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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Good Quotes

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
-Jean Cocteau

Reminds me of the Red philosophy.
 
"If at first an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Einstein
 
“What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.” Mahatma Gandhi
 
Man who says cannot be done should not interrupt man who is doing...

You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
 
And from the immortal HST:

"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."

Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
 
Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

The heroic life is living the individual journey.
There is no security in following the call to adventure.
Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
To refuse the call means stagnation. What you do not experience positively,
you will experience negatively.
You enter the forest at the darkest point,
where there is no path. Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

--Joe Campbell
​
 
I love this one! (also my own motto):

"I have no idea what I am doing, but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm"

Woody Allen
 
Can't really remember the exact wording, but:

"Life is short. Don't get caught doing something you weren't meant to do"

Jim Jannard (a while ago, sorta right before selling Oakly)
 
Best pieces of professional advice, and life-changing lines that I can remember:

"When you test a high-voltage line, never ever do it with the front of your hand. Always do it with the back of your hand. 'Cause if it's live, the front of your hand will involuntarily grip it and you will die. The back of your hand, well the worst that will happen is that your fingers will snap off."

-- the lighting tech for Ozric Tentacles, when I did sound for them in the early 90s.

"When you work with music video guys, never be afraid to say, 'a lack of preparation on your part does not constitute a crisis on mine.' And then walk out before they start screaming."

-- Producer for a Black Crowes music video I did effects on a long time ago.

"Man, the guys in Cat Food are just pussies."

-- the VP of Dog Food (I kid you not) at Purina in the mid 90's, when I was doing the Online for one of their ads. He was doing the "executive in the room holding court" dance in front of the ad agency. The amazing thing was, he was dead serious... thought he was bad ass and the Cat Food guys were pussies. He did not see the humor (or pun) in that. And that was pretty much the day I decided working on ads was not for me.

"Lucas, today, you are de-winkying a dog and getting paid good money for it."

-- Dan Sweitlik, with a smile on his face, many years ago when I had to spend a day painting out dog penises for a Milk-Bone ad... cause "excited" dogs are no good for ads. After this day, I never took my job *that* seriously again. : )
 
"Any man fortunate enough to lead an extraordinary life has no right to keep it to himself". Cmdr. Jacques Yves Cousteau

My old signature and so true......
Cheers,
Mark.
 
"It can't fall off the floor"

A cameraman said to me when I was an intern regarding where to put expensive gear when you aren't around.

"Shit in, shit out"

The ultimate motto for post production.

"Everybody remember where we parked"
"I should have stayed in bed"
"He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts."
"They like you very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales."
"Spock, does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one? "
"I don't believe in the no-win scenario. "
"It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known. "
"I'm sorry, Doctor, I have no time to explain this logically. "
"Khannnnnnnnnnnn!"

The timeless wisdom of Star Trek circa 1980's
 
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