Beethoven, Große Fuge (complete, Great Fugue), op. 133, string quartet (animated score) (by smalin)
Always enjoy watching behind the scenes: how the sausage is made. :)
Herewith, some of the voice acting from Disney’s latest animated movie: Frozen. (Some looks like it’s taken from the auditions too.)
I found it really interesting that the voice actors will sometimes repeat a line several times, trying out different ways of saying it (presumably the audio editors excerpting the one they want). Makes me feel a little better about taking ten times to do a simple voicemail recording. ;) And if you’re interested to see more, just check out the full 16m “B-roll”. (via Movie B-Roll Collection)
itsbrittanywilmes-blog:
I always appreciate your pragmatic and straightforward opinion on working and creating. I’m a creative nonfiction writer by night and an uninspired nonprofit marketer by day. What’s your advice for someone like me who needs to pay the bills but just wants to be immersed in creating and building community around that? I’m in near-constant purgatory at work, and I hate it. Should I just shut my mouth and keep at it? Is this forever?
I get asked this question more than almost any other. And it’s something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about. Here’s what I wrote about it in Steal Like An Artist:
I kept a day job until I made more money off art than I did at my day job. And even then, it was scary for me to leave it. Everybody always tosses out that tired “do what you love, and the rest will follow” shit, and I don’t buy it. (I usually say, “Do what you love and the debt will follow.”)
You have to pay the bills and feed the mouths, and you do it however you can. I got married when I was 23—I’ve had a family to support for a while now. I guess in my attitude, I’m a lot like Philip Larkin:
I was brought up to think you had to have a job, and write in your spare time, like Trollope. Then, when you started earning enough money by writing, you phase the job out. But in fact I was over fifty before I could have “lived by my writing”—and then only because I had edited a big anthology—and by that time you think, Well, I might as well get my pension, since I’ve gone so far….All I can say is, having a job hasn’t been a hard price to pay for economic security.
And my experience has been that economic security has always helped my art along more than any kind of “spiritual” freedom or whatever.
“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”
One thing I would recommend to you is to see the day job as a positive, not a negative:
A day job gives you money, a connection to the world, and a routine. Freedom from financial stress also means freedom in your art. As photographer Bill Cunningham says, “If you don’t take money, they cant tell you what to do.”
Because the real truth is, once you start making money doing what you love, it BECOMES A JOB. And with it comes all the hassle of a job. Here’s Larkin again:
You can live by “being a writer,” or “being a poet,” if you’re prepared to join the cultural entertainment industry, and take handouts from the Arts Council (not that there are as many of them as there used to be) and be a “poet in residence” and all that. I suppose I could have said—it’s a bit late now—I could have had an agent, and said, Look, I will do anything for six months of the year as long as I can be free to write for the other six months. Some people do this, and I suppose it works for them.
In other words: you always have a day job. (My friend Hugh calls this “The Sex & Cash Theory.”) Right now my day job is going around giving talks and writing and selling books. It’s a good day job, but “doing what I love” would actually mean sitting around all day reading and drawing and making these goofy poems. Guess how much that pays? Not much. And guess how much time I actually get to do that stuff? Not much.
Anyways, this is supposed to encourage you. Every artist without a sugar mama or a trust fund or extreme luck has had to deal with this.
Just hang in there.
This is what I recommend: get up early. Get up early and work for two hours on the thing you really care about. Then, when you’re done, go to your job. When you get there, your boss can’t take the thing you really care about away from you, because you already did it. And you know you’ll get to do it tomorrow morning, as long as you make it through today.
The “meaning” in your job is: it pays the bills. Get as good at it as you can, because it’ll make the job more interesting to you, and it will provide you exits to another one. Then find the rest of your meaning elsewhere.
For more inspiration from people better and smarter than me, click this tag: “Keep your day job.”
Video trailer for Worn Wear, a film about the stories we wear, presented by Patagonia. A response to the Black Friday phenomenon, it’s an invitation to celebrate the stuff you already own. If you’re interested, you can also watch the full 30m film.
First attempt at cranberry sauce from scratch.
Came out quite good if I do say so myself, ;) and preparation not as hard as I imagined. Next year may try a variation on the basic recipe, but certainly a recommend for your own dining pleasure. :)
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“3 Queens” - a three-minute video about three mothers.
Thank you moms.
(via sds)
Your phone needs to be constantly recharged, and you do too. — Jared Lafitte
This album dropped today: “The Symphony and the Static”. From the artist, Fr. Pontifex: “The idea for “The Symphony and The Static” as a concept came to me during Christmas last year. I was going through a difficult time in my life and I had also walked with some people through some tough times and yet it was Christmas, which is always a joyful experience for me. The feelings I had inside, birthed in me the idea of the tension between hope and suffering, joy and pain, and peace and violence. One of the lines from “The Overture” sums it up, “We live in the tension of chaos and glory, chapters buried in time with so much more to the story.” My life feels like that and it’s what I observe and experience with my people. Not one of us is immune to the human drama. Each one of us experiences our own symphony and static.“ Gotta say, the tracks are kicking. Check it on iTunes or his online store.
(by Spirit Juice Studios)
by yours truly
“How Twitter Hijacked My Mind”
A chameleon credit card, that does membership and gift cards too…all in one. Great idea. And set to ship 2014. (via davemorin)
UPDATE: Read an article that pointed out that the card is designed to stop working once it loses touch with your cell phone for a defined time under 10 minutes. While this is a security feature, it also prevents the card from being used whenever your cell phone goes dead, which is a bad thing. The company says they’re working on something, but I think that’d definitely have to be figured out for this to make sense. (Maybe Apple’s fingerprint technology?)
Are You Happy And In Love? Here’s Why That Makes You So Sad.
The sound of the waves…
…washing, washing, washing against the shores of my soul.
The longer I listen, the more I begin to hear them…
…until my heart starts to beat in unison with their poundings.
-yours truly
Christ does not die in the noble detachment of the philosopher. He dies in tears. — Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology (via marylikesbagels)
confessionsofsomeoneanonymous:
Man & Woman
Didn’t get to post this at the time, but Apple’s latest desktop operating system was released recently. And the price is…free. Amazing. OS X Mavericks downloadable from the App Store.
This was really neat to watch – great job Buckeyes! :)
moviescore:
The Ohio State marching band did something cinematically awesome this weekend. Watch and listen and see how many movie scores you can identify. (via Deadspin)
New personal best too.
