Movies I’ve Watched Recently Apr 24, 2010 Personal Cinderella Man War of the Worlds* Mighty Aphrodite Public Enemies Milk One Week Paranormal Activity Dazed and Confused* 2010: The Year We Make The Process Police Apr 18, 2010 Teaching From the 52 Weeks of UX The “Process Police”, people who go around espousing their preferred process as the right way to do things…as if those who Clay Shirky on Working Simply Apr 17, 2010 Personal [I]t is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to Tim Ferris on perfection Apr 17, 2010 Personal If you’re getting chased by a lion, you don’t need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you… you don’t need to be perfect, you Donald Miller on Story Apr 16, 2010 Writing Notes If you aren’t telling a good story to the people you love, who is? What I mean is, everybody loves a story. We simply can’t live without a good I am… Apr 13, 2010 Personal Exist in present continuous tense: I am writing. I am creating. I am making. I am doing it Breaking Upwards Apr 10, 2010 Personal This caught my eye. The trailer for “Breaking Upwards”. Shot on a budget of $15,000. Nice article about it in the New York Times. Found via Philip Bloom Films on the Canon Mar 28, 2010 Personal Yes, you sold me I Had the Time Mar 27, 2010 Personal From Bobulate: I recently said a flat “no” to an interesting project. The person replied, “I get it, you don’t have the time.” I had the time, yet David Mamet’s Master Class Memo Mar 24, 2010 Writing Notes SO: WE, THE WRITERS, MUST ASK OURSELVES OF EVERY SCENE THESE THREE QUESTIONS. WHO WANTS WHAT? WHAT HAPPENS IF HER DON’T GET IT? WHY NOW? David You Ain’t Going to Need It Mar 9, 2010 Writing Notes 37signals (damn them for the good links) talk about YAGNI: “It’s easy to get carried away discussing how you could possibly do this, that, or the Movies I’ve Watched Recently Mar 9, 2010 Personal Smiles of a Summer Night Sawdust and Tinsel Wings of Desire The Exterminating Angel Truly, Madly, Deeply The Intruder Nenette and Boni Strange Brew The power of small groups Mar 3, 2010 Teaching Matt, from 37signals, quotes British author Antony Jay on the benefits of working with small groups: “The basic unit is [a group] which varies from The Cult of Done Sep 18, 2009 Personal This makes me happy: The Cult of Done by Bre Prettis and Kio Stark. The poster comes from James Provost The Adventure Sep 5, 2009 Writing Notes To face your fear of writing, right now, is to break though the personal jail cell that you have created. It will release you from the insecurity Jason Reitman on Directing Sep 5, 2009 Personal You can’t explain how to direct. It is simply instincts based on taking chances and making mistakes. Jason Reitman on The Kevin Pollack Chat Show Sacrifice Aug 30, 2009 Writing Notes The best part in Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success is tucked at the back, well after his chapter about mastery and the 10,000 Sketching with a Sharpie Aug 27, 2009 Writing Notes Fun for me is building the first vision of a new script with a marker and a big pad of paper. Jason Fried, from 37signals, reminded me how it also Do the dishes Aug 27, 2009 Personal Jack Cheng writes about “when you really ‘do the dishes’ without hurrying through them, you learn things.” It reminds me of a piece of advice that I Design Club Aug 25, 2009 Personal After recently putting the Screenwriter’s Group on hiatus until the new year, I came across this article about designs clubs that “support emerging Next page