Saul Bass on Clients and Budgets and Beautiful Things
Saul Bass on clients and budgets and beautiful things. via Frank
Short film and song — Coastin’
This weekend we rented a beautiful cabin on the coast of Oregon. Andy, Zach, Mellisa, Aiden and I.
I wanted to try to film on my Canon 7D without a lens attached. So I tried. With one hand I held the lens and tried to adjust the focus with my finger. In the other hand I held the camera.
It was hard to get a solid, focused image, but it created a beautiful, washed out kind of look.
During Aiden’s nap on saturday I took the iPhone and guitar into the bedroom to create a moody song for the video. I used the iPhone microphone to record the guitar parts, added an organ drone, violá!
Hope you dig it. Now, with DSLRs and iPhones we can all pretend we live in Tumblr every day!
Download the song: I Need it Most
Whatever you do, eyes front, head high to the finish
Whatever you do, eyes front, head high to the finish. Via Josh Blankenship
Hand painted signs
The craftsman at work. Via Font Feed
The danger of not making use of your make-manship
If there’s things you need to make and you don’t make them, maybe the kinetic energy and broken promises and regret and missed-out-manship and weight of the unused potential will consume you… and you’ll make more non-makers. Or is that too Sesame Street™?
The Greatest Speech Ever
O great misery, O swelling heart, O hope. via Lonely Sandwich
Design: communication, culture, commerce
Great video, this. A couple thoughts:
- I have to try to read. It’s easy enough, but there’s effort. That makes it more of a game — i’m more involved.
- Craftsmanship, clarity, functionality, social contribution, sustainability, beauty and results — is there a better definition for design out there?
- How on earth did they make this? The pictures don’t help much.
Buddy Rich on how you suck
Watching this i couldn’t help but think to myself: “what do I want to be truly amazing at?”
I play the drums. I play them quite well. I could probably impress you.
I also play the guitar.
And the keyboards.
And the computer.
And the website.
And the business model.
And the marketing.
And the parenting.
And the husbanding.
That’s why I’m not truly amazing at the drums. Which thing on that list would I give up being good at all the others for?
You may not have to give up everything to be great at one thing, but one day you’re going to watch a video of someone who’s truly amazing and you may realize it could have been you if you wanted it to be a long time ago and then you worked and worked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUbYiFXT_0
vid via hot doggin’ ladies
Ira Glass on the gap
Conan’s last words
Conan O’Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo.
Conan’s last words… Not sure if I already posted this… not sure. But it’s so great… so great.