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Jim Jarmusch'€™s 5 Golden Rules (or non-rules) of Moviemaking by Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch is a major proponent of independent cinema, directing features such as Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, and The Limits of Control. His latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive, premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or. Only Lovers Left Alive stars Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as two vampires in love. Last week’s Wisdom Wednesday brought you 13 (Lucky) Golden Rules of Moviemaking from Steve Buscemi. The man himself directed readers to “Find the back issue of MovieMaker that lists the rules (or non-rules) of Jim Jarmusch.” Buscemi quickly added his admiration for Jarmusch, saying “He rules. He’s never made a film he didn’t€™t put his complete heart and soul into—and he’s able to make his living at making movies!” So, dear readers, here are Jim Jarmusch’s 5 Golden Rules (or non-rules) of Moviemaking from way back in 2004. Rule #1: There are no rules[…]

"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable."

Ludwig van Beethoven (via mahlerfreak)

"Rules that have knit a universe:


And there is more than an even chance that we humans have free will, competition, dominance hierarchies, love, and war because we inherited them from the cosmos that gave us birth.

There is more than an even chance that we have free will, competition, dominance hierarchies, love, and war because these things were basic patterns that shaped the behavior of the earliest particles, atoms, and colonies of cells.

There is also more than an even chance that we have these nasty—and sometimes brilliantly creative—characteristics because they are deep structures, Ur patterns. Because they are patterns that repeat over and over again in each new medium that the cosmos generates, from the massive slowdown of particle ricochets 380,000 years after the big bang through the evolution of the first cell to the evolution of your mind and mine.

There is more than an even chance that we have free will, competition, dominance hierarchies, love, and war because they are patterns like the basic rules of the steelmaker and of Benoît Mandelbrot’s fractal set. Rules that, when repeated in a new medium, make radically new things. Rules that have been repeated trillions of trillions of times to fashion new mediums, new contexts, new realities. Rules that have been repeated with unstoppable persistence. Rules that have knit a universe."

Howard Bloom, The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (via johnsparker)
FLIP THAT SHIT

"there would be several distributers of printed comics in the United States. I’d see comics magazines in bodegas, corner stores and drugstores. There would be an even greater proliferation of Japanese and European works available. There would be residency exchanges between countries for auteurs of the medium. There would be grants and residencies for artists working in the medium.
I’d see comic book artists on Charlie Rose. People of note would casually recall something they’d read in a recent issue of a comic book. Popular comics would regularly be a theatre for the discussion of contemporary issues via direct and indirect methods. I’d see comics criticism in comics themselves.
I’d like to see more copyright infringement without repercussions. Smart remixes that question the validity of the ideas in the original materials, new works that masterfully criticize old tropes.
Less conservative approaches to the format of comics. Less comics dogma.
There’d be a desegregation of genre comics, superhero comics, “comix” and art comix.
I’d see more artists wielding the medium as fine art and fewer fine artists mining comics’ aesthetics and culture to prop up weak, derivative work.
The footprint of Marvel and DC Comics on the American comic book shelves would be one weekly jumbo, Manga-like book, respectively; one large book would drop weekly, collecting several stories relative to their tent-pole story arcs (X-whatever book on the first week, Avengers book the next week, etc., respectively), and the narratives would be collected and colored at the end of their runs. The rest of the shelf real estate would be a diverse curation of mostly non-superhero works.
There would be a serious attempt to reach out to people of color. I’d see Fantagraphics publishing “my boring life” works from people of color. I’d see more non-white and non-cisgender comic book editors. I’d see comics left in cafés and subway benches, rolled up in the back pockets of thirteen-year-olds."

Ronald Wimberly’s vision of the comics industry (via swrd-play)

Thanks for the post “swordplay”

(via d-pi)

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