January 2012
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“Dating can be awkward and nervous and boring, but using whimsy to try to charm...”
– Julieanne Smolinski
“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it....”
– Barack Obama (via quitecontinental)
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“And if you want to end it, then just pull the plug and shut it down. No one will...”
– Headphones, Pink and Brown
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“I’ll be happy if you want to stay, happy if you want to leave, know that...”
The Rise Of The New GroupThink →
“But it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it’s another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted. They’re also more likely to suffer from...
“A lot of people think my music is sad. It’s not sad, it’s triumphant. I’m...”
– Cat Power (via ohnonotme)
This is what I’m going to start telling people when they complain that my writing or my films are too sad. If i was trying to make Lars Von Trier stuff, where there was no hope when all was said and done, I could understand, but all of my work always ends on people...
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“The only childish fantasy is reflected in your desperate attempt to not...”
– Your response is a simple restating of what I said before, that Rand believes that everyone else can go fuck themselves.
However, let me ask you this - How long is one of your “visionaries” meaningful? If you invent something in your twenties, but produce nothing of any value for the...
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:...”
– - Paul Krugman
There is a new docu on Apple trailers about Atlas Shrugged. I have never read the book, which, I know, is a mortal sin when it comes to the concept of commenting on it. But reading the Wikipedia synopsis, I can tell this one thing - It is a book that espouses a certain philosophy...
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“But this is hardly customer service. It actually gets in the way of a customer...”
– Why Best Buy Is Destined To Fail
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JVC just announced a 4K, 1/2” chip, hand held, fixed lens camera. 5k price point. Available this March.
“Mitt Romney is now blaming Barack Obama for not fixing an economy wrecked by the...”
– John Fugelsang (via kateoplis)
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WatchAutumn Comes
(cover shot is Julia Heffernan)
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Watch09/10
(Cover shot is Elizabeth Weinberg)
One vote for New York. Anyone else want to chime in? I have, like, 50 something followers, so surely there’s a few more of you out there that might actually be reading this. Choices are -
1. Stay in Nashville
2. Go back to LA
3. Go to NYC
I’m not giving any reasons or positive/negatives, just places. What do you think?
Quick survey (and this should show you how little of an idea I have about what I should do with my future) -
At the end of March, my contract is up in Nashville. Do I -
A) Stay in Nashville
B) Move back to LA
C) Move to New York
I’m not going to give you any back ground on either of these choices. Just a simple vote on what you think sounds like the most fun.
What do you think?
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If at first you don't succeed.: The Message. →
directorialvisionary:
You know I see people complain about relationships, guys suck, girls bitch, whatever. I see relationships start and end at the click of a button everyday. It’s pretty ridiculous, I mean what the hell happened? If you complain learn how to make better decisions finding your partner instead of choosing someone straight out of a Lil Wayne Weezy fuck face song. If you had way...
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Watchstayforthecredits:
Adorable Things with Michael Shannon
JOSH HOROWITZ: Give my your most adorable face. Your “go to” adorable face.
MICHAEL SHANNON: (expressionless, dead eyed stare)
JOSH HOROWITZ: Jesus.
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Interviewer: I have to be honest with you. A while ago when I heard about your way of doing business, for filmmaking and doing so many takes, I sort of questioned it. But the more I’ve learned about the art of the industry, you have a very rare luxury of having the time to do this many takes and the way you describe your editing process, I don’t think you could do it with only four takes.
David Fincher: Well, I’ll go you one further which is… “What the fuck are you doing?” If you’re flying out actors from all over the fucking place, because they’re the right person to read that text, and you’re spending weeks with them in rehearsal, and then you get there and you’re going, “OK, trained monkey, do that thing.” How unbelievably disrespectful is it to everybody’s time? I look at it this way. There are a lot of directors who like having a Technocrane on the truck. So if they decide they want to do a crane shot, Technocrane’s there. OK, well, Technocrane’s fucking $3,000 a day. So, if you don’t have that, you can go another 15 or 20 minutes right before lunch in order to allow for that person to do something better. So I look at it as, I’ll always trade helicopter shots, steadicams, and that stuff in order to have the time to let somebody fail upward. To let somebody… they know what they’re doing, they’ve figured out who their character is. They’re coming from a solid place of contributing, and now you want to get them to a point where they are no longer thinking about, “Which hand is it? I didn’t pick up the thing…” It’s like, you do something 16 times, you can do it in your fucking sleep. Now, once you can do it in your sleep, now let’s get the words to come out of your mouth like it’s the first time you said it and you always talk like this. That’s what we were doing. So you sit there and you go, “Couldn’t the Winklevosses’ attorneys’ conference room be more marble, more carved wood?” Yea, it can be a much more elaborate thing. Does it need to be? No. Would I rather have eight days in there to shoot that stuff than six days? So if I take some of the elaborateness out and I don’t relight as much, and if I take some of the green screen stuff that I wanted to see out the windows of San Francisco and I take that out of my budget. I go, “OK, the windows can be blown out and just be a glow outside because that’s often what it looks like when you try to balance exposure for the real world to the real outside world.” Am I OK with that? Does it get me two more days with Andrew Garfield? Yea. OK, well, I’d rather have two more days with Andrew Garfield. I’d rather give him nine more bites at the apple on every setup.