Under Construction
I make things on the internet
Connor O’Brien takes a look at your day as a freelance writer.
Alright, now you’re out of bed. You’ll work two hours later to make up for the wasted time. Or maybe you’ll just work a little harder during the day. Yeah, that’s it. Don’t work longer, work smarter. You read that somewhere.
Or your day as pretty-much freelance anything. It’s all about motivation and self-control, which can easily go flying out the window.
Dan Fierman snags a rare interiew with Bill Murray.
I don’t think a director, as often as not, knows what is going to play funny anyway. As often as not, the right one is the one that they’re surprised by, so I don’t think that they have the right tone in their head. And I think that good actors always—or if you’re being good, anyway—you’re making it better than the script. That’s your fucking job.
Splashed some coffee on my bluetooth keyboard last night, was hoping it might still be functional today. Doesn’t appear so. Boo.
Hany Farid keeps an archive of photo tampering throughout history. Altering photographs to tell a different story is nothing new, it’s been happening for more than a hundred years. Stalin, Mao and Hitler removed their old friends from photographs too.
Helvetica poster by Stempel, similar to the one seen in Mad Men.
Helvetica poster seen in Season 4 Episode 2 of Mad Men
Bastardizing Helvetica by Michael Tierney