LOST in a nutshell. Can’t wait for the final season.
I encouraged my friends Max & Darrien to make a stop motion video. They did.
Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved big leagues (video)
The way video games should be.
(via ideasareawesome)
I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.
— James Michener
Posted October 23, 2009 at 3:27pm
Wes Anderson does an Amex Commercial. I could watch this over and over.
(via ideasareawesome)
Posted October 20, 2009 at 7:21pm
Petrichor
Petrichor (from Greek petros “stone” + ichor “the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology”) is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers, Bear and Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature. (via Ron Strelecki)
Just downloaded me a huge stinkin’ file of this after seeing it on Rian Johnson’s Lousy Stinkin’ Tumblr so I can get a big flippin’ print of it to put on my flippin’ wall.
I like Rian. He shares things. Like his Brick screenplay & novella. And his movies are fun to watch.
This is not an official one-sheet, but is something I worked up with my cousin Zach. If movie posters are like book covers, I’d like to think of this as the hardcover version. Read more about it here…
I’ve had pie two days in a row. As a meal, not as dessert. God bless America. God bless autumn.
(photo via ilovecharts)
Wow. Yes.
Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal.When you need to be free of distractions our ever connected world provides, sometimes extreme measures are required. This is where a program like Freedom comes in. As stated in the copy above, it will disable networking on your Mac for a set period of time. What it does not mention is that, once invoked, there is no turning back.
Hardcore? Yes. Sometimes necessary? Perhaps.
While donations are welcome, in this case, Freedom is free.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Frank O’Hara - “Poem” (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)
Outrageous celebrity behavior with even more outrageous public response is as old as the concept of celebrity itself.
Posted September 16, 2009 at 1:23pm
Some of my favorite screenwriting advice.
(via oldhollywood):
Billy Wilder (director/writer Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, etc., via corbis)
On screenwriting:
- The audience is fickle.
- Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go.
- Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
- Know where you’re going.
- The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
- If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
- A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.
- In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they’re seeing.
- The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.
- The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then—that’s it. Don’t hang around.
-excerpted from Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe
Posted September 9, 2009 at 2:36pm
