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Need to enter a few last minute video competitions.

Me too! Which ones are you entering?

Disposable Film Festival is due today.

9:16 Festival is due tomorrow.

Are you aware of some more festival dates coming up soon?

Aug 31, 20093 notes

Sleep schedule going increasingly nocturnal. Short morning naps to get ris of headaches. productive evenings.

Aug 31, 2009

Need to enter a few last minute video competitions.

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“In every aspect of your business (and personal life) try to allow others to build their success around your own success. If you run a hotel, what can you do to permit others—airlines, luggage retailers, tour guides—to be part of your network? Rather than viewing their dependency on your success as a form of parasitism, or worse, as a rip-off, understand this tight coupling as sustenance. You want to entice others to create services centered around the customer attention you have won, or to supply add-ons to your product, or even, if it is a new-fangled idea, to create legal imitations.” —New Rules for the New Economy (via heyitsnoah) (via somethingchanged)

Aug 30, 200948 notes

While I won’t be rushing out to buy these particular models they are great signs of things to come.

Aug 30, 2009

My drawing oriented students may dig this.

Aug 30, 2009

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Aug 30, 2009

Declaration of Intent (1968): —

1. The artist may construct the piece.
2. The piece may be fabricated.
3. The piece need not be built.
Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.

Aug 30, 2009

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Aug 30, 2009

Saw “Up” at The Byrd Theatre. Mayumi liked it. Kai had endless questions about it. I was a sucker for the love story aspect.

Aug 30, 2009

Aug 29, 20091 note

“Sometimes people are reluctant to disclose the reason for their depression because it is embarrassing or sensitive, they find it painful, they believe they must soldier on and ignore them, or they have difficulty putting their complex internal struggles into words. But depression is nature’s way of telling you that you’ve got complex social problems that the mind is intent on solving… When one considers all the evidence, depression seems less like a disorder where the brain is operating in a haphazard way, or malfunctioning. Instead, depression seems more like the vertebrate eye—an intricate, highly organized piece of machinery that performs a specific function.” —

Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages: Scientific American

(via somethingchanged)

This would have been nice to read when I was a teen-ager. -notational

Aug 29, 200940 notes

“It makes perfect sense to me that folks like me are drawn to genres that frequently investigate what it means to be an unusual human (on a quest, lost in a distant galaxy, prophesized, cursed, vital, altered, hunted, etc.), or what it means to be an alien, or a sentient machine…in short, what it means to be “other.” —

Jason Henninger on how people with “atypical neurology” like dyslexia, Asperger’s, ADHD and autism find a home in the science fiction and fantasy community. Neurodiversity and Fandom (via somethingchanged)

This also leads to the role of Afro-Futurism in carving a space for other identities. Growing up I often found myself reading queer fiction as well and recognizing that same space of otherness. This literary space, whether based on internal or external difference is very politically important. It is necessary to get some sign that you are not alone, especially during adolescence and post-adolescence. -notational

Aug 29, 20094 notes

Aug 29, 2009

“You don’t know that you exist.” —My son Kai. Age 3. Perhaps he heard this in a movie, but it was very strange to hear it come from him as I was waiting for him to get in the bathtub this evening.

Aug 28, 20092 notes

“I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.” —

Fellini (via smut-to-go) (via systems) (via merlin)

Limitations can help the artist structure their work into a game.

Aug 28, 200972 notes

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