Gardenstaff

Considering that this community started as the DBZ Center, I feel like this is a significant one

Welp, sure seems like a lot of stuff is looking pretty dire across the globe. Seems like we got a full on global recession going on with the corporations that own everything know no borders; making the class divide wider and wider. The issues with Israel got the Christians hard for a biblical apocalypse. The conspiracy minded might see all the soft disclosure regarding UFOs/UAPs as trying to ease people into the idea of aliens making contact officially. AI is a huge buzz word(Buzz acronym? Buzz initialism?), and there's plenty of doomsayers on the subject conjuring up images of Terminator, The Matrix, etm. We got land grabbing and concentration camps going on in Asia between Vlad and Xi, which harkens to significant and worrying historical precedents. The US is threatening to civil war again(Personally I think the red caps can all move to Texas and fuck off. Good luck with the power grid). And the worst abusers of the environment are hitting Captain Planet villain status on the levels of not giving a fuck about the Earth. Roll up, roll up, place ya bets. What's gonna end it all? WW3? Are the Four Horsemen gonna make an appearance? Something out of the blue like a solar flare or supervolcano? Personally I'm rooting for Aliens or AI to take over. I feel like they can't do any worse than the folks in charge now. I'm gonna be really disappointed if it's zombies.

I gotta get into therapy to regain my interest in things like social interaction and food. I've been playing the same video games and watching YouTube while being functionally stoned for the last two years

I claimed the trunk of an old cedar tree that came down at the gardens I used to work at. I thought it'd fun to carve this pretty pink nice smelling wood into a floral horrible bludgeoning instrument. I got a basic shape down and abandoned the project for the better part of a decade. My workplace contains a wood shop so I decided any prolonged belt sanding should happen there and got the shape finalized and from there I planned detail carving. Between bowing and poor storage I got a split and radial asymmetry. I filled the split with shellac and oriented my design to front weight the heavy end. I drilled a hole through the end of the handle because I thought it would be nice to string some charms on a braided cord through it. I sanded off the excess filler and further carved the end of the handle. I've hit a point where I should stick to hand tools on the head. Thinking of I laying some stones in the space below the curl like in my old wooden mask.

Put a stroke on it, was getting a bit of jagged edge because the symbol has been reworked a few times and the original file got corrupted, gonna have to remake it properly one of these days EDIT: Decided to go back to without outline. Aside from the remaining jaggies, I prefer how it looks on the dark BG

Harold and Kumar have had very interesting career paths.

I thought minimalism might be good in this modern age of forum postings

I'll post properly when I have a banner. Didn't expect to be getting called out by this robot.