I fall into Dale Carnegie’s 1937 book How to Win Friends and Influence People and am mentored by the author, who gives me advice and some tools to help me deal with people. I consider every part of the book How to Win Friends and Influence People as material for the animation: The words. The author. The style. The physical object. I also see myself – the reader – as a material. The project plays with the self-help genre by acting out Dale Carnegie’s book. Is it ok to not be ok?

Funded (in part) by a director's grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT and the Peter de Florez Fund for Humor