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It’s one thing to learn about acting. It’s one thing to become a better actor. It’s another thing to want to be somebody. To want to be a star. Or to be da-da-da. Or to get recognition. If you want to be an actor and learn about acting. That has nothing to do with Hollywood. That has nothing to do with the business. That has to do with you as a human being pursuing something that you fucking care about.
Ed Harris
At photographer Josephine Sittenfeld’s 15 year college reunion, she recreated medium-format photographs she took of her friends around campus at Princeton University. The original photographs paired with their new recreations became “Reunion”, a beautiful photo series that I think reveals the usually very private process aging.
The New Yorker wrote a nice piece describing the project.
Hugh Jackman recording ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) for a fight scene in Logan (via Hugh Jackman’s Instagram)
I tape my lines into a tape recorder in a monotone inflection so that I don't memorize any inflections. I'll say it like a robot. Then you read the other [characters'] lines however you want, and you leave an empty space for your line. And you tape all the stage directions. With a movie it's mostly stage direction. With Confessions, it was like 10 60-minute tapes. It's very tedious. It takes forever. But at the end of the day when you get it all done, if you don't want to sit down with the script—if you just want to wash dishes or clean your apartment and listen to the tape—eventually it gets in your head. So I'd listen to the tapes all the time.
- Sam Rockwell on how he memorizes lines (Backstage Magazine, 01/15/2013)
Photo credit: Port Magazine
I remember asking Michael Cristofer in a rehearsal for The Three Sisters at the WTF what the “secret” was to it all— what was the trick? And he looked at me and paused and said, “Joe, I have no f*cking idea. We’re all just trying to figure it out.” That was doubly a relief to hear and disconcerting that a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an actor with plenty of years under his belt was still working on. It taught me that there’s no rush and there’s no finish line so just show up and do the work.
Joe Tippett on the ‘secret’ to acting (Playbill, 03/12/2018)
“Kid, you had a rough day. Everyone has them. And when you do - do what I do - you ask yourself: Anybody's life better because of what I did today? If the answer is yes... Then stop your whining. If not, well, do better tomorrow.”
- Some good advice from Nick Fury (Ultimate Spider-Man 39 - story by Brian Michael Bendis)
“I remember these things, but I don't remember them with very much emotional attachment. I think the reason maybe that you become an actor is that you see things from here.” He gestures to indicate a perspective from outside one's body. “From outside. Slightly above.” He laughs. “And a wider lens. And so you see life in a slightly different…askew…maybe a degree of separation. And so what's happening around you becomes more interesting, because you're only a part of it. It's not all about you. And so you can imagine yourself being somebody else. You can imagine knowing things other than what you know.”
- Harrison Ford (GQ, 09/13/2017)
But when it does work, what's great is the way you become so free and so trusting. You just believe it. And you believe it the same way as you do when you're nine years old in the playground and you're robbing the bank.
Kristin Scott Thomas on acting (The Talks, 02/07/2018)
You are going to make every moment count. I mean, you better make every moment count. Live your life now; start in the morning. You mustn’t sit around waiting to die. When you die you should come into the cemetery on a motorbike, skid to a halt by the side of the coffin, jump in and say: “Great I just made it.”
Michael Caine on getting older (The Talks, 09/14, 2011)
Theater in its most basic form is a kind of reading aloud. When children are small, we tell them to make a circle and we read to them. When they grow up, we tell them to sit in a corner and read to themselves. In the theater, we ask adults to be children again, to sit in a circle and be read to.
Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
Happy Solar Eclipse, 2017 all!
If you’re doing anything artsy, the rest of the world’s job is to say whether it’s any good or not. Because you’re making art. You’re trying to be a magician. You’re trying to be an illusionist. Literally, you’re trying to create a unicorn, a good song. If you put out something that’s like just a horn taped to a goat, people are going to say, “Nah, that’s not a fucking unicorn, man,” but occasionally somebody can make a unicorn, and it’s like, “Holy shit.” It makes you believe. You’re making art. People are going to tell you you suck most of the time, but a couple of other people might be like, “I don’t know man. That might be a fucking unicorn. I kind of like it.” The truth is, everything is just a goat with a horn taped to it, but sometimes that’s fucking even cooler than a unicorn.
Matt Berninger on patience and process (The Creative independent, 10/27/2016)
The interesting thing is that function is quite a wide word. A building can also function as a symbol of pride in an environment. With The Market Hall, a fresh food market I designed in Rotterdam in 2004, it’s more than only a supermarket — it became like an emblem for the city and that is also a function for it. You want to keep it, and more people from outside the city come to visit because of it. I love that the form somehow finds this function and results in a message or a wider perspective of its meaning. So this ping-pong game of function and form is essential. There are more functions than purely the programmatic.
Winy Maas on form vs/and function (The Talks, 10/24/2016)
3 things: A Confederacy of Dunces
1. Ever since it was first published, Hollywood has been trying to figure out how to adapt the novel into a movie. It’s notorious been in development hell since the 80′s. The most recent champion to try and get the wheels turning? Nick Offerman
2. Good advice from Ignatius J Reilly:
“When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
3. John Kennedy Toole biographer Cory MacLauchlin penned a short essay about attempting to track down the elusive original manuscript for A Confederacy of Dunces.
This past August, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In released his 29th (yes, you read that correctly) studio album Blind Worms, Pious Swine. I love this cover of Ellie Goulding’s Lights.
Compare and contrast.
Keaton Henson’s new album Kindly Now is a gorgeous return from one of my favourite songwriters after nearly 2 years.
Instead of just speaking to Nylon about the album directly, Henson created paintings for each track with a short description. The above painting is for the track “Alright” and is accompanied by the note:
The first song written for this album. It’s about letting go. And hiding pain. I feel, in a way, it’s like a sort of saying goodbye to the kid who wrote the last two albums, so I can get on with being the one who’ll write this one.
The rest of the painting can be found here.
It is not the perceived power of money and fame that will change the course of events in one's life, but empathy. Music is a pathway that allows us to listen to ourselves and the people that surround us. It is a pathway to understanding that actively creates change in real-time. Music, even in its most intimate moments, is a pathway between us all. It is the nuts and bolts of humanity as well as its totality. It is made sacred between people and in return makes those relationships sacred. It is the buoyant substance that we grab onto when the water rises above our heads. The Answer has been here the entire time: just music, always.
Musicologist Trever Hagen (from an essay last month prior to the release of Bon Iver’s 22, A Million