's a bunch of things, he reminds me of Liana, she was a changeling just like he way. He reminds me a bit of Bombay, her eyes were doing the mis-matched sizes his did, just before she died. He reminds me of a friend that doesn't speak to me anymore, who used to use a picture of him as the Goblin king to explain just how tight their character's were.

Labyrinth, thinking a lot about that as well. Watched most of it in Noben's stream. Still good, wacky puppetry holds up in that sense. That's how I remember him, how he looks in his Lazarus and Blackstar videos, that's frightening, cool, unsettling. The button eyes, like a mummy.

It all just reminds me that I'm getting old, a lot of windows have closed and passed, and of a bunch of people who have died, including my father. My cat, Zsofi, seems to be holding strong, but she's an old girl, and as destructive and annoying as she can be I'm going to miss her. His death took a piece of my childhood with him, it seems. So hard to explain those crazy times.

Ashes to ashes.
Funk to Funky.

I've been hearing that over and over in my mind today. I tried listening to his albums on youtube and it hitting too hard. He's gone, Terry Pratchett's gone, and I keep doing the things I'm doing and it doesn't make me happy, it just keeps going on.

I should have drawn a picture of Bowie, but this was easier.