1 + 1 = 3: Ken Burns on What Makes a Great Story. Beautiful Stop-Motion Animated Film About the Progression of Alzheimer's. Donating = loving Brain Pickings remains ad-free and takes hundreds of hours a month to research and write, and thousands of dollars to sustain.
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Penned by renowned poet (and one-time husband to Sylvia Plath), it's the original novel that inspired the Brad Bird animated, 1998 film classic, The Iron Giant (one of my all-time favorite animated movies). Movie Interview - Sarah Polley - A Long Look At What We Feel Is Missing. Hide captionSeth Rogen and Michelle Williams as a husband and wife whose marriage becomes strained in Take This Waltz, the latest film from Canadian director Sarah Polley. Magnolia Pictures Sarah Polley started acting when she was 4, in her native Canada.
She earned critical acclaim for her performance as a teenage girl injured in a school bus crash in Atom Egoyan's film The Sweet Hereafter. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Very First Films: Three Student Films, 1956-1960. The great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky made only seven feature films in his short life.
Inside the Creative Process of Cut-Paper Storyteller Béatrice Coron. By Maria Popova Slicing the different layers we’re made of, or what an 18th-century French statesman has to do with the MTA.
Béatrice Coron has been a shepherdess, a truck driver, a factory worker, a cleaning lady, and a tour guide. But today, Coron is one of the world’s most remarkable cut-paper artists. I first encountered her astounding artwork on New York’s F train last year and was thrilled to see her take the TED stage this past spring. In her fantastic TED talk, Coron — whose beautiful visual storytelling is a living testament to combinatorial creativity, borrowing inspiration from wildly diverse fields and subjects — takes you through her exceptional creative process and how her stories come to life.
MetaMaus: Inside the Making of the Comic that Made History. By Maria Popova Why comics?
Why mice? Why the Holocaust? Twenty-five years ago, beloved comic artist and editor Art Spiegelman published Maus: A Survivor’s Tale — his cult-classic comic book about the Holocaust based on the biography of Spiegelman’s father, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and paved the way for comics as a medium for nonfiction. 5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Writing. Check the Vimeo Awards Finalists. The Hare and the Tortoise: 1947 Encyclopedia Britannica Dramatization with Live Animals. What Makes Hitchcock's Films Great: An Animated Recipe. Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story. By Maria Popova The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy’s 10 no-bullshit tips, Henry Miller’s 11 commandments, Jack Kerouac’s 30 beliefs and techniques, John Steinbeck’s 6 pointers, and various invaluable insight from other great writers.
Now comes Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) — anarchist, Second Life dweller, imaginary interviewer of the dead, sad soul — with eight tips on how to write a good short story, narrated by the author himself. Why Leadership Storytelling Is Important. The Basics Of Leadership Storytelling. The Science Of Storytelling. How To Be A Better Writer. Digital Storytelling Tools. Annie Dillard on Winter, Memes, and Living with Wonder. Visual Storytelling: New Language for the Information Age. Fifty things I've learned about the literary life. From time to time, this column is asked for advice, sometimes obsessively, about decoding the many mysteries of "the world of books".
There's a widespread view, held by those looking from the outside, that there must be a philosopher's stone for success in literature, a magic formula that will turn everything to gold. The truth is much closer to Thomas Edison's definition of creativity: "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. " So this is not an advice column. In the celebrated words of the American screenwriter William Goldman, "nobody knows anything". However, in the season of goodwill, here is my list of 50 things I've learned in the byways and saloons of Grub Street. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.