Upon writing my current thesis, I discovered the flow-concept of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, whose name I really can’t pronounce or type without copy and paste, so I will call him Mr. C. for the following. Flow is a state you can reach when there is an equilibrium like state between your skills for a task and …
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Monstrous Regiment
The following is an article I wrote for a seminar in my studies for media culture. It’s about monsters and gender identity. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen states, that the fear of the monster hides a need, that is difficult to articulate otherwise. He illustrates this point in the desire lying within the celebrations of Halloween, …
The raggedy cat
Remember the tiny owl button pattern? Well, yesterday I took this pattern and embroidered some kind of hairy stuff, cats have on their face and used mini-glass eyes, and it works too! The other glass eye was unfortunately destroyed, so I gave the cat a stitched on eye as well, which makes it look a …