It got cold. #writing
Neil Gaiman is a ninja.
EDIT: And he uses a Unicomp keyboard!
Alfred Hitchcock and a Westie. Here’s another picture of the director and a Westie. I don’t know if it’s the same one. Later in life Hitchcock owned two Sealyham terriers who appeared with him in his cameo in The Birds.
Alfred Hitchcock reads.
Alfred Hitchcock
“Initiating power transfer in 3… 2… 1…”
Space Mountain
-Disney World
“Like all who possess libraries, Aurelian felt a nagging sense of guilt at not being acquainted with every volume of his.” — Jorge Luis Borges, “The Theologians”
I cannot tell you how much I love this poster for John Carter of Mars.
The “Google Doodle” for Mark Twain’s birthday might just be my favorite one yet.
Geez, Indy, just pull the trigger already. (Via gatsbylives)
(Source: lawyerupasshole)
The mechanical hand Luke should have gotten at the end of ESB.
(via cyberneticzoo.com » Blog Archive » 1965-71 – G.E. Hardiman I – Ralph Mosher (American))
(via thisistheverge)
“I think there are three steps to writing a script. First, you have to have a theme, something you want to say. It doesn’t have to be a particularly great thing, but you have to have something that’s bothering you. In the case of Taxi Driver, the theme was loneliness. Then you find a metaphor for that theme, one that expresses it. In Taxi Driver, that was the cabbie, the perfect expression of urban loneliness. Then you have to find a plot, which is the easiest part of the process. All plots have been done; they’re fairly easy, you just work through all the permutations until the plot accurately reflects the theme and the metaphor. You push the theme through the metaphor and you should come out with the plot.” —
Via Austin Kleon, who adds:
I love that substitution for theme: something that’s bothering you
I SEE YOU.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has crazy eyes.
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Easily one of the best xkcd strips.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: ”Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.”