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“If somebody goes out to make a movie that isn’t designed primarily to entertain people, then I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. What’s the Raymond Chandler line? ‘All good art is entertainment and anyone who says differently is a stuffed shirt and juvenile at the art of living.’” —Joel Coen
“Most of the characters in our movies are pretty unpleasant—losers or lunkheads, or both. But we’re also very fond of those characters, because you don’t usually see movies based around those kinds of people. We’re not interested in burly superhero types.” —Joel Coen
The Making of ‘The Big Lebowski’
Called “the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived” by über-critic Pauline Kael, this 2010 Oscar-winning best actor embodies traits far beyond brilliance as an actor. He is an exceptional musician, a photographer, an occasional vintner and a storyteller. He hails from an illustrious Hollywood family, working as a child with his father Lloyd and brother Beau on television’s “Sea Hunt.” Bridges endures with vigor and grace. His own decades-long marriage and daughters remain the center of his world. His casual, easy-going air have endeared him to audiences for almost 40 years, starting with The Last Picture Show in 1971, reinforced in Starman in 1984 and the cult classic The Big Lebowski in 1998. After the life-changing role of Bad Blake in Crazy Heart in 2009, he returns to the screen with Tron Legacy and as Rooster Cogburn in the remake of True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers.
I love this man.
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides (American Masters): Watch the full episode @ American Masters
Read The Big Lebowski script [pdf]
Download ScreenplayHowTo’s The Big Lebowski screenplay analysis [pdf]
(NOTE: For educational purposes only)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f68c70172e7af30564078611da0a9d13/tumblr_mhaqg4xLVi1rovfcgo1_500.jpg)
“If somebody goes out to make a movie that isn’t designed primarily to entertain people, then I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. What’s the Raymond Chandler line? ‘All good art is entertainment and anyone who says differently is a stuffed shirt and juvenile at the art of living.’” —Joel Coen
“Most of the characters in our movies are pretty unpleasant—losers or lunkheads, or both. But we’re also very fond of those characters, because you don’t usually see movies based around those kinds of people. We’re not interested in burly superhero types.” —Joel Coen
The Making of ‘The Big Lebowski’
Called “the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived” by über-critic Pauline Kael, this 2010 Oscar-winning best actor embodies traits far beyond brilliance as an actor. He is an exceptional musician, a photographer, an occasional vintner and a storyteller. He hails from an illustrious Hollywood family, working as a child with his father Lloyd and brother Beau on television’s “Sea Hunt.” Bridges endures with vigor and grace. His own decades-long marriage and daughters remain the center of his world. His casual, easy-going air have endeared him to audiences for almost 40 years, starting with The Last Picture Show in 1971, reinforced in Starman in 1984 and the cult classic The Big Lebowski in 1998. After the life-changing role of Bad Blake in Crazy Heart in 2009, he returns to the screen with Tron Legacy and as Rooster Cogburn in the remake of True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers.
I love this man.
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides (American Masters): Watch the full episode @ American Masters
- Read The Big Lebowski script [pdf]
- Download ScreenplayHowTo’s The Big Lebowski screenplay analysis [pdf]
(NOTE: For educational purposes only)
True love can be found in the most unlikely places…
New work for Malaysian Telco DIGI, ‘Kaki Internet’
DIGI’s helping hand brings unlimited internet and internet lover together.
From the inimitable Pop Chart Lab — who have previously charted the varieties of coffee, the history of Apple, America’s bike lanes, the composition of classic cocktails, the wonders of serif fonts, Gotham’s villains, and the 64 guitars that defined rock history — a visual compendium of cameras.
Complement with the story of how Polaroid redefined visual culture and 100 ideas that changed photography.
This is a very good article on the subject from Maclean’s magazine:
‘Please rip off the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Lumineers’
Jody Colero paused, dropped the phone, and asked a composer in his Toronto studio to play with the guitar line in the…
Lykke Li - The Lost Sessions Vol 1.
1 .I Follow Rivers
2. Jerome
3. Youth Knows No Pain
Words: Lykke Li
Music: Lykke Li, Bjorn Yttling, Rick Nowels
ELLA’S HAIKU POEM
Snowflakes are falling.
Snow is falling from the sky.
Cold flakes on my nose.
IS CHANGE A GOOD THING?
Suddenly, the grass that once covered the ground is now tiles of white hard surface.
Suddenly, the jungle I explored is now toxic producing factories.
Suddenly, the rivers I used to swim in changed to ugly rubbish bins.
Suddenly, the hills I admired changed into artificial holiday resorts.
The next change could be: Me, You, Us, or The World…
Written by Raul Dylan Sanjay Hogarth, 11yrs old
Class: Year 6 Terra, 2013
Cempaka International School, Cheras.
(via explore-blog)
Nicolas Karakatsanis - Untitled (2012) & Dark Smoke (2011)
Karakatsanis: I don’t think in terms of dark or light. I reckon I try to go where, aesthetically, I find the right ambience or colour tonality that evoke some emotion for me. I think that darkness allows me often to hide details and to generalise a feeling or expression. It becomes more of a rough brushstroke than a clear picture. I don’t care about showing an event. My focus goes towards finding that balance between trying to tell something - or showing an emotion - and to leave enough space so that the viewer can add his own emotions to the photographs he’s looking at.
mesmerising imagery, do yourself a favour and check out Andrew Droz Palermo’s blog
Lovely Japanese papercraft stop-motion music video, a charming manifestation of the magic of papercraft.
