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Feb 09, 2012
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Tim Schafer and Double Fine are Kickstartering a point and click adventure game.

I repeat: Tim Schafer and Double Fine are Kickstartering a point and click adventure game.

Filed under: Tim Schafer

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Feb 08, 2012
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Lynda Barry’s 4-minute diary exercise

thenearsightedmonkey:

Why is it so hard to keep up a diary?

IT ISN’T! Not if you limit your diary writing to just four minutes. Spend two minutes writing a list of things you remember from the day before, and then another two minutes writing what you remember seeing the day before. For some reason, splitting the four minutes into remembered events and remembered scenes seems to bring images more easily to mind.

If you like, you can use this video as a timer for your daily diary entry.

As part of Lynda Barry’s spring semester Arts Institute Residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she’s having her students keep a four minute daily diary in their composition notebooks along with their other assignments.

It’s so easy! Why not try it?

After about a week or so you’ll start to notice the things you notice as you move through your day.

Get your composition notebook and pen ready and then just click on the video.

It’s so rad that Lynda is sharing these exercises from her class. Also check out her 7-minute writing exercise.

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believermag:

Jason Polan micro-interviews David Shrigley.

THE BELIEVER: Do you make drawings every day?

DAVID SHRIGLEY: I don’t draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.

I definitely feel better when my heroes admit to not drawing every day, like John Porcellino: “I’ll go months without drawing…”

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The Chimerist is a new Tumblr about the joys of the iPad, run by Maud Newton and Laura Miller—“two literary types who love books and technology and who think it’s facile to regard them as enemies.”

Looking forward to following along because I still haven’t found just the right spot for the iPad in my life. I spend most of my time on my iPhone, my Kindle, and my Macbook Pro. (In that order.)

Currently, my wife is using the Netflix app to watch old episodes of Gossip Girl in the studio. We also use the Rdio app w/ our Airport Express to listen to music.

I get the most use out of it for presentations—I make my slides in Keynote w/ a stylus, make sure the venue has a VGA input on the projector, show up with my VGA adapter, and I’m good to go. The screen mirroring means I can also close out of Keynote, fire up a drawing app, and draw live for an audience. Never had a single problem.

I love the Instapaper app, but I still find blogging on the iPad tedious.

One thing I do that’s kind of weird — I take pictures of magazine articles on my iPhone at the library (cheap man’s photocopier), organize them into an album, then I use the camera connector kit to transfer them to the iPad for reading.

I experimented with drawing in Adobe Ideas during a conference, with mixed results.

I also used to make blackout poems w/ Brushes and the NYTimes app.

I’m thinking when I go on book tour this spring I’ll get a ton of use out of it, as I don’t plan on bringing a laptop. (I just downgraded to an awesome TimBuk2 bag, and I want to stay super-portable.)

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If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain as much supplementary information as possible. Nonfiction, fiction—doesn’t matter. Every work would have an appendix filled with diagrams, background information, digressions and anecdata. And of course, maps. Lots and lots of maps
— Victoria Johnson, “The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids” (cf. my post, “Maps of Fictional Worlds”)
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The art of Kenneth Patchen

…it happens that very often my writing with pen is interrupted by my writing with brush, but I think of both as writing. In other words, I don’t consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting inan attempt to extend. It gives an extra dimension to the medium of words.

More about Patchen →

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Feb 07, 2012
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» Lev Grossman on why he keeps his day job

Necessity, stupid. From his FAQ:

Your novels sell pretty well. Why do you still work at Time?

That’s a good question. I’ve talked about this before, a couple of times. Bottom line is, I do make a pretty good living from my books. I look at some other writers who are in comparable places in their careers and think, gorram it, they write fiction full time, why don’t I? But I can’t. If I’d made certain decisions earlier in my life, and not made a few others, I could. But as it is I have a lot of overhead. For reasons that don’t bear going into, I have to live in New York, and that’s incredibly expensive. Also a lot of people depend on the money from the Magicians books, not just me. And it’s not like working for Time is a crap job. It’s a great job. It doesn’t pay as much as The Magicians pays, but it pays enough.

Emphasis mine. (Lynda Barry: “The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.”) I’m reading Grossman’s The Magicians right now and really enjoying it.

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I must humbly note that I didn’t exactly invent the sun. Credit-giving can be a hazy thing. But you ought to treat me as if I did.
— Bill Callahan’s gibberish notes in the program for his Lincoln Center appearance tomorrow night
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“Loss.png” by Kate Beaton

Update: Kate took the comic down:

Sorry friends, took the comic down for now, parents worried some people would think it’s making fun just because it’s a comic. Small town.

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Feb 06, 2012
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» Alan Moore stands up for stealing other people's characters that are not Alan Moore's

I’m not adapting these characters. I’m not doing an adaptation of Dracula or King Solomon’s Mines. What I am doing is stealing them. There is a difference between doing an adaptation, which is evil, and actually stealing the characters, which, as long as everybody’s dead or you don’t mention the names, is perfectly alright by me. I’m not trying to be glib here, I genuinely do feel that in literature you’ve got a tradition that goes back to Jason And The Argonauts of combining literary characters […] It’s just irresistible to do these fictional mash-ups. They’ve been going on for hundreds of years and I feel I’m a part of a proud literary tradition in doing that. With taking comic characters that have been created by cheated old men, I feel that that is different […] And that’s my take on the subject.

Emphasis mine. Filed under: steal like an artist

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