December 2011
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October 2011
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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:…
Oct 22nd
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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!)
Oct 22nd
September 2011
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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
– Joseph Campbell
Sep 22nd
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July 2011
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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...
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June 2011
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“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
– Joseph Campbell
Jun 14th
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“Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you...”
– Chuck Jones
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WatchWatch
In which Lola and Orson become Marlborough, MA’s early warning system.
Jun 10th
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have...”
– Walt Disney
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“… to write adverbs is human, to write ‘he said’ or ‘she...”
– Stephen King, On Writing
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May 2011
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“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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April 2011
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“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
– Humphrey Bogart
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