Erik Olson (Canadian, b. 1982, Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - Tigers in the Night, 2011, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
I very much enjoy how my mind scrambles to make sense of this.
“The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out”
How an Armadillo gathers foliage for its nest.
When I'm carrying all the bags of groceries inside in one trip.
if I were in the house I would simply leave
I was born in the wrong biome
mentally I am here
if I were in the house I would simply leave
Soo did y'all know you can get a soldering iron for 8 bucks? I didn't. I do now. I'm about to burn the shit out of myself.
it's fun to run it's fun to play, it's fun to make things out of clay it's fun to fill your car with gas
it's fun to break things made of glassss
now the burning will commence
horsey
first time doing stained glass first time using a soldering iron. It looks like shit and i could not love it more
Also i think it might be permanently attached to that table, but y'all know how it is you win some and you lose some .
the horse has been unstuck from the table and i think I'm getting better at this ^^
this post is from may 3rd so i thought I'd update it a bit.
I ended up using the glass not used in the horse to make this as my first Real stained glass thing, finished may 17th:
May 19th:
and now this is what I've been picking at on and off when i have the time to do so since:
i think... there might be a theme here.
(this was finished in March 2023,)
Anyways happy birthday to me having a mania fueled sleep deprivation and pots episode in the craft store.
and some more i can't be fucked to figure out when they were made:
If you haven’t changed your url in years tell me why as someone in your same boat it’s for science
Every day I discover forms of art I could not have concieved of before, and suddenly I am in awe of being alive.
this image has done so much for my perception of myself it isnt even funny
a new contender
I often encounter exhortations for mentally ill people to "get help", as though the only thing standing between you and Mental Helth™ is that you haven't decided to get help yet, probably because of The Stigma™.
This is an incomplete list of the assumptions people are often making when they tell someone to "get help", any or all of which can be false:
A lot of the productivity advice my ingroup likes a lot (e.g. Cal Newport, Flow) focuses on the importance of deep work. Or removing all distractions so you can work - I’m reminded of the CFAR analogy of removing distractions as being screaming people in the room with you, and how if you start with 10 screaming people and remove one, nine screaming people isn’t much better, but how once you only have one screaming person in your room, getting rid of that guy is just an enormous improvement. I don’t think I “get” deep work. In the CFAR analogy, it seems like there are always people softly screaming in the background and I’m not sure what would happen if they were all gone. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually sat down and gotten a half hour of work totally uninterrupted, with no distractions. I have, in fact, accomplished things before [CITATION NEEDED]. Is my situation unusual? If I “unlock” deep work, will it open up new realms of getting-stuff-donedness, or should I keep looking to other avenues to improve my productivity? The closest thing I have to “deep work” might just be “being interested in the thing”, which helpfully creates an internal urge to go back to the task at hand once I look away from it. If I could just install an abiding personal interest in, like, all my classwork, that would be great.
evolution-is-just-a-theorem
How productive are you compared to the deep work people?
I have the impression “a lot less”, or maybe more accurately “a lot less compared to their work/hour output”.
evolution-is-just-a-theorem
Well then yes, maybe the deep work stuff would help.
(I asked because I expected your answer to be “about as productive” or “more productive”.)
Ah, gotcha. Resources I’ve looked at for starting have talked about “flow” states as things the audience should recognize from their own experience, and then talked about ways to increase the frequency of those. But I’ve tried pomodoros and creating low-distraction environments and etc and deep work states did not “materialize”.
See also: Colleague: I like to schedule all my meetings on one day so I can focus on one topic for the rest of the week! :) Me: So you can what?
Fun update for all my readers:
A) I think my "work per good hour" is in fact very high at least compared to regular people. (Unsure about the deep work people.) B) I have ADHD. C) The colleague mentioned also has ADHD but was medicated. Found that out years later.
Draw your own conclusions or whatever.
my only scp opinion is that whenever somebody is getting really really angry in a video game text chat i just say 'Did you know that world-renowned writer Stephen King once got hit by a car? Just something to consider' and it invariably confuses them into chilling out
How is this related to scp? Genuinely confused
electric stoves aren’t real btw they’re placebo stoves. your food cooks because of the placebo effect
yeah no its just a bunch of LEDs that turn red, it only boils water because you expect the water to boil
I think the fact that I was able to believe that “gullible” is written on the ceiling says a lot about the state of modern discourse
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby and Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (1973), watching his third movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...