Watching Things Being Done

Great essay by Dan Brooks:

People love to watch the video in which an unknown artist makes drawing a hand look easy, but they also love the pictures in which ordinary people make it look hard. Failure is funny, especially in this case, which has primed us with the plausible claim that anyone can draw a woman’s hand before yanking us back to the truth that basically no one can draw anything at all.

The Pleasure of Watching Others Confront Their Own Incompetence