Tag Archives: ruminations
Mind Monkey Feeding Time
I’m going to try something different this time. Instead of trying to quiet my inner mind-monkeys like I normally do, I’m going to do the opposite. I’m going to chuck a buttload of bananas at them. So get ready for a tour de force of seemingly unconnected random thoughts from the mind of Daniel Bean […]
Stephen Covey’s “Self-Awareness” Turned Literal
So I’ve been keeping a video journal. I started about a week ago. I’m reading Naked Lens by Michael Sean Kaminsky, and it has you do an 8-week workshop called the “Video Regeneration.” Today, I did the exercise called “Instant Replay.” This activity involves watching your yourself in your video journal entry and taking notes. […]
Video Journaling – A Powerful Tool for Self Exploration
Video journaling has changed my life…and I’ve only been doing it for two days! You see, I’ve been reading an intriguing book called Naked Lens: Video Blogging & Video Journaling to Reclaim the YOU in YouTube. At first I bought it because I was interesting in reaching out through video blogging. However, I never knew how […]
Be Interdisciplinary. Like DaVinci. And Bruce Lee.
Something that’s been on my mind lately is the seemingly ever-growing list of disciplines I’ve already been pursuing and which I have recently started or re-started pursuing. Here’s a non-inclusive list: Currently Actively Pursuing: Writing Fiction (Novels) Writing Non-Fiction Screenwriting Directing Film (Fiction and Non-Fiction) Acting Editing Blogging Video Blogging Pursuing, but taking a very […]
Hiroshima Mon Amour
You must watch the 1959 French film Hiroshima Mon Amour before you die. That is a direct order. A masterpiece by Alain Resnais, who also directed Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour helped kick off the French New Wave, and was also famous for being the first film to explore the use of mini-flashbacks, […]
2012: Follow Your Bliss
I threw in some good Joseph Campbell and Wachowski brothers quotes so people would listen to me.
Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, the Action Genre’s Seminal Film
Watched “A Better Tomorrow” — Sam Raimi says John Woo is the master of the action genre just as Hitchcock is the master of suspense.¹ So Woo’s films are a required text for anyone intending to make action films. Here’s what I loved about A Better Tomorrow and what I think separates Woo from the […]
Quickie: Limitless
Just a quickie [translate: quick post] Wait a minute–since when did Hollywood start making movies that are as cerebral and megalomaniac as Death Note ?! Just watched Limitless directed by Neil Burger starring Bradley Cooper // please tinseltown keep it coming I need my next dose
You Can’t Put a Number on Success
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” – Steve Jobs [a quick post on some things i've been ruminating about] I love reading success books, because they often give me ideas for how to live […]
