I thought Blair Witch was the most hilarious, classified as horror, movie ever! Whoever wrote that freaking out about a tree, the same tree, it’s the same tree, should be given a medal in the artistry of stupidity!
I feel that most of the time, people disguise their unwillingness to work things to perfection as a deliberate attempt at achieving imperfection. It always comes across as fake.
There are for too many people in the world making imperfect things for me to make excuses for any of them. Maybe pre-internet people had to celebrate mediocrity just because of the unavailability of excellence.
See, the imperfections are only brilliant, cute, or brave when striving for perfection. Aiming away from the target in the first place is saying you’re “professionally ironic.”
Anyone else seen “Dance of the Dead” or “The Room”? These are works made to the best of an ability that fall short by all standards, but manage to make you smile. At least they tried.
I studied silversmithing in school- an art which generally requires perfection. And I failed and failed and failed, and my professors bitched and bitched. And then, for one piece, I tried really hard, and I got it. It was perfect. The circles were circular, the edges 90 degrees, the clasp flawless. And i took it to review, and my professor shook his head, and said “You know, Kest- you really should just embrace the wonk”.
I am grateful to the archives of the Cat and Girl webcomic for keeping a record of the person I used to be. Apparently in 2009 I would only accept perfection and anything less than that was evidence of a person not willing to try hard enough.
January 29, 2009
The history of sell-outs?
January 29, 2009
I love the way Grrl has been gettin’ so het up lately
January 29, 2009
I was pretty sure one panel of this was going to have a smeary fingerprint on it.
January 29, 2009
I thought Blair Witch was the most hilarious, classified as horror, movie ever! Whoever wrote that freaking out about a tree, the same tree, it’s the same tree, should be given a medal in the artistry of stupidity!
January 29, 2009
dorothy, stop blowing my mind!
January 29, 2009
I feel that most of the time, people disguise their unwillingness to work things to perfection as a deliberate attempt at achieving imperfection. It always comes across as fake.
There are for too many people in the world making imperfect things for me to make excuses for any of them. Maybe pre-internet people had to celebrate mediocrity just because of the unavailability of excellence.
April 27, 2009
See, the imperfections are only brilliant, cute, or brave when striving for perfection. Aiming away from the target in the first place is saying you’re “professionally ironic.”
Anyone else seen “Dance of the Dead” or “The Room”? These are works made to the best of an ability that fall short by all standards, but manage to make you smile. At least they tried.
October 16, 2009
But if the style you’re going for is one that contains flaws, then you’re still stiving for perfection, just on different terms.
September 21, 2010
I studied silversmithing in school- an art which generally requires perfection. And I failed and failed and failed, and my professors bitched and bitched. And then, for one piece, I tried really hard, and I got it. It was perfect. The circles were circular, the edges 90 degrees, the clasp flawless. And i took it to review, and my professor shook his head, and said “You know, Kest- you really should just embrace the wonk”.
And I’ve never made anything perfect again.
September 30, 2013
And the ongoing rush to the bottom gives us scripted reality TV.
August 16, 2017
that conversation didn’t seem long enuf for it to go from day to night…
July 16, 2023
I am grateful to the archives of the Cat and Girl webcomic for keeping a record of the person I used to be. Apparently in 2009 I would only accept perfection and anything less than that was evidence of a person not willing to try hard enough.