Maxing out your Triangle — jackcheng.com →
jackcheng.com
My new favorite, Jack, considers the “love-growth-cash triangle.” Terrific.
January 2009
66 posts
SimplyScripts - Script Formatting →
simplyscripts.com
Handy, short summary of the most important stuff to know when formatting your screenplay.
Working Paper: Creativity Models →
directedcreativity.com
Fascinating survey of the models for understanding creativity. It’s all about the modes, people. The modes.
“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.”
—Christopher Alexander’s definition of Design Patterns
“It is obvious that he has only one subject, the mind, and only one plot, how the mind negotiates with reality, fantasy, hallucination, desire and dreams.”
—Roger Ebert, on Charlie Kaufman, reviewing Synecdoche, NY
[via: lonelysandwich]
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Ze Frank: Executing > Theoretical Perfection
the show with zefrank (2007-11-06 / “washington, ideas, brain crack”)
Ze Frank, on executing ideas even, or especially, when you can’t do them perfectly. (PNSFW)
[video via Waxy Links]
As some pals and I have been banging around ideas for new projects, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ze Frank, and realizing what a talented and brave fellow he is.
I didn’t follow The Show closely during its beloved one-year run, but I’ve enjoyed several episodes quite a lot, and, in the time since The Show ended, I’m retroactively (sporadically) been catching up on some of the little projects Ze’s pushed out over the last few years. Prolific, warm, and very engaging work.
The “brain crack” video arrived with perfect timing, because I’ve been obsessing over a similar idea. In the video above, Ze says, unblinkingly:
And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should executed…But the bummer is most ideas kind of suck when you do them.
That’s inspiration that’s hard to beat.
Also, although most sports racers certainly will have seen it by now, Ze’s talk at TED from a few years back is a stitch.
“I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you’re 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life…”
—Bruce Springsteen, interviewed by Nick Hornby
Psychological Cognitive Benefits of Nature Interaction →
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Exposure to the visual complexity of natural environment may help memory and symptoms of ADHD.
That Lovely Glow Effect →
dooce.com
And old favorite that I’m forever losing. Dooce shows you a fast Photoshop layer trick for fuzzying up an image.
“The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.”
—Roger Ebert
An Idea
What if www.43folders.com continues to be the place for occasional new columns and essays from me? But, what if I also start the new year by posting cool, inspiring, interesting, link stuff someplace else that’s kinda 43 Folders?
It’s an idea, anyway.
