Jon Sung

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A room made of Legos with entirely too many doors and windows seemingly placed randomly throughout its walls, with a pile of half-finished brick constructs in the middle, eerily reminiscent of the environment encountered in a certain movie
Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek Discovery titled KNOWN QUANTITIES OF MERCY
Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek Discovery titled A DISPLAY OF UNWARRANTED OPTIMISM
Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek DS9 titled EVEN WARRIORS MUST PRAY
A photo of a cartoon mural depicting a cross-section of an apple with a smile; turned on its side, you would still be able to interpret it as a smile because of how the eyes have been done -- look just trust me on this one
A plain yellow JPG that features, in place of the usual CYBERPUNK 2077 logotype, the words SCREAM AT OWN ASS in the same font, except the kerning is somewhat unfortunate, so it's more like SCR EAM (AT OWN ASS)
(Screenshot of a text conversation; I'm eliding the irrelevant bits because I can) Friend: I'm just here for THE HAUNTED DOG WHAT THE HELL Me: [an emoji kitchen mashup of the pumpkin + dog emoji, which results in a dog with a pumpkin for a head] Friend: Perfect sticker Does ghost and dog do anything Me: It turns into Forrest Whitaker
Two ceramic sculptures of trilobites, glazed gloss black with a pair of racing stripes in red + orange and yellow + orange running down their sides; the stripes are admittedly not as bold as they should be, which just means I need to use more underglaze next time
A headline to an article somehow written in 2026 that reads "The theory that explains Trump's foreign policy" as if we fucking needed an explainer for it at this godforsaken low point in American history beyond "He's a vicious fucking asshole with a decaying brain and the attention span of a housefly that's been struck by lightning"
The #1 movie in 1989 was the first Michael Keaton BATMAN, notoriously a story about a crimefighting billionaire whose parents are cruelly gunned down before his very eyes, which is perhaps a worrisome omen for me personally since I'm a dad now
There's a whole subgenre of illustrations from medieval manuscripts that feature heavily-armed bunnies just going buckwild, I think because then (as now) the concept of a usually harmless animal with a melee weapon is hilarious. I thought it was time to start making some, and it turns out they're even better in 3D form; this one is wielding a war hammer and a circular purple shield
Do we think Pinhead might know the level of emotional anguish required to cause Elon to consider suicide and what might be needed to inflict it, or is just physical pain more this guy's deal? I never saw Hellraiser
A pop-up over a TechCrunch article exhorting the user to sign up for the TechCrunch newsletter, which is insulting to me personally because I SIGNED UP FOR THE FUCKING NEWSLETTER AND THAT'S HOW I GOT TO THIS ARTICLE IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU DIPSHITS
An amalgamation of the grimacing emoji and the bicycle emoji where the wheels of a bike have been replaced by two faces making the sort of expression you'd adopt upon seeing something incredibly awkward and/or terrible
Medieval manuscripts sometimes feature drawings of bunnies armed with melee weapons out to start some shit; here we have a fully-fired ceramic sculpture of just such a bunny, ready to stand guard in your home or garden
A picture of a doodle dog of some variety (labradoodle, goldendoodle, otherdoodle) roughly the color of dark caramel, exactly the same as the six (6) separate but identical dogs that passed by my wife and me while at dinner outside in the Hayes Valley, a San Francisco district reputed to have been heavily infested with crypto and AI developers in hacker-house hives over the past few years
A very good drawing of the creature T. Ocellus from Alien: Earth, who looks like a fucked-up land octopus with an eyeball where the whole head should be; additionally, it's wearing a top hat, because why not
A small ceramic statue made by a hobbyist sculptor (me) in the shape of Kleya Marki from Andor holding a gun. The relative crudeness of the likeness might make it less of a statue and more of a totem or *invocation* even, but hopefully an observer would be able to put it together once they'd been told who it's based on; the hair and the outfit are distinctive and reasonably faithfully rendered. It is, at the very least, a more interesting object to put in a garden than your standard lawn gnome or what have you
Behold the sparkle pumpkin, one of the best creations of the Android Emoji Kitchen (at least in the eyes of a person who uses the pumpkin emoji almost constantly and has taken great delight in discovering the many possible combinations that result from its use), a combination I used to be able to invoke with 🎃 + ✨ and now have to brute-force search in order to uncover. What's happening? What enemies has the sparkle pumpkin made? We may never know.
A picture of my purchase total at a grocery store self-checkout, which just happens to be $14.88, the Racism Number
Screenshot of a WaPo headline that reads "4 explanations for Trump's shocking Gaza proposal" as if fucking anyone in the entire world didn't already know the actual explanation, which is that Trump is a stupid piece of shit who has no idea what the fuck he's talking about at any given moment, which means either the WaPo editorial staff is at this point in 2025 so fucking stupid that they don't know we know this OR they're deliberately wasting the time of both their writers and readers and I don't fucking know which is worse
A fairly basic single-seater Lego space skiff that's been augmented by my 7-year-old in ways including but not limited to: glowing laser projection spines, a handheld weapon embellished to be literally twice the size of the intrepid pilot, and not one but TWO literal sharks affixed to each of the skiff's wings where stabilizers might go on a more pedestrian craft
A photo of some Persian cucumbers, which come in a diffidently-perforated plastic bag that seems to either encourage or at the very least do nothing to inhibit the growth of the mold that invariably takes out the last 2 or 3 before anyone in my house can get to them
A photo collage illustrating the kind of mandu I'm after: principal differences are that the kind I want are deep-fried, not pan-fried, and are clearly handmade instead of looking like something I would get from a grocery store freezer section -- NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THOSE, it's just not what I picture when I think about The Good Mandu, okay
Lt Barclay sits in the holodeck amid an array of novel and highly advanced devices he's built himself to tie his brain directly into the Enterprise computer because why not
A tiny brown salamander with yellow spots, Aneides lugubris by name, simultaneously looking both alert and guilty as hell after being uncovered by me rolling the compost bin away from the side of the house. Not pictured: a somewhat larger compatriot of the same genus + species who could not be fit into the frame
A can of Sprite Zero Sugar Winter Spiced Cranberry, a limited edition holiday soda that came out in 2023 and was so good I immediately knew I had to save half the case to savor for the rest of the following year, nobody look at me!!!!!
A circle of text surrounding a vintage-looking illustration of a rabbit in a dapper olde-tymey jacket of some sort; under one arm he clutches what appears to be a medieval war pick, a truly vicious-looking melee weapon; the text surrounding the rabbit reads "Violence for violence is the rule of beasts"
Close up of a fortune from a fortune cookie that somewhat ominously reads EVERYTHING WILL NOW COME YOUR WAY
An ad for some clearly AI-generated stuff ostensibly for sale on Temu that includes a dress(?) with an all-over print of just the bottom 80% of a cat, a disturbing figurine of a baby chick making a kissy face, and oh! the face of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson seemingly having been cut off the front of his skull and spread flat onto a throw pillow to gurn horrifyingly at whoever's unfortunate enough to wander into a room with this thing on the couch
Behold once again a doorway illuminated by the sun and yet haunted by the literal shadow of a dancing skeleton decoration falling across it so perfectly it seems to have been somehow orchestrated deliberately (it wasn't), augmented by the shadow of a big fake spiderweb crisscrossing it as if to suggest the skeleton is either hanging the spiderweb or has somehow been caught in it -- interpretation is left to the viewer
My two small kids posing triumphantly in front of the newest addition to the front porch Halloween decorations, a "spooky" fake spiderweb + papercraft spider from Target
Behold the front door of a seemingly innocuous house, across which -- almost as if planned by some unspeakably sinister force -- falls the almost inconceivably perfectly-placed shadow of a dancing skeleton decoration cavorting with the grim and gleeful abandon characteristic of the restless undead
A picture of my front porch, which has been adorned with two plastic skeletons: one hot pink, one orange. Both have been cleverly suspended from above with fishing line, appearing to have frozen in the middle of a jolly dance upon the low porch wall; the orange one in particular seems to be mid-dab.
Door signage for a wine bar named Banter featuring a drawing of a classical grey alien from the weed posters imbibing a glass of wine and flashing the peace sign with its free hand
The cast of Taskmaster NZ season 5
A sheet of dinosaur-themed temp tattoos that inexplicably includes a pair of sparkly anime eyes that seem like they would be utterly terrifying to add to anyone's body in any location
Ceramic sculpture of an unclassifiable demon-like figure with a pointed white beak-like mask, red eyes, and a black cloak with a high pointy collar and red sleeve cuffs
Ceramic sculpture of a mushroom covered in bright spots of color of varying sizes
Ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade painted in wild multicolored spots
The cover of the next issue of The New Yorker, featuring a courtroom-style drawing of Trump getting put in handcuffs with just the tiniest hands imaginable
Two-year-old Metron sits on his Mobius Chair cruising the infinite void of interstellar space
A two-year-old boy sits in a rocking playground chair, facing the camera
Close-up of a bumper sticker on a blue car that says HONK IF YOU LOVE SNOOPY OR ARE INSANE
A ceramic sculpture of the Star Trek: TNG villain Armus wearing a colorful party hat
Ceramic sculptures of Ediacaran life forms Charnia and Tribrachidium in black, blue, and earth tones
WHAT I SAY: I'm fine WHAT I MEAN: In the Cars universe there are cars and planes. Does that mean there are also submarines? The existence of Sarge, a military Jeep and WWII veteran, seemingly necessitates the existence of contemporaneous German U-boats. But if the Cars universe had a WWII, did it also have a Cold War? Are there sentient nuclear missile subs prowling the depths of the ocean, alone in the cold and the dark, their personalities warping under relentless pressure and endless solitude? Furthermore,
A drawing of a dragon done by my 5 year old son, labeled JRAGIN
Fake promo image for a Netflix movie called MY OCTOPUS TEACHER that features Professor Inkling (the octopus from Octonauts) and Captain Barnacles (the Octonauts' leader)