Month: March 2026

Lost and Found

Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Totoro perfectly captures the wonder and innocence of childhood.

I saw a little girl eating ice cream the other day. She was so attentive — diligently milking her culinary experience, savouring every moment almost frame by frame. It made me think of how most of us, as we became adults, simply forgot how to stay in the present. Oh, the joy we miss of what it was like to be young and innocent! This is what I think we’ve lost in playing by the rules, in our drive to succeed and improve, to get more and achieve faster. We don’t even stop to wonder why or how life became so routine. Instead, we abide and just reel from the fatigue and mental stress of a remaining future that seems to slip away faster than it should…

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Announcement: Moving to Substack

The Animated Spirit is moving to Substack! After writing and posting here for over 15 years — completely non-monetized — I’m now moving to a new platform with the hope of greater and easier readership. Since independently hosted webpages — like this one — are no longer economically or practically viable, I felt it was time for a change. Although I’ve contemplated closing this blog completely, I felt there’s still more to say as an artist speaking to, and in promotion of, art and artists in what is now a rapidly changing technological environment.

And don’t worry; the new site will continue to be free and feature, for the first time, an opportunity to engage and leave comments (an option I’m willingly experimenting with unless bots/trolls begin to ruin the atmosphere). Furthermore, all of the original essays, demos and articles I’ve made here over the years — over 260 of them — are being exported over to the new platform, even as this website will continue to exist for the time being.

I hope that you will migrate over and subscribe over there. Again, it is free and easy — even easier for me, so I hope to post far more regularly. I thank all of you who have come here to visit in the past and hope you’ll continue to frequent it at the new location.

See you there! link: https://animatedspiritblog.substack.com/