February 2012
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“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin...”
– “You practice and you get better. It’s very simple,” iconic composer Philip Glass famously said. A new NPR interview by his cousin,This American Life’s Ira Glass, gleans deeper insight into the philosophy and creative process of the modern genius. (via curiositycounts)
January 2012
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December 2011
4 posts
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Do I Move You?: I need a little help →
doimoveyou:
Hey guys,
So a few months ago, I produced my first short film. It’s called “First Words” and it’s the story of a bilingual couple, anxiously waiting to hear their son’s first word. Will it be en français, with a happy “Papa?” Or in english, with a soft “Mommy?” When little Mateo decides it’s…
Theremina: I'm a Tumblr Hack and I'm Okay. →
The doubt (and worse) wanders in after the fatigue of a full time job, but it’s posts like this that get me going again.
theremina:
We’re all steeping in sepia zeitgeist, wandering around this pixelated hall of smoke and mirrors.
Understandably, a lot of us spend a LOT of time worrying too much about whether or not we are, in fact, unlovable, boring, hackneyed, derivative artwankers,...
November 2011
2 posts
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October 2011
3 posts
apparently Andrei Tarkovsky didn't like Stan... →
stagnantpond:
Meeting of two masters. Totally worth the read.
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September 2011
6 posts
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Woodland Veil
Will be processing the 16mm, and Velvia shot Sunday evening, soon. This is one from the rebel, in the mean time.
“We can bitch about it, but Facebook, Twitter, Google and all the rest are, in...”
– Ben Hammerley’s speech to the IAAC ( Information Assurance Advisory Council, the UK’s talking shop for government, law enforcement, security services, and private companies)
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---------------------: “As a friend of Maya... →
fromspheretosphere:
“As a friend of Maya Deren’s, I envision her raucous laughter and angry shaking of Haitian beads upon discovering that all her life she had not just been making films and writing about them, but had been ‘articulating’ and ‘authoring’ and ‘delineating,’ had amassed an ‘oeuvre’ and ‘thematics that…
August 2011
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abbeykoczur:
Something Wild by Morton Feldman
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hpolleyphotography said: Do you know if you can disable right-clicking only on your own content? It’s pointless anyway, because people will just screen-cap instead.
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It’s a javascript function, so if your template doesn’t support it you could always wrap your content individually. But that’s part of my rant too, I guess, is that you’re putting stuff on the...
Really Tumblr People?
Can’t find the right word (tacky, immature, laughable, are all candidates) when someone’s tumbleog consists of nothing but other peoples work and they disable right clicking.
I understand (though not sure if I agree) with the practice of linking to another of one’s own sites. Etiquette should be link to the content itself, or to the OP. Either with full credit.
But disabling...
July 2011
4 posts
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akai ap-b1
New turntable acquired. Will be picking up a new cartridge soonish. Breaking it in with Monty Python’s Previous Record.
hpolleyphotography:
My Brightest Diamond with...
June 2011
7 posts
Trees at 5:30
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno (via curiositycounts)
May 2011
7 posts
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mathieutelinhos asked: see you posting stuff about the tree of life ! did you like it ?
16mm Syncronizer
Found at the AFCOOP flea market. I can now count frames without paper / pencil and marks on the workbench.
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Got some film back
mathieutelinhos asked: hey! thx for sharing your blog with me !!
who are you ?
(except being a sofia coppola fan)
who are you ?
(except being a sofia coppola fan)
April 2011
5 posts
March 2011
8 posts
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Morton Subotnic Interview