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Alejandro Cartagena: The Car Poolers

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:35:05 -0700

Alejandro Cartagena: The Car Poolers

Data Science of the Facebook World

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:09:29 -0700

Data Science of the Facebook World

Geometric Sparkle

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:14:23 -0700

Geometric Sparkle

Carnage

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:09 -0700

Carnage

Savage Beauty.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:56:56 -0700

Savage Beauty.

Video

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:52:40 -0700

DIY Stories

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:11:34 -0700

DIY Stories

Dans L’Obscurite by Dardenne + Dardenne. ps. Au Hasard...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:54:00 -0700

Dans L’Obscurite by Dardenne + Dardenne.

ps. Au Hasard Balthazar

Photo

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:06:22 -0700

Truncated transcript from today's SCOTUS argument

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:23:14 -0700

BREYER: I’m going to ask you an extremely long question riddled with nonspecific nouns, and you’re going to have to guess what I mean by it.

COOPER: I’m pretty sure the answer is no? But let’s stop talking about whether I should be allowed to talk, and get on to what I’m going to be talking about. Which is: nostalgia. Nostalgia for the good old days of traditional, bedrock values. Man, back in 1971, this Court said there was no federal question as to same-sex marriage. Those were the fucking days.

GINSBURG: The Supreme Court hadn’t even recognized gender-based classifications then.

COOPER: Are you harshing on my nostalgia?

FANTASY GINSBURG: I was alive back then, and trust me, I am not feeling particularly nostalgic for the time.

KENNEDY: Should we treat this as a gender classification?

COOPER: It would be very inconvenient for me if you did, honestly, but it’s hard to avoid that conclusion given that we keep using words like “male” and “female.” But ignore language! Gender is irrelevant. Except when determining if people are going to marry. Fuck it, can we just talk about same-sex marriage and pretend that the word “sex” is not in there?

SOTOMAYOR: Aside from marriage, do you think the government can discriminate against gays and lesbians?

COOPER: No, that would be wrong.

SOTOMAYOR: Then what the actual fuck are you doing standing up here?

by courtneymilan

Washed Out / Far Away / Moog Sound Lab

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:15:01 -0700

Washed Out / Far Away / Moog Sound Lab

Give me all the Flickering Lights

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:07:27 -0700

Give me all the Flickering Lights

Instamedev.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:46:31 -0700

Instamedev.

Nihon!

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:31:04 -0700

Nihon!

24hz.

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:32:01 -0700

24hz.

Wolfdog

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:43:26 -0700

Wolfdog

aka Tree of Love.

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:42:22 -0700

aka Tree of Love.

Lore

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:37:06 -0800

Lore

Time Slice by Wuon Gean Ho and Objectmovie

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:01:25 -0800

Time Slice by Wuon Gean Ho and Objectmovie

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:29:00 -0800

1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.

2. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.

3. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.

4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.

5. Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

6. What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?

7. Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

8. Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.

9. When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.

10. Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it.

11. Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.

12. Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.

13. Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.

14. Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.

15. If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.

16. What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against.

17. No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later.

18. You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.

19. Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

20. Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?

21. You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can’t just write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?

22. What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.