Muffin Films

This makes me believe in the Web again...

posted by Lorna Brown at 11:18 PM

Setting: A quiet spring morning, at the outdoor terrace of a local bakery.

In pulls a car, up to the natural foods market next door. Vanity plate: MENSA3. Congratulations - very original! Only 2 other people before you have had the same clever idea, and so you decide to pay extra to advertise that you couldn't even come up with something original. After some small deliberation, Kevin and I decide that Mensa is an organization for intelligent people, not necessarily creative or clever people. Once you get over the idea that someone could be either so insecure or so self-involved as to need to purchase a vanity license plate with their IQ score, rationalizing the rest of this display is actually pretty easy.

While we sit and contemplate such universal paradoxes over our breakfast, suddenly a nearby car alarm goes off, full tilt. A woman struggling frantically with her keys, trying to turn off the panic button that she accidentally tripped while trying to unlock it. You guessed it. MENSA3.

Oh, the poetic beauty of that moment...

posted by Lorna Brown at 11:05 PM

Six Easy Rules for More Productive Critiques

1. You absolutely must despise every piece of artwork made by you. It's all complete garbage, so admit it.

2. If someone makes a helpful suggestion, stop listening immediately! Cover your ears with your hands and sing at the top of your voice if necessary.

3. If you get caught making a mistake, immediately get on the defensive, and yell curtly "IT'S NOT FINISHED YET!"

4. Accept all constructive criticism as irrefutable proof of your continuing inadequacy. Hold your inner pain close to your heart! It will make you a better artist. (After you die penniless and unknown.)

5. In the event that no one seems to notice every single flaw in your artwork, make a point of enumerating each and every mistake you made, blow-by-blow. They are just testing you to see whether or not you knew you made any mistake at all!

6. Never ever admit that you secretly love a piece of your own work. What do you know? It's all crap.

posted by Lorna Brown at 10:34 PM

Today I discovered that "anenome" is actually spelled "anemone" and I haven't been this etymologically confused and disconcerted since I found out that Connecticut contains 3 instances of the letter "c".
posted by Lorna Brown at 9:38 PM

Wow! Genetic evidence just released about major body changes in animal evolution... from researchers at UCSD. Just... wow.

posted by Lorna Brown at 5:23 PM