October 2011
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Ack! I Must Remember The Rules!
I very nearly broke Rule #10 the other day.
OK, I did break rule #10 the other day, but I came this close >< to writing up an experience as I saw it, based on my assumptions - and posting it here. Egad (really, can we bring that word back into fashion? It’s a good one) - that would have been embarrassing.
Not only would it have been embarrassing, it probably would have kept me...
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bor'ing·ness n.
From thefreedictionary.com
boring·ness n.Synonyms: boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum These adjectives refer to what is so uninteresting as to cause mental weariness.
Want to “cause mental weariness” in your audience? That’s easy to do. Look at what other people are doing over and over… and over… and repeat. Don’t want to do that?...
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Swagclub: The horror. Oh the horror. My koozie, my... →
Reblogged because… @swagclub? Never boring.
swagc:
Well shit,i had an exceptionally awesome event last week lightly sullied. By another damn koozie. But this koozie was coherent, once. It was dead on pretty perfect.
As koozies go,i mean.
Once upon a time, this elegant little bitch was right. I know this because tyler knows this.
Actually,i know…
September 2011
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No Subject Is Boring (and I have proof...)
OK, so that title might come as a surprise as much as I talk about things that are boring (that’s sort of the point of this whole space), but I mean it. There’s no subject that has to be boring in and of itself. It’s all about the presentation.
How can I make that claim? Simple - the existence of documentaries (well, good documentaries) proves it for me. Here are some...
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“You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.”
– Earl Nightingale
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“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for...”
– Lord Henry Watton to young Dorian in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (a decidedly not boring person)
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How To Be Generic
There’s a video professional online who has made a business out of teaching other video professionals how to be successful in their business - and this is good and (possibly) noble and an excellent business model. Back when I was starting out professionally, I bought some of his materials - and to be fair, they did help in determining certain parts of how to run the business of video.
I...
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“The secret of being boring is to say everything.”
– Voltaire
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Amy Wood @TVAmy: Suicide - stop it →
I’m reblogging this because our entire community experienced a tremendous, tragic loss on Sunday - and it will take time to come to grips with it, but at least it’s something I can do (however small) for now.
amywoodtv:
Suicide rolled over my life, like a massive tsunami Sunday. Someone I thought could never truly lose hope, did.
Just before Trey Pennington took his life, he sent...
August 2011
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New Rules?
I’ve been writing out the process used to create unique, non-boring stories for production at the Badassery*, and while doing that I’ve discovered that we’re applying some additional rules during that whole “heavy lifting” part of what we do.
I’m considering adding some of these newly discovered rules to THE Rules, but I need to be sure they apply to...
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The Heavy Lifting
What would FilmStripMan do? For once, I’m not sure I have the answer.
Recently, I had an opportunity to work on a project that seemed a perfect fit for the aspect+angle style. Over several months, I slowly courted the key players, working to make it happen. Then, suddenly, something changed. The person most involved (other than me) - the one who got the project started, left. I...
Swagclub: Fiddly bits. →
swagc:
Its so much easier to do the fiddly bits. The arcane & obscure things that distract us. You’ve seen it the bar man wiping down the same length of bar, polishing the same bit of brasswork. Unable to see you.
notignoringyou.
Just unseeing. Sorta. Clearly, not ’ in the zone’, but zoned out. Seth…
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Who Will Be Next? Don't Let It Be You.
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“You can’t pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring....”
– Donatella Versace
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Al from Full Metal Alchemist →
Rough sketch of Alphonse Elric
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July 2011
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On Being "Positively Unreasonable"
On Being “Positively Unreasonable” View more presentations from Russell Tripp
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Use What You Have, But Ask For What You Need
This week I’ve had multiple occasions to learn this lesson and to walk away from my previous behavior, hopefully toward an improved one.
My son’s going to a day camp this week that’s all about invention and innovation. A big part of that, of course, is using what you have to accomplish your goals. A major part of creativity and innovation is the limitations that we have to...
“The Internet has actually demonstrated how much creativity is fostered without...”
– OECD Supports Making ISPs Copyright Cops | Techdirt (via mediafuturist)
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Independence Is Scary. Scary Is Good.
So, this past Monday was Independence Day here in the good old U.S. of A. It’s an important holiday for us, celebrating the day a bunch of respectable guys all decided it was time to be rebels and commit treason together. They had good reasons. They had to be good reasons - they willingly signed their own death warrant and then sent it directly to the king. That takes balls of… I...
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“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not...”
– Leo Burnett
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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You Want HOW Many Horses?
My son (8) and I went to see the final installment of the new Extended Edition Lord of the Rings trilogy at the local cinema this week. An extra special treat for him since on this excursion he got to stay up waaay past his normal bedtime. Each movie was only going to be playing once in theaters before the big Blu-Ray release… and, not having a 70-ft. wide screen at home (yet), I figured...
June 2011
27 posts
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“Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a...”
– Jean Baudrillard
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You Don't Care? Really?
“I don’t care what other people think about me.” This statement is one of the most annoying things you can say in the English language. If you really didn’t care, you wouldn’t be telling me that you don’t. You’re attempting to influence my mental picture of you. That means you care.
I recently met someone with the “I don’t care what you think…and I’m going to be sure you know it (because...
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Pity Poor FilmStripMan?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
“…now that I see him, I do pity him.” - Frodo, after first encountering Gollum inThe Lord of the Rings
I’ve had reason to think a great...
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“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old-kid’s life: The...”
– Raj Patel
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Swagclub: Enthusiasm. Trust30 →
swagc:
Huzzah!
How can we bring more enthusiasm to our humble little REVOLUTION?!
Try.
Whistling.
This.
Believe.this.weirdness.
We have the cure for cancer. It’s a painful, expensive, back office, off the grid, sketch, nontraditional, off label, scary cure.
I doubt you even have the kinda cancer we cure….
ditto.
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