“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.” —
Tom Stoppard
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I love this kind of stuff. TWO LOVES COLLIDE!
National Geographic (2010) by Matthew Metzger
of course!
“
Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.
Unsure of every step:
almost all the rest.
Ready to help,
if it doesn’t take long:
forty-nine.
Always good,
because they cannot be otherwise:
four — well, maybe five.
Able to admire without envy:
eighteen.
Led to error
by youth (which passes):
sixty, plus or minus.
Those not to be messed with:
four-and-forty.
Living in constant fear
of someone or something:
seventy-seven.
Capable of happiness:
twenty-some-odd at most.
A WORD ON STATISTICS by Wislawa Szymborska; translated from the Polish original by Joanna Trzeciak
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“Apple C.E.O. Steve Jobs on Wednesday unveiled the new iPad 2, which will have two cameras and be thinner and faster than the current one. You know what Apple’s really good at? Making you feel bad about your Christmas present.” —
Seth Meyers on last night’s SNL Weekend Update. (via thebronzemedal)
My “other boyfriend” speaks only the truth!
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 about trying to create my own personal title sequence, though it’s more likely I’ll finally create the soundtrack of my life as a film first. They’re just extra dimensions to my life chronicled - exhibit A, my actual life; exhibit B, this record & others.
Lights, camera… action. Let’s talk specifics about the two types of title your correspondent favours.
These say “BAM!”. Let’s go!
Webstock 2011 opening sequence
Best viewed in a darkened room on a huge screen with the music cranked to 11.
Webstock 2011 Opening Credits from Webstock on Vimeo.
Saturday Night Live (from the Rihanna & Blake Lively episode)
Follows a cold open - a political sketch from the office/desk of the President. Sketch always ends with actors breaking character to yell “…And live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”
Saturday Night Live intro from TR!P Media on Vimeo (TR!P Media don’t create the sequence).
These say “Breathe in, breathe out. Empty your mind. Once upon a time…”
Dexter title
On the surface, it’s the main character getting ready in the morning, but it signals the sinister undertow ahead.
Showtime: Dexter Main Title from DIGITALKITCHEN on Vimeo.
Interview with the creator of the Dexter title sequence, Eric Anderson (via Matt)
Sub City New York
This isn’t a title sequence or opening but it is shows a beginning: the experience of exiting a subway station in New York City. Even a short trip underground means that emerging is a beginning - a new leg of your journey, the destination, an experience along the way. Both the music and the camera work in this have created the mood within the first five seconds.
Sub City New York from sarah klein on Vimeo (via Keight)
Next time you start to watch something, consider where that music is taking you & what you are being shown. Recognise the choices that have been made in the setup and align your mood - don’t fast forward or use that time to set your phone to silent mode. The story has already begun.
Enough said!
PS: All Night Long is my favourite Lionel Richie song.
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try being special everyday
Special is as special does! Also: <3 unicorns
“
From the moment an event occurs, it is simplified and purified in memory. We shave off the rough edges and what happened becomes a story or even, over time, a legend. If we’re not careful, though, we grind it down to raw superlatives, with none of the banalities or complications that make truth feel true.
So often a memory depends on who we need to be at the moment of remembrance.
” —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 that time they mooted moving the ferry landing from there but would the town suffer and diminish or would it actually be _removed_? Even a place with just a single purpose surely should not be cleaned up and wiped out when it’s an important part of past inhabitants lives. Or is that not really enough?
The style of this also makes me want to make something similar - to push words outside and away from text; to try and create multi-sensory storytelling the same way I hear it in my head when I write something.
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