Brad Maier

Self Potrait

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:36:00 -0500

Self Potrait

Thought & Practice - A new catalog I’m keeping of...

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:09:32 -0500

Thought & Practice - A new catalog I’m keeping of inspiring places to work.

"Asked by a friend why he did it, Mr Allen said: ‘I found myself grasping for some sort of..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:06:54 -0500

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Asked by a friend why he did it, Mr Allen said: ‘I found myself grasping for some sort of rationalization that would make me seem less crazy.

She said ‘no, why did you really build it?’

For the first time in my life, I was forced to face the truth about it. I said ‘I guess… I just wanted to build something cool’.

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- Joel Allen

"…but walking as a cultural activity, as a pleasure, as travel, as a way of getting around, is..."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:31:49 -0500

““…but walking as a cultural activity, as a pleasure, as travel, as a way of getting around, is fading, and with it goes an ancient and profound relationship between body, world, and imagination.””

- Rebecca Solnit

"Put yourself out there and give yourself permission to suck. That’s not to say you should try to..."

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:01:30 -0500

““Put yourself out there and give yourself permission to suck. That’s not to say you should try to suck, but you have to give yourself permission to allow for the possibility of sucking. Without sucking, you’re never going to find your boundaries, and you’ll never push through those boundaries. That’s all it is. Constantly bumping into walls you do not think you can climb and then climbing until you get over them. There’s no mystery to it, no magic. It’s about dedication and constantly trying to improve.””

- Michael Ian Black

"I don’t care if we’ve worked 18 hours and it’s 5:30 in the morning and we have 45..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:10:23 -0500

“I don’t care if we’ve worked 18 hours and it’s 5:30 in the morning and we have 45 minutes before the sun is going to come up and we’ve got to get this thing. I am going to make sure that we do everything we can to get it right. Because eventually the shoot is going to be over and we’re just going to have what we have, and I’m going to have to live with it for the rest of my life. That’s probably something that should be obvious, but it wasn’t to me then. It’s sort of revealed itself to me.”

- Wes Anderson

"I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:12:45 -0500

“I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.”

- JK Rowling

"It’s important to let ideas blossom without too much judging or interference. The beauty of..."

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:22:00 -0500

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It’s important to let ideas blossom without too much judging or interference. The beauty of children is their ability to look at the world openly, without being bound by the intellect.

Your intellect can hold back so many wonderful, fantastic things. Without logic or reason, there’s always something else, something unseen. The world is infinite rather than finite.

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- David Lynch

"So, when I talk, what it amounts to is that I’m explaining my work, and I don’t believe a man should..."

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:11:00 -0500

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So, when I talk, what it amounts to is that I’m explaining my work, and I don’t believe a man should explain what he does. I believe he should do it and not explain it. Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it…

…You should never explain the philosophy behind anything either. The philosophy behind it isn’t important. The question is, if your work is weak and lacking so that it needs explanation, it isn’t enough, it isn’t clear enough.

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- Shel Silverstein - The Aardvark

Key West, FL

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Key West, FL

Savannah, GA

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:48:53 -0600

Savannah, GA

Zebulon, NC

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Zebulon, NC

Lansdale, PA

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Lansdale, PA

Las Vegas, NV

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:53:41 -0600

Las Vegas, NV

Coeur D’Alene, ID

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:52:48 -0600

Coeur D’Alene, ID

"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my..."

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:54:20 -0500

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

- Maurice Sendak

"Jonze had never written a movie script before, but to him this seemed no impediment. “I never knew..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:42:00 -0500

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Jonze had never written a movie script before, but to him this seemed no impediment. “I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really,” he reasons.

“Those are the situations that I find the most exciting. It’s most fun just to decide, ‘Okay, I’m going to choreograph this. I’ve never choreographed before, I’ve never really danced before, but I know what kind of dancing I like, so I’ll do that.’ ”

It seems to him that such resolutions are less leaps of grandiose self-confidence than a way to reprise the unworried and unfettered creativity of childhood. “Like, if you were going to make a fort in your backyard,” he says, “you’re not going to go, like, hire someone to make your fort or go buy plans. You’re just going to have an idea for it and go make your fort.”

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- Spike Jonze Will Eat You Up: Movies + TV: GQ

"I sometimes meet people who say, I’m going to be this and I’m going to be that. You feel kind of bad..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:22:26 -0500

“I sometimes meet people who say, I’m going to be this and I’m going to be that. You feel kind of bad for them because they’re limiting themselves. It’s different from having an enthusiasm for something and seeing where life takes you. I feel lucky to never have planned to go into what I did. I always just said, “All I want to do is make things, whether it’s drawing or writing.” If I’d said, “I’m going to be a director,” it probably wouldn’t have happened.”

- Tim Burton