{"id":1123,"date":"2015-06-21T22:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T05:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2016-05-12T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T04:24:52","slug":"inside-out-and-subconscious-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/inside-out-and-subconscious-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Out and Subconscious Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pete<\/a><\/p>\n

We just saw Pete Docter’s brilliant and sweet Inside Out<\/i>, which I highly recommend to anyone with a functioning heart and brain. As a sometime student of human emotion, and a fan of Paul Ekman’s work, I was impressed with how well tuned the five main characters were to the real mechanics of emotions. There wasn’t a moment in that film that didn’t ring true. If you haven’t seen it yet, go already!<\/p>\n

\"Subconscious<\/a><\/p>\n

For those who liked the “who’s driving this thing?” angle of the movie, I want to point out another body of work that I’ve admired for years: Tim Eagan’s Subconscious Comics<\/a><\/i>, which ran in a Santa Cruz newspaper from 1981-2000, and appeared in book form as The Collected Subconscious<\/a><\/i>. It’s a more adult and irreverent take on the same subject, where instead of the five cardinal emotions at the controls, it’s a hairless chimpanzee in tighty-whities known only as “The Boss”, surrounded by an entourage of anthropomorphized neuroses. Definitely not for kids, but lots of fun for grown-ups. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We just saw Pete Docter’s brilliant and sweet Inside Out, which I highly recommend to anyone with a functioning heart and brain. As a sometime student of human emotion, and a fan of Paul Ekman’s work, I was impressed with how well tuned the five main characters were to the real mechanics of emotions. There … Continue reading Inside Out and Subconscious Comics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-books","tag-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}