Six TED Talks for Creatives
TEDs are a great source of inspiration as a meeting ground for ideas. They’ve launched a number of careers for some really great thinkers and ...
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Things I Want Right Now
I’m a dreamer and I like to imagine that I can afford things. Sometimes that dream becomes a reality and I buy things I can’t afford, but when that’s not happening I like to scavenge the internet and nearby novelty shops (like Box Lunch or 2nd & Charles or Half Price Books). Here’s a wish list ...
Anime Weekend Atlanta
AWA is wrapping up today, the 21st year for the con. Every year the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and Cobb Galleria in Smyrna, Georgia hosts Anime Weekend Atlanta at the end of September, a con for Japanese culture and anime. This is a great con if you want something smaller that Dragon Con, but with a similar feel. Of ...
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Reading Anne of Green Gables: Chapters 1-5
Netflix announced it will adapt L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables into an eight episode series coming in 2017. As a child, I watched the 1985 miniseries adaptation staring Megan Follows with my grandparents. They had a strange obsession with Anne of Green Gables and would laugh through our screenings like every viewing was their first. ...
Weekend in NYC
I had a great weekend, spent in New York City. I feel like I accomplished a lot in just two days of travel. Here are some of those things:
Dragon Con 2016
This post is about a week late, but I wanted to say something about my Dragon Con experience this year and how much I love this con!! Now my fourth year attending the annual Atlanta convention, this year was a very different experience than previous years. For one thing, the past two years I had films that ...
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Best King Arthur Adaptations
It’s pretty amazing that the King Arthur legends have been around for about fifteen centuries- entertaining global audiences for nine- and still hold up today. Storytellers have drawn out many narratives from Arthurian legends, using various character point of views and a variety of mediums. Next year a new Arthurian film is set to release, ...
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Japan Welcomes the 2020 Olympics with Mario and Other Characters
As the Rio Olympic games came to an end last night during the closing ceremonies, the torch was passed from Brazil to Japan. Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic games and they are already getting us hyped. Japan’s video for their upcoming Olympics gave spotlight to Hello Kitty, Pac Man, and Mario. We also learned that ...
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Made it Stranger with “Stranger Things” Font
Having fun with the “Stranger Things” font generator this morning. Make your own strange font phrases at makeitstranger.com.
Latest and Greatest Science News
I scoured the internet and found the best science articles of the past week. Here’s what I came back with: Heatwave Killing Marine Life – wired.com The Climate Desk put out this article on recent marine heatwaves that began in 2011, areas of abnormally hot water on America’s Pacific Coast, and Australia getting hit in ...
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Suicide Squad isn’t great, but hopefully we’ll get a Harley Quinn movie
Watching Suicide Squad over the weekend took me back to my film school days, when we would watch edits of our classmates films and address story and continuity issues. If Suicide Squad screened in front of my professors, they would ask the same question: What’s the inciting incident? To this David Ayer and Warner Bros. ...
Neptune Your Dial 