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The crick­ets and the rust bee­tles scut­tled among the net­tles of the sage thicket. ‘Vámonos, ami­gos,’ he whis­pered, and threw the busted leather flint craw over the loose weave of the sad­dle cock, and they rode on in the frisca­lat­ing dusk light

~ Owen Wilson’s char­ac­ter Eli, in The Royal Tenenbaums

Greet the day with a smile and get it over with.

~ W.C. Fields

Peo­ple always ask, “What is your great­est fail­ure?” I always have the same answer – We’re work­ing on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!

~ Jim Coudal

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As we grow up, we learn that even the one per­son that wasn’t sup­posed to ever let you down prob­a­bly will. You will have your heart bro­ken, prob­a­bly more than once, and it’s harder every time. You’ll break hearts too, so remem­ber how it felt when yours was bro­ken. You’ll fight with your best friend, and you might even fall in love with them. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is pass­ing so fast, and you’ll even­tu­ally lose some­one you love. So take too many pic­tures, laugh too hard, and love like you’ve never been hurt, because every minute you spend mad or upset is a minute of hap­pi­ness that you’ll never get.

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We used a spher­i­cal lens as a kind of con­trol to look at depth of field and bar­rel dis­tor­tion and the opti­cal breath­ing you get when you rack from things really close to really far away,” Lasky con­tin­ues. “It gave us a chance to have some­thing tan­gi­ble. We used an Arri­flex cam­era with Panav­i­sion lenses. We looked at lens flares and how to focus lights in the back­ground. There’s that shot in the truck [his home] when EVE’s look­ing at the lighter for the first time from WALL•E’s POV and you see the bou­quet stretched in the back­ground. And this is the kind of thing we dis­cov­ered doing those tests.

Engag­ing read at Ani­ma­tion World Mag­a­zine on how WALL•E was shot.

The uni­verse tends toward max­i­mum irony. Don’t push it.

- jwz — PSA: backups

You know, back in the Renais­sance times, full-​​figured women were revered. It’s true. Artists would only paint big, volup­tuous women. In fact, that’s how they got rid of a lot of their old paint.

Noted art his­to­rian Clif­ford C. Clavin, Jr.

We eat out about 85% of the time and basi­cally keep only snacks at home. We have not missed the daily grind of cook­ing and clean­ing up at all. Peo­ple often ask us how we can afford to eat out so much, but after shift­ing our gro­cery and auto bud­gets over to the din­ing bud­get, we are still ahead finan­cially. And what fun it has been to take in a foot­ball game and a great ham­burger at this place, and enjoy a jazz trio and a fine wine at that place.

Con­fes­sions of an Empty-​​Nester — Zil­low Blog

Default tem­plates are ter­rific for peo­ple who can’t or don’t want to design their own — but they’re ter­ri­ble start­ing points for any­one attempt­ing to estab­lish their own unique brand. If you start with noth­ing, you’re forced to think about everything.

- john gru­ber