April 2012
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Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind...
– Stephen King, On Writing
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
Clients From Hell: I was working for this... →
clientsfromhell:
I was working for this jack-of-all-trades kind of client. We did everything from newspaper ads to massive events media planning and logistic. One day, he stumbled upon my animation reel. Client: “You know, I saw your animations last night. They are pretty good.” Me: “Thank you sir.” Client:…
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… And now is enacted a fantastic, tense drama… which is of such...
– Jerry Siegel, from Action Comics #8, 1939 (this is why I love the Golden Age of Comics so much - those descriptions? Fever-dream beauty!)
September 2011
1 post
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
– Joseph Campbell
July 2011
7 posts
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Quick Thought on Grant Morrison's SUPERGODS
While I enjoyed the read, there was one glaring problem, no doubt to my own expectations of the book. I was hoping for a 21st century version of Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, looking at our modern mythological beings, superheros. While some of the book showed that promise, the autobiographical sections killed that central conceit. Nonetheless, a worthwhile read, and one of the more...
June 2011
17 posts
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
– Joseph Campbell
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you...
– Chuck Jones
In which Lola and Orson become Marlborough, MA’s early warning system.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have...
– Walt Disney
… to write adverbs is human, to write ‘he said’ or ‘she...
– Stephen King, On Writing
May 2011
16 posts
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the...
– George Bernard Shaw
Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
– Bob Dylan
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The...
– A.A. Milne
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of...
– Raymond Chandler
April 2011
31 posts
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
– Humphrey Bogart