Via Sean Inman. A great essay by Paul Graham entitled How To Do What You Love, also has some overlap with Rob's latest entry revealing this key: Always Produce.
My brother, Eric, was Director of Photography on the film "Things To Do", directed by Ted Bezaire and starring Mike Stasko. The film was shot in Windsor over last year and I know my brother and his colleagues have been working their collective butts off on it. The film will be competing at the Slamdance Film Festival which starts today. The Slamdance Festival takes place at the same time and locale as the Sundance Film Festival but is reserved for "first time filmmakers" only.
He flew out to Utah from Windsor very early this morning, where he'll be staying at a rented condo with Ted, Mike and others for the week. I'm sure they'll be networking scripts and whatnot while down there too. What an exciting time for them!
You can see some photos and a trailer of the movie at their official website, though I had to download and install the latest version of Quicktime to get the video to play. I'm really impressed with the trailer, it seems to have that wistful quality of a a good Wes Anderson film
I'm really excited for them, I hope they win. Send your good mojo his way. Too bad they're not blogging the experience...
This will be the fourth Game Developer's Conference that Rob and I have attended. While we generally soak up a lot of information and geek out about the conference, we also end up having a great time in the California Silicon Valley area (usually 3-4 days, including a Saturday). This year we'll be going for a longer duration than usual, almost 9 days and we're going to need things to do between conference events. Read the rest of this entry ...
Via Erik's Rail News. Way back in June 2005 I published this article to vent my frustrations at auto commuting between cities in the U.S. and my desire for an improved rail system in the U.S. One of the improvements I mentioned that I'd like to see was WiFi on the trains. This article dated Nov 2005, states that Canada's ViaRail system between Québec and Windsor is planning that very thing, though it's not clear if they'll charge for it.
On a somewhat related note, RAILnews.net doesn't appear to provide any RSS/Atom feeds for their news, what a shame...
I decided to get a little festive on my blog. If you have a browser that supports SVG you should see what I mean. It should be fun for other special occasions too (think Google's graphic).
Have A Great Holiday Season!