Friday, May 2, 2025

The selfie tour of clerkmanifestoland

 






It is time for our weekly look at the Clerkmanifestoland theme park. Back our kickstarter! Only 87 billion dollars to go and then it's fully funded!


So far most of our explorations of Clerkmanifestoland have been deep dives into particular rides or experiences in the park. But along with making those, I have been enjoying collecting selfies from everyday park guests taken all over the park. I think in mapping Clerkmanifestoland, we need every tool we can come up with to help show what it's like. While these pictures center on park guests and their experiences, they also give a feel for a variety of locations and events in the park as they actually happen. Yes, we will still in the future articulate deep descriptions of the park, its rides, shops, entertainment, and cafes, but these selfies offer us a hundred quick and random glances that also help fill out what the Clerkmanifestoland Park is all about.

I am not going to show you a hundred selfies right now though, despite all that about "a hundred quick and random glances". Nevertheless, I am going to show you a large collection, each with a short mention of where the picture was taken.


Are you ready?


Oh. 

No, we can wait.



Good?


Okay, let's go.






Fox and Skunk in Arles ride exit, Bugheart Sur Mer




















Bugheart Sur Mer Bugheart Fountain
























Pooh and Piglets Honey and Acorns in Library Storyland






























Borromini Vs Bernini Theater in Dreamland Rome




























Entrance area of New Saint Minneapolis































Kayaks on the Escalante ride loading area, Clerkmanifestoland Wilderness




























Philosopher's Cafe Courtyard in Bugheart Sur Mer


































Bugheart Plaza



























Jesus Throws it all Away Anarchist Speakeasy secret porch, New Saint Minneapolis































Jesus Throws it all Away main entrance area

























Book Maze, Library Storyland






























Bugheart fountain main entry plaza



























Jesus Throws it all Away Anarchist Speakeasy interior































Kayaks on the Escalante ride, Clerkmanifestoland Wilderness
































Selfie with Doris, Main bugheart fountain entry plaza




























Kayaks on the Escalante entry queue
























Philosopher's Cafe, pastis and coffee, Bugheart Sur Mer






























Clerkmanifestoland Wilderness Trail, Doris sighting
























European Market Area, Bugheart Plaza



















































Thursday, May 1, 2025

Library spirit animals, now cuter!

 





Surely you will recall our famous series of library staff posing with their spirit animals?

Surely?

And if you're interested in this famous bit of clerkmanifesto and library history, you can scroll through the thousands of posts in clerkmanifesto and... eventually you'll find them. If you work backwards from today you'll find them even sooner, because I don't think they could be more than a year old.

But a lot has changed in the last year.


(Oooooooooo, but not as much as is going to change in the next one!)


As we so often do in clerkmanifesto, especially in the realm of photography and AI confection, we like to revisit themes and projects with new and different capabilities. And so I have revisited these spirit animal pictures with the ability to turn them into darling Pixar style versions of themselves. These are cute! Not all of my conversions turned out how I wanted, but many did. And there are a lot that I want to show today. Many of you don't know all these people that well, which I think will reduce the charm of these pictures for you. So I will try to keep it all to a manageable number.

But brace yourself. It is still a lot of pictures: