Well its that time of year again… *Sigh* I’m not one of those guys who hates Christmas but I don’t enjoy it as much as I used to.

Maybe its because I believe it has gotten far too materialistic for my liking. It’s turned into a competition to see who can buy the biggest most expensive presents! I mean what happened to the spirit of christmas, a time to be kind to others, to help those in need.

Aside from that I did get some nice presents including some much appreciated money which will go towards some driving lessons or maybe a trip somewhere later this year.

One of my older brothers gave me a brilliant book (Well more like comic) of short sketches, titled “Sunny Side Down: A Collection of Tales of Mere Existence” By Lev Yilma

The “Tales of Mere Existence” series began in 2002 as a series of animated comics that were shown at film festivals. Each video in the “Tales of Mere Existence” series shows a series of static cartoons, which appear gradually as if being drawn by an invisible hand. Lev got the idea for the technique from the movie “The Mystery Of Picasso”(1956), which similarly showed Picasso’s paintings appearing from the other side. Lev writes, draws, films, edits, and narrates the “Tales” videos, which touch on mostly mundane aspects of life and have been described as “bleakly hilarious.”

I had previously seen some of Lev’s animations on his site and/or YouTube channel AgentXPQ and would highly recommend you check them out!