Tiny Tilt-Shift Athens
Dec 8, 2011
Personal
A short tilt-shift tour of the ancient city, by Emmanouil Papadopoulos. I love seeing places on the internet that I actually know my way around
How the Cosmonaut is Made
Dec 5, 2011
Personal
I am very excited. Via Studio Neat
The Broken Manifesto
Dec 1, 2011
Teaching
This is a summary of my semester, a manifesto of sorts, that was required to be presented in two classes. I thought I would share and post for my
Jason Fried on mornings
Dec 1, 2011
Personal
Things that look good at the end of the day often don’t look good the next Jason Fried
Little Printer
Nov 29, 2011
Personal
This doesn’t come out until 2012 so it gives me time to save up my dimes. Say hello to Little Printer (BERG) via TechCrunch
A little of column A, B, and C
Nov 8, 2011
Personal
Lately, I either take an already hard assignment and restrict it, making it harder for myself, or I take two assignments and combine them in two
Tiny Homes as Punk Rock
Oct 30, 2011
Personal
I love this guy’s attitude! I would love to build something like this. Tiny homes as punk rock: freedom from codes & loans (by kirstendirksen)
Don’t Make it Suck: Clarity and the Reader
Oct 29, 2011
Writing Notes
Via Natasha: Recently, I was talking to a classmate who said that, regardless of the many different readings and analyses of stories that are made,
On the step after failing
Oct 28, 2011
Personal
You regroup and start hustling again, but it’s crucial that you believe in your own creative processes. Don’t put all your best songs on the first
The Test and the Call
Oct 27, 2011
Personal
Moyers: What’s the significance of the trials, and tests, and ordeals of the hero? Campbell: If you want to put it in terms of intentions, the
Clean lines of action
Oct 22, 2011
Writing Notes
I push my students to think about cause and effect in their scenes and scripts. When the action we read is convoluted, we stop and go back to try
(be productive) x (do the stuff you love)
Oct 22, 2011
Teaching
I have been hearing the rumblings from some students about their problems with time management, so I thought I would throw some thoughts out. I am
The Cause and Effect in Shots
Oct 22, 2011
Teaching
joshwilliamsfilms: I bet you didn’t know The Dark Knight was this visually inconsistent. I push my students to think about cause and effect in
Writing is an action
Oct 21, 2011
Writing Notes
So a recap: In a blog post about what defines one as a “Writer”, Natasha said: I would say that I am a person who enjoys creative writing, but no
What makes a writer?
Oct 17, 2011
Writing Notes
A girl in our class said she had a painting on display in a cafe somewhere, so did that make her an artist? “No.” His opinion is that the closer
Dr. Peter King on the Chronotope
Oct 10, 2011
Writing Notes
The chronotope: the singular linkage of time and place — how place is always a place in time — and how this creates the significance of memories of
Bakhtin on the Chronotope
Oct 10, 2011
Writing Notes
Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time,
What’s the difference…
Oct 10, 2011
Personal
…between nature as a reflection of our personal feelings and nature as a participant in suffering (or other emotions)? Is there one? Is putting a
Hemingway on trying
Oct 8, 2011
Writing Notes
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for
Writing is a response to life
Oct 7, 2011
Writing Notes
Reading Kelli’s blog, I came across this: My Honour’s project supervisor believes that writing is at its best when it comes from a place of
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