Friday, December 20, 2013

Chris McCandless on the Passion for Adventure


"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." ~ Chris McCandless

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Oliver Sacks on Waking Consciousness and Dreaming

"Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality." ~ Oliver Sacks

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Muhammad Ali on the repetition of affirmation

"It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." ~ Muhammad Ali

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Henry Miller on Attention

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~ Henry Miller

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Bertolt Brecht on Art

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." ~ Bertolt Brecht

Monday, November 04, 2013

The Primary Cause of Unhappiness

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Congratulations to Oracle Team USA!

To the victors goes the spoils. Congratulations to Oracle Team USA on winning the 34th Americas' Cup in San Francisco yesterday.

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Doris Day Pinup


Doris Day Pinup, originally uploaded by RickRaven'sBeak.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Christopher Nolan on Stanley Kubrick’s filmmaking:

Christopher Nolan on Stanley Kubrick’s filmmaking:

"From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate."

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter, Filmmaker

"Movies tend to be very concrete in their construction of events and characters. It's a tricky medium in which to deal with interior lives. But I think it's really a great medium for it. Movies share so much with dreams, which, of course, only deal with interior lives. Your brain is wired to turn emotional states into movies. Your dreams are very well written. I know this without knowing any of you. People turn anxieties, crisis and longing, love, regret and guilt, into beautiful rich stories in their dreams." ~ Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter, Filmmaker

Sunday, July 14, 2013

François Truffaut, Filmmaker

"Whatever is said instead of being shown is lost on the viewer." ~ François Truffaut, Filmmaker, Film Critic

Friday, July 05, 2013

Shane Carruth, Filmmaker

"My aim as a filmmaker is, by the end credits, to have delivered an emotional arc—and, hopefully, a somewhat cohesive narrative. My aim is not to sum everything up and make everything that is telegraphing meaning to necessarily be known by the end. I don't shy away from denseness." ~ Shane Carruth, Filmmaker

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Rian Johnson, Filmmaker

"All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie." ~ Rian Johnson

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Thanks to Pa for letting me watch this 1954 French crime classic, "Touchez pas au Grisbi" (Hands Off the Loot!), starring the legend, Jean Gabin, as a crime boss.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Relaxing at the Cat


Relaxing at the Cat, originally uploaded by mastercontrol200.

Monday, April 01, 2013

Buddha Heads - The Sacred Place

Two views of a Buddha head at The Sacred Place, Summerland, CA.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Outrigger Kiahuna Plantation


Outrigger Kiahuna Plantation, originally uploaded by benyonda.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Hunter S. Thompson

"The Edge ... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Friday, February 22, 2013

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

"In a million years, when kids go to school, they gonna know: Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in The Bathtub." ~ Hushpuppy (Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012)

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Mark Boal, Screenwriter for Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

" ... If we left the torture out, we’d be whitewashing history. Interrogations were clearly part of how this lead developed." ~ Mark Boal, Screenwriter for Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Saturday, February 02, 2013

Joe Namath

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." ~ Joe Namath

Friday, January 04, 2013

Jean Cocteau on Art

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious." ~ Jean Cocteau