Brian's quite remarkable blog of wonder.

I drew this today. I enjoy sketching. It's very meditative, in a way; you're immersed in your environment in a completely different way. You're not just looking at a thing, you're studying the thing, filtering it through your brain, and transmitting it visually onto a piece of paper, then taking it home with you.

I was thinking about how this power plant looks like a weird, post-modern cathedral. I think aliens would look at its design elements (big smokestacks stretching toward the sky, railed balconies over the water, tall gothic windows) and conclude that it was a place of worship, or a place of some spiritual significance. Then again, they'd probably guess its utilitarian nature by all of those big vats and tubes, not to mention the fact that the river is dammed right by it. Good job, aliens.

I'm going to bed.