making yourself your audience

alway always…otherwise lapse into what I used to call the sentimental, positing someone else as your audience. it's not a confining stance if you realize as whitman put it, that you "contain multitudes". that's the challenge. and that's what I thank "Keane" for reminding me of.

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continuity in art

in Art, continuity is everything. that's why in teaching filmmaking, teach history. art can't be taught, but the impulse to pick up the thread and what to do with it, the excitement of that, perhaps can be offered

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what does Time do?

what does Time do?balloon your crimeyour woeyour loveTime is a lazy fuckand couldn't care lessTime is a person youmade up in your cutesad wayTime is gravity i.eaccelerationthe limning of an eyenot the eyenot the sumi-ecalligrapherTime is nothingGet Time out of your headStop reifyingYou'll be fine

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Ok, so it’s ADD

if I'm only motivated to act by adrenaline, by the sense of a deadline, or perhaps the ultimate deadline, which is death, and that simple disappointment and dissatisfaction is something that I will lazily shoulder and bear up until that point, then this spells a trainwreck, a wasted life, and I am well on my…

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Movie: The Social Network

Ok, read the screenplay on the internet, saw the movie. So it was skilfully done and very entertaining. Nice job Sorkin, nice job Fincher. Jesse Eisenberg taking on the mantle of that brilliant-but-socially-blind-but-still-capable-of-great-friendship-and-hurt character did great. The story is a defense of how genius alienates and can lose touch with the heart. Check. Kind of…

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upon making his entrance

upon making his entrancehe wanted to fix everythingmake everone happymend grievancesbe admired loved respectedan entry into a new roomwas like fallingand grabbing as he fellalways a chute of failureabject failure

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