Category Archives: Inspiration

Gone to seed

May 25th, 2010 | Posted in Art, Inspiration

Tokyo Times : Waterslide Ruins One of a great set of photos taken at a resort gone to seed. Join the forum discussion on this post

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Stunning time-lapse video of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, in action

May 19th, 2010 | Posted in Art, Inspiration, Science

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo. Sean Stiegemeier, who created the video embedded above, writes, So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get [...]

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I’d like

March 19th, 2010 | Posted in Inspiration

“I’d like to make a great film provided it doesn’t conflict with my dinner reservation.” Woody Allen

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These talking machines

March 17th, 2010 | Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Technology

“These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country….The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.” John Philip Sousa 

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Sunrise

February 15th, 2010 | Posted in Creativity, Inspiration

F.W. Murnau – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Trailer, 1927) Wow. Roger Ebert, on Sunrise: Murnau, raised in the dark shadows of expressionism, pushed his images as far as he could, forced them upon us, haunted us with them. The more you consider “Sunrise” the deeper it becomes — not because the story grows [...]

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Funny how people only cite karma when bad things happen to people they don’t like.

February 10th, 2010 | Posted in Inspiration

Reminds me of Anne Lamott: “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

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