wat is our job?
wat do we do for fun?
wat are our children learning?
this short film stuck me – probably the music, I’d say.
yeah. the music. hit the feels a bit.
prolly the content too.
prolly cause im dealing with a couple of people in my life right now who want me to be just as miserable as them.
and they are very insistent.
and one drinks like a fish.
well, not true. drinks mor than a fish.
i must be mor normal.
but i am out of context.
i found myself this weekend sleeping in the backyard –
as a protest that didn’t quite make sense –
not everything i do works
fighting a sprinkler system that is there to just keep a lawn mor alive than its owner.
wow, you’ve done a great job with your lawn! —they say.
at the parties.
somehow,
over time,
the concept of ‘modern’ ended up being interpreted as everyone acks the same!
go on, ack!
i think it was disney who wanted that control.
an epcot center where we work and live in a preplanned fucking wagon wheel city thing.
we must be uniform!
like an army. an army of one. —never understood that term either.
the ‘way it is’ so we can all be alike!
uniformity is the cure all.
we must read all the same books,
be tested so we understand consistently,
dress alike, live alike and have that house that looks like the one next to it.
but if you’re lucky, the floor layout is a mirrored version.
same lawn tho
you’re crazy for not being like me!
—for decades i’ve heard this said in so many different ways.
recently i confusted
a colleague
by revealing a part of my life they never expected.
because i don’t do things like everyone else.
and i took a left tern with this particuaar idear.
and why not?
maybe me being like me can get you to question who you are. —for a change
maybe just a little bit of abby normal might be a goot thing.
in this lifetime.
—steve mehallo
Flommist Steve Mehallo is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, educator, foodie and gadfly. He is the creator and founder of FLOMM! Pictured up top: Fotoplastique feat. Val.
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