The difficult art of becoming.

Pangeekery: How Good Are Online Petitions! (they are awful)

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:46:59 +1100

Pangeekery: How Good Are Online Petitions! (they are awful):

In light of how completely and hopelessly useless they are, Internet petitions are an extraordinarily popular way of having feelings all over the place. The list of websites to leave tears and snot on the shoulder of are seemingly endless; OnlinePetition, iPetitions, Change.org, Petition Spot……

So I learnt something today. I guess I can start drinking to forget now.

What’s wrong with day of the week socks?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:41:20 +1100

What’s wrong with day of the week socks?

andrewfishman: Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,”...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:36:04 +1100

andrewfishman:

Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010

This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.

This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.

Visit his website here.

While you’re trying to decide what to have for lunch, I’m explaining to myself, once...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:46:17 +1100

While you’re trying to decide what to have for lunch, I’m explaining to myself, once again, why the world would not be a better place without me in it.

While you’re trying to make Microsoft Word’s margins work the way you would expect they should work, I’m sitting here trying to make my brain realise that suicide is a ridiculous, over-the-top reaction to a cloud of unremitting anxiety.

While you’re jumping on Facebook to like the latest photo the George Takei posted, I’m fighting the desire to go and walk into oncoming traffic.

And while you’re trying to decide to who to call to hang out with tonight, I’m wondering who I could call to tell “Hey, I feel like killing myself. Yeah, again.”

There’s no-one I can call.

I won’t kill myself. I’m just so very tired of having to fight with the idea.

david: Tumblr: The Movie trailer by hammn Bwahahaah!...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:21:21 +1100

david:

Tumblr: The Movie trailer by hammn

Bwahahaah! aoiwfejkawelkfnmawe OMFG. I CAN’T.

sleepydumpling: skullgreymon: oh my god OK no wait - THIS is...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:43:34 +1100

sleepydumpling:

skullgreymon:

oh my god

OK no wait - THIS is the best 19 seconds I’ve spent so far today!

(I’m in stitches here)

I want to watch this on repeat forever

What I want, and what I can have are two very different things.

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:48:51 +1000

What I want, and what I can have are two very different things.

I hate this time...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:26:02 +1000

…when I’m totally exhausted, almost beyond caring.

It’s when the dark slithering things slip out from wherever they hide, calling to me seductively.

It’s not what you think. It’s better. It’s worse.

People give in to this stuff, and no-one thinks less of them for it.

That "oh f%$#" moment...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:53:22 +1100

The one where you discover that your total insecurity about your skillset was on display to a client and your boss called you on it after the meeting.

Then he asks you “Do you still consider yourself a designer?”

…and you dodge the question.

Visible Children: We got trouble.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:43:12 +1100

Visible Children: We got trouble.:

visiblechildren:

For those asking what you can do to help, please link to visiblechildren.tumblr.com wherever you see KONY 2012 posts.

UPDATE: Facebook has blocked this blog. Complain here and post on Facebook about visiblechildren.tumblr[dot]com instead. And tweet a link to this page to famous people on…

The faces. The voices. These are some of my favourite actors....

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:19:27 +1100

The faces. The voices. These are some of my favourite actors. Although…

JK Simmons is the Yellow M&M?

Kurgan is Mr Krabs?!?

I hate the idea of making garbage. My inner critic destroys it...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:26:56 +1100

I hate the idea of making garbage. My inner critic destroys it before I get anywhere, before I can get off the plateau. I’ve posted a copy of this up on my wall at work. I think I’ll design a copy for myself to put up at home, too.

This filled me with joy.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:56:00 +1100

This filled me with joy.

Writing

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:24:40 +1100

I want to write. I want to create things that make others feel the way I feel when I watch Community, or anything by Bill Lawrence. Chuck, at its best, had it too.

I read back through my Geek Salad archives, and so many of the strips are throwaway jokes, and some are just straight-up unfunny. But there’s others in there; they just caught me again. I captured something in those strips, something relational. It intrigues me, because I was trying to do something like that, and I’m not quite sure how I did it.

I have a few different ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a while, but I don’t know how to get from here to wherever “there” is.

I’ve started working on Geek Salad again. Trying to write something each night. At the moment, its just wrangling all of my previous script ideas and notes into a central “bible” in CeltX, but as I’ve done that, it’s generated new ideas, new directions.

Still, I feel a bit like I’m flailing around trying to stay afloat instead of purposefully swimming in a particular direction, and I don’t know if that’s true, or just the way I perceive it.

It’s a bit like losing weight. I know the basics, and by sticking to them, I’m seeing results.

With writing, I feel like I don’t know the basics, and I’m not quite sure where to start and NOT waste my time. Or maybe that’s it… maybe the starting is the important part, and let the rest just happen.

I’d like to start spending time with other writers too, but I’d feel like a fraud at the moment.

Good Australian Ensemble Sitcoms?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:04:31 +1100

I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of one. I’m an unabashed fan of Bill Lawrence’s work (Spin City, Scrubs, Cougar Town). Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan went from writing & EPing on Scrubs to EPing on Dan Harmon’s Community, and I love Community too.

Scrubs, Cougar Town & Community are all single-camera without laugh tracks.

I can’t think of any Australian ensemble sitcoms with that kind of writing/feel.

Can you name any? Why don’t they happen in Australia?

"Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:02:42 +1100

“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.”

- Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)

So you want to be an actor?

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:01:53 +1100

So you want to be an actor?:

I’ve occasionally entertained the idea of trying my hand at acting. I’m not very good at it though, as I learned in my drama unit at college. This post pretty much ensures I’ll stick with… anything else.

Digging in the dirt

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:01:35 +1100

Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it’s getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can’t go on like this too long

I’m in this weird frame of mind again. Doesn’t happen often, but it’s unnerving when it does. There’s no-one I can talk to about it; it’s the things that the church (in my experience) doesn’t even know where to begin dealing with.

And so it goes…

This is insightful. Spend an hour watching it. Thinking about...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:42:21 +1100

This is insightful. Spend an hour watching it. Thinking about what and how you create

Missing the point...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:17:08 +1100

Christian DJ writes a blog post about how taking one small low-dose anti-depressant a day has changed his life, and commenting on his Asperger’s diagnosis. How he wants Jesus to be enough, yet that pill dealt with things that prayer and ministry hadn’t.

Loads of commenters thanking DJ for his honesty and sharing their own stories (me included).

Commenter at the bottom bitches him and other commenters out because they’re all talking about how anti-depressants had improved their lives, when instead they should be praying more and meditating on the Bible and THAT WILL FIX EVERYTHING THAT AILS YOU.

#facepalm