think normal 033: Masturbation

 

 

 

Art is not masturbation.

Masturbation is literally just self-gratification.

 

Just as you must know the aperture before Photoshop,

and understand the concrete before the abstract,

and have philosophical values before architecture,

and know the human body before fashion design.

 

 

 

 

A special life? A special person?

 

In this world overflowing with novelty and dominated by excellence,

true specialness is fundamentals and simplicity.

 

Seek simplicity before seeking nobility,

seek the everyday before seeking the special.

 

Look around you before gazing far away,

남에 대한 부러움보다는

자신에 대한 가치를 알아라

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young man of the '88 generation running a humble little cafe in some corner over there,

listening to the rain late in the evening...  rambling on, playing boss...