To Whom it May Inspire, I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, “in the zone” seat-of-the-pants, firing on all cylinders creative mode. This is when you lay your pen down and the ideas pour out like wine from [...]
Now I know what I want to do: make interactive children’s books on the iPad. I’ve wanted our company to move in this direction. Maybe they haven’t been pitched the right idea yet. Maybe that’s what I need to do. Granted, the interactivity looks somewhat superficial, but I won’t know for sure until you buy [...]
via Frank Chimero’s blog: Writing 140 characters is difficult if one is trying to say something with poignancy. It’s hard to tell the truth in a tiny box, because the truth is so big and round and gray. Most things I write are crude and awkward, overly unrelenting, not capable of holding the necessary nuance [...]
You have to make a choice in life. You can avoid the things that make you uncomfortable, follow the pack and lead a very comfortable, normal existence. Or you can refuse to be limited by the things that challenge you and keep facing them until you crush them. I think giving option B a try [...]
Thought-provoking interview with Coppola at The 99 Percent blog.
I read Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen over the holidays. It’s not terribly ground-breaking, as the whole book could probably be summed up in the adage that good old-fashioned hard work produces results. Aside from that, these are the things I noted while reading it, which I will try to keep in mind at work [...]
If our eyes are always looking for weakness, we begin to lose the intuition to notice beauty. —Jay O’Callahan, speaker/storyteller, quoted in Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen
Fascinating thought-piece on Slashfilm about the self-reflexive nature of contemporary Hollywood film. Cinema has entered a new dawn. It arrived a while ago, actually, and you may not have even noticed. I’m not referring to the recent surfeit of remakes, sequels and adaptations, or the rebirth and subsequent profusion of superhero movies, or even the [...]
You are going to do this. There is no stopping you. You’ve made your decision, and nothing will stand in your way, God willing. There is no fear. This is a fait accompli. All doubt is merely stage fright, the fear of imperfection. The only way to achieve perfection is through imperfection. You chip that [...]
Architecture, as a discipline, can itself be used to tell stories. In fact, some of the most interesting student work today comes complete with elaborate plots and story lines, supplied for no other reason than to explain why a particular building should exist or require designing. These stories very often exceed today’s mass-market fiction in [...]