Emissary 2000

ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Y2K Tomcat Encounter off Point Loma, California. This was a "Sketch-A-Doodle" gone wild while attending a party at the Hotel Del Coronado on New Year's Day 2000. I sketched some more while working a subrosa job pulling a thirty-hour vehicular surveillance on a target up in Silverlake.

MODEL: An F-14D Tomcat, an old 1999 gaming console, a ton of US Navy fighter pilot stories involving encounters with Tic-Tac UFOs, and intensive memories recalled from all my flights at altitude over the Southern California coastlines.LOCATION Rendered at the Surf and Sand Hotel at their restaurant Breakfast during a meeting in Laguna Beach, California.

MEDIA: This was exclusively rendered in ball point pens, both black ink of mixed manufacturing and blue ink. I may have touched up the Tomcat's weathering with a pencil-or-two. This is a perfect example of four-color black and white. This is what the ocean, with its currents looks like from around 3000 feet of altitude. The rolling swells do NOT conceal the currents below the surface.

NOTE: Make sure you zoom in and check out how the "Emissary" is slipping in from under the marine layer about three miles offshore. If you look carefully you'll find a Cessna, a couple of migrating California gray whales and a sale boat that is adrift and who's crew is "Comfortably Numb." Many folks were looking for mountain cabins, caves for off-the-grid homes and/or ocean currents to hide away from the world on midnight of 01 January 2000.

Some thought that computer clocks would fail precipitating worldwide computer automation failure and airplanes around the world would fall out of the sky.