December 2009
16 posts
“I had an engineering professor explain it like this:
When you’re young, you look down a tube and see a bright light not too far away that’s fairly small in circumference, once you reach the light that represents knowledge you’ll know everything.
Only when you walk a bit farther down the tube by growing older do you realize the actual shape you’re walking down—it’s not a tube, it’s a parabolic...
Zhuangzi
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. But he didn’t know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi. Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there...
I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking...
– Nietzsche
latenightinterview:
LNI #139: Emily Strachan and Kelly Hudson as twin dog trainers Candace and Courtney Coblestein.
This was very fun to shoot, but very difficult to edit because of how often we broke. In retrospect I wish we’d used the dogs a little more. It was great to have them there (one belongs to Paul Wielunski, the other to someone I’d never met) though.
You’ve come this far, let’s not ruin it by thinking.
– Jerry Fielding