How to Choose Chart Types (via @labnol)
9:09 pm • 6 March 2010
"It’s important to get away from technology and experience the world. You’ve got to see your world, see your community, see what’s not being said what needs to be said. That’s probably the best way to figure out what you’re going to say. For me at least, it’s impossible to have any good ideas while sitting behind a computer. Ideas come from life. As Hemingway said, “I have to live to work."
— Jonathan Harris, Beyond Flash link via Amanda Mooney
4:32 pm • 1 February 2010
"When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you"
— Pablo Picasso quoted by Gertrude Stein in Jonah Lehrer’s “Proust was a Neuroscientist.”
8:40 am • 1 February 2010
"I am always driven by the terror of humiliation. I do not need to trick myself into getting anything done because the voice in my head is always there reminding me that if I don’t get it done, my world will collapse. It is not true. It makes no sense, yet I believe it every time. It is not a healthy way to motivate oneself. I have gone to the therapist for almost 20 years to remove this type of thinking from my head, but I can’t argue with its effectiveness."
— Judd Apatow, from an article about lifehacking tips from the rich and famous in Slate
11:00 am • 5 January 2010
Hey guys, I made you this for your next Very Important presentation. You’re welcome, love Jessica.
4:38 pm • 4 January 2010
"Filmmaking is a collaborative process. You get the chance to work with others whose minds and ideas may be stronger than your own. Make sure they remain focused on their own function and not someone else’s job, or you’ll have a big mess. But treat all collaborators as equals and with respect. A production assistant who is holding back traffic so the crew can get a shot is no less important than the actors in the scene, the director of photography, the production designer or the director. Hierarchy is for those whose egos are inflated or out of control, or for people in the military. Those with whom you choose to collaborate, if you make good choices, can elevate the quality and content of your film to a much higher plane than any one mind could imagine on its own. If you don’t want to work with other people, go paint a painting or write a book. (And if you want to be a fucking dictator, I guess these days you just have to go into politics…)."
— Number five is the famous one - this is Jim Jarmusch’s fourth Golden Rule. Via MovieMaker Magazine
9:19 pm • 3 January 2010
