David's Tumblelog

May
23rd

Wed

Blogging has been declared at least five times,” he said. “But that’s like saying creativity is dead, or personal expresion is dead.

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Matt Mullenweg on the state of blogging.

New ‘radically simplified’ WordPress is on the way — paidContent

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Apr
25th

Wed

What you learn from that first [film] - and I don’t call it ‘trial by fire’; I call it ‘baptism by fire’ - is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There’s nothing worse than hearing somebody say, ‘Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,’ and you have to agree with them, you know?

— 6 Filmmaking Tips From David Fincher | Film School Rejects

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Mar
26th

Mon

Sniper (via Path of McGibs)

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Feb
10th

Fri

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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Isaac Asimov

QOTD: Cult of Ignorance | The Big Picture

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yerawizardharry:

Inception (2010) + Paprika (2006)

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Jan
25th

Wed

Friends are forged in a great furnace, they are solid and light as titanium, complete with that impressive fatigue limit.

— Learning To Fly (Or, “Trying To Date Again After Divorce”) | BlogHer

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Jan
18th

Wed

“That was my job, I was 18 or 19 years old.”

Not a bad gig at that age.

“No. I was a pig in shit, man. That was as much fun as I could imagine standing up.”

— Fincher on His Role on Return of the Jedi « Binary Bonsai

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Jan
16th

Mon

In particular, nothing is unstable. Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it’s - it’s fascinatingly interesting.

— Lawrence Krauss On ‘A Universe From Nothing’ : NPR

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Jan
4th

Wed

urlesque:

One boy’s poem to his favorite Ninja Turtle.

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Jan
1st

Sun

In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.

— The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes

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