Well I can post the one sentence philosophy I've got... seeing as I'm somewhat lacking in the other departments. (Although this could sort of be considered something I learned about myself )

This is something I came up with a while back on one of those long boring nights of insomnia when i had absolutely no drive to do anything other than lie in bed and count ceiling tiles. At this point I had already been doing 3D stuff for a while along with very amateurish movie stuff.

As a side note, for those of you who don't know I have pretty much a love affair/fetish for pretty much any shit mother nature can dish out, I have an entire shelf lined with photography books of everything from volcanic landscapes to deep sea fish. So as part of that I had always been fascinated by the absolutely infinitesimally small and expansive detail that went into everything from pollen to blue whales and beyond.

As a side side note (I promise this will all make sense at the end). I have always been a fantasy/sci-fi guy. I was never really a fan of reality, you know take that for what you will. But I figure, "reality already exists so why should I live in it?" Which isn't to say that i dismiss it completely, alot of the art/work I do is based around either completely reinventing something/someplace or making it a whole lot cooler than it really is (for instance my current project, my final project for my first year of film school is creating a VFX shot of a 300 foot whale that lives in ocean trenches. but this one is in a massive ocean sized aquarium. So yah you know, hi this is me).

So anyways, back to insomnia central. I just got thinking about all of this, as one does. And I came up with this one phrase that I found just so absolutely perfect for everything I was doing and hoped to do. And I try to live by it in every piece of art that I do, any project I take on...etc etc etc.

"Finding the minutia of the nonexsistant."

Hopefully it's fairly self explanatory, but it's something I always try to strive for in everything I do, art or otherwise.

Wow, that ended up being a lot longer than I expected.

Damn, Zarban. You scary.

Pimpmobile?

I have this friend who once called me "self-obsessed," but went to great lengths to explain that he didn't mean it derisively. He was just saying he thought I live really deep in my own head.

If that's what you meant by "introspective to the point of narcissism," I get it.

I guess I neglected the one-sentence part of the instructions. If you forced me to put it in one sentence, I'd have to rip off a line of dialogue from "Deadwood," of all things. It's this: "Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live." I hate people who hold up quotes as if they're the distilled essence of profound wisdom, but the truth is that's my experience put about as succinctly as I could imagine doing it.

For more on that exact subject, read the post I linked to.

I think there's a word I don't know, or if there's not, there ought to be.

You know how sometimes you meet a chick (or a dude, for those of you into that) and you just really wanna nail her (or him, and here my white liberal male heteronormative guilt ends, so sort out the pronouns for yourself), and it's all physical attraction and hormones?

And then other times you maybe aren't viscerally attracted to a chick, but she's just really interesting and smart and she makes you think and even if you can't ever really see yourself hooking up with her, you just kinda wanna sit and talk with her all night?

I think that post made me feel that way about Teague. Only, y'know, not like boy-girl. Or … see, this is where there oughta be a word.

Good on you, son. Well said.