May 2012
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“When Harris thinks of children asking questions, he sees them performing a...”
– Paul Harris in Leon Neyfakh’s article on asking questions.
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The Evolution of Fortune Magazine Cover Design
1953:
2012:
Oh well.
More examples before they lost their way here.
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How I Built A Fashion Brand With No Experience,... →
Abe Burmeister of Outlier gives an inspiring talk at PSFK. In short:
Have an idea.
Make it.
Put it online.
Sell it to your customers directly.
Congratulations, you have a business.
And you don’t need to know what the hell you’re doing in order to get started.
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On Quora - How can I increase my productivity on... →
So maybe you’re like all of us and you come home after your workday or wake up early before it, and you want to start something for yourself. A business, a project, a book, a website, a (whatever). Why not? Making things is addictive.
But how do you do it? How do you find the creative energy to start something else when you already have such a big commitment taking up your day? Well,...
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Eephus League Magazine →
What a beautiful website.
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Data Transgression →
The Internet will become a religion, in part because everything will happen on it, including all other religions, but mostly because it will be the first platform for true otherness to appear on the planet. Not other as in other variety of human or other variety of animal, but other as in Other, an agent not like us yet bigger than us. A true alien being. Of which we are part.
Although...
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Get to know a Baker →
I like to talk about making things - so here’s an interview with someone who makes things everyday: My amazing girlfriend, Jessica.
While I like to think I often struggle to write a good story or make a good picture, I certainly never have to deal with this sort of thing:
What’s the secret to making a good cake?
Premium ingredients and following a really great recipe. Any...
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seekandspeak.com / Blog: On Minimalism →
seekandspeak:
These days, it feels like the internet has treated minimalism as a trend to be exploited for short term notoriety and profit, and its overexposure has ultimately diluted a perfectly rational means of bringing to life an idea. It’s become a bandwagon to hop on to because the formula, however broad and far reaching that is, has become tired and true.
People cling to what they...
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Arts and Crafts and Money →
Love this take on a visit to a craft show. He hits a point I’ve been thinking about recently:
In fact, all the craft-as-lifework theory really explains is why everyone at the show’s so polite and pleasant-seeming. Notwithstanding the endless things to pick up and touch—toys to manipulate and try, pepper mills to heft, jewelry to finger—no one seems to be doing that, or at least not with...
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“I don’t have to impress upon you the need to embrace the new… You have to...”
– Tim Carmody on Paleoblogging
Go go irony! I was digging through the old stuff of one of my favorite blogs, Snarkmarket, when I came upon this post about digging through old stuff. And so I’m sharing about sharing about sharing old stuff. Yeah.
To be fair, he talks about real stuff. Old...
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The Artist as a Reporter →
Leif Peng has (another) awesome series over on Today’s inspiration, this one by Daniel Zalkus. It’s all about drawing on the spot.
I especially like this, because it touches on something that’s been bouncing in my head a lot recently:
Direct drawing changed the illustration field. Sickles noted that prior to the advent of reportage in illustration, art directors and editors...
April 2012
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“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if...”
– Neil Gaiman interviewing Stephen King? Yes, please.
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holidayrocket asked: Hi, I just read your writeup about pitching and developing a series, I'm a simple animation post grad in the UK, I'm about to send it to big, scary companies. I've developed a idea and I'm planning to send around pitches soon, but I do have lots of my own rough paperwork and I'm a bit cautious. I'm thinking of a pitch pack which will contain the basic pitch, basic...
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Nights and Mornings
Night owls vs. early risers. Which is better? Who cares? Here’s a thing:
New research shows that early risers find their inspiration in the evening while night owls are at their creative best in the morning…. Those lulls in concentration increased the possibility of considering alternate solutions to problems that might otherwise be ignored. (via)
Right.
Do you fit into either...
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WatchToday!
Justin Time launches Earth Day with a premiere today at 3:45p on Sprout TV. After that, a 2 hour marathon!
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Looking and Seeing
There’s a trick they teach you in art school when drawing the model. The trick is not to look, but to see.
They tell you that you aren’t looking at a person. That’s not an arm. Or an eye. There are only shapes in front of you. The positive shape of the thing you are studying and the negative shape of everything else around it. It’s hard to see this way at first but...
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Creating a Television Series - Part 7: Wrap-Up
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
First! Since I’m treating this wrap up as a landing page, here are the articles Ive done in this series:
The Pitch
Early Development
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Creating a Television Series - Part 6: Production
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
So it was time to do this.
We made a test, we came up with a pipeline and a look and we had to move forward. We could have used more time....
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Creating a Television Series - Part 05: The Green...
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
In part 4 I talked about the bible. The goal was to make a great book that encompassed what this show was, show it to the world, and get the show...
March 2012
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Creating a Television Series - Part 04: The Bible
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
In part 3 I said we had to make a book. A mighty book. Full of everything you needed to know on what this show was, who it was for, and why it...
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Creating a Television Series - Part 03: Further...
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
In part 2 I talked about the first steps in the scary uncertain world of development. We had entered a development deal with a broadcaster and we...
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Creating a television series - Part 2: Early...
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
Growing Up
In part 1 I discussed where Justin Time started - the idea, the prep, the pitch. There was now a studio behind it, so it was time to...
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Creating a Television Series - Part 1: The Pitch
Creating a television series is an ongoing column about the creation, development, and production of Justin Time, through Brandon’s experience as creator and art director of the show. For past articles and more info about Justin Time, click here.
Genesis
So it starts. Maybe as a napkin sketch while at dinner. Maybe as a random thought while in the shower. Maybe as a small thumbnail...
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Creating a Television Series - Intro
So I’ve decided now that Justin Time has begun airing around the world, and soon to be in America this spring and in its home country of English Canada later this year, it’s about time to start talking about it.
It’s been an awesome journey. Four and a half years ago I had an idea on the tip of my brain about a little dude that traveled through time and learned about the world....
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February 2012
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January 2012
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