And on film.....

Flavorwire has a great feature on 10 young filmmakers, complete with clips.

More Blogs I Love...

For some reason, most of the blogs I follow tend to be photography: I just found Moby's photos of unusual houses in LA. 

A solution to academic brainfreeze

Working, not thinking.

Blogs I love...

OK, try as I might to switch over to the new blog, BlogginginPlace, at Wordpress, this one keeps calling me back.  So, I'm going to go ahead and mention some blogs that absolutely fascinate me.  Today, I am loving the ruined Polaroids at William Miller's website.

But I also regularly follow Brian Ferry's the blue hour over at Wordpress, as well as Jon Crispin's Projects, especially the Willard suitcases series.

Maybe this is a sign I should move away from writing and toward more visual representations?

Scholar Meets Blogger

Andrea Doucet, of Brock University, explores the mysteries of blogging in this article, in which most of my doubts were clarified.

New Blog @ Wordpress

I'm happy here at blogspot, but for a professional assignment, I've created a second blog at

http://blogginginplace.wordpress.com/

Mainly, I wanted to claim the domain name--wonderwhereallthedustcomesfrom is meaningful to me (and a few others who recognize it), but probably doesn't make sense to most people, and is long and clumsy.

"Blogginginplace" is catchier, and is the name of a workshop I'll be teaching at the William Paterson University Spring Writers' Conference.  2012 schedule isn't up yet, but conference director Timothy Liu will have it in print soon. (NB: I'm uncomfortable and fully aware of the irony of linking to Wikipedia's page on Tim, but it was the most up-to-date).

What if we just ask ourselves....

What if you took on a challenge? What if you cleared the clutter from your desk? What if you went outside for a brisk walk? What if you quit your job and headed for southeast Asia with nothing but a small backpack? What if you started a blog about your biggest passion? What if you decided to paint a picture or snap a photograph every single day for the next month? What if you did 5 minutes of yoga each morning? What if you tossed out your to-do list and only did 1 important thing each day before doing the less important tasks? What if you proposed your dream project to your boss? What if you stopped asking permission and just started doing what you’ve been wanting to do? What if your life was a blank slate and you could fill it with only the things you love? What if you could change someone else’s life? What if you tossed out all your excuses? What if you were grateful for what you have, instead of complaining about what you don’t have? What if you tossed out your goals? What if you let go of your expectations? What if you got rid of everything you had?


Thanks to Leo Barbuta
full post at
http://zenhabits.net/rut/