January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“Last season on Mad Men, in the episode in which Don Draper writes his journal,...”
– Matthew Weiner (via thebronzemedal)
Weiner shouldn’t have to even say it but glad he does. Get your own show!
October 2011
4 posts
Is It Old? →
rooreynolds:
“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!
“Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I...”
– Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian. (via thebronzemedal)
Straightforward, wise.
July 2011
2 posts
“I have a theory — our job isn’t to lie to the audience, our job is to find the...”
– 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.
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WatchThis 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...
June 2011
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“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all....”
– Tom Stoppard
(via wordpainting and debsidelinger)
May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.
...”
– A WORD ON STATISTICS by Wislawa Szymborska; translated from the Polish original by Joanna Trzeciak
(via Caterina)
“Apple C.E.O. Steve Jobs on Wednesday unveiled the new iPad 2, which will have...”
– Seth Meyers on last night’s SNL Weekend Update. (via thebronzemedal)
My “other boyfriend” speaks only the truth!
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Begin again
How does this story start? How is it going to draw me to it and hold my attention? Will it change my perspective and suspend my disbelief for the duration of the story? Is it to excite and inspire me?
The prologue and curtain lift are as important as the acts, whether a starting gun or a large, long trough of developing fluid to expose the narrative and set the mood.
I’ve often thought...
February 2011
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“From the moment an event occurs, it is simplified and purified in memory. We...”
– From the stunningly beautiful interactive reminiscence Pine Point. The writing is lyrical and emotional to compliment (or act in spite of) the raw, scrapbook-ish graphics.
Past the pure melancholy of the subject matter, I wonder if this would happen in NZ and consider Picton? Perhaps? There was...
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How to torture your project manager →
Some of these made me laugh - though also note 1 and note 2 apply!
“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”
– Banksy (via debsidelinger)
YES.
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
ljm:
tulletulle:
sycamore:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger...
January 2011
7 posts
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t...”
– Eric Schmidt (via krislane)
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A 12-YEAR-OLD EXPLAINS THE INFORMATION AGE'S FACTS... →
thebronzemedal:
Via McSweeney’s:
Mom, it’s gonna be a long ride to Grandma’s, and while we have some time alone together, I think it’d be good for us to talk about some things. I’m getting older, and I’m not always gonna be around the house to explain stuff to you. I know you have a lot of questions, and I want us to be open with each other. So, I think it’s time you learned where blogs and...
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“Choose a book and read it at the same time as a bunch of people you hang out...”
– Oblique Reading: a Tutorial | booktwo.org (via adactio)
This is a nice, relaxed way to do it I think. Who wants to read a book at the same time as me?
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Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought... →
darren131:
A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled. During this time an individual feels unsure whether they have offended the IM recipient, committed a breach of IM etiquette, or have otherwise spoilt the presentation of themselves carefully crafted thus far thanks to the miracles of the textual medium. The individual must be at least vaguely aware that...
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Tokyo
Writing about Tokyo isn’t as simple as the description of our time in Kyoto. My experience of Tokyo wasn’t linear or as clearly definable as our days in the quieter, older city.
We had a list of things to see and do plotted semi-randomly against our calendar - recommendations from friends who had been to Japan and a lot of reading online. Catherine bought the wonderful Hello...
November 2010
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Kyoto
For a couple of years a group of our friends have been talking about visiting Japan. The ideas crystallised into a plan and “Japan Club” was born: Catherine, Matt, Morgan, Selena, Mike, Darren and me. We agreed that it was a loose group travel arrangement - we’d wander and explore and if it ended up being separately during the day, we’d meet up and share our stories over...
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via bookshelfporn)
AGREE. Then people need to learn a little book ‘snobbery’ & all will be like it should be.
October 2010
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September 2010
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“What you have to say is what you have to say.”
– Audrey Niffenegger, whose novel “Her Fearful Symmetry” I finished this weekend in Wellington.
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The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts →
“Here’s another framing: we plug in because we like it.”
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“Looking at this zine it felt considered with the pace of the images, page count...”
– Michael Surtees likes “Sketches from Street Level” (vortex 5.0)
August 2010
6 posts
The Sea, the Sea - Wikipedia, the free... →
61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list |... →
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Manifesto about 'personal' websites →
Written by one of my internet heroes ten years ago, the advice is still just as solid today:
Put your head down and don’t listen to anything anyone says about it…It just has to make your world a better place. It has to fill some need in your life. It has to make you happy.