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Archive for February, 2007

Virginia Apologizes For Slavery

Virginia Apologizes For Slavery. But it never apologized for getting me hooked on tobacco products.

Directing a Shoot – More Than Just A Good Eye

It’s been a week of preparation, followed by one glorious day of panicked irrationality, wherein I achieved more ancillary goals than I’d been able to the entire rest of the week combined, simply due to the impetus provided by the stress of knowing that in less than 24 hours I’d be behind the camera again. [...]

Guide To Making Short Films

It’s a lot easier writing a bad short film script than a good one, and to act in a bad short film is something all aspiring actors do at one point in their lives, but it takes true talent to make something you consider brilliant, but is in actuality truly and incomprehensively bad. You’re in [...]

The Decline of Rape

The Decline of Rape. Maybe it’s all the sedatives we’re taking now.

Pratt Vs. Yale

Pratt Vs. Yale. Now look at Yale’s site. Who wins for worst site design? And why would Pratt rip off Yale?

Fridge Magnets

Fridge Magnets. That computer is using eight beans.

Singing Through Screenwriting

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Bargain Jack

Bargain Jack. My search for tchotchkes is now insatiable.

Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn. For many Japanese, Mr. Hearn’s appeal lies in the glimpses he offered of an older, more mystical Japan lost during the country’s hectic plunge into Western-style industrialization and nation building. His books are treasured here as a trove of legends and folk tales that otherwise might have vanished because no Japanese had bothered [...]

The Communist Smoker

The Communist Smoker. Cancer sticks never looked so design-a-licious. (via)