Tag: Art

Okay Doomer: An Analysis of the TV Show ‘New Girl’

The cover image for the blog post. It depicts the cast of 'New Girl'. The character Jessica Day (Zooey Deschanel) stands in her pajamas with a look of wonder on her face. The rest of the cast stands behind her, smiling.

Okay Doomer: An Analysis of the TV Show ‘New Girl’

Published by Jonathan Furneaux on December 19, 2020

I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed. New Girl tries to be many things: a situational comedy about what it’s like being the only female roommate; a PG-rated version of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia; a will-they-won’t-they romantic comedy, featuring three guys; a representation of a school teacher amidst millennial doomer culture. On many of these fronts, I think it succeeds. For instance, New Girl plants Jess in the lives of…

Break Your Paintbrush

Break Your Paintbrush

Published by Jonathan Furneaux on May 14, 2020

Why Limitations Are Helpful You want to create, and you’ve been doing it your whole life. As a child, you drew pictures without worrying what others thought of them. You told stories with toys. As adults, however, our desire to create becomes complicated. The joy of simply doing is lost, and replaced with a host of anxieties and frustrations, as our imagination becomes better than our skill or ability to…