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Neil Gaiman gave the commencement address this year at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.

Source: gointothestory.blcklst.com

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Wonderful. Ken Burns talks about story. Watch it.

Source: kottke.org

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Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960)

I didn’t know what you couldn’t do. I didn’t deliberately set out to invent anything. It just seemed to me, ‘Why not?’ There is a great gift that ignorance has to bring to anything, you know. That was the gift I brought to [Citizen] Kane… ignorance.

Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960)

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Letter from Hemingway to Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald asked Ernest Hemingway to read his newest novel at the time. This letter is Hemingway’s critique.

For Christ sake write and don’t worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

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A nice analysis and defense of the visual styles and motifs used in The Wire.

Style in The Wire by Erlend Lavik

Source: kottke.org

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The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
Charles Dickens

(via quotevadis)

Source: payload41.cargocollective.com

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Fish: a tap essay

Want to read something wonderful?

Think I might love it.

“Fish: a tap essay” by Robin Sloan

Source: Wired

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  • 1 month ago
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So much gold. The first I’ve seen of this guy, but I love him.

A Show with Ze Frank

Source: kottke.org

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Is everyone entitled to their opinion?

If we’re going to do great work, it means that some people aren’t going to like it. And if the people who don’t like it don’t have an impact on what happens to the work after it’s complete, the only recourse of someone doing great work is to ignore their opinion.

Is everyone entitled to their opinion? by Seth Godin

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Excerpts from Martin Scorsese’s storyboards for the climactic scene in Taxi Driver (1976) (via)

Source: oldhollywood

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