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Category Archives: Illustration
New Hobbies for Self-Loathing Perfectionists
Thursday, April 1, 2010
My self-esteem was feeling unusually high lately, so I decided to teach myself pattern design from a book published in 1903. The prose is predictably convoluted and dry, and the instruction was written for artists who were likely to find themselves carving wood or stone, but I decided that I’m lagging in fundamental concepts of [...]
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
The ego gets a bad reputation. We conflate it with narcissism. Freud’s original term was in German, Das Ich — The I — and didn’t mean vanity but merely the part of the consciousness that mediates between the uninhibited id, which seeks to fulfill biological drives, and the social demands of the superego, which negotiates [...]
If you think of yourself as funny, you become tragic.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Gena Rowlands as Minnie Moore in Minnie and Moskowitz — this is really rough and probably not done. In this scene, she’s having a conversation with someone who just doesn’t get what’s she talking about. Politely accepting the pleasant distraction of a glass of wine, she bites her finger in a moment of anguish. Minnie [...]