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Forbes: Five Corporate Career Lessons From Han Solo
1) Have an ally who will support you no matter what.
“Chewie and I will take care of this. You stay here.”
2) Be a mentor – you might get paid back later.
“That’s two you owe me, junior.”
3) Don’t be too focused
“Jabba, I was just on my way to pay you back, and I got a little sidetracked.”
4) Trust what you know
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
5) Shoot first
“Yeah, but this time, I’ve got the money…”
More here
Storify/Techdirt: Ethan Kaplan on music business economics: “your product isn’t diamonds mined from a secret mythical land”.
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
PopPhoto: 6 Tips for Better Concert Photos
The following tips are an excerpt from Take Your Best Shot: Essential Tips & Tricks for Shooting Amazing Photos (Amazon.com).
1. Set Your ISO
Make it a notch or two below the highest setting. Your pictures may have graininess and other visual noise in the shadows, but you’ll notice it less at, say, ISO 800 than at 3200.
2. Hold Steady
The darker the scene, the slower your shutter speed has to be. So it may be pretty hard—or impossible—to freeze the action on stage. embrace the blur. But to keep from adding more, turn on image stabilization and brace your elbows against your sides to handhold steadily.
3. Don’t Get Distracted
Use spot-weighted metering (which meters a specific point or area rather than the whole scene’s ambient light) and single-area autofocus to keep your camera trained where you want it.
4. Use Exposure Compensation
The lighting designer may mix up effects throughout the show, so compensate by adding or reducing exposure manually as needed.
5. Go High and Low
Shoot from overhead and at waist level, even if you can’t see the lcd. Getting above and below the audience’s eye level offers new perspectives.
6. Shoot a Lot
You’ll be lucky to have one keeper for every 20 or 30 shots. don’t sweat it—just make sure that you’re packing plenty of memory.
Filmschoolrejects: 6 Filmmaking tips from… David Fincher
1. Make the Calls Yourself
2. Give Everything You Have and Know It Won’t Be Enough
3. Directing is Ballet
4. Look at Everything Through Two Different Eyes
5. Know the Difference Between Films and Movies
6. Have No Fear and Eat the Whale
More here.
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan on books, Cosmos episode 11
Ben Folds Five - Brand New Album!
Pledge to join us in changing the way music is released! Exclusive updates leading up to the new BFF album!
Welcome. The craziness of the past few days has galvanized into this experience here on PledgeMusic.
This is where the new Ben Folds Five album becomes yours. Not the full album itself yet, that’s still a work in progress. But your pledge begins this experience…
The music is the focus here, and that will be delivered, along with exclusives, videos, photos, and blogs.
The process is simple, yet meaningful:
1. Make a pledge (all prices are inclusive of shipping)
2. Stay tuned for the project updates
3. Share by linking your own social networks and become a BFF VP of Promotions
4. Comment and interact. We are here, and we are listening!
Before the album is released anywhere else, you will be the first to have it.
And we’ll also be raising awareness to promote Music Education and the field of Music Therapy.
It’s all a work in progress. We’ll see how it all works and we’ll change course when necessary. The important thing is that the music gets out there and we exchange ideas and build roads.
The Creative Process - A Map by Maggie Mull
I think when a lot of us get down about being creative, it is because we don’t see our confusions as something unique and interesting about ourselves. We want to explain what we’ve learned or what we know, but its actually our questions and fears that make us most relatable to one another. Being creative, maybe, isn’t always fun because it is a confrontation with what we don’t know.
Mobile phones with no screens or buttons use the human body exclusively as the input surface.
Imagine a door that locks when you pinch the knob. Or a smartphone that can be silenced by a hand gesture. Or a chair that adjusts room lighting when you recline into it.
A team of researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have come up with a system called Touché, which uses the same capacitive technology as a smartphone’s touchscreen to imbue everyday objects with body and gesture recognition.
Talenthouse: 10 Tips to Recharge Your Creativity
1. Get moving
2. Go somewhere else
3. Listen to different music
4. Get a mentor
5. Break out new tools
6. Share your work with someone new
7. Immerse yourself in another art form
8. Break your routine
9. See other artists in action
10. Pursue another medium
Bertrand Russell: A Liberal Decalogue
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
The Facts and Figures from Facebook
Our mission: “To make the world more open and connected”
- Monthly active users now total 901 million (up from 680 million a year ago)
- One in 7.7 people in the world have a Facebook account.
- Daily active users are up to 526 million (up from 372 million last year)
- Monthly mobile users now total 488 million
- Eighty-three million monthly active users accessed Facebook solely from mobile in the month ending March 31, 2012
- 300 million photos are uploaded to the site each day
- 3.2 billion Likes and Comments are posted daily
- Hosts 125 billion friendships
- Revenue for the first quarter of 2012 was $1.058 billion, up from $731 million last year
- Facebook expects to raise $5 billion in its IPO
- Facebook’s estimated value will be close to $100 billion after the IPO
- Facebook paid Instagram the equivalent of $1.01 billion for its business
- Facebook will pay Instagram a $200 million termination fee if government authorities prevent the acquisition from being completed
- If Facebook increased its current revenue rate it will make from $4.69 to $4.81 on each of its 901 million users each year
- Facebook hosts 42 million “Pages” with 10 or more likes
- There are currently 9 million Facebook “apps”
- Facebook owns 774 of its own US patents
- Facebook bought an additional 650 patents from Microsoft for $550 million
- Zygna the online games company (which includes Farmville) contributes 15% of Facebook revenue
- Facebook currently has 3,539 full-time employees
Alain de Botton on Success (video): “One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising to marketing, etcetera. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.”
The Wall: When and how to use social media – choosing the right platform for the job (infographic)
