Life can seem tough at times, even though in reality we have probably never had it better or easier. Charles Hutton, AKA Insta-Chaz, knows this, and he likes nothing better than to poke fun at our petty angst with his brilliantly simple Post-It note cartoons.
“A lot of articles that publish my work point out that I make jokes about ‘the struggles of adulthood’ which I’ve always found a bit insulting, because I’ve just been making observations about my life - I wasn’t aware I was struggling until those bastards pointed it out,” Chaz told Bored Panda with a laugh.
The Australian cartoonist actually began his career as an architect, which comes out sometimes in his cartoons in the funny flowcharts and graphs that he cleverly uses to get his jokes across. His cartoonist career took off after his former collegues encouraged him to put his procrastination doodles up on Instagram. “I do miss architecture a bit, I think I probably miss being involved in serious projects, as fun and rewarding as drawing some funny comics is, designing a building is a bit more impressive and lasting,” he told us. “The flip side of this is how long projects take to come to fruition, and I quite enjoy the relatively quick project turnover that comes with making stupid jokes for a living.”
Now based in Berlin, after stints in London and New York, Chaz has over 100,000 Instagram followers and a book on the shelves. We have featured his previous Post-It cartoons before, as well as these hilarious observations about alcohol, and despite his procrastination habit he is an incredibly prolific artist. “When it comes to work I’m a bit all or nothing,” he explained. “So if I’ve got a deadline for a commision or a book, I tend to work obsessively starting at 6am, work through till the afternoon, go for a walk and that’s when I load up on ideas for the next day, which I’ll email to myself and then start the whole process the next day.”
“Then other times you’ll sit in front of a blank page for 4 hours, give up, and head to the pub. I still find a lot of joy in what I do, and yeah, it does sometimes feel like a bit of a chore at times - but I’d much rather have this chore than any other.”
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Ha ha ha haa!!! I love this one! But I'd add one more. Default settings is to automatically upgrade energy storage media under outer layer, which takes forever to remove unless product is used very vigorously.
I have a FB account at work that I use solely for logging into one single news site. I don't use either at home. Last week I received an email at work from FB notifying me that I might like to be friends with my neice, who I didn't even know was on FB. I have no idea how FB made the connection unless they rifled through the CC field of my email contacts, and worked out that I used the same email account on two different computers.
Dude, that's exactly what they did. Companies would have been doing this decades ago as well, if they had access to the computing power necessary to organize all the information they could passively collect.
Load More Replies...Still trying to figure out how an add popped up on my office PC for the exact thing I spoke to my father on the phone about two days prior.....
They are listening. I always get ads for things I've talked about, at home, at yoga class, or at restaurants. The phone most definitely listens to me and then pitches commercials at me based on what I said. {in a few instances, I got ads for something I THOUGHT about. How tf do they do that?}
Load More Replies...A similar thing happened to me, FB suggested my current and former bosses as possible friends, I didn't know they had FB accounts, I use a different name for my own account and I was completely baffled, until a friend who works with social media explained that if I ever checked FB from my phone it most likely accessed my phone contacts and matched with the bosses who probably had their phone numbers in FB, even if in private mode. Yes, kinda scary.
I get loads of adds for things I have just bought, things that last a lifetime, so would not need to get one any more
I recently had a face to face conversation with my mother where she told me about some online subscription service my S-I-L uses. I'd never heard of it. For the next week, there were ads for it on every webpage I visited. It made me wonder if Gooogle records us through our phones.
Its connections to connections on facebook. You'd be surprised who is mutual friends with a mutual friend. Its true we're only 6 degrees from separation.
Apparently the Canadians are now considering a wall, and they want Trump to pay for it...
This took me too long to understand. Thought classroom. Cafeteria. Movies. Finally got it
Never. I frighten people enough when I am sober. My inhibitions are in place for your safety. (don't drink coz it tastes foul)
Predictive text was fun on my old phone. It couldn't spell my dog's name but had no problem with "orgasmatron" (the name we used for my friend's inbuilt nerve stimulation device)
And that, kids, is how democracy died and crazy-arsed narcissistic authoritarianism became the national system of governance...
Go alone at a time when it will be mostly empty, scowl at anyone trying to sit in your row, enjoy (apart from the smell). Have not been able to do this since 2001 ( firstly lack of funds, now can afford it but can't face it) Only 5 people in cinema last time I went
No no no, cutlery up of course so soapy drip fall down to the handles. It is YOU who are monsters, not I!!!
Any film, any time. Got depression, so embarrassing crying, shaking etc likely to hit whenever I am tired or out. The more inconvenient the time, the more likely it is to happen (like giggling at a funeral)
We have way more toothbrushes than people but I don't dare throw any of them away...
What else am I supposed to do while I poop? The best conversations start in the bathroom.
What part of your like would be American cheese in a spray can? British cheese in a squeezy tube?
But what if your work and their work are the same? Or you live in the same building/block?
When you are starving, it does not matter... There. The final comment for the last Post it #144. The End.
Funny except for the Trump ones. Making fun of him is old hat already.
I don't have time to go through all 15 pages, but I hope they have the one that compares the different levels of sleep with covers, without covers and with covers, but one leg out ...
Funny except for the Trump ones. Making fun of him is old hat already.
I don't have time to go through all 15 pages, but I hope they have the one that compares the different levels of sleep with covers, without covers and with covers, but one leg out ...