Books Before I Die

"In our sleep and in our dreams we pass through the whole thought of earlier humanity. I mean, in the..."

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:38:12 +1100

“In our sleep and in our dreams we pass through the whole thought of earlier humanity. I mean, in the same way that man reasons in his dreams, he reasoned when in the waking state many thousands of years… The dream carries us back into earlier states of human culture, and affords us a means of understanding better.”

- Nietzsche

The late George Whitman- a most incredible life.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:00:29 +1100

The late George Whitman- a most incredible life.

Important American indie writer/directors:

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:59:41 +1100

Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Charles Burnett, Allison Anders, Todd haynes, Todd Solondz, David Lynch, John Sayles, Julie Dash, Gregg Araki, Nancy Savoca, Quentin Tarantino, Victor Nunez, Harmony Korine, Kimberly Peirce, Gus Van Sant, Richard Linklater, the Coen Brothers, Miranda July. “Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work” by J.J. Murphy

In 1979, Oscar host Johnny Carson joked, "I see a lot of new faces here. Especially on the old faces."

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:54:19 +1100

Lol.

mentalflossr:

Hubba-bubba! flavorpill: Readers’ choice: more of the most...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:53:45 +1100

Hubba-bubba!

flavorpill:

Readers’ choice: more of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. This is Livraria Cultura, São Paulo, Brazil

The Writer's Job

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:52:00 +1100

The Writer's Job:

“Literary fiction has become a genre like any other, with a certain trajectory, a predictable pay off, and a fairly limited and well-charted body of liberal Western wisdom to purvey. Much rarer is the sort of book (one thinks of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin, or Peter Stamm’s On a Day Like This, or going back a way, the maverick English writer Henry Green) where the writer appears, amazingly, to be working directly from experience and imagination, drawing on his knowledge of past literature only in so far as it offers tools for having life happen on the page.”

"Work on a screenplay often operates in a series of waves. The first waves are exploratory. We open..."

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:07:09 +1100

““Work on a screenplay often operates in a series of waves. The first waves are exploratory. We open all the doors and we begin to seek, neglecting no path, no blind alley. The imagination launches unabridged into a hunt which can lead to the vulgar, the absurd, the grotesque, which can even make the imagination forget the theme that is the object of the hunt.
Whereupon another wave rears, surging in the opposite direction. This is the backwash, the withdrawal to what is reasonable, essential, to the old question: exactly why are we making this and not some other film? Quite simply, what basically interests us here?
This is the moment when… we survey the road the characters have traveled; but we also look at verisimilitude, structure, interest, levels of audience understanding. By backtracking, by returning to our original garden, we obviously abandon along the way the majority of our illusionary conquests - but not necessarily all of them.””

- Jean-Claude Carrière – The Secret Language of Film p 181

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:19:16 +1100

“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.”

- Amelia Earhart

flavorpill: Nicki Minaj’s true colors, at Vogue

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:28:00 +1100

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Nicki Minaj’s true colors, at Vogue

Spoken Word Poet George Watsky's Inspiration Shortlist

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:51:06 +1100

"Dream is the personalised myth, myth the depersonalised dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:01 +1100

“Dream is the personalised myth, myth the depersonalised dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the pysche.”

- Joseph Campbell, Myth And Dream, p19

"Movies are about making mental things physical."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:50:56 +1100

“Movies are about making mental things physical.”

- John Carpenter

"The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:03:12 +1100

“The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.”

- Robert McKee Story p27

Definition: (/welcome back to my life Wiki)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:11 +1100

The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.

What a beautiful word.

"The final cause for the decline of story runs very deep. Values, the positive/negative charges of..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:53:02 +1100

“The final cause for the decline of story runs very deep. Values, the positive/negative charges of life, are at the soul of our art. The writer shapes story around a perception of what’s worth living for, what’s worth dying for, what’s foolish to pursue, the meaning of jsutice, truth- the essential values. In decades past, writer and society more or less agreed on these questions, but more and more ours has become an age of moral and ethical cynicism, relativism, and subjectivism- a great confusion of values.”

- Robert Mckee Story p17

"Experience, however, is overrated. Of course we want writers who don’t hide from life, who..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:48:22 +1100

“Experience, however, is overrated. Of course we want writers who don’t hide from life, who live deeply, observe closely. This is vital but never enough. For most writers, the knowledge they gain from reading and study equals or outweighs experience, especially if that experience goes unexamined. Self-knowledge is the key- life plus deep reflection on our reactions to life.”

- Robert Mckee (p 15, Story)

"There is only one truly ingestible aphrodisiac and that’s the grape, after it’s..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:39:11 +1100

“There is only one truly ingestible aphrodisiac and that’s the grape, after it’s fermented.”

- Jay Rayner, food critic for the UK newspaper, The Observer

Creativity Comes a Place of No Mind- Eckhart Tolle

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:45:48 +1100

“The mind is essentially a survival mechanism. Attack and defence against other minds, gathering storing and analysing information – this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of no mind, from inner stillness. Even the great scientists have reported that their great breakthroughs came from a point of mental quietude.” Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now In Writing.

wnycradiolab: If you only look at one Russian underwater...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:44:30 +1100

wnycradiolab:

If you only look at one Russian underwater photography site today, make it this one. Alexander Semenov is doing some great work. Here’s his equally impressive Flickr stream.

Dickens' 200th Birthday is coming up.... I, FOR ONE, AM EXCITED

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:23:16 +1100

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/coffee-lectures-dickens/

FEBRUARY 7th.

Saving the date.