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Mental Health Break

By The Daily Dish
Dec 11 2008, 4:20 AM ET

By Patrick Appel
As a former fine artist, I may appreciate this more than you do:


Colours from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.

[Update]

A reader writes:

Please don't condescend to us who don't call ourselves artists, as if we have a somehow lower, degraded aesthetic sense.

Obviously, people who aren't artists can appreciate this film. But when I watch the video, as someone who formerly thought he would be a painter, it reminds me of the thousands of hours I've spent in the studio. I can almost smell the paint. Re-reading that line, I see how it comes off as pretentious, but it was meant more as an apology for being self-indulgent.



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