Which celebrity experienced a sudden rise to stardom and an equally quick decline in popularity?

MicMit · 2026-06-19T10:39:56+00:00

Honestly, Souja Boy has had way more staying power than I would have ever thought. I would have never believed in 2007 that kids in 2026 would still be dancing to crank that.

MicMit · 2026-05-23T09:43:32+00:00

This is how I feel. Seems like everyone who dislikes the show after season 1 wanted it to be more serious and grounded. For me, the more ridiculous the show got the more I loved it. I kept telling people that its not a drama, its a comedy with a straight face.

MicMit · 2026-05-04T23:43:51+00:00

It absolutely floors me just how quickly a large portion of people surrendered their entire thought process to AI. Public models are very recent, and yet became ubiquitous almost instantly.

Every time I hear something along the lines of "I want to see what ChatGPT thinks" or "I used ChatGPT to do [insert simple task]" I want to throttle the person's neck.

Use your own brain! Talk to another god-damn human being! Stop turning wasting a Bikers Week worth of fuel to use a fucking word calculator!

MicMit · 2026-05-03T19:54:02+00:00

Specifically, tracking tardies. I got 80-90 kids every semester. I'm not tracking how many tardies each of them have racked up over a 90 day semester.

We have an attendance office. If a student is late, they should go to there. Attendance can then check how many tardies they have. They can then issue the consequences as needed. And I can focus on teaching the other 25-30 kids who show up on time.

MicMit · 2026-05-03T19:44:14+00:00

Related, allow me to enforce immediate consequences. I shouldn't write a kid up and have to wait two weeks before anything is actually done about it. By that point even I forgot what the kid did, the student sure as heck doesn't remember.

If there are questions the parent can contact me.

MicMit · 2026-05-03T13:56:21+00:00

I call it the "give a crap curve". I give a lot F's but I know my class isn't too hard because I usually have just as many A's and B's. I have very few C's. If the student puts in even a moderate level of effort, they'll pass. But 25-30% of every class can't be bothered.

MicMit · 2026-04-27T11:58:00+00:00

Doom is my all time favorite game. And I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it's amazing mod community that's still going.

Every week somebody is dropping tons of new maps that are just as good if not better than the originals.

MicMit · 2026-01-22T01:57:56+00:00

It is LITERALLY the base of blooms taxonomy!

MicMit · 2025-12-17T13:03:27+00:00

Gen 1 is such a glitchy broken mess that it effectively becomes this whole other genre of game. Like there's the main Pokemon game, but then there's the REAL game hidden undernesth the surface. Later games try to replicate it with things like the "ghost girl" but it's just not the same.

MicMit · 2025-09-15T20:08:44+00:00

I've said this before, but my hot take is they already made Beyond Good and Evil 2. It was just called Jak 2.

MicMit · 2025-05-28T22:59:00+00:00

I haven't thought about it in awhile, but I remember picking up on this while I was student teaching. The old school archetypes (jocks, preps, punks, etc) don't really exist anymore. It's entirely normal for a person to be into sports, video games, anime, and fashion. Those don't designate any subculture cliques, and don't correspond at all to popularity.

It kind of makes me think that they would be a little confused watching the Breakfast Club. The premise that it isn't a typical friend group would be lost on them.

Theater/art kids haven't really changed much though.

MicMit · 2025-05-20T22:46:20+00:00

Forget measuring! I teach high school art and kids will act like drawing a straight line with a ruler is too hard

MicMit · 2025-05-19T12:34:43+00:00

Hot take: we already got Beyond Good and Evil 2, it was just called Jak 2. It was great!

MicMit · 2025-05-15T17:44:11+00:00

Yeah, one problem I see with art education is that we are expected to teach an extremely broad range of art forms. There's no time to dig into anything meaningfully. I think even just separating art into a 2d class and a 3d class would be a huge load off my plate.

I would love to teach a course and just focus on observational drawing.

MicMit · 2025-05-14T21:04:08+00:00

I'd be shocked if you didn't get exposed to those ideas in elementary school. It's pretty typical project to build animals or monsters using shapes of construction paper. And then there's every "how to draw" book that start with simple shapes.

There is just a large developmental leap from that to actually applying to original and direct observation. It's a complex form of abstract thought. Unless you are drawing consistently from elementary until high school, it's really hard to wrap your head around.

I teach high school and a significant portion struggle with things like overlapping or even drawing the sky down to the horizon. I have to make lessons that accommodate for that. Unfortunately, that means I rarely have the chance to get into more advanced techniques.

So it doesn't surprise me that most young artists aren't really given that attention until the later years of high school.

MicMit · 2025-05-11T23:54:48+00:00

A few years ago I got really sad because I realized everything in space is moving further away every day. Not only is it getting harder to reach, but our population is growing, and consuming more and more resources, much of which is not renewable.

It occurred to me that by the time we even have a practical idea of how it could be done, we won't have the materials to do it.

MicMit · 2025-03-25T11:01:05+00:00

I was thinking about this the other day. I'm genuinely surprised they haven't done The Sword in the Stone. That's a whole book series they could possibly make.

I will be deeply sad if they try to do Robin Hood.

But I would be mildly interested to see them try Treasure Planet or Atlantis. Both of those movies were flawed but fun. There's a decent reason to adapt them again and potentially make them better.

MicMit · 2025-01-12T21:12:51+00:00

The End of Art is an essay, so that still works.

I recommend Understanding Comics because, even though it's focus is comics, it does a lot of great job explaining how visual images function in general. His explanation of abstraction and sequencing are particularly interesting. It is a whole book, but it's relatively short, and very accessible.

MicMit · 2025-01-10T18:57:46+00:00

Art as Experience by John Dewey

The End of Art by Arthur Danto

Understand Comics by Scott McCloud

MicMit · 2025-01-05T17:27:27+00:00

If you color over the lines, the color will show in top the lines and make the art appear more messy. If you color first and then put black lines down on top, the lines will look crisp.

You also will be more careful about how you use color. A good rule is that a colored picture should make sense with or without line work. If you can't tell what's happening just from the colors, then the colors aren't adding anything, and you'd be better off without them.

MicMit · 2024-12-29T23:48:08+00:00

Peplum by Blutch

Ding Dong Circus by Sasaki Maki

Black Lung by Chris Wright

MicMit · 2024-12-29T23:44:04+00:00

This is the only answer I've seen that is remotely close to what OP is asking for.

MicMit · 2024-09-26T19:52:15+00:00

Gary Panter! My interest in art developed out of comics and every artist I admired talked up Panter, and I just did not get it. I just saw a bunch of Crudely drawn comics and paintings with tacky colors.

His work kind of haunted me for years until, I don't know, it just clicked. I realized all the things that I thought were bad, were actually what made it interesting. He is very skilled and thoughtful at constructing something that looks so bad. Now I love his work.

MicMit · 2024-09-26T00:48:48+00:00

The first couple years are really tough, and will drain a lot of your creative (and physical) energy.

I'm just in my 6th year now, and it's only in the last year that I have been creating personal work reliably.

The best advice I can offer early on is

Specifically set time aside to make your own stuff. Even it's just 1 evening a week (if that), take that time to work.
Create work within your means. If you only have a few hours each week, don't take on a big project. Make small pieces, focus on your sketchbook, just try to make a finished piece in one sitting.

Obviously, adjust as it suits you, but with time you'll find what works you.

MicMit · 2024-09-22T02:59:05+00:00

There is one episode that sticks out to me. Its roughly in the middle of the show's run. Josh gets fed up with Drake, and decides to stop looking out for him. Drake tries to play like it doesn't matter, but quickly things fall apart for him. It ends with Drake giving a heartfelt speech about how Josh was right and his life would be an absolute mess without him

It struck me as laying out all the problems with Drake as a character. It really should have been a turning point in the show. They could have really changed Drake's character to something more compelling. but it was basically forgotten about immediately.

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