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A few seconds after the one minute mark the tribute montage starts. You’ll find yourself remembering movies you forgot were made by Scorsese. The montage is great and brilliantly showcases an amazing body of work. Martin Scorsese, maker of strong images.
Just saw Lemonade. It was so motivating. Grateful for Eric Proulx (and his wife), the crew and the people that shared their stories. The movie is a testament to the idea that work should be more than just making a living, it should also enhance your life. Check the website for screenings near you.
Podcast: “Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion”Fictional experiments in emerging media like Twitter and Facebook are influencing traditional printed novels and stories in interesting ways, but another intriguing new narrative is also emerging: the rise of “artifacts” that, although they support a writer’s career, have their own intrinsic creative value. What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life caused by new media and a proliferation of “open channels”? What protective measures must a writer take to preserve his or her “self” in this environment? In addition to the guerilla tactics implicit in storytelling through social media and other unconventional platforms, in what ways is a writer’s life now itself a story irrespective of intentional fictive storytelling? Examining these issues leads naturally to a discussion on the tension and cross-pollination between the private and public lives of writers in our transmedia age, including the strategies and tactics that best serve those who want to survive and flourish in this new environment. What are we losing in the emerging new paradigm, and what do we stand to gain?
A writer for the New York Times Book Review, Huffington Post, and Washington Post, Jeff VanderMeer is also the award-winning author of the metafictional City of Saints & Madmen, the noir fantasy Finch, and Booklife: Strategies & Survival Tips for 21st-Century Writers. His website can be found at jeffvandermeer.com.
Kevin Smokler is the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Basic Books) which was a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company and on National Public Radio. He lives in San Francisco, blogs for the Huffington Post and at kevinsmokler.com, and is the CEO of BookTour.com.
Presented in conjunction with Futures of Entertainment 4
All the talk about e-books, e-readers and Apple’s rumored tablet (known until it is finally released as The Tablet) made me think about this podcast from last November. The lecture was part of the Futures of Entertainment 4 Conference. It touches on what it takes to be a writer in an age of e-readers, twitter, facebook and the web.
Continuing the end-of-year, end-of-decade list compilation started here, interspersed with some of the best creative work of the year.
• The Awesome Brain Pickings Best Of 2009.
• Discovered in the Arjan Writes music blog, here is MPHO:
• The Big Picture, Christmas 2009.
• The Decade In Words.
• The New York Times The Year In Culture Slideshow.
• Inception Trailer:
• Wired’s The 15 Most Influential Games Of The Decade: Portal is still my favorite.
• BBH Labs’ A Quick Glance At 10 Of Their Best Blog Posts.
• Milton Glaser’s Ten Things I’ve Learned: From 2001 but still relevant.
• DJ Earworm’s United States Of Pop 2009: Amazing. Do you recognize all the references?
• Ten Gadgets That Defined The Decade.
• LA Times’ Top 10 Moments In Social Media In 2009.
• The Impossible Cool: A fantastic blog curating incredible images that are the essence of the impossibly cool.
• The Dieline: Another gorgeous blog curating the best in package design.
• Netflix’s Top Ten Most Rented Movies.
• The Year In Picture Shows.
• Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos Of 2009: Including this.
• Fuel Your Creativity’s Best of 2009 In The Creative Industry.
• Danger Room’s Top Ten Stories From A World Gone Nuts.
• Epitaphs For Our Favorite Folded Magazines Of 2009.
• Honda’s Everything Ad: Let’s celebrate the brilliance of good editors.
• The Decade In Communications Technology.
• Charles Isherwood’s Best of 2009 Theater.
• Slate’s Troy Patterson Selects 26 Cultural Moments Of The Decade: From A to Z.
• Macworld’s Top Ten Tech Stories Of The Decade.
• Picturing The Past 10 Years.
• 2009 NYC Holiday Window Displays.
• New Scientist’s Favorite Picture Galleries: Featuring a gallery of snapshots from an imploding star.
• Macworld’s 2009 Game Hall Of Fame.
• The Pogie Awards For The Year’s Best Tech Ideas.
• Top 10 Documentaries of 2009.
• Best Of The Decade’s Architecture.
• Fimoculous’ Year In Review: A mega list of eccentric lists, including a list of the worst renderings.
• Top Ten Book Cover Designs.
• The Decades 14 Biggest Design Moments.
• Ads We Hate, The Year’s Worst Commercials.
• The Year For Creatives.
• The Best of Open Culture 2009.
• Flicker’s Your Best Shots of 2009, The Seasons.
• KCRW’s The Business: The Hollywood Year That Was [Podcast, iTunes Link]
And the predictions:
• JWT’s 100 To Watch in 2010.
• 50 Trends For 2010.
• 32 Of Our Most Anticipated 2010 Entertainments.
And lastly:
• Ringing The New Year With A Drink For Each Time Zone.
Adding a story can make any object valuable.
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