Graphic designer Nick Barclay reimagines classic films in minimalist geometric graphics – the best thing since major schools of philosophy in minimalist geometric graphics.
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The Hunting Game – really, really, really important documentary about the epidemic of campus sexual assault and the hidden financial motives universities have for protecting perpetrators, from the team behind The Invisible War.
Go see it, share it, do something with it, do something about it.
Pioneering filmmaker Maya Deren on cinema, life, “the principle of infinite pains,” and her advice to aspiring filmmakers.
The fine folks at Dissolve have adapted my essay on the seven most important things I learned in the first seven years of Brain Pickings into a short film. Please enjoy.
Tiffany Shlain’s beautiful remembrance of her late father Leonard Shlain and how his visionary posthumously published book Leonardo’s Brain – one of the best psychology and philosophy books of 2014 – peers into the future of where our species is headed.
Sometimes the first step toward success is defining it for yourself.
A century and a half after Thoreau’s wise words on defining your own success, the wonderful documentary Find Your Way illustrates his point through the stories of five street musicians.
Filmmaker and Webby Awards co-founder Tiffany Shlain explores the science and philosophy behind dreaming and daydreaming. Also see the science of dreaming and why we have nightmares and how mind-wandering and “positive constructive daydreaming” increase our creativity and social skills.
Shlain has previously explored the 10 stages of the creative process.
“Let them fact-check to their death!”
Werner Herzog, wonderful as ever, on inventing a Blaise Pascal “quote” and why film doesn’t obey the standards of nonfiction – an excerpt from his conversation with Paul Holdengraber at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Also see Herzog on creativity, self-reliance, and making a living out of what you love and his no-bullshit advice to aspiring filmmakers.
The problem isn’t coming up with ideas, it is how to contain the invasion. My ideas are like uninvited guests. They don’t knock on the door; they climb in through the windows like burglars who show up in the middle of the night and make a racket in the kitchen as they raid the fridge. I don’t sit and ponder which one I should deal with first. The one to be wrestled to the floor before all others is the one coming at me with the most vehemence.
Werner Herzog on creativity and how to turn your ideas into a reality
Every Runner Has a Reason – wonderful short film about a homeless man who found himself in running and turned his life around. What a powerful testament to the idea even more important than running the right way is running for the right reason.
(via Doobybrain)
Trailer for Pasolini, a film about the influential Italian writer Italo Calvino once likened to a fox.
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Werner Herzog’s no-bullshit advice on doing meaningful creative work
This wonderful short film chronicles a day in the life of a printmaker – here’s to hoping it never ends up among this omnibus of bittersweet short films about obsolete occupations.
If you read one thing today, make it Werner Herzog on creativity, self-reliance, money, and how to make a living of doing what you love.
Werner Herzog on creativity, self-reliance, money, and how to make a living of doing what you love – wisdom culled from an epic 600-page interview.