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“How to become a human”, John Nugroho, Digital, 2018

Looking back I had a great year for the most part,  but all of the turmoil came from basically everyone gaining from my help and not returning any of the favor. Like, I’m done being your backbone, your healer, your adviser, your babysitter, your insight. Everyone around me thrived with my input in their lives, and I got the short end of the stick. I sacrificed to my own detriment.

imagine the silence throughout the theater as dozens of strangers trapped in a large, dark room have to look at a 20 ft tall projection of food having kinky sex. there’s no raucous laughing, no. just a painful quiet, a sea of straight faces watching the food orgy unfold. the only comedy of the situation is that it’s about taking a type of media reserved for kids, animation, and making the cgi food do adult things like eat each other’s asses. a couple people might chuckle at first, but 10 seconds turns into 30, then 45, then a minute and a half, maybe longer. you realize in this span that dozens of people were paid to write this scene, to storyboard it, to animate it. seth rogan is a millionaire. you feel your $15 ticket burning in your pocket.