How do you doodle?

When we were kids, we could draw. Now that we're adults, the best most of us can do is doodle. Doodling is art that has no other pretentions than fun. Some of us save our doodles. Most we throw away.

We get in a certain mindset when we doodle. Playful. Open. Not really paying attention. Not really taking anything seriously. Kind of what you might call "mindless."

Which brings me to this quite delightfully interactive doodle called "Dreems" a brilliantly playful reminder of the art and mind of the doodler. As you click on various portions of the doodle, that part changes. Even though it's changed, it is still somehow part of the larger drawing. No matter what you click on, no matter what you change, you wind up with a new doodle, and a silly one, too. It's unlike any other interactive doodler I've seen. The artist explains why:

"...there are (right now) 25 tops, 25 middles and 25 bottoms. i have them numbered (more or less arbitrarily) 1-25. if you click on the right half of any image you will go to the image with the next highest sequential number, if you click on the left half you will go one lower (eg: if you click the left half of image number two you will see image number one, and if you click the right half you will see image number three. and so forth). clicking the last image on either extreme of the series (numbers 1 or 25) will simply send you around to the other end of the series (numbers 25 or 1). think of it like the a viewmaster. it doesn't matter where you start, if you keep clicking you will get back there eventually. each time you come to the page you will get a random set of images. it is highly unlikely (15625 to 1) that you will ever get the same starting set."

Then there's this less whimsical, but equally mindless and artful virtual library of interactive doodle-like experiences - a kindhearted, stress-busting service of, um, Stressbusting.

As they are wont to say here in the Greater LA-area: "doodle on, dood!"