Draw me an Elephant

I never update bsky but I did update my website. It's still not great but it's better www.drawmeanelephant.com Also I maybe wrote my own system to publish the thing. Also maybe wrote the rendering engine for it. Rabbits gonna rabbithole.

📸 Ad placement crime scene: Freshworks just "uncomplicated" the entire top 80% of Ars Technica. Feels less like an ad and more like a SaaS hostage situation. #Freshworks @arstechnica.com what happened to margins? To shame? #adshaming #uxsin #bannercrime #oldwebmourning #commanderTacoWouldNever

Okay so this is a new one and I don't think they are on Bluesky but it's from Karas Kustoms and Gee I think specifically there with a purple G2 refill. They make pens out of Arizona including this one which is a Vertex. The elephant is pretty good. Running out of characters to type #drawmeanelephant

I was gonna post the link to this but they already posted so here we are. All my meta stuff is cancelled including my delightful Instagram of elephants.

Crooked Pecker out of Chagrin Falls drew this one and its super smol so I scanned in the actual elephant at jumbo res before my scanner died on me. They did a great job and are still in business. #drawmeanelephant

More fonts makes it more true.

Okay this one was from Copper State Brewing out of Green Bay Wisconsin. I get tons of elephants from Wisconsin and Iowa disproportionately but the both also have a lot of drinkers. This one looks like a nutsack LMAO. #drawmeanelephant #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointafraidtoask

This one was done by Fisher Beer works or rather @joshscheuerman.bsky.social for them. He’s done a whole bunch of murals and wild shit since. Totally worth following and seems to know his shit about making eye catching building art #drawmeanelephant

True Terpenes drew these two elephants with an order. I once met Teresa from there at a Champs trade show and she was super nice. #drawmeanelephant #trueterpenes #champstradeshow #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointafraidtoask

My success rate with getting elephant drawings is significantly better when money is involved. #drawmeanelephant #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointafraidtoask #pourover

I got a bulk order of pocket potatoes and requested an elephant. Alec Blows Glass obliged my request with this Holstein elephant. #drawmeanelephant #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointafraidtoask

I'm not sure if this thing is eating my posts or there's a moderation purgatory but this one was pretty early in my writing of breweries. Stone's Throw at one point had someone throw a stone through a window, which seemed loke someone who didn't understand irony or idioms. #drawmeanelephant

I really liked this style but the typography nerd in me reads New Helvetia as Helvetica Neue. #drawmeanelephant #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointafraidtoask

There was an area of the #pizzahut app where your phone number and special notes would carry over from order to order. It was meant to say "side door" or something to that effect but for lack of a better option I put in to draw me an elephant. #drawmeanelephant

I used the Instagram app layout to make this little collage. I asked Dogfish Head (not the in but the actual brewery) for unstuck beer labels. Then I decided to write for elephants after striking out with pizza places and got one by their greeter who loves typewriters. #drawmeanelephant

Here's a bunch of pens I got from Dogfish Inn's Andrew.

The Dogfish Head Inn drew a whole bunch and was kind of the meterstick for unrealistic expectations for my writing efforts. Quality of selection for whom you are writing to is paramount for success. #drawmeanelephant #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointscaredtoask

I wrote thousands of places for elephants and got hundreds back. Here's one from Hammer Springs out of Salt Lake City Utah. The owner seemed like a super nice guy. #drawmeanelephant #nocluehowhashtagsworkandatthispointafraidtoask