May 2013
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How do you publish long form work? Talking shop... →
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“We wrote to three publishers—Evan Ratliff of The Atavist, Aaron Lammer of Longform, and John Shankman of The Awl—to ask how they continued to publish long form work, how they manage to pay writers for time-intensive projects, and how the industry is changing.”
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“If a brand is making a promise that you’re going to feel better about yourself...”
– Dan Pink on the psychology of consumer culture and how marketers manipulate it. Pair with the science of whether money can buy you happiness. (via explore-blog)
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“I want to jump up on the table and scream, “Do you know how lucky we are to be...”
– Steven Soderbergh on the state of cinema
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“Participants rated their sexual orientation on a 10-point scale, ranging from...”
– New study indicates homophobia is often a result of repressed homosexual feelings, validating what Freud posited in his concept of “reaction formation,” in which we lash out against others’ expressions of what we loathe in ourselves. (via explore-blog)
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Hedone
mythologyrules:
In Greek mythology, Hedone is the goddess of pleasure and delight. She is the daughter of Eros and Psyche.
Her name, Hedone, is Greek and means “pleasure”, and it is the root of the English word “Hedonism”, which is the belief that pleasure (and the happiness that comes with it) is the highest good in life; it is in that way a devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
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“Understanding what filmmakers are doing with cinematics, with sound effects,...”
– Dan Connors, TellTale Games
Is modern gaming becoming a form of filmmaking? At the Future of Film live series, Joshua Topolsky of The Verge asked a panel of experts that very question.
(via futureoffilm)
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April 2013
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Beliefs and myths from ancient times: tw: rape,... →
hamburgerjack:
the beggar and the king: Medusa wasn’t always a monster.
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queennubian:
She was once the a beautiful virgin shadow maiden of Athean. After Poseidon rapes Medusa in Athena’s temple, Athena punishes Medusa….making her the…
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Which Publishers Are the Best at Selling Ebooks in... →
Here are the top-five publishers so far in 2013:
1. Hachette: 88 appearances 2. Random House: 87 appearances 3. Penguin: 42 appearances 4. Self-published: 22 appearances 5. Macmillan: 18 appearances
See the rest of the list.
Three things we learned:
1. Self-published books are making more waves this year than ever before. Some 7% of all weekly best-sellers were self-published in the first...
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“Film allows us to examine ourselves in ways earlier societies could not—examine...”
– Writing from nearby the Boston manhunt, Kirstin Butler ponders a remarkably prescient excerpt from a 1992 interview with Don DeLillo, discussing Libra, his novel about Lee Harvey Oswald. (via explore-blog)
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