February 2012
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“If you ain’t here, I’ll hunt you and shoot you down like a duck.”
– Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen
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MUSINGS: Conversations with Chris...
My care for technology is depleting. I like my inspirations as a philosophical architect of the subconscious through classical media and message. My artistic and spiritual endeavors into the historical age of beauty and wisdom is reaching its pinnacle. I despise these tools of the contemporary that cripple our intelligence through handicap in order to create a connection. We use less of our...
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“I don’t need a compass to know which way the wind shines.”
– Mr. Furious
January 2012
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“Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means...”
– Peter Pan
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December 2011
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– Benjamin Button
November 2011
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September 2011
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MUSINGS: This means something.
This post came to me as I sprayed a pile of shaving creme into my hand in the shower. I turned 40 in August and as I look back, I realized how certain things carve the way we are. I whispered to myself “This means something” as I formed the shaving creme into a version of Devils Tower before smearing it on my face and head to shave. It struck me as funny, realizing the weird things...
August 2011
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“I love humanity; it’s people I can’t stand.”
– Linus, from the Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
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July 2011
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“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
– Kay
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality...”
– Dr. Seuss
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Kevin Smith: Words of wisdom for writers.
Writer/Filmmaker Kevin Smith is a Twitter behemoth with over 1.7 million followers. A fellow writer one @amydezellar, wrote to Smith and asked “I need a locker-room style pep talk about continuing to write.”
Smith, not one for the character limit of Twitter, went on a multi-tweet “Smonologue” on the power and the importance of the writer. Here is his response in full:
Writing is the closest...
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“You’re all gonna die. The only question is how you check out. Do you want...”
– Dillon
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“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not...”
– Gilda Radner
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MUSINGS: Creatively Persist...
A few months ago, Pixar animator Austin Madison hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists. It’s a touching and heart-warming read, and contains advice valuable to people in ANY creative field. It was a contribution to the Animator Letters Project, an admirable effort to collate letters of advice for would-be animators, written by those who have managed to break into the...
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MUSINGS: A terrible waste of space.
“You’re an interesting species; an interesting mix. Capable of such exquisite dreams; such horrifying nightmares.”
I have always loved the book and the movie “Contact”. I know that it did not really do well in theatres, but it touched me and maybe others too. I have always loved Science Fiction and I believe that it opens the minds and hearts of many. I just...
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“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no...”
– Henry Rollins
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MUSINGS: Found this attached to a "Downloaded"...
I thought instead of the usual ASCII-inspired artwork you normally get with these files, I thought I’d share my view on CD/DVD piracy with those who have downloaded this file. Surprisingly, I don’t condone media piracy in any way. If artists have made something that is enjoyable to others they should be paid for it, and the large CD/DVD collection which I have legitimately purchased...
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“I’m not going down there. Do you know what those things can do? Suck the...”
– Austin Millbarge
June 2011
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“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
– Tim Burton
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Interview: Here, there be Dragons!
Every year Nuance the creators of Dragon NaturallySpeaking software does a contest. The contest is called “Do you speak Dragon?” where Nuance invites Dragon users to tell them how we rely on the Dragon Speech Recognition family of software. I enter the contest each year, and I never win any of the prizes, or so I thought. A few months ago I was contacted by Brad Cook, a writer/editor for...
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“All the great themes have been used up and turned into theme parks.”
– Hard Harry
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May 2011
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Towel Day 2011: Douglas Adams, King of the Hoopy...
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly...
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