Last week, my good Australian friend Kyle Morgan (cheers Kyle!) pointed me to this absolutely wonderful video, an excerpt from the TV Show of Conan O'Brien:
If you paint miniatures, you will have probably found this video absolutely hilarious! Because, seriously, I DO IDENTIFY MYSELF WITH THAT CONVERSTATION. XD
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Let's say you're dating.
Are you up front about the miniature figurines?
Do you come out with that right away?
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Hilarious as this is (I love Conan O'Brien), it really is a very common thing in our lives (nerd painter's lives), and very funny if you think about it. How many of you have hidden your nerdy hobby/addiction to your dates/girlfriends/boyfriends? Are you totally upfront like Ansel or do you wait until a second or third date to confess? :D
Ansel Elgort is a very young american actor who really happens to paint miniatures, it wasn't anything prepared for the show. Actually, he paints very well! I did some digging into this, and found (some of you may know this already) that he is a Golden Demon winner! He has won no less than 3 Golden Demons in the US (that we have record of)! Check them out!
He really is a very cool guy, promising actor and miniature painter? Wonderful combination!
I hope he has time to continue painting! Keep up Ansel! :)
2 comments:
Never had any problems with telling women about my hobby. Most of them realy show interest in it, since it is a more specialised interest and not an everyday hobby. Then again I only tend to date intelligent women. With maybe this one exception, a girl that had sex with me because I said I do "sculpting" and she simply wouldn't understand that it wasn't the artsy intellectual art-school type sculpting...so I thought: Oh well and went ahead ^_^ So yes, on the contrary, the miniature hobby isn't awkward to most women, it actually even can get you laid...
I don't hide the fact that I paint mini's I even tell my mates at work, let me tell you that is way harder than telling a potential partner.
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