Not exactly autobiographical — I got a few standard piercings a month ago (for the record, they hurt roughly three times as much as a papercut in duration and magnitude), and I recently felt the itch to maybe add one more. This was the immediate resulting train of thought. Seriously, Marvel, do you really need to designate all your evil henchmen by giving them lip piercings and full body tattoo coverage and stripper boots and leather short shorts over fishnets? Even the dudes? Especially the dudes?
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Not exactly autobiographical — I got a few standard piercings a month ago (for the record, they hurt roughly three times as much as a papercut in duration and magnitude), and I recently felt the itch to maybe add one more. This was the immediate resulting train of thought.

Seriously, Marvel, do you really need to designate all your evil henchmen by giving them lip piercings and full body tattoo coverage and stripper boots and leather short shorts over fishnets? Even the dudes? Especially the dudes?

Well, I’ve always wanted to try parkour and it finally happened. Crazy fun! I was surprised to find my body still knew how to dive, vault, and roll around without hurting itself after five consecutive years of being a fat, cheese-block eating, completely stationary compsci nerd / software engineer. Forgot how great an exercise high feels. And then there was the burning next day microtear soreness in muscles I forgot existed. It took five solid minutes to hobble down three flights of stairs this morning, doing most of the work by dragging myself along the bannister with my arms one step at a time and hoping none of the neighbors saw me, but I know I am gonna feel freaking awesome in about three days and several gallons of water. Also maybe some steaks. My favorite thing about parkour in theory is that it’s basically kinesthetic problem solving (though significantly more conceptually easy than say, freshman physics at MIT). Timing and planning things for an optimal transition to the next move, much like speedcubing. Footwork. That sort of thing. This was a group class, and it was kinda interesting to deconstruct different people’s movement styles and figure out which parts I could apply. As a basic example, the lankier people universally preferred Kong vaulting (push down with hands, legs swing between arms), while I (the shortest person in the class) side vaulted whenever possible, which completely makes sense given the different torques produced by our different length bodies. Also some interesting variation in jumps and rolls. I will continue to sociopathically analyze in future classes.
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Well, I’ve always wanted to try parkour and it finally happened. Crazy fun! I was surprised to find my body still knew how to dive, vault, and roll around without hurting itself after five consecutive years of being a fat, cheese-block eating, completely stationary compsci nerd / software engineer. Forgot how great an exercise high feels.

And then there was the burning next day microtear soreness in muscles I forgot existed. It took five solid minutes to hobble down three flights of stairs this morning, doing most of the work by dragging myself along the bannister with my arms one step at a time and hoping none of the neighbors saw me, but I know I am gonna feel freaking awesome in about three days and several gallons of water. Also maybe some steaks.

My favorite thing about parkour in theory is that it’s basically kinesthetic problem solving (though significantly more conceptually easy than say, freshman physics at MIT). Timing and planning things for an optimal transition to the next move, much like speedcubing. Footwork. That sort of thing.

This was a group class, and it was kinda interesting to deconstruct different people’s movement styles and figure out which parts I could apply. As a basic example, the lankier people universally preferred Kong vaulting (push down with hands, legs swing between arms), while I (the shortest person in the class) side vaulted whenever possible, which completely makes sense given the different torques produced by our different length bodies. Also some interesting variation in jumps and rolls. I will continue to sociopathically analyze in future classes.

ikrans. god they’re so pretty. why is the creature design for avatar so good? and the movement design. and also the language design. i’m a sucker for good world building. any movie with a well-designed fantasy world, i am probably giving zero attention to the plot on the first watch. also a sucker for that extra set of eyes but not sure how useful they are. 10-15 minute speed sketches. it’s great what you can do with just a plain black brush on opacity control and a variably sized eraser.
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ikrans. god they’re so pretty. why is the creature design for avatar so good? and the movement design. and also the language design. i’m a sucker for good world building. any movie with a well-designed fantasy world, i am probably giving zero attention to the plot on the first watch.

also a sucker for that extra set of eyes but not sure how useful they are.

10-15 minute speed sketches. it’s great what you can do with just a plain black brush on opacity control and a variably sized eraser.