January 2011
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“3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another….So the...”
– Legendary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch on “Why 3D doesn’t work and never will”. He’s got insider’s knowledge, too, beyond that of editing: he helped cut Disney’s Captain EO “4D” film/attraction for Francis Ford Coppola back in the early 1980’s....
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Attentrons
I need to bring this theory up the next time I’m asked to create another link farm or overly-featured application. Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, responds to a question on Quora about A/B testing and usability (in the comments):
“Simple trumps complete” – a 5% feature (used by less than 5% of all users) is a distraction for all the other users, and is better removed, unless...
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Movie Mountain
The New York Times wrote a nice mini-review for my favorite art duo Hubbard / Birchler’s latest piece, Méliès, in which the artists investigate a remote Texas prominence with the unexpected name “Movie Mountain”:
How this unprepossessing peak got its name is the subject of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler’s beautifully made two-screen, high-definition video “Méliès.” To...
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“I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise…”
– George Gershwin on Rhapsody in Blue’s inspiration, the rhythm of the city train.
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“I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We...”
– Hayao Miyazaki, on the necessity of fantasy in children’s stories. (via stayforthecredits)
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“But genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
– Charles Baudelaire, from The Painter of Modern Life. I often see this quoted by itself, so here’s some context:
But genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind...
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