See if you can figure it out:
If you guessed a real life NYAN CAT, you’re correct!
This is nyan cat:
So. If I embiggen the poptart iphone case, add leg holes, attach a long strip of rainbowly knitted fabric to it, and then somehow convince the cat to wear it – then voila, Nyan cat!!!
Now only if I can find time to make this silly thing… my life will be complete.
The following is a list of things that I believed to be true when I was 5:
1. Reincarnation
2. Non-linear time
- Yes, this was before I knew what theoretical physics was. No, I don’t know where I got the idea. In my 5-year-old mind “time” was more akin to a different plane of existence, and all of human history had all “happened” in a way, and all had been happening simultaneously.
3. All fictions are alternate universes where the characters are real
- This of course does not preclude the possibility that we were characters in a book from another dimension!
All of the above resulted in me concluding that it’s possible for me to have been a space-faring robot-driving badass warrior from the future in a past life. It’s also equally possible for me to reincarnate in my next life as Cleopatra. And the beautiful thing is, it’s possible for everyone to be Cleopatra at least once because in this world time loops.
Why have I decided to share this? I think because I’ve started to realize that, the more we age, the more we actually stay the same. I was an old old soul at 5, pondering about reincarnation, universes and life-after-death in between colouring books and paper dolls. More than 20 years later things haven’t changed much, I ponder about the same things, I still play with coloured markers and papercrafts. A funny thing, life is, eh?
I have so far resisted using the blog to voice my political opinions, mainly because there many, and I do get…um, passionate, about them. True to my obsessive compulsive tendencies, I haven’t been able to let the surprise result of the recent federal election go, and today I decided to make something out of it. Making an exception and sharing them here since hey, it counts as design work, and who knows something may even come out of this.
Came across this quote by Ira Glass today. It’s something I always knew in the back of my mind, but he put it in much more eloquent words. Definitely good thing to keep in mind, no matter where in your career you are.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
