April 2012
2 posts
Ray Bradbury Gives 12 Pieces of Writing Advice to... →
revolutionizeed:
Don’t start out writing novels. They take too long. Begin your writing life instead by cranking out “a hell of a lot of short stories,” as many as one per week. Take a year to do it; he claims that it simply isn’t possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. He waited until the age of 30 to write his first novel, Fahrenheit 451. “Worth waiting for, huh?”
Some really great...
February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
13 posts
iBooks Author vs. ePub Author
journalismworkshops:
quatermain:
OS X Programmers/Companies: Read This
So, yesterday Apple launched the new iBooks Author application for the Mac. It looks great, produces fantastic dynamic content, and more than one person assumed that it was outputting ePub3 files. However, that was not the case, as is extensively documented by Daniel Glazman (co-chairman of the WC3 CSS working group) on...
MLK Day gives me mixed feelings.
shapefutures:
We set aside one day of the year to return to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s values when we should be educating about and exemplifying them all year round.
Every year we remark on how far we’ve come in pursuing Dr. King’s dream, when these days I frequently see more steps backward than forward, frequently in backlash and fear of actual progress.
The same pieces of biography,...
Happy National Mic Check Day! →
world-shaker:
1…1-2…1-2…
Watch“Isn’t video editing too complicated and time consuming? Magisto - magical video editing. In a click!”
I’ve always wanted a computer that could edit for me. Looks like this is the start. Looking forward to when it can pick out the best soundbites from an interview and put them together too.
December 2011
21 posts
Watchfastcompany:
The Power Of Circles (and we’re not talking about Google+ here).
In the 19th century, artists including Degas, Monet, and Renoir got together periodically to discuss their commissions, their patrons, and their industry. This circle met consistently, and the artists credited these small gatherings with not only making their careers but the rise of the impressionist movement.
Longreads: Brain Pickings' Maria Popova: My Top 5... →
curiositycounts:
longreads: The 5 best longform pieces of 2011
bluessongoftheday:
Blue Christmas
- Porky Pig
ecantwell:
chriscantwell:
markbringelson reblogged your photo: In case you were wondering, here’s as much of the…
[Re: It’s a Wonderful Life] Ok, I suspect I understand why perfectly intelligent people like this film, but honestly I cannot stand it. Basically, I loathe it. Stewart is annoying as hell all the way through; one of his worst performances. The film itself was shot like a frickin’...
“Do amazing things every fucking day.”
– Brian Paris The Awesome (via miasmusings)
November 2011
23 posts
“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Writing can trap you....”
– Charles Bukowski (via thecuttingroom)
Watchchels:
theatlanticvideo:
Phantom Cocktails is a winning combination of alcohol, slow motion cinematography and blowing stuff up.
Via Devour.
Wanna exercise your sense of anticipation? Watch this vid. There’s something almost hypnotic about it.
The Harry Potter Fandom Can Do Anything. →
tookatrainoutofneworleans:
marrymeinparis:
We can make a puppet show.
We can make a musical.
We can make a second musical.
We can cross two Harry Potter related things and make it hysterical.
We can take a famous line from the movie and change it.
We can take pictures from the movie and make it look like a picture from another movie.
We can take things way too literally.
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