tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322548332024-03-07T14:59:20.597-05:00Friends are my art formposted by Grainyms. Life's been one long pretty interesting conversation.grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12238826300503881384noreply@blogger.comBlogger522125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-48185871429705276452016-08-07T18:47:00.004-04:002016-08-07T18:48:51.280-04:00The Dream to no longer have to make decisions<div class="p1">
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grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12238826300503881384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-48432427950313226242013-05-09T18:41:00.001-04:002013-05-09T18:41:20.926-04:00David Foster Wallace Graduation Speech Adapted into a Short Film via Brainpickings.orgBrainpickings.org always has the best recommendations. Love this David Foster Wallace Graduation Speech adapted into a Short Film:<br />
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My father was a Mensche. He taught us to survive, and because of the kind of person he was, we were helped by people who risked their lives so that we could keep ours’. Because of a Polish farmer and a Ukrainian Peasant and their Menschlichkeit, my brother and I are alive today. We are the last of the survivors. We never indulged in pre-pubescent dreams of vengeance and violence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-39199222971037829262013-03-19T22:21:00.001-04:002013-03-19T22:55:29.583-04:00NY Observer article from 2005A blast from the past article that really made us laugh today upon revisiting. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 21px;">"If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 21px;">should</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 21px;"> feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.”</span></span></blockquote>
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courtesy of http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/05/kathryn-schulz-regret-ted/grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-9162803777253861602012-03-28T01:15:00.001-05:002012-03-28T01:16:35.105-05:00Mike Nichols & Suzy Parker in Richard Avedon photo<img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGW3oFwdRHVQjxY4AfAnv7ko-wMVihmDbSqYmqdiW5ix2BgqZLDXAnD3qQC8D7lMeicyWk523TX4VoL7ylkDndeMxT82G0j-OIOqfd2KwTzTAdBQPn_h1xMeaG6QII4_dMDOi8/s400/Suzy+Parker+and+Mike+Nichols+ave.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724827726830338258" /><div><br /></div><div>This is one of my favorite photos of all time.</div>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-41170744031519423002011-08-30T15:10:00.001-04:002011-08-30T15:12:08.943-04:00Cameron Bailey's TIFF words of wisdomLOVE this from Cameron Bailey's TIFF <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/article/talking_tiff_toronto_programmer_cameron_bailey_on_this_years_fest/#">indiewire preview:</a>
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<br />grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-2930082848630892462010-11-15T01:36:00.002-05:002010-11-15T01:39:28.415-05:00iPOP 'Tiny Furniture''s Big Dance Party! - indieWIRE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceSLE-TFQfW73TsRjKoOVVGUIatGPrUyZcc3VV18FzRiS19IND4cBHFwIBhk9iLYt28f4ev146FcXH4QY_r3O7RTwg8M5iosnNem3R0W0RDy-9-8aHgloD-Iq_ffVAqzu2jGh/s1600/piersonlena_MAIN.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceSLE-TFQfW73TsRjKoOVVGUIatGPrUyZcc3VV18FzRiS19IND4cBHFwIBhk9iLYt28f4ev146FcXH4QY_r3O7RTwg8M5iosnNem3R0W0RDy-9-8aHgloD-Iq_ffVAqzu2jGh/s400/piersonlena_MAIN.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539662119076038642" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///Users/janet/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><br />So proud of Lena Dunham and TINY FURNITURE! 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And who would have guessed in ATX, TX?grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-85046611322074192752010-05-17T21:39:00.003-04:002010-05-17T21:42:41.655-04:00Me and Wendell<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZrKTwG9C1GOFaZKFRNds27Ggz_3Tbx64Eksv59bEm_KkSv_iqTuy5L0cqAssd1JNSpCofTLUHyAnXpi4di09VB0Ia6ICbYI5eCynDqjdZr_UxXJ3hh_FvK6oEEuQSFzRGR5B/s1600/JP_WendellPierce.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZrKTwG9C1GOFaZKFRNds27Ggz_3Tbx64Eksv59bEm_KkSv_iqTuy5L0cqAssd1JNSpCofTLUHyAnXpi4di09VB0Ia6ICbYI5eCynDqjdZr_UxXJ3hh_FvK6oEEuQSFzRGR5B/s400/JP_WendellPierce.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472419180098099298" /></a><br />I don't know many actors, nor do I usually ask to have my photo taken with the famous - friends, associates or otherwise. But I couldn't resist when I ran into Wendell Pierce at the MD Film Festival. What a great actor. What a gorgeous voice! Just loved getting to meet him for a minute and talk in person. He took the photo :)grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-25260135830279265272010-05-10T03:17:00.003-04:002010-05-10T03:22:30.642-04:00I miss mine tooFilofaxes, Mundis, days of dreaming, notes and tasks. My systems, my lists. It was the address book that pushed me over to the Palm - that and the heaviness of the little looseleaf planners themselves. But how I loved the visual record. I have years in my closet. Sad, sad, sad.<br /><br /><br /><br />Magazine<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09FOB-medium-t.html">The Demise of Datebooks</a><br />By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN<br />Published: May 3, 2010<br />Shelving analog calendars for digital ones.grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-57731907079876049122010-05-10T02:17:00.001-04:002010-05-10T02:18:08.552-04:00White guys with pads - nice talk by Andy RevkinTelling the Story of Science in a Post-Media World<br /><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RR_5yu_e-bQ&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RR_5yu_e-bQ&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-1381762752094100752010-05-10T01:57:00.002-04:002010-05-10T02:01:20.900-04:00Carry On Packing Tips courtesy of NYTI can't stand checking bags! And as I've been traveling more, I've been losing more (like my raincoat and new cosmetics last year enroute to Cannes, and my Bose headphones just last week somewhere along the Toronto/Maryland axis. I brought two bags because of a friend's comment, and regret it. Having two bags makes it almost harder to keep track.) I'm pretty good at keeping it lean but will try this to see if it helps.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/06/business/businessspecial/20100506-pack-ss.html">Business Day<br />10 Days In a Carry-On<br />null<br />Published: May 6, 2010<br />A flight attendant reveals her secrets on how to pack efficiently and wrinkle-free.</a>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-23586611957178263762010-05-08T19:26:00.001-04:002010-05-08T19:26:10.637-04:00Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010This is what I really wish I could have attended at SXSW. WOuld love to be able to do this. I've watched Austin in realtime, and it's very very cool. Check out this SlideShare Presentation: <div style="width:425px" id="__ss_3999846"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/austinkleon/visual-notetaking-101-from-sxsw-2010" title="Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010">Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010</a></strong><object id="__sse3999846" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=viznotes-100506170806-phpapp02&stripped_title=visual-notetaking-101-from-sxsw-2010" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse3999846" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=viznotes-100506170806-phpapp02&stripped_title=visual-notetaking-101-from-sxsw-2010" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="padding:5px 0 12px">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">webinars</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/austinkleon">Austin Kleon</a>.</div></div>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-28718806629079262832010-04-29T00:46:00.008-04:002010-04-29T00:54:29.204-04:00Sascha's very cute babiesI was a huge fan of Sascha Paladino's doc <a href="http://www.throwdownyourheart.com/">THROW DOWN YOUR HEART</a> which premiered at SXSW in 2008. Since then he's had a couple of twins. Very cool to see this film he made in connection with Focus' new doc Babies.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLglLGjIDCkF10zwTPlhyZg7krFb9VGzy5QNeK1JD7wt6NpUBjEO09zL7wNOggFRMTIOJKAUj-jv-SQzjSNi6L8Hqhty_JgOTt87BwQKwr2osxJIU8gtsqk6hJ9QdcS_nPFT0A/s1600/sascha.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLglLGjIDCkF10zwTPlhyZg7krFb9VGzy5QNeK1JD7wt6NpUBjEO09zL7wNOggFRMTIOJKAUj-jv-SQzjSNi6L8Hqhty_JgOTt87BwQKwr2osxJIU8gtsqk6hJ9QdcS_nPFT0A/s400/sascha.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465417353569147906" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.filminfocus.com/video/indie_babies__sascha_paladino_s_have_we_met_">Watch the Video</a>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-85559654893901851142010-04-13T01:03:00.001-04:002010-04-13T01:03:39.644-04:00YouTube Treats: Blow Something Up! | SXSW.com<a href="http://sxsw.com/node/4741">YouTube Treats: Blow Something Up! | SXSW.com</a>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-48347168875851950862010-04-12T01:48:00.008-04:002010-04-12T01:53:44.694-04:00ELLE Film Critic Karen Durbin's Postcard From AustinNot that I'm going to post all my work clippings here, but it is a convenient scrapebook and filing system of sorts for some favorites. Loved this <div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><h1 class="article-title" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: -1px; width: 630px; text-transform: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Movies-TV-Music-Books/ELLE-Film-Critic-Karen-Durbin-s-Postcard-From-Austin">ELLE Film Critic Karen Durbin's Postcard From Austin:</a></span></h1></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><blockquote> I've done jury duty at lots of film festivals but I’ve never been to one as buoyant and exhilarating as SXSW.</blockquote><blockquote>(<a href="http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Movies-TV-Music-Books/ELLE-Film-Critic-Karen-Durbin-s-Postcard-From-Austin">full blog</a>)</blockquote></span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-14634351068168057872010-04-01T23:20:00.004-04:002010-04-02T20:11:42.544-04:00Delighted to be drawn in Austin Kleon's SXSW 2010 wrap<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmylUnYpfjSkvpU0mTePyZdyj_TiOb7rv9t17psNSNrbVOW9GkLhg6-Kps_RsgniVq9CSWN9WxGrScD48Zk0WyhR2-lmdojz-ZL2XXnIqpEJ2gYdlzuIiGFJE_Dv5h-SqQ28CR/s1600/AustinKleonJanet.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmylUnYpfjSkvpU0mTePyZdyj_TiOb7rv9t17psNSNrbVOW9GkLhg6-Kps_RsgniVq9CSWN9WxGrScD48Zk0WyhR2-lmdojz-ZL2XXnIqpEJ2gYdlzuIiGFJE_Dv5h-SqQ28CR/s400/AustinKleonJanet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455696602101234962" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Included in a drawing from <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/">Austin Kleon</a>'s great <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/03/28/my-sxsw-2010/">SXSW 2010 wrap-up</a>. Really delighted!!grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-40664742704789245042010-03-24T17:24:00.003-04:002010-03-24T17:27:51.955-04:00Plastic Bag By Ramin BahraniI'll totally post <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cobject%20width=%22640%22%20height=%22385%22%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/YDBtCb61Sd4&hl=en_US&fs=1&%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowscriptaccess%22%20value=%22always%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/YDBtCb61Sd4&hl=en_US&fs=1&%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22640%22%20height=%22385%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E">this</a> too. Love this film - directed by the extremely talented Ramin Bahrani, voiced by the great Werner Herzog. We were delighted to screen Plastic Bag at <a href="http://www.sxsw.com">SXSW 2010</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://toptwitter.tv/plastic-bag-by-ramin-bahrani"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YDBtCb61Sd4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YDBtCb61Sd4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></embed></object></a>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32254833.post-16548613402139226512010-03-21T23:30:00.003-04:002010-03-21T23:41:31.053-04:00Tiny Furniture in the NYT- just one of SXSW 2010 highlightsI don't keep this blog anymore, well, certainly not like I used to too. It was a little space for writing practice and personal musings. Now I'm in a job with a public component, and lots of eager eyes with their own agendas. But occasionally, it's still a worthy parking space. So I'm happy to note this here: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/movies/20tiny.html">Young Filmmaker's Search for Her Work is Rewarded</a>, by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/david_carr/index.html?inline=nyt-per">David Carr.</a> <br /><br />It's a terrific piece, about a terrific film, by a wonderful new filmmaker, that on top of everything, exposes one of the best components of <a href="http://www.sxsw.com/">SXSW Film</a> - the creative crossroads where filmmakers really do get to meet and mix it up with one another and return or even evolve elsewhere, that much the stronger. <br /><h1><br /></h1>grainymshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08458169681383158109noreply@blogger.com0