Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling - Tubefilter. Court - By Tom Siddell. The Nicest Place on the Internet. C. S. Lewis on Writing. Considering he wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, one of the most popular collections of children's literature of all time, it's no real surprise that C.
S. Lewis received thousands of letters from youngsters during his career. What's admirable is that he attempted to reply to each and every one of those pieces of fan mail, and not just with a generic, impersonal line or two. The fantastic letter seen below is a perfect example. (Source: The wonderful, C. The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford 26 June 1956Dear Joan–Thanks for your letter of the 3rd. The Metagames: Why you enjoy art and the one problem with Mass Effect 3. Death (and the High Cost of Choice) [ME3] | The Verge Forums. Posted by TempestDash on March 12, 2012 04:23 pm Wrote this up sort of stream of consciousness for my blog and thought it might be fun to post here and see people rip it apart and humiliate me. Death (and the High Cost of Choice) Mass Effect 3 is the well known end of a massive (no pun intended) trilogy. BioWare quite famously elected to have your character importable (with a record setting number of story-dependent options) from the first game through to the last.
Several things make this possible: the size of BioWare giving them the ability to throw brute force at the number of combinations, the success of the franchise allowing them to spend so much money on this endeavor, and a hardware cycle that has allowed a 5 year long game series to remain rooted in one console generation (thereby overcoming the technical hurdle of importing across systems). The result is a final game that is BioWare’s greatest work, and also, perhaps, their most personal one.
Illusion of Infinity It’s not. e4e295966666fc35902a5adc754127186814d83f.gifa (500×326) Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else. To paraphrase E.B. White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. Every word plays its part. In my more giddy moments I think that a simple comic strip featuring Calvin, a preternaturally bright six year-old, and Hobbes, his imaginary tiger friend, features some of the most lucid sentences committed to print.
And when I sober up, I usually think exactly the same. Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes ran between 1985 and 1995. His comic strip managed to infuse wondering (and wandering) on a cosmic scale into an ageless world of lazy Sunday afternoons, snow goons, and harassed babysitters. So here, in no particular order, is a selection of quotes that nail everything from the meaning of life to special underwear. (NOTE: Check out Part II: Sixteen MORE Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else) On life’s constant little limitations Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help. On expectations On why ET is real. Findlab.stanford.edu/Daydreaming.pdf. Stars gather to mark Adams' 60th. 12 January 2012Last updated at 15:02 Douglas Adams passed away in 2001 The 60th birthday of the late writer Douglas Adams, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, is to be marked with a special show.
Comedians, writers and scientists are coming together for the event at London's Hammersmith Apollo in March. Clive Anderson, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin and Professor Brian Cox are set to participate in the one-off event. Tickets for the show will go towards the Save the Rhino charity, which Adams supported. According to the website, which has been set up especially for the event, there will be a "special premiere performance" of Douglas material. As part of the line up, Anderson will talk to Terry Jones and Michael Palin about Douglas's comedy legacy and his influences, including Monty Python.
Stephen Fry and zoologist and wildlife photographer Mark Carwardine have recorded a special introduction about Douglas' passion for conservation. Adams died in 2001 aged 49 following a heart attack. How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? Todd Heisler/The New York Times Stephen Colbert dressing for a rehearsal of “The Colbert Report.” More Photos » Suburban Colbert comes out dressed in the other Colbert’s guise — dark two-button suit, tasteful Brooks Brothersy tie, rimless Rumsfeldian glasses — and answers questions from the audience for a few minutes. (The questions are usually about things like Colbert’s favorite sport or favorite character from “The Lord of the Rings,” but on one memorable occasion a young black boy asked him, “Are you my father?”
Lately, though, there has emerged a third Colbert. But those forays into public life were spoofs, more or less. “It’s bizarre,” remarked an admiring Jon Stewart, whose own program, “The Daily Show,” immediately precedes “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central and is where the Colbert character got his start. TVsCraigFerguson2's Channel. Feynman Online. Ebooks/Richard_P_Feynman-Surely_Youre_Joking_Mr_Feynman_v5.pdf.