sitegeist

Thanks to Jen at circadian-shift for the link to explodingdog. It's not as caninically messy as you might assume. It's actually quite wonderful. You'll laugh, you'll cry, etc. From phrases that people send him, Sam Brown creates drawings and posts them on the site. It's a universe of stick figure people, fish, robots and monsters that seems, to me anyway, to really capture something of the spirit of the emotional landscape out there ("out there"? And just where is that Jim?) Shut up Mr. Parentheses, you know what I mean (yeah, sorry).

...anyway, there's something so wonderful about the play between the simplicity of the drawings and the complexity of the feelings that underly some of the phrases. And then some are just very odd, while others are quite universal, and some others are darkly funny.

Some of my favourites are ambiguities are all we have, I will survive and city could not stop.