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Dave Pomes
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Politics • Photographs | Music. Politics. Pokémon. Film. Politics. Some Gundam. Books. History, Poli/Behavioral Sci, I do this for a living. Retail scars. Pō`mêz. Don't boo me I'm probably right.
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Closing out today's #blueskyartshow #openhouse with a moving #momentofzen. Got some Chicago Bears highlights to catch up on..!

#videography #Cruising101 #Alaska #babyitscoldoutside #gopro

Music by Liborio Conti, check out his youtube channel 👍
December 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Starting to wind down a very thorough #blueskyartshow #openhouse with something a little more traditional..

#photography #photooftheday #photochallenge #onwalkabout #lightshow
Sunset and the workday goes on. Towards the end of a 13hr work trip for me, his day was probably longer. Probably not the smartest idea, standing next to a signpost in a lightning storm 🤔😬 Pondering the end of the world. Warping into downtown #gosulu
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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This entry into the #blueskyartshow #openhouse I suppose is tricky for some but is evolutionary for me- art as an intersection between design, memes & politics. Only a small fraction of a series in progress.

I warn folks that I post politics, art can absolutely be political. Some more than others ✊
Dueling portaits/quotes from Abraham Lincoln & Donald Trump, the former honoring military servicemen & the latter insulting them. Dueling portaits/quotes from Grover Cleveland & Donald Trump, the former speaking to pols being in service of the people, the latter boasting of absolute authority. Dueling portaits/quotes from William Taft & Donald Trump, the former denouncing antisemitism as poisonous & the latter embracing neo-Nazi protesters. Dueling portaits/quotes from Ronald Reagan & Donald Trump, the former speaking against authoritarian excess & the latter promising revenge for slights.
December 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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#blueskyartshow #openhouse a hill I'll gladly defend is that memes are art too! Some more than others sure, but all still following in the footsteps of Duchamp's toilet & Warhol's soup cans. Plus bluesky's meme game is kinda 💩 and needs all the help it can get. #modernart
A sendup of the Fast & Furious spinoff 'Hobbes & Shaw', with the cartoon stuffed tiger Hobbes standing in for The Rock's muscled meathead. A movie poster for 'Dune' remade for 'Dude Where's My Car', with Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott dropped over portraits from the sci-fi film's cast. Underneath a lone figure is crossing the desert, carrying a steering wheel. An image of #MarkHamill holding up a "life-size" Grogu from 'The Mandalorian', captioned with an old Weird Al lyric- "the long-term contract I had to sign says I'll be making these movies til the end of time with my Yoda." Scene from a British funeral, with a casket held aloft by four men with seemingly distinctive personalities conveyed by their expressions. One resolute, one peaceful, one introspective, and one sensitive. The caption jokingly ties each to one of the Beatles.
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Interrupting our regularly scheduled artshow posts with WOO GO BEARS!

It's about damn time, guys. Well done! More please 👍
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Next up for the #blueskyartshow #openhouse, some #woodworking. My dad refused to let me be lazy during summer breaks so I built a couple bookcases back in high school. Like riding a bike, turns out. A comment box, a speaker box, and a bird box. Notes in the alts..
During my theater run I built a few employee comment boxes, one for Burbank & one for Santa Anita. Relief carving of the popcorn & reel, lockbox in the middle with a carved logo, blank card slot underneath. Dunno if they're still up. Work project, but just for fun. I salvaged the sub I'd previously installed in a POS Kia & decided one day to put it to use and built an enclosure. Matched it to a pair of speakers & my white PC build, powered with a small amp mounted in the recess. Clean build, looks entirely retail next to my rig. Works like a charm 👍 A birdhouse built for two, mounted as we speak in the gf's backyard. Got in in my head that my #dremel could be used for carving so after a little practice (top left) I jumped into a tree of life relief (top right) for the side wall. Overall design based loosely on her actual house.
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Saved the receipts, #visualbasic code for the calculator and #MITscratch workspaces for the cats.

I took an early programming class at Woodbury years before & kinda tanked it (d'oh). Weird that when I went back for PoliSci I was all about coding for art's sake 🤔 4/4
Some simple Visual Basic code attached to my binary calculator. Most of the executable functions were actually right there on the page hidden behind the Tandy-esque shading, but there was a bit going on under the hood. My first look at MIT's Scratch portal, using pre-defined code snippets in whatever arrangement you needed to complete whatever project you had in mind. Pretty easy to grasp so I wanted to see just what I could pull off. My second look at MIT's Scratch, aiming intentionally towards some complexity out of pure spite at the prof thinking I'd scammed the calculator. Grr.
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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(still #blueskyartshow #openhouse) After the circles I got my credit for the calculator & an apology from the prof, but the suspicion honestly kinda pissed me off. When the follow-up in Scratch called for more complex shapes, I kinda went to town #meowmix 😤😂 🧵 3/4
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I didn't know, so went on ahead with the next assignment, a programming bit in MIT's Scratch. We were just supposed to code the drawing of circles in the corners. So again, I had fun with it. The cats & music, all me. First time with Scratch. Accidentally convinced the prof I wasn't a cheat. 🧵 2/4
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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#blueskyartshow #openhouse When I went back to school I stuck with classes I knew would be easy, one was a computer science gig with an early assignment to build a binary calculator in Excel. I had some fun with it and dressed it up like an old Tandy. Prof thought I'd cheated. #vh1storytellers 🧵 1/4
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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#blueskyartshow #openhouse my daughter was a Star Wars fan, for her 7th birthday I baked her an R2D2 cake. The next year I was a little short on time so Maul got his feet wet. #mixedmedia #thecakesyourelookingfor #robotchicken
This took so much longer than I was expecting, and shaping the frosting was much more of hassle than it seems like it should be. The open door was a white chocolate Hershey bar. There were Star Wars cakes for sale, sure. But nothing quite like what I had in mind. Yeah you better run, Belle. After the teapot gets it, you're next!
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Next up is my gouache phase for the #blueskyartshow #openhouse. All were sourced from ad copy, one was an assignment the rest were just for fun. #painting #thegap #detailsmagazine #armaniexchange #woodburyuniversity
Sammy Davis Jr for The Gap. Gouache on board, I think 14" tall. Robert Downey Jr channeling Charlie Chaplin for Details magazine. This was a challenge, my first pass looked flat and dull. Took a leap and added in some darker shades that weren't in the original just to bring it off the board a bit. This was the actual assignment submission, some pensive rando shilling for Armani. 11x14 on board. This was the last of the for-fun paintings. Problem was I was low on paint after the others, and broke AF. Nowhere near enough black for the big jacket. So I did a negative image and honestly I still like it. The textures/shapes of the face and hair don't look like anything at all but taken together it really works. Also 11x14 on board.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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For today's #blueskyartshow #openhouse I'm pulling bunches from the whole portfolio. Starting with some simple pen on paper, my earliest weapon of choice was a bic medium point. Notes in the alts... #drawing #anime #macross #valkyrie #amcmedia6
Used to manage the AMC 6-plex in Burbank, during busy spells I'd mind the door so the usher could help concession. At one point to pass time I printed a few test tickets and started drawing out a 360 (closer to 350,there's a gap 😭) of the view from the ticket podium. Dunno the original source, but this was buffed-up version of a samurai robot I'd seen somewhere. The color accents were originally pencil, I went back in and shaded them digitally a few years later. I remember working on this in history class one day, a modified VF defending the SDF1's command tower. All ballpoint, 8.5x11 After computers became a thing I went back and revisited the previous ballpoint. Cel-shaded the VF, left the SDF in ballpoint, and dropped a photo of Saturn into the background. I still like the layered effect.
December 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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As respectfully as one can unsolicitedly call a complete stranger bland and forgettable?

Yeah I don't think you can.
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Finally watched this one. Kinda torn.

It was made well. Good characters all around, apes carried the load just fine.

But it was absolutely the wrong story? 2nd half went waay off what I expected, and I liked my idea more. Wound up disappointed 😐 #planetoftheapes #filmsky #apestogetherstrong
A stylized orange-toned poster for 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' with the lead ape silhouetted on horseback and an eagle perched on his wrist. In the background is the overgrown wreckage of a human city and the circular window emblem from the previous trilogy.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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This guy's local to Spain/Portugal. I joined the remote queue Tues eve & the waitlist was ~7k. My turn didn't come up until Sat night, list was +27k by then!
Have to imagine Iberian players are tired by now of servicing the whole globe & thank you AnnNormal1508! #pokemongo #pokegenie #tauros #olé
A localized variant of a PokemonGo pokie that is in popular demand worldwide. This puts a huge labor burden on players who live there as they (for free!) work with different apps to help non-local players scratch it off their own lists.
December 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"Pockets should be bigger."
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#Virtuosity had a few things going for it, though not the laughable 90's cgi. Peter Gabriel's 'Party Man' playing over the credits had me in the room after every show. On slow days I'd tell the usher to skip that house so I could dance around in peace (didn't mind the cleaning) #filmsky #musicsky
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Yeah, I saw Google's denial, and I don't believe it for a second. What else were they going to say?

Trusting the AI companies that exist only and entirely due to industrial-scale theft is simply foolish.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Don't really have a whole bunch of #small to work with for today's #blueskyartshow, had to go all the way back to a previous life. Some display Starship Enterprises for some happy ants, and a few Blair Witch paperclips.. #filmsky
Paramount commissioned a few artists to dress up some alt Enterprise models, this one in all yellow with hot rod flames on the nacelles and a big smiley on the saucer section :) A scale Enterprise from the reboot, part of a lobby display from an Arclight (now bankrupt lol) back in '09. One from the wayback machine, a few paperclips folded into little stick-figure Blair Witch charms. Gotta keep busy on the weekdays somehow.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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RIP Rogue, I guess.. #BenderBendingRodriguez
A row of #Rogue ales on a Bevmo shelf, on each label a drinker holding their left arm aloft. In front of them is a figurine of #Futurama's Bender, holding a beer aloft in his left hand.
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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#blueskyartshow #evening soaring above it all. Floating away. #photography #photooftheday #photochallenge #theendoftheworld
The evening sky from 35,000 feet.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#blueskyartshow an #evening in suburban #Burbank. Could be anywhere.

#photography #photooftheday #photochallenge #theendoftheworld #warpspeed #gosulu
Treetops and powerlines contrasted entirely to shadow by the red sky of the recently-set sun. A long exposure catches the lights from a passing car streaking across a suburban sunset. Power poles line up on the left and the lights of distant cars/signals can be seen beyond the streaks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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#blueskyartshow an #evening in Santa Monica. #Goldenhour indeed. Between a rock and a paved place. Also thank you (I guess?) for fixing the power outages so I can bring some new pics into the mix.
#photography #photooftheday #photochallenge #mindthegap
Looking between two rock fixtures, a wave crashes down just shy of the beach. The setting sun is just behind the rock on the left, and the golden light reflects off the rock on the right and the shallows running into the foreground. The sun is reflecting gold off the side of a rock and onto the ocean below, but the entire sunset is blocked behind a large rock on the left. Without direct light from the setting sun, the sea between the gap remains deep blue between the shadow of one rock and the reflection of the other.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM