The Ego Nickel

Morning commute (off my right shoulder as I drive to work) (at...

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:45:22 -0700

Morning commute (off my right shoulder as I drive to work) (at Surfers Cove off PCH)

The Ultimate AI Brain

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:57:20 -0700

Steven Levy interviewed Ray Kurzweil about his new role at Google. On the topic of having the courage to follow your convictions:

Levy: What’s the biological basis for that kind of courage? If you had an infinite ability to analyze a brain, could you say, “Oh, here’s where the courage is?”

Kurzweil: It is the neocortex, and people who fill up too much of their neocortex with concern about the approval of their peers are probably not going be the next Einstein or Steve Jobs.

Rat Packers Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra at...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:54:46 -0700

Rat Packers Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra at The Kiel Opera House, June 20, 1965.

Peet’s Coffee. Really @starbucks? (at Kaufman...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:17:18 -0700

Peet’s Coffee. Really @starbucks? (at Kaufman Entertainment Law Group)

nbcnews: To Boston From Kabul With Love (Photo Courtesy Beth...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:56:04 -0700

nbcnews:

To Boston From Kabul With Love

(Photo Courtesy Beth Murphy / Principle Pictures)

KABUL – After more than three decades of war, you would think Afghans would be desensitized to violent attacks like the Boston Marathon explosion. A Boston-based documentary filmmaker found just the opposite.

Read the complete story.

nevver: Hotel Lobby, Edward Hopper

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:54:16 -0700

nevver:

Hotel Lobby, Edward Hopper

Colleague @larryverbit speaking truth to power to the panel at...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:43:04 -0700

Colleague @larryverbit speaking truth to power to the panel at @ifta #iftaproductionconference

#iftaproductionconference panel. As these things go, very...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:49:19 -0700

#iftaproductionconference panel. As these things go, very helpful (at Beverly Wilshire Beverly Hills - A Four Seasons Hotel)

"The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make straight your hooks and nothing can hold..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:22:09 -0700

“The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make straight your hooks and nothing can hold you.”

- Nisargadatta Maharaj (via nevver)

nevver: The New Yorker

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:21:43 -0700

nevver:

The New Yorker

parislemon: poptech: BuzzFeed has a set of workspace pics of...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:20:28 -0700

parislemon:

poptech:

BuzzFeed has a set of workspace pics of the famously creative. This is E.B. White’s “office.” Can’t wait to explore creativity at PopTech’s 2013 “Sparks of Brilliance” conference.

General rule: writers are organized, painters are messy as shit.

choosechoice: Dove hired a forensic artist to draw how women...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:18:57 -0700

choosechoice:

Dove hired a forensic artist to draw how women see themselves versus how others see them - the results are moving.

Wow! Actors take note!

Strunk & White re apostrophe s after an s:

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:47:07 -0700

Strunk & White re apostrophe s after an s:

A bad sign of what’s happening in the film business.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:52:20 -0700

A bad sign of what’s happening in the film business.

This week in LA-based production (#3 in a series of the same...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:49:47 -0700

This week in LA-based production (#3 in a series of the same location shot over weeks) (at santa monica mountains conservancy)

This week in LA-based production. (#3 in a series of the same...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:46:55 -0700

This week in LA-based production. (#3 in a series of the same spit over weeks). (at santa monica mountains conservancy)

parislemon: Best NYT correction ever, or best NYT correction...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:38:16 -0700

parislemon:

Best NYT correction ever, or best NYT correction ever?

But really, very nice eulogy of Roger Ebert by NYT film critic, A.O. Scott.

Why Roger Ebert was a good writer

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:37:46 -0700

Why Roger Ebert was a good writer:

parislemon:

Roy Peter Clark for Poynter:

According to traditional standards of newspaper writing, this lead should be a disaster. It is 79 words long, most of them in that first rambling sentence. It begins not with the news but with a subordinate clause. There are no concrete nouns. No strong active verbs. Why, then, do I think it works so well?

In a word, it has voice.

…

Any experienced writer can master the short snappy sentence. It takes a good writer to master the long sentence, the one that takes the reader on a journey of discovery, the one that leads you to a special place you could not have imagined when you stepped on board the bus.

This is exactly why I loved reading Ebert. And, truth be told, it’s the same style of writing that I’ve tried to put forth. Any success that I’ve had as a writer, I’d attribute directly to that notion: voice. Of course, I’m nowhere near Ebert’s level of expertise — give me 40 years.

nevver: Writer’s advice from writers

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:42:58 -0700

nevver:

Writer’s advice from writers

nevver: We the Robots

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:51:37 -0700

nevver:

We the Robots