Chris Streger’s To Resolve Project:
“I decided to ask as many talented designers I knew (or didn’t know) to create a resolution for the new year as an iPhone background.”
(Via Coursekit.)
Posted in design, inspiration
Today on reddit, comedian and television auteur Louis C.K. took questions. It being reddit, the thing’s a pain in the ass to read, but I particularly liked this exchange:
Q: How on earth were you able to gain the incredible amount of authorial control that you have over Louie? Have you had to battle with FX over any particular jokes/concepts/creative choices?
A: I got it by demanding it and refusing to do the show any other way at all and by having the leverage that I was completely willing to walk away without doing the show and by agreeing to an extremely low budget so that they could offset the risk of giving me this freedom because they are risking less money.
Elsewhere Louis talks about how he edits his TV show by himself on his MacBook.
The whole thing reminded me of Bill Cunningham’s sage advice, “If you don’t take the money, they can’t tell you what to do.”
(Via Curved White.)
UPDATE: Austin Kleon, internet detective par excellence, points out that the above isn’t something Robert Collier himself said, but rather the opening lines of a Florence Taylor poem.
Posted in inspiration
Unaired version of Apple’s 1997 “Think Different” ad narrated by Steve Jobs.
Here’s to the crazy ones indeed.
“Someone has to not be tweeting all the time, someone has to be thinking about things which need a long attention span and trying to organise material and build up strong foundations instead of rushing off across the frontier. It takes a long time to put out something that has the right style; I have to really think about it and if I’m going to do it right I have to spend a lot of time focussed on it.”
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don’t have time for such study.”
Posted in inspiration, quotes, work
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”
—Edwin Land
(Via.)
Posted in inspiration, quotes
“Most graduate students are convinced that the way you get ideas is to read journal articles. But in my experience journals really aren’t a very good source of original ideas. You can get lots of things from journal articles – technique, insight, even truth. But most of the time you will only get someone else’s ideas. True, they may leave a few loose ends lying around that you can pick up on, but the reason they are loose is probably that the author thought about them a while and couldn’t figure out what to do with them or decided they were too tedious to bother with – which means that it is likely that you will find yourself in the same situation. My suggestion is rather different: I think that you should look for your ideas outside the academic journals – in newspapers, in magazines, in conversations, and in TV and radio programs.”
—Hal Varian
(Via.)
Related post: Invisible Literature.
Posted in academe, books, inspiration, quotes
(See also Mike Monteiro’s “Fuck You, Pay Me” talk.)
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