Unusual interview

[yakalskovich]

Sorry, I'm spamming the flist today. But Der Spiegel has an interview with Shaun Tan where he answers in pictures*.



He has a monster that eats his leftover ideas! How immensely useful. Both the Nazgul and I could use one of those before our stacks of things to do and books to read pile up beyond the limits of the solar system...


*questions are in German, but his answers are drawings, universal as his wordless graphic novel 'The Arrival'. Also, he has a Wikipedia article at last.

Comments

[yakalskovich]

I think I'm going to iconise the monster that munches leftover ideas. It's such a lovely, whimsical idea!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

And it's name shall be - ALZHEIMERS *snort* sorry, how about - memoryloss? No, it'd need to wipe clean even the memory of the memories and shall be named - reboot? I swear I'm not insane, just briefly back into my rapid-trainofthought-typing, knowingly silly.

[yakalskovich]

It's not about forgetting everything, but simply letting go of the ideas he didn't do anything about. That's what I like about it. The Nazgul and I tend to have too many ideas and not enough day to make them real.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Yes, that's what I meant with mem-of-mem whipe, I could do with that. It's like spilled milk. Good night, I hope!

[yakalskovich]

Spilled milk, exactly. Or say, spilled rice. Some of it you can pick up and save (the useful ideas you put into practice), but some of it will just hang around in the crannies and corners for ages.