The Great Experiment

Day 20, part 1

Saturday, July 22, 2000: Today I return to Celebration to sign a lease on an apartment there.

But first, some ascii art. When I went out for dinner with Gen, Scott, Jordan, and Wendy t'other night, Jordan drew a picture for me! Based on a little fox picture I use online, he added ears and a balloon, and also added some Disney landmarks to it. It's wonderful!

Really clever idea and way cool execution!

So this morning, while I was putting off getting a start on the day, I tried my own hand at some art. I'm really bad with pencil and paper, but I'm a little better on a computer screen, because it's much easier to erase my mistakes.

Here's a little fox I created a few years ago; this is the one I jotted down on a napkin the other night (not entirely correctly) when Jordan asked what my fox character looks like.

 ____    |\/|
 \  /\   / ..__.
  \/  \__\   _/
   \__   __  \_
      \____\___\

So then, based on Jordan's picture, I tried adding a mouse ears hat to it:

	 ()_()
 ____    /___\
 \  /\   / ..__.
  \/  \__\   _/
   \__   __  \_
      \____\___\

And then a Mickey Mouse balloon:

             ()_()
              (_)
	 ()_() |
 ____    /___\ |
 \  /\   / ..__.
  \/  \__\   _/|
   \__   __  \_|
      \____\___\

Unfortunately, they get in the way when he helifoxes around:

     ________  ________
 \ \ \_|_____\/_____|_/ / /                          __   \ | /
             /\                  ()_()             _(  )_- ( ) -
            /  \|\/|              (_)             (      )/_|_\
           |\|  / ..__.            |            ___(          )___
           |/|\-\____/            /            (__________________)
             |/|/                /

Here's a castle and a logo I did for the Future Disney Cabinet, an online fan group, a few years ago. The castle isn't entirely my work (I reworked it heavily from another castle I found online), but the logo is.

      %%%%%%%              %%%%%%                             |>>>
    %%%%%%%%%%%          %%%%%%%%%%%                          |
  %%%%                 %%%%%%     %%%%                       /^\
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%       %%%%%                            ^    //.\\
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%        %%%%                            /^\  //.  \\
  %%%%%                %%%%      %%%%%               //.\\//_____\\
   %%%%%      %%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%      |>>>     //.  \\ ||: |  |>>>
      %%%       %%%%%%%%   %%%%%%%      _  |  _    //. ^  \\||: |  |  _
                     %%%%              |;|_|_|;|  //. /^\  \\|:|;|_|_|;|
           %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%             \\.     / //. //.\\  \\:\\.     /
          %%%        %%%%%              \\.   / //. //.  \\  \\ \\.   /
          %%%%      %%%%%                ||: | /_. /_.  _ \\_ \\_||: |
           %%%%%%%%%%%%%                 ||: |||;|_|;|_|;|_|;|_|;||: |
              %%%%%%%                    ||: ||:     _____       ||: |
                                         ||: ||()_()//...\\()_() ||: |
                                         ||: ||:(_) ||...|| (_)  ||: |
                                         ||: ||:___ ||...|| ____ ||: |

This is why I've been photographing a lot of 'F. D. C.' signs out here!

Oh, and I finally got an explanation of what 'F. D. C.' on a pipe stands for! Arnold, one of my friends online, explained to me that it means 'Fire Department Connection.' If there's a fire inside a building, the firemen hook up a truck to the FDC pipe outside a building, then they can carry a hose inside and connect it to the other end of the FDC pipe inside a stairwell, so that they don't have to run a hose from the fire truck all the way up the stairs. Pretty clever!

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Brian Kendig
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