let me tell you a quick story... there was once the loveliest girl in all the land and her name was anne mcclain. she came to work at the apartment as my assistant back when i thought an assistant really was the thing to do to prove to your father that you're worth something damnit! anyway, she quickly jumped up to becoming a wonderful project manager and in the end, my chief interlocutor on the book that i have taken my time writing. through this process, the enchanting ms. mcclain has become a great friend who never fails at any level to be more than a wonderful part of theaptFAMILY but one of the most decent human beings i've ever had the pleasure to meet in this now 10-year old odyssey. while talking out the finer philosophical points of the book, i saw that she was slowly but ...
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the wonderfully expressive portfolio of aneta bartos reminds me of the inimitable (under penalty of child pornography laws) photographer david hamilton or the sublime cowboy kate by the late sam haskins. her way of looking at life is old-fashioned in all the ...
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when your wife gets this emotional after watching all 6 star wars episodes for the first time, what do you do? grab a camera and film it of course! not only that but also show her other movies that will make her cry, like the tragic back to the future trilogy or the unbearable marley and me and debut // MORE

not new but still breathtaking, tadao ando's work for the langen foundation in neuss, germany. let envy destroy whatever is left of your pride by watching the short film about the structure...

the long take is a grail rarely deserved and unwisely attempted by junior staff members of the cinema pseudo-elite. only a few have succeeded in making it count where it needs to, within the storytelling structure, as opposed to simply because they could. mr. welles' master class above is the perfect example of a director in control of his art, wielding to precipitate ...
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technology is nothing. what's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. it's not the tools that you have faith in — tools are just tools. they work, or they don't work. it's people you have faith in or not.

whatever you think of his unitasking tablet, the quote above i believe is the ...
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i bet george lucas kicked himself for not having been the first one to think about a line of star-wars-themed canned tuna, what a lost opportunity!

"everything that's old is new again" once said the sage, and he was, to the great detriment of today's unimaginative design industry, right. which is why this passes for something. on the other side of the spectrum fortunately lies the thoughtful craftsmen and women who understands that design is how something works, not how it looks and feels, which has given us this. and in the middle rests a category of people, we'll call them decorators, who borrow from both camps and whose results range from the // MORE