Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
March 31, 2012. Children play with slingshots in Sirte, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown. Sirte was one of the last loyalist strongholds in the nearly year-long war that ended the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi, and it sustained more damage than any other Libyan city—in just a little over a month of heavy fighting. Many residents who admit to having been Gaddafi supporters now worry about what will become of them in the new Libya. Abigail Hauslohner drove across Libya with photographer Yuri Kozyrev, and found a new country along the way. See more here.
photo by Mike Ambs - just finished watching #moonrisekingdom with @erica_hampton @vubui and @lanbui
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Kickstarted: my conversation with Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen.
We would like [Kickstarter] to be a fundamental tool for the liberation or the acceleration of our own creativity. I think that, when we’re younger — whatever that means — we have ideas all the time. We embrace our ideas. We say, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this. I’m going to throw this event with a friend. I’m going to have this play, this movie, this thing.’ You have not yet been taught the realities of life, that, “You can’t do that because of this and that or the other thing.” Very often, that other thing is money. Over time, because of the constraints, with money being the biggest one (or the most common one) we start to squash down our ideas.
We don’t have to squash down our ideas because of the harsh realities of the real world. From a very emotional level, that’s the dream.
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Kickstarted: my conversation with Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen.
That’s the dream!We would like [Kickstarter] to be a fundamental tool for the liberation or the acceleration of our own creativity. I think that, when we’re younger — whatever that means — we have ideas all the time. We embrace our ideas. We say, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this. I’m going to throw this event with a friend. I’m going to have this play, this movie, this thing.’ You have not yet been taught the realities of life, that, “You can’t do that because of this and that or the other thing.” Very often, that other thing is money. Over time, because of the constraints, with money being the biggest one (or the most common one) we start to squash down our ideas.
We don’t have to squash down our ideas because of the harsh realities of the real world. From a very emotional level, that’s the dream.
photo by Mike Ambs - afternoon nap with @erica_hampton *
Ghost Loft - Blow
Promising Los Angeles producer Danny Choi dropped this new track in my box the other day. You’re not going to have any trouble getting your hips undulating to the rhythm; this beat is set to the frequency of passion.
Brand new project with just one other song up. Hear his other single “Slowdowntime” on Sndcld.
On Creativity and Tumblr
One of the most important facts I’ve learned about myself so far is that I need creative projects in my life to stay properly sane. I need to make stuff and I need to share it. That is, I need to make random photoshops, silly videos, weird audio clips, and other assorted works…
The Mike Wallace Interview with Rod Serling, one of the most insightful pieces of journalism ever broadcast on one of my heroes. “So, in effect, your decision to focus solely on The Twilight Zone means you’ve given up writing anything important for television?”
1st spotted via nofilmschool
In terms of exploring subjectivity and how the mind works, Charlie Kaufman is perhaps today’s preeminent screenwriter. Either that, or he’s an expert in solipsism and desperate attempts to avoid it, which inevitably leads to becoming solipsistic and even more desperate attempts to avoid it. Either way, Charlie Kaufman is truly — truly — an original screenwriter, and one of my personal favorites. Kaufman’s perspective on screenwriting is obviously unique, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts / BAFTA has posted a podcast of Kaufman giving a speech on what he thinks screenwriting really is.
