wiggly idiot striking victory pose to viewer Fuck. I keep drawing hands backwards. The 🐬 is for the infamous 1987 Famicom role-playing game Hoshi wo Mi...
I've previously mentioned Austin's Kleon's quote (which is on its own a conclusion brought out by Ann Packer's words): "Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb)" . Just do the art and forget about being an artist. But does that work? In general: absolutely so. If you draw, you're an artist. If you run, you're a runner.…
With a knife sharp heart I shave off these long and thin, meaningless days Piles of things like the past and monotony Throw them out as nonflammable waste Like a letter without an address With no place to go or stay, our Force-fed dreams and hopes Throw them all as nonflammable waste In our world coated by a translucent and precarious film 5 meters worth of reality Inadvertently lost Lost sight of…
I have a lot of old magazines back at my parents' place: mostly gaming stuff, a lot of comics too. A couple of shelves are stuffed with paper that's going to rot unless I take care of it properly, which I should 1 ... I had my publications I followed religiously, and then those I bought on and off, when they had a cool cover or an article on something I was particularly interested in. The reason I…
I love my home: it's the first house I've fully furnished with my wife (in the last one I was the one who moved in later), it's in a nice quiet area in town, a bit on the upper side, and there's a splendid view of the mountains in the distance. There are a lot of trees and greenery around, and birds chirp happily in front of my studio window. This season we got giant wasps too. Yeah. Let's focus…
Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good hot black coffee. — Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) Oh, Cooper. You're so wise. On a topic similar to one I've talked about recently already , in my struggle to find something to talk about today 1 I've…
I quite like Yoko Taro's works, or at least those I've experienced in some way: I've yet to play Drakengard 3, but the first one has a special place in my mind, and NieR Replicant might be one of my favourite games ever. What about Automata, though? I didn't love Automata. First of all, I knew it as "the best game ever that's done things no game has ever done before", and that's always a red flag…
おちこんでいるときには、どうしたらいいか、 いつかの方法を決めておくと便利です。 これはぼくが独自に考えたことなのですが、 胸の上のほう、鎖骨の下ぐらいのところに手のひらを当てて じわぁっと温めるのは、とてもいいです、理由は知らない。 ー 糸井重里が『今日のダーリン』の中で At times when you're feeling down, when you're unsure about what to do, it's useful to have a strategy put in place for that time. This is just one I came up with myself, but placing your palm above your chest, approximately below your clavicle, letting it get…
As some who read my Now page might've noticed, I'm currently playing through Metal Gear Solid 2 (after playing the first one) with a dear friend. We're both doing our own thing, and this one is a game we've played before many years back (she remembers a lot more about it than I do though), but we try to keep our progress more or less the same: each time I get a bit more further I slow down my…
Have you ever been to a library in a foreign country, where your language isn't the one everyone speaks? I like it a lot. There's usually at least an English section, and the selection there sometimes lets you into what the locals like, or how the international community is in the area. But, mostly, I like looking at foreign books: editions I've never seen of books I know well or I've heard of,…
Radio calisthenics (ラジオ体操, rajio taisō; literally, "radio exercises") are warm-up calisthenics performed to music and guidance from radio broadcasts. Originating from the United States, they are popular in Japan and parts of China, North Korea and Taiwan. — Wikipedia If you've ever read my Now page , you know I try to keep myself in shape with the bare minimum of less than 5 minutes of stretching…