celebrity impersonators

[danschank]

sometimes i like it when things go undocumented.

i was thinking today about a cartooning class i took when i was twelve or thirteen. it was at a university downtown, where me and my friend chris would be dropped off each saturday morning. i was just old enough to comprehend the potential of a city-- the scale, the variety, the strangeness. and i

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[ceciliaj]

What an interesting story! I took a Saturday morning cartooning class when I was...10, I think. In the basement of a Methodist church. The teacher's name was Julia, and she was the only art teacher who ever liked me at all. Julia had curly clown hair and drank a lot of coffee and taught me about minimalism.

[danschank]

i wish i was learning about minimalism when i was ten!

back then, i was concentrating more on whiffle ballism and duran duranism, haha.

[ceciliaj]

By minimalism, I don't mean real minimalism, I just mean she gave me a word to use as a defense against teachers telling me that I wasn't filling the page adequately. I've always been a big fan of using jargon to get out of things :).

[danschank]

ahh, that makes more sense. explaining sol le witt to a ten year old seemed like a tough task... haha.

[wanderingmoon]

I haven't visited lj in ages but here I am and I have to say that this is one of my favorite posts you've shared here Dan.

there are certain undocumented events in my life that live on through a hodge-podge of affect, consequence, romance and embellishment. my brain is an inexact instrument, assembling whatever evocations it can to keep these moments alive. i like photos albums and home videos as much as the next guy. but sometimes those foggy, half-assed brain chimeras really do the trick.

I couldn't agree more. I sometimes get all tripped up in reality but foggy, half-assed brain chimeras are really were art comes from and good writing.

cool avatar!

[danschank]

been enjoying cinebeats, kim... glad you're enjoying this!