July 2009
26 posts
Exclusive Featurette of "Where the Wild Things... →
“What I’ve seen him do, he’s turned it into his without giving up mine – but embodying mine with Spike Jonze, and astonishing me at how it maintains its peculiarness as a work. What flows through the whole thing is a such a strange feeling; I’ve never seen a movie that looked or felt like this, and it’s his personal this. He’s not afraid of himself. He’s a real artist that let’s it come through...
Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer →
Can’t WAIT. New Wes Anderson film. Looks brilliant.
I hope Apple is listening... →
Steven Frank:
The iPhone ecosystem is toxic, and I can’t participate any more until it is fixed. As people have told me so many times: It’s Apple’s ballgame, and Apple gets to make the rules, and if I don’t like it, I can leave. So, I don’t like it, and I’m leaving.
I don’t agree with every single thing he says, but he’s a long-time, highly...
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“I think it might be because we see in film something that we subconsciously...”
– My friend Gus (manalive), as we discussed why photos that look like they’re shot with film seem to have some special x-factor vs. digital photos. I think he’s right on the money.
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“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must...”
– Pearl S. Buck
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POLAROID'S BACK. →
louobedlam:
“The trial monochrome version of the film will go into production at the end of October and, if all goes according to plan, should be available to the masses in time for Christmas.” – TIME Magazine
Polaroid’s back.
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One of the most beautiful web pages I've ever... →
Speaking of typography… this page is absolutely gorgeous. And it’s not an image — that’s perfect, clean text, made possible by embedded fonts.
The day when we can really do typography on the web is fast approaching. Check out this snippet from a great article on how it is basically feasible NOW:
Firstly, Microsoft has been supporting font-embedding for over a decade (since...
The Typography of Code →
Fun article on a few of the monospaced fonts that coders use. Now that I look at code close to 8 hours a day, most days, I’ve come to appreciate the ENORMOUS difference that good tools make. A good, workhourse monospace font, robust and flexible syntax highlighting (coloring), and an editor that does just exactly what you need—these are a coder’s modern-day tools of the trade....
“Hi there! I am sorry for asking , what could possibly be a stupid question! I...”
– Aerianna Avro / Mar / 9 / 12.40am — That has got to be one of the wackiest comments I’ve ever read. I’m obviously out of touch… these things actually exist?? Ha!
Good Advice
Record the conversation where you get it out right. When you speak an idea, it engages a different part of your brain than when you write it. You often say it clearer when you’re just riffing aloud.
from Writer’s Block is Sometimes Just Typer’s Block
I can relate to this. I’ve been recording myself a lot lately on my iPhone. And I find that sometimes I do get things out more...
Watch
I took these on the fourth of July this year. Most of them are 4 second exposures and some fancy camera-moving. Hit the “full screen” button for the full effect.
Spider-Man On Broadway →
Julie Taymor. Bono. The Edge.
Um. Ok. I never thought the word “mashup” would be applied to Broadway. I was wrong.
Kissing My Love by Bill Withers
Let’s let...
A Massive Massive Ant →
John Gruber said it best… “The intersection of horrifying and wonderful.”
5 myths about sleep →
spaceships:
Myth #1. Humans Need Eight Hours Sleep a Night
There are many ways of sleeping and few cultures sleep in eight-hour consolidated blocks like we do. In places like Bali and New Guinea, people tend to slip in and out of sleep as they need it, napping more during the day, and getting up more at night. Until the industrial era, many Western Europeans divided the night into “the first...