March 2012
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John Green's tumblr: I Saw The Hunger Games Last... →
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I’m late, but in my defense I was on planes much of the last five days.
So a quick prefatory comment: I’m quoted on the back of The Hunger Games for nice things I said about the first book in the New York Times Book Review when it came out, so obviously I like the book. Back then, I remember…
Love this review by John Green. He brings up yet another interesting...
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Lorax Statue Stolen From Dr. Seuss' Garden, Family... →
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Triangulation
Today during my first official meeting with my senior thesis advisor, she used this term “triangulation.” I don’t know if it’s a “real” term, but I think it perfectly expresses an important part of the creative process. Triangulation refers to when a third party, someone slightly on the outside of a project, points out connections that unite seemingly unrelated areas all together. These...
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The Film Buff is Back!
Hello all! I finally got a chance to take a break from Rice and watch some amazing films this weekend. We had a midterm recess (random four-day weekend in the middle of term? I’ll take it!), and since I could not watch television because of Lent, my mom kept movies going all the time. Here is what I watched and what I thought:
The Hunger Games
On Thursday night I went to the midnight premiere...
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“A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are...”
– Alfred Hitchcock’s definition of happiness
via Brain Pickings
(via filmcrack)
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“The poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. Every sin is...”
– “The Blue Hotel” Stephen Crane
“It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if...”
– Jonah Lehrer, on the link between depression and creativity. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)
This issue has always interested me. I like what he has to say about it.
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“He had been a tremendous figure, no doubt. By this struggle he had overcome...”
– Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (pg. 86, Oxford World Classic’s Edition)
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Artist suspends real clouds in the middle of the... →
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That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
I really want to see this! I love clouds. This does make me miss my eight year-old bedroom. My mom made moving to Chicago better by painting a cloudy blue sky on my...
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I Couldn't Resist
(I swear it has rained more in Houston this year than it did the entire time I was in England … )
I promised myself that I would not post until after I had finished the two papers due this week, but I have broken down. To be fair, I have a complete draft of the paper due tomorrow finished and about half of the paper due Thursday finished, but that’s really not where I should leave it...
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