February 2012
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“Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you’ll...”
– Paul Graham, How to Do What You Love
(found via Brain Pickings)
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“Terry doesn’t use storyboards and he doesn’t even plan shots that...”
– Jack Fisk Climbs The Tree of Life - I love that about Malick’s films. They have this everyday quality about them, but they’re put together in a way that distills the magic out of the everyday. Like when you get out of your car after getting home from work and stopping in your tracks just...
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Restored 'Lawrence of Arabia' Clips Previewed at... →
A preview of a lovingly restored 4K version of David Lean’s classic Lawrence of Arabia was shown Tuesday at the HPA Technology Retreat in Palm Springs. Grover Crisp, executive vp, asset management, film restoration and digital mastering for Sony Pictures Entertainment, screened the before-and-after clips, explaining that the “emulsion was cracked” and “the negative is badly scratched” on the...
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impress.js →
onethingwell:
It’s a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com.
The demo is a wee bit bonkers.
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“Back when we announced FDX Reader, I got a lot of emails asking, “When are you...”
– Introducing Fountain
John August in his post announcing Fountain, “a markup language for screenwriting.” Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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Microsoft and Facebook, sittin' in a tree
Rant alert.
After spending an hour on Facebook last night figuring out the new timeline thingy and the new(est) privacy settings and where you go to manage apps and the new lists that Facebook makes for you and how, uh, everything works now, I realized something.
It totally makes sense that Microsoft invested in Facebook. Facebook is the Windows of social networks. It tries to be everything to...
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“Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and...”
– Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
Great article about the social media that helped make Martin’s Luther Reformation happen.
