my feet are freezing

see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

I applaud the effort that went into this seconds-long bit.

(THE LAMP IS STICKING STRAIGHT OUT FROM THE WALL!)

this is how i envision the dialogue in severance having never watched it and only seeing peoples incomprehensible posts about it

One of the worst feelings in the world: when you are just desperate, like claw-your-own-skin-off desperate, to create, but the only thing that even vaguely appeals to you to work on is a nebulous half-feeling that might be dreamily related to some half-formed notion of a concept. I must! Make! No thing! Only make!

Everything is boring. All activity is meaningless. I understand why Sherlock Holmes did cocaine.

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

turmeric kun update

This captures something I don't think I'll ever be able to put in to words.

Oh how I love shaun tan.

Rose Myrtle Lappet Moth (Trabala vishnou), family Lasiocampidae, Johor, Malaysia

photograph by Varun Thangamani

#she really did breast boobily down the stairs (via @boxingcleverrr)

It's hard to do that in clothing from that period - that's bad costuming.

No, that's historically inaccurate costuming. It is good costuming in that it is doing exactly what it is trying to achieve. It's just that what it's trying to achieve is BOOBS.

so dig this; in this movie (which is Clue, if you don't know) she's not actually a french maid, she's a call girl who is playing the role of a french maid, and in all likelihood provided her own uniform from either her "work" closet or that of the brothel where she was employed

Ahh yes, my favorite characters. Spamton, spamton and spamton

btw it is sexy and cool to uplift and admire people who have skills you wish you had without using their ability as a stick to beat yourself with. even and especially if you are jealous of them.

theres some nuance I feel; especially when it comes to art related jobs. There will be competition, it sucks. You will meet people of all different speeds and styles, and its hard to keep things professional and not personal when creative work can be so tied to you and how you're feeling.

I had a coworker who was an absolute speed demon, and I literally had to keep saying to my lead, "I can't be as fast as her, I'm sorry but I'm trying my best", more to just set expectations rather than blame the coworker. But she unfortunately took it a bit personally I think, "Sorry I don't mean to be fast" and I had to end up apologizing for making her feel bad when in reality i was just trying to be realistic in terms of my work because I couldn't possibly catch up to her.

There's self deprecating that's not great and can stem from insecurities about yourself, but from experience on both sides, you have to learn that its not a personal attack on the artist, its just insecurity that the other person is voicing. It can be a hard thing to overcome, but being patient with yourself or the other person can help them out of it.

Figural lamp screen by Tiffany Studios, 1905. In private collection.