How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio
Big Hero 6 Proves It: Pixar's Gurus Have Brought the Magic Back to Disney Animation
John Lasseter is tearing up. His eyes are shining and his lashes are moist. He reaches out a warm hand to cover mine and looks deep into my eyes as he talks. He's feeling things, powerful things, and it's impossible not to feel them too. From any other studio executive, this would come across as insincere, even manipulative, but Lasseter, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, is quite possibly the most earnest, emotional, enthusiastic man working in Hollywood. So check your cynical heart at the door of his toy-crammed office. His emotions—and his tears—are real.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shoc…
Weekend Long Read: Two Takes on China’s $14 Billion Micro-Drama Machine
From tourist sites in Xi’an to algorithm-driven studios in Zhengzhou, the boom has turned short-form storytelling into a full-scale industry in both cities
Star Script Doctor Damon Lindelof Explains the New Rules of Blockbuster Screenwriting
“We live in a commercial world, where you’ve gotta come up with ‘trailer moments.’”
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
37signals recommends that software developers pursue what they call the Hollywood Launch. They don’t give any argument for this method, except perhaps the title (as if Hollywood was a business you should try to imitate?) — I guess the idea is that you’re supposed to do it since 37signals says to.
Opinion | Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them (Published 2017)
The industry’s infamous “crunch” culture is taking a serious toll on workers.
Vitalik: An Ethereum Story // Full Film
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
Interoperability and the W3C: Defending the Future from the Present
Imagine a new, disruptive company figured out a way to let hundreds of people watch a single purchased copy of a movie, even though the rightsholders who made that movie objected. The new company
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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech G…
"The definitive look at the most remarkable business st…
Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ Divided Critics, but It’s the Ultimate Coming-of-Age Story 20 Years Later
Movies don't change, we do. And where you are in life may affect how you receive the heartbreaking vision of this film.
The 15 best Luddite horror films
From Godzilla to Pulse to the Terminator, these are the best films that register an aggressive critique of technology.
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Pixar's Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, a Pixar Story Artist. Rule 1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies
In movies like Seven Samurai and High and Low, director Akira Kurosawa took the cinematic language of Hollywood and improved on it, creating a vigorous, muscular method of visual storytelling that became a stylistic playbook for the likes of Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.
