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Lev Yilmaz
American
Artist
Born:
1973
Comedy
Home
Me
Thought
Time
You
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When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'
Lev Yilmaz
Truth
You
Remember
Comedy
Girl
Pain
Down
Kicked
Neither
Cartoon
Charlie
Charlie Brown
Brown
Kissed
Football
Red
Absurdity
Get
Where
Little
Root
Peanuts
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
Lev Yilmaz
Positive
Work
Day
Me
Balance
Try
Negative
Reading
Assumption
Having
More
Stuff
Attitudes
Particularly
Operate
Balanced
Because
Than
Just
Anyone
Anyway
Personally
Watching
Amuse
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
Lev Yilmaz
Pure
Too
Other
Pants
Part
Wrong
Idea
Sort
Doing
Go
Brain
Off
Than
Get
Just
Whenever
Anything
Fancy
Expression
Things
Shut
Start
We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.
Lev Yilmaz
Funny
News
World
Thought
Made
Parents
Everything
TV
Find
TV Shows
Totally
Remarkable
Look
Were
Encouraged
Quite
Skeptical
Them
Us
Really
Shows
Now
Watched
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
Lev Yilmaz
Time
Thought
Own
Everybody
Would
Invented
Animation
Performance
Supposed
Sort
Became
Altogether
Same
So Much Time
Happen
Much
Niche
Thing
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