Advice from all areas

Use advice from all areas to advance towards your goals. I've been collecting anything and everything from goal achievers and top people, your hero's, legendary people, it's out there for you. What their mindset is, how they got there, tips, advice, autobiographies, etc. It really helps when your running low of rocket fuel from pushing and climbin' to the top. Challenge yourself everyday. These are hardcore clips, I found to be valuable. I can kinda relate, to them and the zen of pushing past the limits. Have fun.. Take advantage of this great era of infinite information we are in.

Industrial Light and Magic Documentary

People that push the boundaries!

Daydreaming for a Living

Sage, Wizard, Rip Van Winkle. These names came to mind from seeing a picture of George Clayton Johnson.

Twilight Zone has been and forever will be one of the all time greatest shows. Each episode is different from the next. Fantastic short stories, Incredible cinematography and sound. All masterpieces and memorable.
So I leaped at the rare chance to meet this legend in a lecture held by The Creative League. Bam! as soon as George arrives, you can sense this energy and sharp vitality from him. He hit the ground running with his insights on life.

6 years old was when he discovered his art form. It was a poem of a frog, he recited to us word for word. He said, it's the delight of the story you just don't forget. Carefully crafted words flowed from a master, from this creative genius.
Magnetic words, alarming, and the vocal delivery, George explained the editing of useless weak words gave strength.

A great example he pointed out was the connection to the audience of " Getting away" with anything is universally powerful. From my observation he loved and is really passionate about story. He constantly pitched a lot of different work in progress from his head, if it would hold your attention. He lives in the future and spoke about his plans, totally having a blast. Pushing the peak of his ability and engrossed in the effort. Super focused concentration he has for one thing. I asked him about his workflow, he said sometimes he can see it happening and be there. To set yourself a high minded challenge, a lot of writing is discovering and picking out cliches. Plenty of critical thinking and arguing to himself of the topics to break off to other outta the box ideas and insights.

He said it wasn't difficult to write, mostly what to write was. To set a standard and stay on top of your craft. The expansion of consciousness, thinking sideways is an art form. Take notes and pile them up to a dozen projects. George would munch on ideas from the past. I would imagine like a sculptor, piecing and shaping together wads of clay to have a whole masterpiece. Stories should be better than reality of the ideal world. And that truth is boring, the play in words.

Here was the best advice I got from him, is to match the voice in your head with the outside voice. To really hone your skill, the writings as a writer. This was truly a great event for me and definitely validated from what I've read, heard, and noticed, the theories for long life and mental sharpness. By being challenged by your passion projects, etc. and having really something to live for, to push, climb, progress new levels on your lives with.

His credits in the Twilight Zone series include :Kick the Can, Nothing in the Dark, Four of Us are Dying, The Game of Pool, Execution, Penny for Your Thoughts, Ninety Year's Without Slumbering. He also wrote the original "Oceans Eleven" .

Cool footage of George.

Letters of Note

Incredible find.. An archive of fun and encouraging letters from various real famous people. Here is an example from Walt Disney himself urging Ube Iwerks to move out across country to Los Angeles from NY and work with him.. And as you know the rest is cartoon history. Check it out @ http://www.lettersofnote.com/

Puppets with CG Backgrounds

Wow, I love how they really pulled this off. It looks seamless on certain parts. I see this further in the future. The first clip is the movie and the behind the scenes. The instant gratification of animated movement and character life is really fun in puppetry. The best is doing karaoke to your favorite songs too.






For a bonus a clip of the Henson muppeteers in action. When workin' on their own projects, surprisingly for the older crowd. Wanting to dabble with this in the future no doubt. Stay Tuned..

Happy Holidays 2012

Happy Holidays to Everyone! This year's been the ultimate. I'm so lookin' forward to what the next year brings to all effort again. To great Family and Friends..

Growth

*Warning : Explicit Adult Language

Ran into this very real powerful info from Joe Rogan. If your into "Life Progression" as me you'll appreciate this. Understand "Truth" be awakened, evolve, and reach your dreams..

Interesting concept : to do it for the skill mastery and enjoyment, not for the cash. Cause when you get cash you get lazy and wacked. This is what happens to dope bands when they start.. they rock, and when they blow up.. they get lame. ****But,,Since your doing it for progression and the money comes, you will just keep progressing because money had nothing to do with it, and you won't get stuck and be a one hit wonder.. Check it!



This is about staying clear from losers and negative folks:



To deal with Hater's. When you have life direction, others will try to get in your way conscious and or unconsciously.



Evolve


This makes sense