WPlace Keens

[Toomuchsparetime]

WPlace is a "collaborative" single-canvas art project wherein anyone can place a limited (but constantly replenishing) amount of pixels onto a map of the world. This has its pros and cons, as is so often the case with barely-moderated graffiti spaces.

I've found a few yorps in my travels (there's one near Area 51 for example), and I'm currently working on some Keen graphics near Milwaukee.

Here's a couple of Keens in Wellington, NZ. Someone drew the "Galaxy" Keen there, so I added the "Vorticons" Keen. There might be room to squeeze in the "Dreams" or "GBC" Keens.

Post any cool WPlace Keen things you find, or that you create! Or ones that you're working on and could use some help with. I've been on WP a while, so I have many pixels to spare. (The more you draw, the larger your potential stockpile of pixels becomes.)

[Toothpick]

Here's my contribution, somewhere in Anchorage, Alaska where I first experienced Keen back in 1992 or 1993. This was done in the exact neighborhood too.

[Toomuchsparetime]

That's neat! I considered doing my current Keen art near the town I lived in when I first played Keen too, back in '93! But then I decided to go with Keen's hometown.

[Benvolio]

This is an amusing website!

The only place I found on it where people just cannot politely totlerate what others have drawn... is Glasgow.

I found some cool Mario levels in the sea near New York...

[Toomuchsparetime]

I finished the Keen 4 title screen.
https://wplace.live/?lat=43.21068532018 ... 5507318888

Something I've noticed lately is that things seem a lot more chill now than in the earlier days of WPlace. I saw almost no griefing near me, and in fact not much activity near me either, which seems odd for a spot near a well-known US city. Then again it could just be the region, rather than the whole site, though. Maybe Milwaukeeans (Milwaukeens?) have better things to do these days than draw on WPlace. And maybe the more active griefers have moved onto some new online space to devote their time to.

But even other locations that I've drawn in seem to be reaching a kind of "permanence", with things changing very little compared to earlier. (Like playing Civilization - the early game is a land-grab with ever-changing borders until things shake out into a more stable status quo!) I remember when being in the process of drawing a picture was no guarantee that other people would honour your claim, seeing a city I recently lived in have kind of a high turnover of art being replaced just a few months ago - but now it's pretty stable. I watched griefing wars happen right next to where I was drawing, there, and while I wanted to help my neighbours I knew that would definitely make my artwork a retaliatory target since it was right there. (I did still report it though.)
All these moments will be lost in time, like pixels in jpgs.