January 2012
12 posts
“I don’t want to further celebrate the overly elaborate, brittle plastic...”
– Russell Brand on Katy Perry Split: Best Breakup… | Gather
So much better than “No comment.”
Cory Doctorow | The Coming War on General... →
Great talk and Q&A about the dangers of computers as appliances (I’m looking at you, iPad) by Cory Doctorow at the Chaos Communications Conference.
Watch(via There Be Dragons: Daniel Pinchbeck Talks with Russell Brand | Reality Sandwich)
“As I’m sure you know, there is a fungus –
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis – that...”
– guru.bafta.org/sites/learning/files/guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf
Wow. I didn’t think I could love Charlie Kaufman more than I already did. I was wrong. Amazing speech at BAFTA.
December 2011
18 posts
WatchGordon Dryden Co-Creatively M.A.D. (by allan johnston)
Good questions.
Unfortunately, the answers are not.
Fortunately, things can change but not until you act to change them.
Want to change the world?
Start with yourself.
“The general.
This producer keeps things moving forward and protects the...”
– Scriptnotes, Ep. 17: What do producers do? | A ton of useful information about screenwriting from screenwriter John August
A pretty good answer to a frequently asked question.
““The ultimate metaphoric sound is silence. If you can get the film to a place...”
– Silence
This is such a great quote and so true.
Ironically, the same conclusion recently came to me while watching Errol Morris’ latest documentary, Tabloid.
Early in the film, he employs this technique where the subject of the film is describing different things and Morris just cuts to 24...
“One titanic problem with ContentID has received little attention: the use of...”
– The pirates of YouTube | Technology | guardian.co.uk
RT @ecostorenz: Looks like mining conservation land is back on the table! Have your say here http://t.co/IcPAp8Y6
November 2011
7 posts
Michele Bachmann meets Mike Czech.
RT @davidfarrier: so - this cop is a bit of an asshole. http://t.co/Y1MEwIVc
October 2011
9 posts
This, http://t.co/jsXJueDo, will be big. Excellent work.
“To prepare a presentation for Jeff, first make damn sure you know everything...”
– How to Give a Compelling Presentation to a Smart, Jerky or Otherwise Picky Audience
Great advice and story.
I wrote more of my thoughts about it below in the paragraph below but chose to erase it. :)
“I always take more pleasure in liking something than in disliking something....”
– Written by Chris Shiflett
swissmiss | Ignore haters.
“FILMMAKERS/PRODUCERS NEED TO START THINKING LIKE REAL BUSINESS PEOPLE AND MAKE...”
– Written by Adam Collis
Here Are the First Two Winners for Christine Vachon and Ted Hope’s Masterclass - indieWIRE
Picturing the creative process →
Where people don’t use Facebook →
September 2011
6 posts
Are blogs journalism? Barry Diller nails it
Hirschhorn: There’s a lot of talk about news, and journalism, and information in the last couple of weeks — I’m sure you’ve watched your buddy Mike Arrington get skewered in the press for not being a journalist… what do you think? You live in a world of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and are also going up against The Huffington Post and TechCrunch and lots of different sites. What is journalism to you and should a guy like Mike Arrington be called out for something he never called himself?
Diller: Backwards.. no. I’m amazed at it. Here you buy a company for whatever they paid for it —
Hirschhorn: $30 million.
Diller: And you buy it because it is absolutely the voice of a single person primarily, with some other people working for him — but it’s Michael Arrington’s voice, and you know when you buy it, that that voice is biased and mean and capable of saying anything, and is playing a hundred different games. And you know that. And that’s why you buy it — because it’s a good voice, and you like it. This is, to me, the definition of that rocket going up and then getting underneath… And then somebody calls you up and says, “I’m the Editor in Chief, and you can’t let him do that, because he’s now in a conflict of interest.” Instead of saying, “Shut up and go back to your room”… and it’s not because you don’t respect journalism, it’s because this has nothing to do with that. To apply that standard to something where the guy says, “I’m filled with conflicts. You don’t have to listen, you don’t have to read me. Take the stuff for whatever it’s worth.” It’s not a journalistic enterprise, TechCrunch. And so to have treated it as such is to destroy it. So now, he’s gone, and now they own this thing, which has no voice. Congratulations. What a good piece of business. “
Mongolia council rejects U.S. plan for key coal... →
Score one for the Mongolians and Mother Earth.
If anyone is due for a comeback, it is the charismatic people of Mongolia.
