GregoryPanic

C.S. Lewis has a wonderful essay on this exact thing. One might argue the Narnia series to be bordering on an etiquette lecture at times, but it was already an excellent epic.

On Three Ways of Writing for Children http://mail.scu.edu.tw/~jmklassen/scu99b/chlitgrad/3ways.pdf

My favorite quote:

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

If you actually pay attention to the movie and dissect what's going on, the movie is much smarter than people give it credit for. They sensationalized a bunch of things to make it flashier to watch, but there's plenty in that movie that's legit.

It's also just a great movie.

I would just like to thank you for posting this and reddit for making sure it's the top. Claims like this drive me insane, because even reasonably intelligent people fall for "we have smart people and studies, trust us" without ever digging in to determine if the science actually supports the claim.

Really interesting to see an artist talk about transitioning mediums and how something as simple as hair can play totally different just because of it being on a screen.

I do like you more without the spikes on camera. As a member of the computer security community I often see many new or lesser skilled people emphasizing their looks or weirdness trying to fit in or seem fun and approachable, as opposed to the 40-50 year old father running a workshop spending his time selflessly helping people for little recognition (in a polo and jeans with a conservative haircut).

It's stupid, because as a magician and social engineer with spikes, I saw you as kind of a hack. When I started watching your newer stuff, you are clearly not, and I feel stupid for having been affected by the looks. And I even know better, because I spent years training as an actor. Wearing a different kinds of glasses is enough to get people to feel differently about you from the start, why wouldn't hair.

Anyway cheers, love your work, love what you do, keep on keeping on.

I've heard it helps with gut growth, so probably.