Reads tagged with “film”

David Lynch on Using Meditation as an Anchor of Creative Integrity

“It’s a joke to think that a film is going to mean anything if somebody else fiddles with it.”

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Meet Marty Cooper, Inventor of the Cell Phone

“If you try to build a device that does all things for all people, it won’t do any of them very well.”

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Wondrous the Merge: Why Love Knows No Boundaries

“At the moment I cannot ask the future or the end. I am too exhilarant and purry. It is a miracle.”

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Stardust: A Mesmerizing Short Film About the Voyager 1 and the Wonder of the Universe

The breathtaking beauty and destruction of the cosmos, animated.

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Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism

“A populace that can no longer find the words to articulate what is happening to it is cut off from rational discourse.”

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How to Make a Ricky Board: A Creative Exercise from David Lynch

An avant-garde reminder that it’s all in a name.

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Beloved Film Critic Roger Ebert on Writing, Life, and Mortality

“Most people choose to write a blog. I needed to.”

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Tarkovsky’s Advice to the Young: Learn to Enjoy Your Own Company

“People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.”

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Virginia Woolf on the Language of Film and the Evils of Cinematic Adaptations of Literature

“The eye licks it all up instantaneously, and the brain, agreeably titillated, settles down to watch things happening without bestirring itself to think.”

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Life in Five Seconds: Minimalist Pictogram Summaries of Pop Culture and Historical Events

From The Matrix to Marie Antoinette’s execution, irreverent visual synopses of pop culture staples.

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Reads tagged with “film”

“It’s a joke to think that a film is going to mean anything if somebody else fiddles with it.”

“If you try to build a device that does all things for all people, it won’t do any of them very well.”

“At the moment I cannot ask the future or the end. I am too exhilarant and purry. It is a miracle.”

The breathtaking beauty and destruction of the cosmos, animated.

“A populace that can no longer find the words to articulate what is happening to it is cut off from rational discourse.”

An avant-garde reminder that it’s all in a name.

“Most people choose to write a blog. I needed to.”

“People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.”

“The eye licks it all up instantaneously, and the brain, agreeably titillated, settles down to watch things happening without bestirring itself to think.”

From The Matrix to Marie Antoinette’s execution, irreverent visual synopses of pop culture staples.

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