editorlisa
Hi! I'm Lisa. I work in TV and film as writer, producer & editor. This is my blog about the work I do and the news, trends and technologies that touch it. With the occasional totally unrelated bits thrown in.
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Sundance Channel NYC is the new lair of the bear #sundance #musicvideo #wardrobe (Taken with instagram)
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Holy fucking shit. Just caught the replay.
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This is the coolest thing ever.
Five people use one guitar to cover “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye. (Check the original song here...
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Taken with instagram
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Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
- Meryl...
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This typography is shit
-Steve Jobs
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Thinking Out Loud About Recent Events At The Baseball Winter Meetings And Their Possible Consequences For The New York Yankees
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LOCK ANGRY WITHOUT RED WALL. DO NOT TAKE LOCK WALL.
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Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something...
Each year, MoMA’s Department of Film combs through major studio releases and the top film festivals to select films from the last 12 months that they believe will stand the test of time. It’s a chance to catch movies you may have missed earlier in the year, including INCEPTION, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP, THE GHOST WRITER, JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, BLACK SWAN and THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT.
Our first foray into off-net series acquisition. Think we picked up a goody.
Sundance’s GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS, a reality series billed as a ‘celebration’ of the ‘special relationship between a straight girl and her gay best friend,’ has its debut on Dec. 7. As of Friday morning, the show’s Facebook page had more than 153,000 fans — handily beating new entries like $#*! MY DAD SAYS (8,400) and NO ORDINARY FAMILY (119,800).
Does an active and engaged Facebook community translate into viewers? It’s an interesting experiment for us, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it plays out.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Ira Glass
(via thejefflamb)
![I’m totally coding the web version of this for my own company’s submissions.
thedailywhat:
Rejection Slip of the Day: How the now-defunct Essanay Film Manufacturing Company — home to Charlie Chaplin’s THE TRAMP — rejected screenwriters whose work wasn’t up to snuff.
[via oldhollywood]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laolmtjSwX1qzdvhio1_r2_500.jpg)
I’m totally coding the web version of this for my own company’s submissions.
Rejection Slip of the Day: How the now-defunct Essanay Film Manufacturing Company — home to Charlie Chaplin’s THE TRAMP — rejected screenwriters whose work wasn’t up to snuff.
[via oldhollywood]
(via thedailywhat)
“It’s about the next 20 years. 20’s and 30’s, it was the role of government; 50’s and 60’s, it was civil rights. The next two decades are gonna be privacy. I’m talking about the Internet. Talking about cell phones. Talking about health records, and who’s gay, and who’s not. And moreover, in a country born to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?”
Sam Seaborn, on picking a Supreme Court Justice based on his views on privacy, from “The Short List” episode of THE WEST WING, originally aired November 24, 1999.
Nailed it on every count.
[via inothernews]
You mean Aaron Sorkin, but yeah. Also, isn’t privacy a civil rights issue essentially? Furthermore, “Lisa, you’re taking THE WEST WING way too seriously” is a perfectly acceptable response to this post.
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
Susan Sontag
[via kari-shma]
It’s only rock & roll, but I like it.
