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.

Water lily, The Sacred Space, Summerland, California

Water lily, The Sacred Space, Summerland, California

Doris Day Pinup

Doris Day Pinup, originally uploaded by RickRaven'sBeak.

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."

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

François Truffaut, Filmmaker

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

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

Rian Johnson, Filmmaker

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

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.

Relaxing at the Cat

Relaxing at the Cat, originally uploaded by mastercontrol200.

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Buddha Heads - The Sacred Place

Buddha Heads - The Sacred Place, originally uploaded by mastercontrol200.

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

Outrigger Kiahuna Plantation

Outrigger Kiahuna Plantation, originally uploaded by benyonda.

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

Wild Ride at Mavericks by Mark Healey

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)

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)