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kill it
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Art of the Title
A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.
Not sure if i'm posting for the video or the song behind it. enjoy
have a creative monday
BIG BANG BOOM - the latest wall painted animation by Blu, who kills it every time, tells a history of the world, complete with doomsday scenario
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Friday, March 18, 2011
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Friday, March 11, 2011
hiking the entire appalachian train in 4 minutes
all 2200 miles of it
my roommates brother did this. amazing
Green Tunnel from Kevin Gallagher on Vimeo.
my roommates brother did this. amazing
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Jeff Buckley - Grace
"... is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but something of just casting away any fear of death. Your relief will come, you'll just have to stew in your life, until its time to go. But sometimes somebody else's faith in you can do wonders."
- Jeff Buckley
- Jeff Buckley
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
PrimoVSPeteRock
.....aaaand GO
DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock: Round 1 (FULL) from AlohaServedDaily on Vimeo.
Matt Cutts' 30-Day Challenges
In the link below, you'll find his blog which documents his life-experiment of trying something new and doing it for 30-days (e.g. biking to work, reading 15 books).
Matt Cutts' 30-Day Challenges
I know a few people (including myself) who could use ideas like this to break the monotony of an unintentionally regular life... i guess you just have to be intentionally irregular
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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Friday, March 4, 2011
i liked this
Matt Bellamy on the influence travelling (touring) had on his songwriting:
"...I think completely, yeah. Because I think the process of writing is sort of amplified in a situation of transit, you know? Whenever you're moving from one situation to another situation, whether it be moving from just a country to another country, or moving from being one person to a new person, the process of change is what causes the need to want to write something. Its like wanting to document that change, yeah? And thats because when you feel yourself changing you feel that loss of self. The fact that all the things like your friends, your family, your job, your money are actually just superfluous, they don't have any relevance to who we are, in my opinion. I think those things can change at any time and we can just adapt to that change. For me the only thing that stays the same is something deeper down than that, and thats the thing that I use to write music with. And when i notice those things around the surface changing, i sort of feel myself wanting to become in touch with something that doesnt change, and that is something much more simple than any of those other things..."
"...I think completely, yeah. Because I think the process of writing is sort of amplified in a situation of transit, you know? Whenever you're moving from one situation to another situation, whether it be moving from just a country to another country, or moving from being one person to a new person, the process of change is what causes the need to want to write something. Its like wanting to document that change, yeah? And thats because when you feel yourself changing you feel that loss of self. The fact that all the things like your friends, your family, your job, your money are actually just superfluous, they don't have any relevance to who we are, in my opinion. I think those things can change at any time and we can just adapt to that change. For me the only thing that stays the same is something deeper down than that, and thats the thing that I use to write music with. And when i notice those things around the surface changing, i sort of feel myself wanting to become in touch with something that doesnt change, and that is something much more simple than any of those other things..."
Thursday, March 3, 2011
rhetoric...
A new version of the bible ( ... ) will include swapped-out words such as "holocaust" for "burnt offerings" and "booty" for "spoils of war."
check the article here
people don't take a giant eraser and change history to their liking. this is how it happens, by erosion
check the article here
people don't take a giant eraser and change history to their liking. this is how it happens, by erosion
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Hollywood's conservatism: why no one wants to make a "risky" movie
Such an unrelenting focus on the sell rather than the goods may be why so many of the dispiritingly awful movies that studios throw at us look as if they were planned from the poster backward rather than from the good idea forward. Marketers revere the idea of brands, because a brand means that somebody, somewhere, once bought the thing they're now trying to sell. The Magic 8 Ball (tragically, yes, there is going to be a Magic 8 Ball movie) is a brand because it was a toy. Pirates of the Caribbean is a brand because it was a ride. Harry Potter is a brand because it was a series of books. Jonah Hex is a brand because it was a comic book. (Here lies one fallacy of putting marketers in charge of everything: Sometimes they forget to ask if it's a good brand.) Sequels are brands. Remakes are brands. For a good long stretch, movie stars were considered brands; this was the era in which magazines like Premiere attempted to quantify the waxing or waning clout of actors and actresses from year to year because, to the industry, having the right star seemed to be the ultimate hedge against failure.
But after three or four hundred cases in which that didn't prove out, Hollywood's obsession with star power has started to erode. In the last several years, a new rule of operation has taken over: The movie itself has to be the brand. And because a brand is, by definition, familiar, a brand is also, by definition, not original. The fear of nonbranded movies can occasionally approach the ridiculous, as it did in 2006 when Martin Scorsese's The Departed was widely viewed within the industry as a "surprise" hit, primarily because of its R rating and unfamiliar source material. It may not have been a brand, but, says its producer Graham King, "Risky? With the guy I think is the greatest living director and Nicholson, Matt Damon, Wahlberg, and Leo? If you're at a studio and you can't market that movie, then you shouldn't be in business."
When Does a Religion Become a Cult?
America has long been a safe harbor for experimental faiths. But the unorthodox can descend into something darker.
America has probably supplied the world with more new religions than any other nation. Since the first half of the 19th century, the country's atmosphere of religious experimentation has produced dozens of movements, from Mormonism to a wide range of nature-based practices grouped under the name Wicca.
America has probably supplied the world with more new religions than any other nation. Since the first half of the 19th century, the country's atmosphere of religious experimentation has produced dozens of movements, from Mormonism to a wide range of nature-based practices grouped under the name Wicca.
Cory Doctorow: Explaining Creativity to a Martian
From the March 2011 issue of Locus Magazine
If science fiction’s unofficial motto is ‘‘All laws are local and no law knows how local it is,’’ then the purest expression of that law is the ‘‘Explaining things to a Martian’’ story – a tale in which humanity’s irrational frailty and manias are laid bare because some poor protagonist has to defend our practices to an alien (it helps if it’s a wise old alien, but a noble savage or even a comic idiot will do in a pinch). Heinlein’s ‘‘Martian named Smith’’ in Stranger in a Strange Land springs to mind, but the comic side of human foibles are hardly exclusive to Heinlein.
Explaining a subject to a Martian is a particularly useful exercise where people of good will disagree bitterly about a subject on grounds both moral and practical, such as sexual mores, economic justice or spirituality. As an instrument, Martian-Explaining has a special gift for lifting and separating the spaghetti-mess of the moral and the practical into individual strands.
So now, imagine that there is a Martian peering through an instrument that lets hir (Martians get their own neuter pronoun) listen and watch us poor, distant schlubs negotiating the laws and norms by which we conduct our creative lives.
(its long)
If science fiction’s unofficial motto is ‘‘All laws are local and no law knows how local it is,’’ then the purest expression of that law is the ‘‘Explaining things to a Martian’’ story – a tale in which humanity’s irrational frailty and manias are laid bare because some poor protagonist has to defend our practices to an alien (it helps if it’s a wise old alien, but a noble savage or even a comic idiot will do in a pinch). Heinlein’s ‘‘Martian named Smith’’ in Stranger in a Strange Land springs to mind, but the comic side of human foibles are hardly exclusive to Heinlein.
Explaining a subject to a Martian is a particularly useful exercise where people of good will disagree bitterly about a subject on grounds both moral and practical, such as sexual mores, economic justice or spirituality. As an instrument, Martian-Explaining has a special gift for lifting and separating the spaghetti-mess of the moral and the practical into individual strands.
So now, imagine that there is a Martian peering through an instrument that lets hir (Martians get their own neuter pronoun) listen and watch us poor, distant schlubs negotiating the laws and norms by which we conduct our creative lives.
(its long)
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality."
"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
"Oh, do not let us wait to be just or pitiful or demonstrative toward those we love until they or we are struck down by illness or threatened with death! Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!"
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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