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Netflix Recommendation – Short Term 12

May 10, 2014 By Ben Leave a Comment

Occasionally I come across the rare movie that cannot be improved upon. The script, the acting, the soundtrack, the directing–all of it aligns in the cinematic Rubik’s cube to make something great. Short Term 12 is a movie I had interest in seeing a while ago, but forgot about it until it showed up on Netflix […]

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Found Quotes: Storytelling, Art, and Time

April 8, 2014 By Ben Leave a Comment

“Pixar movies, on the other hand, would live forever. He believed, as I do, that because they dig for deeper truths, our movies will endure, and he found beauty in that idea. John talks about “the nobility of entertaining people.” Steve understood this mission to his core, particularly toward the end of his life, and—knowing […]

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Why are you laughing? Decoding the mystery of humor

April 1, 2014 By Ben Leave a Comment

Why are you laughing? It’s a question I’ve asked myself and that’s what Peter McGraw and Joel Warner set out to answer in their book, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny. Over the last few years I’ve become increasingly interested in how humor works. After all, if I’m going to […]

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Mini Documentaries To Watch This Weekend

March 29, 2014 By Ben Leave a Comment

Landfill Harmonic- The world sends us garbage… We send back music. from Landfill Harmonic on Vimeo. There was nothing more I wished to be able to do as a kid than to dunk a basketball, which is why this documentary on a 5’8″ man with dunk aspirations appeals to me. In high school I was […]

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