Do things, tell people.

Make something cool. Something interesting. Spend time on it. Go crazy. Even if it's the least useful thing you've ever made, if you can talk about it, make it. This part is easy, because you're doing something you think is cool, and interesting, and if it's useless, great, because you won't need to support it much either!

I would append and don't be lazy.

You know I think I’ve finally moved on

It wasn’t that much in the end

Yes I am back to my old self

Deceived by accents

and accidental smiles

And just the right amount 

of that indefinable quality

Something primitive

Something slightly violent

Something lost in this modern world

Something to do with magic and endorphins

Deep Freeze Spreads Across Europe

Maybe the Calgary weather forecast ain't so bad after all.

Anatomy of an Editorial Shoot

To summarize.

• Research • Pre-visualize • Get there early • Plan your shoot as though you have zero time • Take care of the editor’s request first • Do what you can to get your shot too. It sometimes ends up being the one the client runs with.

Great post by Zack Arias.

GET DRUNK

ONE SHOULD always be drunk. That’s the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.

Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.

And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: “It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.”

Who wants a drink?

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. 

Just finished reading (listening) to this book -- informative for introverts and extroverts alike. Me? None of your goddamned business. 

Glen Luchford photographs Rooney Mara

My celebrity crush of the moment.

VLC 2.0 released

Sure looks a lot nicer. Still plays everything. In other words, I'll keep using it.

Messages for OS X beta

If only everyone I knew had an iPhone.