To be fair to Theo, it is a much different medium. He might not have recognized Todd’s design work as creative if his personal idea of creativity involves making the final product with his own hands.
There are so many different ways to be creative. Some people might be really good at taking pictures, or making sand castles, but can’t draw to save their life. Drawing can also be a medium where mistakes can be edited more easily than carving wood. If you accidentally take too much off, it isn’t really easy to put it back and still have it look nice. If you are drawing with a pencil, or on a computer, you can more easily erase and edit things around if you don’t like it, rather than having to start completely over with a new piece of wood. Stuff that is harder to edit adds an extra level of difficulty to perfectionists that are not a fan of “happy little accidents” as Bob Ross would call them.
Good for Todd for calling out Theo and Theo for giving a genuine adult apology. Formal courtesy is even more important between family (IMO) than strangers.
I can’t find the page for it but at one point Grandpa showed the girls the chair Todd made when he was about their age. It was a pretty ramshackle job.
Yesterday’s page references that. “I’m trying to do better at my chair than Dad did…” and then Grandpa commenting to the girls about how Todd never had a “strong calling for creatives.”
I am kinda glad that Todd called his dad out on that.
Apology drinks are best drinks!
Thank you Todd. Give him hell.
Ah, this was about the designer-producer conflict. “Anyone can draw a pot, the creative bit is throwing the clay.”
Um– I thought I was quoting someone there, but a Google search turned up nothing…
I love the added drama. “Am I not creative enough for you, Father?”
Todd is his daughter’s father.
It runs uphill in the family, does it? 😉
Wonder if this exchange had always been on the menu, or if it got added just ‘cuz people pointed out that an architect is creative? lol
It’s the extra touch that really makes it, yeah.
Hmmm. Todd has good taste in whiskey.
Yes, he just went up a few notches in my estimation (I had to get out an awl to make the notches though).
Still isn’t a chair.
To be fair to Theo, it is a much different medium. He might not have recognized Todd’s design work as creative if his personal idea of creativity involves making the final product with his own hands.
There are so many different ways to be creative. Some people might be really good at taking pictures, or making sand castles, but can’t draw to save their life. Drawing can also be a medium where mistakes can be edited more easily than carving wood. If you accidentally take too much off, it isn’t really easy to put it back and still have it look nice. If you are drawing with a pencil, or on a computer, you can more easily erase and edit things around if you don’t like it, rather than having to start completely over with a new piece of wood. Stuff that is harder to edit adds an extra level of difficulty to perfectionists that are not a fan of “happy little accidents” as Bob Ross would call them.
“No ice.” There’s enough ice in Todd’s stare to make it snow in the Sahara.
I love this comment.
Good for Todd for calling out Theo and Theo for giving a genuine adult apology. Formal courtesy is even more important between family (IMO) than strangers.
Can anyone point me to the episode this is referencing? I don’t remember it and feel like I’m missing something!
I wouldn’t mind a reminder either…
I can’t find the page for it but at one point Grandpa showed the girls the chair Todd made when he was about their age. It was a pretty ramshackle job.
Yesterday’s page references that. “I’m trying to do better at my chair than Dad did…” and then Grandpa commenting to the girls about how Todd never had a “strong calling for creatives.”
If I were Todd, I’d be mad, too.
“Ice has no place in an apology drink”? – Ice has no place in Laphroaig, no matter what the occasion for drinking it