bro randall's 3-y-o nephew i think it was made a spongebob out of twizzlers- he's been fascinated for weeks, apparently, with the way spongebob is drawn, asking anyone old enough to know how to draw worth anything, to draw spongebob for him, and studying the drawing process intently as the grown-ups draw- getting inches away from the paper, watching and studying the path of the pen as it moves across the paper, flipping his head back to study the face of the adult as it does the drawing, shifting his attention back and forth. and finally a week ago completed it- in pull-and-peel pieces, he executed his version of spongebob squarepants.
note the length of the legs- to a three-year-old, the world is very tall, legs are very long. even when he's seen grown-ups draw spongebob with those short legs, he's "corrected" for perspective, changing the incorrect grownup version of the world into what he knows is right- legs are long, man. if a grownup draws spongebob with short legs i know to correct that. this cross of obtaining new information but conforming it to fit your worldview is- well, put that way, i'm making it sound like something adults do too, but there's a gap in logic there I've only seen in animals really. you flip the pool sideways and superstitiously expect it to stay full of water, because that's what pools are, full of water.
that reference/idea right there, comes from this: first saw this video a few years ago- it's been one of my greatest flashes of insight into the understanding of animal psychology. this bulldog Gus decides it'd be better to have the doggy-kiddie-pool indoors, for some reason. and he's smart enough to figure out that turning the pool sideways is going to fit it through the sliding glass door, he doesn't plan far ahead enough to realize that turning the pool sideways is going to drain it of all water.
others just watched the video and said, animals sure are funny. but i watched it and it blew my mind.
i call it superstition, like i mentioned, this insistence that if i've seen things one way that must be the way they are. superstition. the lack of understanding of actual cause and effect, substitution of your own. the way pets feel bad when there's a mess, not because they feel guilty, but because there's an if-then there that if there's a mess they're going to get punished. superstition. like my dream of being an animal, and getting into the pantry, making a mess but on my human level knowing that it was the humans' fault and being unafraid, like the fox knowing it needed to be tamed.
so when i say that we do not grow up, but we are tamed, that is what i mean.
o and speaking of the little prince, i found netflix also on the tv, available from the blu-ray player;*- i watched a bunch of chopped and an episode of cutthroat kitchen, on in the background as i did graphic design homework. i'm not in the position from really here until the end of november when we're finished with the outlet, discounting thanxgiffin break, to watch too much tv/movies in a too-dedicated manner, so i didn't actually watch the little prince, but i definitely saw it on there.
zootopia is on netflix, and i haven't seen that since it left theaters back in july. it's been longer from my last time till now, as it was from the first time till the last. march 4th till july 7th, inclusive, 18 weeks so 18*7 = 126; july 7th till november 15th, inclusive, 19 weeks minus 1, (19*7)-1 = 133. holy crap i haven't seen zootopia in over a third of a year; holy crap that fact is something i'm saying holy crap about; holy crap i averaged, let's see 30 viewings over 126 days so one viewing per 4.6 days. (and some goal in the end is to have an average of one viewing per day over the course of a year. i am woozinated.)
*in my attempt to get the cable to turn on so i could have a little disney channel or something on in the background as i worked (milo murphy's law is, like, the best new thing on tv) and of course catch abc tuesday in the evening, speechless and designated survivor and the stuff on in between (modern family is quite good)** i couldn't get the cable to work at first so i explored the blu ray player options. the cable wasn't working because apparently the hdmi cords are finicky, but now both the bluray and the cable box are hooked up so you can just toggle between them, ish (i say ish because you have to hit the input button on the side of the tv and so you have to go through the other input options if you want to go from cable to blu ray player.)
**(i am noticeably not watching tv right now tho. tuesday is the due date for science class lab notebooks to be scanned in and i'm writing my observations from lab so that i can scan my notebook)
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