“Only a Teenager Could Like This!” – An Observation on Boogiepop Phantom, Gunslinger Girl, and Adolescent Dreariness
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“Only a Teenager Could Like This!” – An Observation on Boogiepop Phantom, Gunslinger Girl, and Adolescent Dreariness
As I’ve gotten older, though, I’ve gradually come to the realization that...pain and hurt is a necessary part of life. If you think about it, it’s precisely because people are different from others that they’re able to create their own independent selves. Take me as an example. It’s precisely my ability to detect some aspects of a scene that other ... See more
Write For Yourself
This was fated from the time when television, or manga, or video games, or even photo print clubs came to fill in for something children had lost and became more exciting than reality.
Hayao Miyazaki • Turning Point: 1997-2008
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things, our most violent form of nostalgia.
Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
Former Studio Moniker founders publish zine with Hato on the complexities of digital technology
Olivia Hingleyitsnicethat.com
While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not ... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
My personal dilemma over this has become increasingly pointed. I’ve turned my back on the flood of visual material being produced, but I’m struggling desperately in the hope of creating something a little better. In order to do so, I’ve even had to rationalize the art of navigating this world. I tell people I hate professionals, but I know that in
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