Visible Procrastinations
No matter what the subject of your film is, two low-tech tools will help you make it better: a pen and a notebook. Before you leave your house you should have your entire video written down. How the video will start, what the transitions will be like, what you’re going to do, how the video will end, what the background music will be, how many times you’ll have to do a certain thing to get the right footage from various angles. In short, you want to do all the creative work on paper, so that when you’re outside with the camera, all you have to do is get the right footage to tell you story.
People have been asking the wrong question, “How do we make people pay for music?” What if instead we ask, “How do we let people pay for music?”
— Amanda Palmer #TED2013

People have been asking the wrong question, “How do we make people pay for music?” What if instead we ask, “How do we let people pay for music?”
Amanda Palmer #TED2013

“Schools as we know them are obsolete. They aren’t broken. They are outdated.” - Sugata Mitra

winner of 2013 #TEDPrize. #TED2013 #quote
They stood there, alone, and a terrible stillness came over Hans’s twitching face as he stripped his sleeves and bared his arm, pointing at the tattoo.
“You promise me now, nephew,” he said. “Promise me that for as long as there is breath in your body and you wear the uniform of a free country, you promise me that you will never allow this evil a place in the world again.”
Phillip Kolhammer had promised.
John Birmingham - Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1
Words become stories, and they start more ideas

Words become stories, and they start more ideas

The Black Saturday Bushfires killed 173 people, injured 414 people, destroyed 2,100 homes and displaced 7,562 people.

120 people were killed by a single fire in the Kinglake Area alone.

It is estimated the energy released by the Black Saturday Bushfires, was the equivalent of 1,500 Hiroshima atomic bombs. In total 1,100,000 acres where burnt.

The Black Saturday Bushfires killed 173 people, injured 414 people, destroyed 2,100 homes and displaced 7,562 people.

120 people were killed by a single fire in the Kinglake Area alone.

It is estimated the energy released by the Black Saturday Bushfires, was the equivalent of 1,500 Hiroshima atomic bombs. In total 1,100,000 acres where burnt.

wilwheaton:

FOX:

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got…

What the actual fuck.

Thought Crimes? “… He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside. …”

wilwheaton:

edwardspoonhands:

This is an interesting question, because Tumblr is largely reblogs of cat GIFs. I will often write posts that are SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS long, and sometimes, straight-up, multi-page essays.

When I first joined Tumblr I remember thinking maybe that was wrong or bad, since I was new to the community…

I think you get to decide what Tumblr is for, and if someone else has a problem with that, they can direct their complaints to that brick wall over there.

“Go tell the brick wall” :)

neil-gaiman:

ellenkushner:

Hmmm…. I’m less about elbows, more about degree of hunched shoulders. But the sentiment remains the same!

YES.

This *really* needs to be a t-shirt!

neil-gaiman:

ellenkushner:

Hmmm…. I’m less about elbows, more about degree of hunched shoulders. But the sentiment remains the same!

YES.

This *really* needs to be a t-shirt!

Now that’s a great T-Shirt 
(Bl@@dy Instagram won’t allow direct links, click through for original by Anna Kendrick ‏@AnnaKendrick47)

Now that’s a great T-Shirt
(Bl@@dy Instagram won’t allow direct links, click through for original by Anna Kendrick ‏@AnnaKendrick47)