Kirk Israel's PixelTime tribute inspired me to finally post my own PixelTime works. Here's another gallery of works from PixelTime (really nice!).

You can still see bits and pieces of PixelTime via the WayBack Machine: November 11, 1999. Alas, the galleries were not recorded.

I made each of the little square pictures below entirely by hand, dot-by-dot, using the PixelTime paint program. That was one of the nice things about this contest; everybody had the same tool to work with. The big one at the top shows approximately how they looked in the paint program. The most recent one is at the top (note the date!).

Each PixelTime contest focused on a single concept. The PixelMaster's cronies would seed the contest with a few clever drawings to get things started, and then we'd all try to out-do one-another representing the contest theme in a tiny square of pixels.

First row:

Technology contest: I suppose this could look like a critique of the national budget, but my intent was to comment on our vulnerability to individuals with machines of death. I think this was influenced by the Columbine shootings.

Halloween contest: I hope people understood this one. It's meant to be a dental X-Ray negative with a kernel of "candy corn" laid out over it, as if to say, "might as well just replace this molar now."

Travel contest: The mouse pointer hovering over an Egyptian landscape expressed my revelry in the still-new connectivity of all places.

Y2K contest: This demented looking fundamentalist is burning in his own little pixel Hell for all the damage he did on Earth. Fundamentalism in any religion makes the claim, "We are absolutely right, therefore you are absolutely wrong," and has caused more bloodshed and suffering than any god should allow.

Second row:

Fashion contest: I submitted Pie a La Mode to the fashion contest. In French, "á la mode" means "in the fashion," you see. Witty, no?

The Sea contest: I got my second honorable mention prize for this one, showing a small figure fishing from an oil platform. Oh the irony! That's supposed to be a distant boat below him, not a fish. I probably should have left it out to avoid confusion.

TV contest: This drawing wasn't terribly successful, but it depicts two townhouses, inches apart, in which two televisions glare, drawing people indoors and leaving the streets below littered and barren of life.

Doodle: This one depicts three early computer works of mine, which probably only one other person would understand.

Third row:

TV contest: The text above the happy couple reads, "Oh, Bob! It was just like on TV!" Just a comment on where our social norms come from nowadays.

TV contest: These two screenwriters are unwittingly recycling each other's material as they spiral down into self-referential gibberish.

Doodle: Just amusing myself with a simple stereogram.

Food contest: It's food for a Ford, but poison for a person. Note the barren asphalt in the background.

Last row (done first!):

Food contest: My first Honorable mention prize! See if you can find the following junk food rubbish: cardboard from prefab cupcakes, Pixie Stix tube, Goldenberg's Chew wrapper, Babe Ruth wrapper, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups wrapper, Diet Pepsi can, Planter's Peanuts bag, Diet Coke can, Butterfinger wrapper, M&Ms bag, and some other stuff that even I can't recognize.

Outer Space contest: The first astronaut on Mars! No matter how cynical I get, I can't help feeling inspired by the hope of space travel.

Doodle: Just playing with composition. This depicts the legs of someone about to fall backwards onto a lawn of highly regular grass.

Outer Space contest: My first PixelTime piece! There's Earth, the Moon, and Mars, a natural progression for exploration, isn't it? Note my initials in ASCII binary in the lower righthand corner.