Quotes

This is Water (short film)

05.14.2013

“The most obvious important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” – David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) Somebody’s taken the audio highlights from DFW’s classic 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address and put together a short film that’s just gone viral. Nicely done. Here’s the original unedited speech:

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Neil Gaiman’s commencement speech at the University of the Arts, 2012

05.02.2013

“The moment that you feel that — just possibly — you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” — Neil Gaiman

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Kona two years

03.04.2013

I come from good roots. They gave us each just one name: Dash, Kona, Ace, Jackson. Ghost. My ancestors and friends are among the hundreds of four-legged soldiers to be trained here, and the first to be killed in the line of duty for the United States. Throughout the decades, dozens of us have been [...]

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Honest Abe. Honestly.

07.29.2012

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Day at Night: An interview with Ray Bradbury

06.25.2012

Do what you love; love what you do. Not just the activity itself, but the results of it. “I don’t think life is worth living unless you’re doing something you love completely, so that you’re waking up in the morning and wanting to rush to do it. If you’re doing something mediocre, if you’re doing [...]

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Saul Bass title sequences

03.19.2012

A cool collection of video and stills from movie title sequences of Saul Bass. “For the average audience, the credits tell them there’s only three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren’t interested in. I aim to set [...]

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Numbers and wrongness

03.09.2012

“It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I’m wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right.” – Frank Zappa

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Here’s what I’d like you to do for me

01.16.2012

“Here’s what I’d like you to do for me: Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in another. Show me places I have never visited and carry me to the ends of time and space. Give my demons names and [...]

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This is one of the reasons why I don’t follow politics.

01.08.2012

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Why David Fincher made each of his films

01.03.2012

From ‘Se7en’ to ‘The Game’ to ‘Fight Club’ to ‘The Social Network’, director David Fincher explains reasons why he made each of his films. The Game (1997): “The Game was a movie that I liked the idea of this gigantic Twilight Zone episode that became The Stunt Man. That you could sit down and look [...]

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