cool jap art
Another thing I like about this graphic novel is that it presents to the readers epiphanic propositions such as how reality must be a projection of one’s perception and how one can freely alter a perception when wired to desire. (You can see in these pages how he explains these epiphanies of his—VISUAL STORYTELLING).
Here comes something more personal: my insight on his epiphany.
Freely altering one’s perception probably goes hand in hand with how I see friendship. If someone is your friend, then that someone is willing to go with his timing wherever, whenever. or at least try to until he gets it.
The difficulty with our generation is that we are not slaves to only one influence but to numerous sources of influence proliferated further by the medium of free information a.k.a. the internet.
The key now, I believe, to making new friends is not fantastic, magical sparks. And the initial purveyor to a successful friendship lies in attraction. If one is attracted to a person, one is definitely willing to spend TIME with that certain someone, and time
spent talking and conversing even sharing will eventually lead to a shared perception of reality. (Simple put, being able to be “alone together”.) Therefore, when the initial hype of attraction either starts to dwindle or dissolves, it will be so easy to get along with that person because you have become alike. A pleasant, comfortable friendship. To maintain a friendship is another story: it means to always keep yourself in-the-know of what this person has been doing.
The next frame shows Mazzucchelli’s skill in visual storytelling. How he makes each character more distinct by giving their voices’ personality—a specific speech bubble and type assigned. He also highlights Asterios’ uncertainty in this panel by replacing the speech bubble to a “magic ball” speech bubble. /wrist tears of admiration.
So last year was a very stressful year for me. I was the Art Editor for DLSU-M’s literary and arts folio Malate Literary Folio (no duh.) plus my majors were so heavy, I remember taking Events & Photography & the Art and Photo Camp (I was organizer) together which makes that a whole lot of running around everywhere. Talking to sponsors, shoots outside campus, spending xxx hours making a makeshift lightbox. Add that up to my anemia and poor health (which is due most likely to overwork). I give you Trizha Zombie 1.0. I got really skinny and started to get unexpected panic attacks, hyperventilation which sort of resulted to an anxiety disorder (me scratch myself everywhere getting scars all over my body). In the middle of a class I would get one of those “No-Cable TV Effect” vision and start feeling lightheaded. Oh yeah, and I almost forgot, I got dengue. A.Y. 2010-2011, I also got hospitalized like 5 times. whaddup? and learned how to breathe through cigarettes and/or nebulizers. So anyway the result was alopecia from STRESS duh. Very happy though it all grew back :) and my new hair is not half bad! alopecia and all that stress was worth it after all.
My friend Wina has recently been poked by an online vintage store. Now, she’s going to be given free vintage garments/accessories if she features their stuff at her blog. ENVYYYYY. and motivation (seeing that now I don’t have much to work with and that my future is still completely blank—which explains my bouts of “meaningless life=why am I alive? I want to die” spells)
I has become quite obvious that I have not been vigilant on doing my daily routine. (my therapist will probably reprimand me). Routine drives me bonkers, it makes me feel like I’m not doing anything cognitively stimulating which makes me feel even more like dead meat occupying space. So my routine decided to take a vacation for a week to help me sort things out with my time management issues. (I had to cram another comic in the EM issue which took me 7 hours straight to work at it + I had my period last week = borderline) So now, trying to get back at it now. Thank you routine for not quitting on me. >:D< hugs
