Morning commute (off my right shoulder as I drive to work) (at Surfers Cove off PCH)
The Ego Nickel
The landscape of the entertainment business and deal making culture
The Ultimate AI Brain
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 The Kiel Opera House, June 20, 1965.
(Source: gregorypecks, via parislemon)
Peet’s Coffee. Really @starbucks? (at Kaufman Entertainment Law Group)
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.
(via soupsoup)
Hotel Lobby, Edward Hopper
Colleague @larryverbit speaking truth to power to the panel at @ifta #iftaproductionconference
#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 you.
(via nevver)
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.
Dove hired a forensic artist to draw how women see themselves versus how others see them - the results are moving.
Wow! Actors take note!
(via zadi)
Strunk & White re apostrophe s after an s:
A bad sign of what’s happening in the film business.
This week in LA-based production (#3 in a series of the same location shot over weeks) (at santa monica mountains conservancy)
