Love this, thanks for sharing the article. Related note, the fantastic book "At The Existentialist Cafe" by Sarah Bakewell, about a particularly important cafe in Paris.
As a café lover, this is just beautiful art. There is something about sitting in a café on an afternoon with coffee and strangers around that is oddly stimulating in a way impossible elsewhere. Also, the café layout and the mention of Seattle reminds of Frasier (which is Seattle based comedy show about obnoxious art lovers, if you haven't checked it out). Just discovered your substack. Though I am not an artist, I want to learn pencil sketching to explain complex concepts. Maybe watching you will give me the inspiration! P.S: Seattle is amazing.
"You'll get reimbursed for that."
"How?"
"Just bill it to your employer. These big companies, they can just write it off!"
"What?"
"You know they write stuff off all the time, Jerry! They just ... write it off."
"Do you even know what a write-off is?"
#seinfeld
Schitts Creek also did a hilarious version of the write off line 🙂. Also, love people watching on evesdropping in cafes
this post made me nostalgic. I'm reminded of this piece from the new yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism :)
Love this, thanks for sharing the article. Related note, the fantastic book "At The Existentialist Cafe" by Sarah Bakewell, about a particularly important cafe in Paris.
As a café lover, this is just beautiful art. There is something about sitting in a café on an afternoon with coffee and strangers around that is oddly stimulating in a way impossible elsewhere. Also, the café layout and the mention of Seattle reminds of Frasier (which is Seattle based comedy show about obnoxious art lovers, if you haven't checked it out). Just discovered your substack. Though I am not an artist, I want to learn pencil sketching to explain complex concepts. Maybe watching you will give me the inspiration! P.S: Seattle is amazing.
I absolutely love Frasier. I hope you can find inspiration in my ink lines. I am sure it will give you some good ideas. Welcome to the SneakyArt Post!
I already have got some! Economics and climate change science with pencil art would be wonderful. For now, I am going to fake it with Excalidraw :)
It would be! Keep pushing in the direction of fun. 👍
I just visited Seattle, including Pike Place for the first time. It will be perfect to draw sneakily. Excited for you!
Yay, I'm glad to hear that! 🙌🏽
"Hang on, I need to take this," he said, and leapt at his buzzing phone.
It was a robocall but he let it play out, glad for the brief respite it gave him from the person across the table. He plotted his great escape.