Finally settled on a backup solution for my computer: Don’t take any pics, vids, download any music or porn. Don’t write anything. Don’t be sentimental. Don’t do anything so cool you’ll be forced to Instagram it.
JUST LIVE LIFE & DIE DATA-LESS.
Dear Me,
I’m writing to you from the year 2010, when I have reached the totally ridiculous age of 62, in order to give you a piece of advice. It’s simple, really, just five words: Stay away from recreational drugs. You’ve got a lot of talent, and you’re going to make lots of people happy with your stories, but — unfortunate but true — you are also a junkie waiting to happen. If you don’t heed this letter and change the future, at least 10 good years of your life — from age 30 to 40 — are going to be a kind of dark eclipse where you disappoint a lot of people and fail to enjoy your own success. You will also come close to dying on several occasions. Do yourself a favor and enjoy a brighter, more productive world. Remember that, like love, resistance to temptation makes the heart grow stronger.
—
Stephen King
Celebrities’ letters to their 16-year-old selves
(via theweekmagazine)
(via theweekmagazine)
Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash
This video was paid for with your tax dollars because there is simply not enough engaging content on the internet to make people pay for broadband internet access. More:
Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000.
The money came through an award by the Department of Commerce to One Economy Corp. for more than $28 million last year to help boost broadband Internet service in underserved areas across the country.
One Economy is using more than $1.5 million of that money to create programming such as “Diary of a Single Mom,” which the group says will help provide an incentive for people to connect to the Internet.
So the government is now in the production business. Because they know what people want, they know what’s good. Because there is nothing on the internet anyway besides cats and unicorns. Because we have a surplus of funds to spend on things, all types of things. Here’s some money, go create your stories, don’t forget to vote.
More: Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash
The trailer for the new Sleigh Bells new album Reign of Terror.
All videos should have trailers, which are different from actual music videos because it sounds a lot cooler if you say your album has a trailer and not a music video.
Art is form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted–not taught–to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?
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Michael Chabon in Manhood for Amateaurs.
via (Carlin)
So long, old friend.
Seems like it was getting increasingly difficult for the theater to operate, with Arclight now premiering many of the same indie films about a mile down the road. Still, Sundance Kabuki is going to take over the old Sunset 5 space in Spring 2012.
I loved seeing movies here. Always quiet, never busy. The perfect theater to see a movie solo, totally and anonymously.
Add textures to vectors using Smart Objects | Tutorial | Computer Arts magazine
My friend Amy makes beautiful illustrations (here’s the one she made of my dog, which I stare at longingly every single day as she’s in Chicago and I’m crying Los Angeles without her). For the November issue of Computer Arts Magazine Amy wrote a tutorial about how she makes some of her stuff! Check it out.
The good thing about working with artists is that they can draw a portrait of you. The bad thing about working with artists is that they can draw a portrait of you. (via Instagram)
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