Ansel Lies

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I am a growing glowing man (he/him) Illustrator & graphic designer Minnesota, USA

the achewood comic where little nephew gets himself banned from the burger king chatzone for trolling
screenshot of right-wing personality Greg Kelly's Twitter page circa December 2021. he has changed his display name to 'Greg Kelly-JOE BIDEN GAVE HIS OWN DOG AWAY' and his bio reads 'What kind of "man" gives away his own dog ? FREE SPEECH !'
cropped still from the movie annihilation (2018): close up of a tumbler glass on a tabletop with light refracting thru it into a rainbow and bright red blood dispersing into the water
screenshot of the dock on macos, featuring the calculator app and its shitty new icon, which is just a little calculator floating in the middle of a big empty gray squircle
screenshot of the calculator app on macos, featuring the glassified "history" sidebar and a "mode" button that uses a little calculator as its icon directly on top of the calculator itself
photo of a small notebook, held open by a hand with a bandaid on its thumb. inside the book, in sloppy sharpie, someone has written "SOMEONE'S WRITING DOWN YOUR MISTAKES / SOMEONE'S DOCUMENTING YOUR DOWNFALL"
screenshot of a discord emoji: a hilariously round & squishy white & brown cat face
photo of "Die Kafka Kassette," a box set of the works of Franz Kafka in the original German. the box design is stark white-on-black, with all the type set in an elegant sans serif above a big graphical kafka signature. the red watermark is from the auction site i lifted this picture from, there are not many photos of this thing online
photo of the 1997 artwork "unpainted sculpture" by Charles Ray: a four-door sedan viewed at a 3/4 angle from the front driver's side corner, where the car has suffered significant damage in a wreck. the hood is peeled upwards, revealing the engine, the bumper is hanging down, and the body panels are crumpled all over. every piece of the car is textureless and colorless, reduced to one uniform shade of pale grey.
screenshot of a post on the EveryDay Carry subreddit titled "What do you call this type of carry?" two photos show a person's legs from the knees down, wearing athletic pants & slides over socks with a handgun strapped to each ankle
screen recording of the notes app on my mac: i grab the right edge of the window and resize it right-to-left-to-right, all the toolbar elements flicker & jump around as i do so
another screenshot of apple notes app, showing the full-width dark toolbar that returns if you change any of the parameters of the window in the previous screenshot
screenshot of notes app on macos. enabling macos dark mode and disabling dark background for notes gives you this beautiful two-tone design, but only under certain circumstances which i will explain in the next post
screenshot of my muted words & tags page showing i have just muted the phrase "billamy stancilisimo"
photo of my tv playing monument valley III (3): an orange lighthouse with a geometrically impossible dock, like a rounded penrose triangle, surrounded by a calm blue sea populated by tiny rafts & tiny sailors
vector graphic of the classic 1976 bicentennial logo, a white star wrapped in a rounded red/white/blue stripe, edited to look like an initial A., encircled by a ring of the same stripe, on a sky blue background
photo of two homemade hamburgers topped w mayo, sharp cheddar, bacon, avocado, red onion, & dijon
photo of a living room loveseat abandoned on the boulevard. it has been heavily rained on and someone has spray pained -SOTA- on the back of it
screenshot of my "muted words and tags" page, showing that i have muted "billy pencils," "stencil," "stanc*l," "st*ncil," and "stancilian." i have muted many more related terms but they just won't all fit in a screenshot
twitter screenshot of a celebratory tweet from john hinckley jr, would-be assassin of president ronald reagan, on the day he was released as a free man. another poster responds and tells him to check out jersey mike's, then a third responds with a hilariously garbled 3x3 grid of early DALL-E genAI images of "john hinckley eating jersey mikes sandwiches"
photo of trixie the calico cat loafing on the cushioned seat of a dining chair. she is nodding off in real time
vertical iphone video of trixie the calico cat grooming herself & licking her paws extremely cutely, then pausing in a squinty sleepy way
screenshot of two menu items in macos tahoe: "check selection," with an icon of a checkmark in a circle, and "uncheck selection," with the same circle/check icon PLUS a tiny x in a smaller circle on top of it
screenshot of the bottom of the floating sidebar in apple music. my little round icon is uncomfortably close to the rounded corner
screenshot of apple music on macos 26 tahoe, featuring the new "liquid glass" design in dark mode, with the sidebar on the left, the current album in the middle, and the queue/lyrics panel on the right.
screenshot from softpedia showing the famous "polar clock" screensaver that anyone with taste installed on their computer in the days when screensavers and flash player still mattered. it appears as a series of partial concentric colored rings representing the month, date, day of the week, hour, minute, and second. as each ring's unit of time elapses, it closes in a clockwise direction until it's complete, when it resets counterclockwise and begins again
screenshot of the top left corner of the macos music app in full screen mode. the stoplight buttons have vanished, adding even more empty space to an already awkward void
screen recording of my iphone: i am playing back an old Voice Memo recording of myself saying "diane, the gypsy's curse is that people will always be surprised to see you, but you will never know if it's a positive or a negative surprise"
screen recording from my mac, showing how you can't position a single small widget on the right side of the column
screenshot of a discord message from me in september last year: “my prediction is that before 2030 elon will make like the great gatsby and float”
photo of a large metal sculpture on a sidewalk in front of a white brick wall. it's sort of a crude trailer, with six wheels on an axle at one end and two feet at the other, and mounted on top of it is a T-shaped structure with I-beams welded to it, pointing toward the sky angularly
screenshot of my email inbox: WIRED has sent me three emails in a row offering discounted subscriptions to The New Yorker, GQ, and Vanity Fair
screenshot of an exchange in the delorean discord server, first this message from a normie user: "I mean it's an excuse, but using the same excuse 8 times a pattern emerges... I'd love to know if Delorean have their own Devs or outsource everything to contractors." and the reply by one of the chat mods: "Jon, what seems to be the issue here brother? Days of fud and comments about the car never seeing the light of day isnt acceptable. My DMs are open if you would like to discuss"
screenshot from deloreanlabs.com, a "prize list" for a crypto investment sweepstakes including "delorean ev," "karate combat pitside passes," and "domino's free pizza for a year." on the left, a strange graphic of an open pizza box floating in a glowing, polygonal cage
screenshot from coinmarketcap documenting the dire trajectory of $DMC: a 93.96% loss in value since its launch in mid-2025, bottoming out at 0.00049 $USD to 1.0 $DMC
screenshot of the delorean "reservation system and marketplace," offering me the chance to "make an offer on [their] lowest available build slot & secure [my] place in history"
screenshot of www.delorean.com on 2/11/21, courtesy of the internet archive wayback machine. at that time they were promising to revive the classic steel delorean, so the homepage is a big splash image of one of those in a sun-drenched parking lot in front of a far-away city skyline, surrounded by tire tracks like the driver just burned rubber whipping donuts. imagine the smell
photo looking down railroad tracks toward a graffiti-covered bridge surrounded by vegetation. far away in the center of the image, framed between the pylons of the bridge, is a white high-rise tower
product photo of a hand holding a digital tablet pen and wearing an "artist's glove:" a thin black glove that leaves the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger exposed for dexterity
screenshot from the article linked in the quoted AP post: '“A lot of the entry-level roles that once existed simply do not any longer,” Little says. “Those that do exist are on leaner teams that have less ability and desire to develop and train someone. In many instances, they are prioritizing more skilled workers even if they are overqualified.”'
selfie of me, a handsome man wearing a shawl collar sweater under black overalls. i am pointing at a shiny enamel pin on my left breast.
photo of an assortment of lego bricks spread out across a large dining table, some sorted by color & type, others loose in glass mixing bowls
screenshot from the linked article with this sentence highlights: "It’s still early for Prometheus, and no specific new products or technologies have been announced."
poster for the documentary film "Waiting for Hockney," made to look like a page from a spiral notebook with scribbles & notes and scraps of paper
photo of painter david hockney joining the war on tobacco, on the side of tobacco: he is smoking a lit cigarette indoors and holding a small sign reading "DEATH awaits you even if you do not smoke"
screen recording of part of a a "tutorial" on github, the entirety of step 2 is an embedded gif of a screen recording by the author. there is no text explanation of what to do
screenshot of a post from nikita prokopov on mastodon: a side-by-side comparison of two menus from macos 26 tahoe and 27 golden gate. tahoe's menu includes tiny fiddly little icon next to all 15 menu items, golden gate has removed them for all but 4.
screenshot of myst III exile: a very beautiful luminous purple-blue-green jungle. at the center is a huge round blossom that hasn't quite bloomed and opened yet
screenshot from myst III exile: i am perilously standing on a metal rail, looking down at a curving symbol made of many small rocks hanging suspended in the air below me. it's a long way down whose idea was this
screen recording from the classic 2001 point-and-click puzzle game Myst III: Exile. we're lookin out at a beautiful rocky canyon with a bird circling in the blue sky, then turn around to see we're standing on a lush green balcony. a woman bouncing a baby is seated to the left. we go forward through an ornate pearlescent door and enter a study lined with cabinets full of many books. behind the desk is a large book on a stand - opening it reveals only a rectangle full of fiery darkness. turning around again, we see another book across the room, seated on a much more ornate pedestal under a glass dome
photo of beautiful pink peony flowers in a glass jar, sitting on the corner of a desk in front of a window
screenshot of the "Trending" panel on bluesky, listing 4 knicks/spurs-related topics: "Lisa Salters," "Trump at Finals," "Mike Bloomberg," "Bloomberg;" followed by the outlier "Repo! The Genetic Opera"
screenshot of a tweet from @RealBigBaby: "Uncs aren't aftaid of backrooms, we smoke weed there, drink water from a crinkled up plastic old bottle, eat chicken wings and watch movies on small televisions there"
screenshot of a fake "error message" that is actually just a "turn off your adblocker" message that appears once the whole page is fully loaded
closeup of page 4 showing one of the mac screenshots: the user is selecting the "cut" command from the menu bar in macdraw II. they are working on an image of some kind of electronic device attached to a leather belt with a buckle. even at this small size and low print resolution, all the text, shapes, and textures on screen are still legible.
page 12 of an apple advertisement from the nov 1988 issue of scientific american: under the headline "And now for tomorrow's news." is an image of the Knowledge Navigator, a concept product Apple promoted around this time that was never realized, and another wall of goofy 80s ad copy, ending in the goofy 80s apple slogan "the power to be your best"
pages 4 & 5 of an apple advertisement from the nov 1988 issue of scientific american: on the left, the headline "Old news." above four screenshots of the mac OS demonstrating longstanding features like cut & paste. on the right, the headline "News." above four more screenshots demonstrating new features like hyperlinks
page 1 of an apple advertisement from the nov 1988 issue of scientific american: the headline, in classic garamond, reads "Some computers are trying to make headline with features Macintosh had four years ago." above a photo of the classic macintosh with keeb and mouse