WELCOME TO 2012
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Ninja. What children’s drawings would look like if they were painted realistically (via The Monster Engine).
Such a cool idea to realise the vision of those who may not be able to completely communicate it themselves.
(Source: elezea.com)
New work from Douglas Coupland
Reminds me of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms but actually ring so true!
(Source: samwieck)
“ Last season on Mad Men, in the episode in which Don Draper writes his journal, the show featured its first-ever voice-over narration, which became a point of contention among critics on the Internet: “Somebody wrote, ‘Well, we learned one thing about Don — he’s not a good writer.’ Some of that was from somebody’s actual journal. And some of that was very important to me. And I was like, ‘You want to know what’s going on in Don’s head? He’s going to actually tell you.’ Some people were like, ‘You’re not allowed to do that. There’s no voice-over on the show.’ And I’m like, ‘Go fuck yourself. Go get your own fucking show. Don’t write on the Internet what I’m allowed to fucking do.’”
Weiner shouldn’t have to even say it but glad he does. Get your own show!
Is It Old?
“Before you make a complete fool of yourself when you send a link to your friends, colleagues or twitter followers, enter it here to make sure it’s fresh enough. “
The Internet of Everything always provides!
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everything about this is A+
Can I get a HELL YEAH?
(note - ignore the US part &/or sub something else in)
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“ Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. Those three things haven’t changed from my childhood. I know what I love, still, now. That’s a confidence. If you don’t know what you love, you are lost.”
Straightforward, wise.
(via 52books)
“ I have a theory — our job isn’t to lie to the audience, our job is to find the truth in the character. If we lie, we’re giving the audience a little pinch of poison. They won’t even know they ingested it. But if you lie again and again and again, all of a sudden, your audience is going, ‘This isn’t working for me.’ They just feel sick, and they turn you off.”
Bryan Cranston, quoted in a terrific NYT Magazine piece on Breaking Bad, which is about to start airing its fourth season. (via thebronzemedal)
Great perspective on story telling and universal themes - I love how they note that karma is like a character in the show.
This year’s 48 hour film competition was very different from last year’s - we went almost in the opposite direction with a team of 3 and a lot of constraints that helped us keep our story and goal direct - this included using minimal equipment and props as well as shooting on my iPhone 4.
Our writing process was really straightforward and the simplicity continued for the whole weekend:
- Friday night - we brainstormed and came up with our synopsis including a breakdown of key plot points we needed to cover
- Saturday morning - gathered additional props, sorted costumes, set and did some camera/sound tests
- Saturday afternoon - shooting
- Saturday evening - export, couple of sound pick-ups, editing
- Sunday - editing - complete by late afternoon
My main involvement - and really the only thing I really like about the process - is the writing part. I like the constraints/idea starters of the competition and my team were awesome to talk things through with. We didn’t script it line by line which worked well because both Tineke and I had experience from improv working that way. We had a three pager to work off when we were shooting and as needed, I worked through key statements our heroine had to say and had a couple of small ‘cheat sheets’ that T. would stick on the wall or just out of camera to remind her if she needed.
We’re really happy with what we created - it came second in our heat - and we’re ready to kill it next year!
