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Cake day: April 10th, 2025

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  • these mind formations last into adulthood and artists have to train to see and reproduce what’s actually there instead of what their brain is throwing up.

    There’s an easy way to test this with your own mind, you take a simple photograph of a face and do your best to reproduce it with whatever artistic talent you have. You have to give it a solid effort though.

    Then you rotate the photograph upside down repeat the process trying to reproduce exactly what you see.

    It’s like a parlor trick because for most people the upside down image, which doesn’t trigger the brain to draw it’s idea of a face, comes out looking passably good even if their right side up copy is shite.

    I learned this from a drawing book when i was learning to draw and it blew my mind!

















  • some of my earliest memories are lying in bed in terror waiting for the sound of my abusive fathers work truck to pull into the driveway. I got to where like a dog i could identify his specific truck as soon as it was in audible range. Sometimes I could pretend to be asleep and I might get left alone a while.

    It’s many decades later, I live in a very safe place and the patriarch who rules the roost here doesn’t even raise his voice much less hit me. All the same i get a sharp spike of fear every time he pulls up in the driveway. It took me a few years of work and therapy to be able to stay downstairs and not have to flee upstairs when he got home.

    It’s shameful how many people’s first bullies are the people they need to look to for safety. It really breaks you.