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Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo . "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." Q (John de Lancie) Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Q Who?" written by Maurice Hurley from an email I got from Mark, a long time ago, from galaxy far, far, away (yeah, yeah, I know I'm mixing up shows, ok?)

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo . LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo . MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo . 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films..... = a trip of a lifetime. move, eat, learn Rick Mereki : Director, producer, additional camera and editing Tim White : DOP, producer, primary editing, sound Andrew Lees : Actor, mover, groover These films were commissioned by STA Australia: youtube.com/​watch?v=-BrDlrytgm8 All Music composed and performed by Kelsey James (kelseyanne.james@gmail.com) Music Recorded and mixed by Jake Phillips Colour Grade : Edel Rafferty and Roslyn Di Sisto Online Edit : Peter Mirecki Assistance in titles and production design : Lee Gingold, Jason Milden, Rohan Newman

TALKING FUNNY (HBO) Comedy's biggest names — Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais, and Louis CK — sit down for a revealing (and hilarious) chat on this HBO special. The four stand-up legends get serious about comedy, discussing how they first got into the business, the merits of on-stage profanity, and the science behind getting a laugh. 1 http://youtu.be/_V4q-zb2iI4 2 http://youtu.be/W_L5mYlxlXE 3 http://youtu.be/Xc6WbrOoe8I 4 http://youtu.be/LfwZSFsnm9c I first read about this show HBO show TALKING FUNNY from this article: Seven Things Designers Can Learn from Stand Up Comics by Michael Bierut. You can go directly and read the article by clicking the link above or you can watch the show first and then come back to read the article. As Bierut said in his article, he didn't really intend to find any designer-related-lessons from watching the show, but he ended up finding these seven: 1. It's all about the basics. 2. Once you've mastered...

“What’s the most important thing this year? TO BE HAPPY! We only have one life, so let’s really enjoy it. Ok?” –Mr. Kanamori http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armP8TfS9Is "In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates." I found the link to these videos via Jonathan Carroll’s Twitter . The documentary is 48 minutes long, divided into five parts, five episodes that focus certain students, talk about specific topics like empathy and death and bullying and teamwork. Hope you have the time to watch the entire film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc7S8HAfDzk&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7Y...