Filmmaker Magazine | Spring 2010: Line Item Design For Living
“Even onThere Will Be Blood, at the end of the film Bill Holmquist, the construction coordinator, gave me a hammer as a going-away present. They found out that I was always happiest if they gave me something to build.”
What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you’re wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there’s a way to create a project (on your own, on weekends if necessary), where the excitement is palpable, where something that might make a difference is right around the corner. Hurry, go do that.
My own personal development as a nerd. Adjusted to reflect my own facial hair.
(Altered from Riccardo Bucchioni’s art, via Laughing Squid)
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in »
Everything you do makes you who you are. Everything. You can sit there and pretend that what you do in the shadows of your online life are separate from all the rest, but you know it isn’t true…
If you want to be that person and say the first cynical thing that comes to mind and gloat about someone else’s misfortune, I can only wish you the best of luck and tell you what I’ve learned: that at some point, we’re all going to have to answer to ourselves.
Mike (hammerito): On positivity:
Read the rest here. (via crookedindifference)
It also applies to the rest of your life too, as much as online time can be a time suck. I think there are plenty of other ways to waste your life away as well. But good stuff here.
Is it possible that Jackass is at least a smidge gay?
Knoxville: I’m offended you just said a smidge!
It’s more than a smidge?
Knoxville: We’re over here sitting on rainbows and you say a smidge.
You’re a gay pride parade waiting to happen?
Knoxville: We’re a gay pride parade that’s happening! And in 3-D!
Now, this is slightly scary and unsettling. I know I’m inclined to say that quite a lot, but what am I supposed to do about it? This is slightly scary and unsettling. You’re going to get to the end of this and say, ‘Ooo – that’s slightly scary and unsettling, Mil,’ that’s just the simple fact of the matter. OK?
The other evening we had some friends round. We were all sitting in the living room and I was recounting something Margret had done a couple of days previously. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what this thing was now, but I do recall it had happened in the car. So, given Margret and I stepping into a car together immediately invalidates our insurance (a Zen branch of homologous algebra states: Mil + Margret + Car = Small Child + Hammer + Land »
i miss my home and i think palladium boots did a great job with their little series on the beauty of detroit.
The Laws of Physics Might Change Through Space?
How awesome would it be if there are other kinds of life that obey slightly different laws of physics?
In Saudi Arabia you cannot build a church, yes, that’s the difference between Saudi Arabia and America. It’s plain and simple. If you like a mosque or don’t like a mosque, you don’t have to go. There’s already a mosque down there within four blocks of the World Trade Center, there’s porno places, there’s fast food places, it’s a vibrant community, it’s New York.
Update to this post.
Gawker has changed their Star Wars Subway Car post in response to a request I sent last night. The post now embeds from YouTube and links to my site directly.
For now, the Rebel Alliance has won.
Applause all around, this is excellent work.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
A quick photo to add to yesterday’s story and photo of our trip to Montserrat, Spain.
This is one of the cable cars we took up to the top. You can see the monastery on the mountain in the distance.
More writings/photos to come…
Oh man, Montserrat is amazing. My tumblr icon is me standing on top of the compass at the peak of this mountain when I was there two years ago.