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evangotlib:

startupquote:

Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.

- Henry Ford

God damn right.  Complainers can get the fuck out.

Indeed! :)

Ha!

Shoot to Kill: The Final Cut www.allgodscreaturesfilm.comFilmmakers Ryan Charles, Frank Licata, Matt Jared, and Josh Folan discuss the making of… By: NYEHEntertainment Duration: 06:21 Added: 2 days ago Views: 126 Categories: Educational, How To, Web Series Tiff

Who is Steve Shubert?

Solo Pictures Studios

Shoot to Kill: The Final Cut - Inside the making of All God’s Creatures over at Openfilm

The short filmmaker’s guide to short filmmaking

IFC.COM - FILM NEWS | SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 Director Kristoffer Aaron Morgan, writer Eric Vespe, and star A.J. Bowen of Fantastic Fest selection “No Way Out” offers five … Read more

I STAY CLASSY, MOTHERFUCKERS.

YES! :)

Found this over at Gestalten TV. The company is call Found Electronics and the machines they make are pretty cool.

Found Electronics: Generation Self-Domestication

When it comes to soulful and emotional interactive design, there are many who try, but few who manage to come up with something…

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Unlike my mother, I was a kind of sickly kid. I had pneumonia that almost killed me, I stopped breathing as a baby once and a woman over 300 lbs who just ate a pickle and drank lord knows how much whiskey, who also just so happened to have been a nurse, breathed life back into me, and I discovered from a elephant-like swelling of the arm and extremely high fever that I was allergic to penicillin. Now that was just a few illnesses, this doesn’t tough on the fact that I almost cracked my head open on the edge of a coffee table when I fell over a love-seat trying to reach for a cactus plant, I fell (ok jumped) off the roof of our house on a dare, and I almost drowned in a public park’s pool while the lifeguard was making out with a high school girl. So, every once in a blue moon I think to myself, wow I’m still here. And you know what…still going strong

How cool is this?

A demo video of the new Beep-it, which has a fancy-lookin’ laser-cut case, and a 2nd oscillator for LFO action

You can get it at Transistor in Chicago on 3819 N. Lincoln Avenue

A short animation that somewhat conveys how I feel some mornings :)

leahj:

How To Tell People They Sound Racist (by illdoc1)

Love it!

The Sugary Secret of Self-Control (76 points) HACKER NEWS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 

Ever since Adam and Eve ate the apple, Ulysses had himself tied to the mast, the grasshopper sang while the ant stored food and St. Augustine prayed “Lord make me chaste — but not yet,” individuals have struggled with self-control.

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Michael Cunningham and James Franco

The two discuss youth, how to inhabit characters, and the worst question to ask an author.

jessfink:

STRIPPED: The comics documentary

So many awesome people in this!

Help fund it here : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smallfish/stripped-the-comics-documentary

For my artist friends or anyone interested in comics (comic strips) check out this video trailer of a Kickstarter backed doc project - Stripped: The Comics Documentary - It looks like it’s made it’s goal and I’m looking forward to seeing it

Grilled Cheese Martini?

Photo: From Laughing Squid

I was debating if I was going to make this post or not because it’s being a lot more personal than I thought I wanted to be about the subject matter. I posted something about it on Facebook because I couldn’t understand why things were happening as they were just as it started. Even after doing it I thought it would only get better but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. I hadn’t really talked about again until now.

Believe it or not there was a time in my life when I was a happy little girl. I was the first grandchild to both my parents family because my mom and dad where the oldest among their siblings. I was born three days after my grandfather’s birthday. I was told he considered me a birthday gift. My father and mother were married, my father was a Marine in the war and when he came home he became a Chicago police officer, my mother worked at the Chicago Tribune, and we had a house. Of course I remember only so much because this happy family only lasted up to the age of four. But in those memories I do remember I was happy until the end when a tug-a-war match with me being the object took place between my parents. That was when I first felt it all falling apart.

I’m not about to playback a reel of my life from that point until now. What I am going to do is tell you how as a little girl I use to remember seeing my dad come home from work and how I would run to him after playing and waiting in the front of our house, tell you how I remember feeling so tall when he would pick me up and carry me inside, how he use to put me on his leg and move it around like I was riding a pony (yeah there was a Cosby show where he did it to Rudy), tell how in those four years my parents where together I thought my father was the strongest, biggest, most powerful daddy in the world, tell you that because of the affects of war and really being too young to have married and start a family for the years following I eventually did not know the man I once ran down the block calling with pride…”daddy, daddy, daddy”. For over 20 years I have barely talked to my father because I was a victim of being a child of parents who had too much too soon and forgot what was one of the most important thing that both did have…a child…me.

I have learned that my father, who just turned 65 this April, has stage 4 cancer. It has moved from his spine, to his throat, to his brain. He’s been moved from a VA hospital to a major one to soon start chemo. I am a logical person but I also think with my heart. I can usually conclude something and decide if I’ll give it a go and or just let it go. I am honest and will say I am scared or if I’m willing to put the fear aside and take a chance. I have never hated my father for not being there in my life but I have punished him by not letting him return to it. But there is one thing I have never been and that is lost and not knowing what to do.

For the first time in my life…I don’t know what to do, what to say, how to feel. And for the second time in my life I have cried for my dad and I don’t understand. I never thought he loved me, so why do I cry for him, why do I worry if he’s in pain, why does it leave me speechless when my mother tells me he’s scared. This feeling goes against everything I have built up and felt so righteous in doing when it concerns my father.

Why is for the first time, after so many years of living, and getting a grip on the truths about my parents, about my dad, I don’t know what to do?

I am so lost…and this is just the beginning

I’ll be frank, I’m really not a big television watcher. If anything the TV watches me. I can sit on my couch in front of the TV screen and while it’s playing I’m: writing, cleaning up, on my iPhone, staring at the ceiling. But every once in a while I’ll look up and think..”What’s on tonight?” Doing this I’ll find myself watching hours of UFC, home repair shows, home buying shows, but never prime time television. Now to me that says a lot. That subconsciously I won’t even turn to one of the prime time channels in my area even when I zone out.

For quite some time, prime time has sucked and I mean SUCKED big time. I don’t believe they’ve had faith in a TV show they’ve introduced in a loooooog time. This to me says more about them than the TV show. Why? Because if the show was so bad the first few episodes or even first season, what kind of  - let’s give it a go- guy or gal do you have working for you?

• They must be psychic to determine from 1 or 2 episodes/seasons that a show is horrible
• They could care less what kind of following they want in the long run
• Did you not at least get a premise of the show to see if it has stamina for a lengthy series?
• Why is that shows from the 70’s, 80’s that didn’t do so well the 1st season sometimes two seasons last longer and become hits - All in the Family, MASH, etc

I’ve had a few shows I’ve like unfortunately get the ax and I don’t think I was too far off thinking they were pretty good. I’m saying this because the networks either brought them back on because of fans outrage or a non-prime time network picked them up. But there are those that are still floating in the prime time hell where they’ve been thrown possibly lost forever. - I’ve just learned that The Event was cancelled - These shows may never come back and one of the most frustrating thing of all is they may never have a conclusion…an ending.

Yeah I know there are more important things in the world and watching television can not compare to those agonies. Watching CNN, MSNBC, and other news networks will definitely not let you forget (I wonder how many people have become sarcastic and even more miserable just watching these networks. I just let my Twitter feeds keep me up to date. So far so good) But I think that most who say this haven’t grasp the concept that TV helps us get away, become informed, learn something new, go places you may never have been, it’s only a boob tube if you let it make you into a boob. (Wouldn’t that be funny a bunch of walking boobs with arms and legs running to catch a bus, drinking a latte at the nearest Starbucks, smoking a cigarette in the cold, running to catch a bus. I said that already…I digress)

So going back to me subconsciously not watching prime time. The point I’m making is that prime time has finally “done gone stupid” completely. I didn’t mention earlier that I have my PC connected to my TV so I am able to watch sites like Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, websites that offer content to watch, even from these networks. I’m able to see things that the prime time networks would normally ban or censor. Able to look at classics when I want, not because the station is trying to promote “The first time ever blah blah blah”. I watch more documentaries that prime time would never even think to offer or even foreign films. Some of these sites may even be affiliated with these networks which makes the networks even more stupid. There are sites like blip.tv, Vimeo, Youtube and don’t be surprised if Amazon or even Walmart get in the game and allow the actual viewers to have the opportunity to make their own content. And you know I’m liking what I’m seeing. Hence why I don’t theoretically watch much TV.

For those who can relate all I can say is get to know the internet, that service you pay out the ass for. Make that price worthwhile, use it for more than just email or Facebook (you should really check out Google + I think it has promise) Learn about podcast, video-podcast, webisodes, online documentaries, online news shows, these are the future and the doors those obsolete prime time networks will be knocking on one day if not already and then we’ll really see who’s the boob.

Just a thought :)