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Every day, for an hour, no matter what.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At a project’s start, the possibilities are endless. That clean slate is both lovely and terrifying. As designers, we begin by filling space with temporary messes and uncertain experiments. We make a thousand tiny decisions quickly, trying to shape a message that will resonate with our audience. Then in the middle of a flow, we must stop and share our unfinished work with colleagues or clients. This typical halt in the creative process begs the question: What does the critique do for the design and the rest of the project? Do critiques really help and are they necessary? If so, how do we use this feedback to improve our creative output?]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For our purposes, it’s worth noting the difference between a critique (which happens between peers or from more senior professionals, such as art directors), and feedback (which comes from clients). In other words, feedback comes from people paying a designer to solve business problems—people who may not be suitably impressed that you implemented a 16 column grid across a golden mean. (I’ll be impressed FOR them.)]]></description>
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    <title>The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in 1987 | Rolling Stone Culture</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You’ve quoted Pudovkin to the effect that editing is the only original and unique art form in film.
I think so. Everything else comes from something else. Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.]]></description>
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    <title>Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3 | Magazine | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-12T16:43:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/process_pixar/all/1</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pixar’s secret? Its unusual creative process. Most of the time, a studio assembles a cast of freelance professionals to work on a single project and cuts them loose when the picture is done. At Pixar, a staff of writers, directors, animators, and technicians move from project to project. As a result, the studio has built a team of moviemakers who know and trust one another in ways unimaginable on most sets.]]></description>
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    <title>Behind the scenes: Basecamp illustration - (37signals)</title>
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    <link>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2652-behind-the-scenes-basecamp-illustration</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I needed to make illustrations for all of our apps for the new 37signals Suite page. The goal was to give a general idea of what the particular app does for customers that may be unfamiliar with our products. The illustration didn’t need to carry all of the weight since there would be a text description alongside it. However, it had to be attractive and detailed enough for people just scanning the page with their eyes.
]]></description>
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    <title>Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell | Books | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-10T11:23:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/12/book-club-mitchell-cloud-atlas</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My final reading of my own books occurs when the FedEx man brings the page proofs to be checked. In the case of Cloud Atlas, this was back in 2003, so these days it's not uncommon to meet readers whose knowledge of the book surpasses my own. Cloud Atlas's Wikipedia entry covers the book's more obvious themes and content, so here I'll stick to "The Making Of"-type angles, and a few Roads Not Taken.
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    <title>The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits -- to You</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-22T09:42:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_secretlife_1602</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What happens to your blog post between writing and people reading it? "Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. Let's say it's Super Bowl Sunday and you're blogging about beer. You see Budweiser's blockbuster commercial and have a reaction you'd like to share. Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people — and Budweiser, its competitors, beer lovers, ad critics, and your ex-boyfriend can listen in."
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<item rdf:about="http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/06/writing_more_betterer/">
    <title>On writing more betterer ~ Authentic Boredom</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-12T10:31:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/06/writing_more_betterer/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Great writing doesn’t typically come by chance. And in my mind, it’s an art anyone of any trade should strive to master — designers, marketers, developers, and yes, film critics."
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    <title>Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing. This advice was wrong creatively, professionally, artistically, and personally, but I know where the writer who doled it out was coming from."
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From writing in the bathroom (Junot Díaz) to dressing in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting the story on the page."
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