Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Jarrod Dicker • Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
“Standard practice in entertainment coverage is never to capitalize a job title except when it starts a sentence. The same goes for every position on a movie set: ‘director Martin Scorsese,’ ‘screenwriter Tina Fey,’ etc.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
The editor is required to set ego aside. Ego pridefully attaches to individual elements of a work. The editor’s role is to remain unattached and see beyond these passions to find unity and balance.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Before an author destroys the natural qualities of his writing—that’s
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Like Los Angeles itself, politics and criticism sometimes need to be disguised or de-emphasized in order to register with effectiveness as entertainment.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
This is destroying our sense-making, at a time when we need it the most.