Shooting People » Utterly random http://shootingpeople.org/blog Shooting People : Independent Filmmakers Network Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I love xkcd http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/06/i-love-xkcd/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/06/i-love-xkcd/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:00:43 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1404

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/06/i-love-xkcd/feed/ 1 Call Me Ishmael http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/05/call-me-ishmael/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/05/call-me-ishmael/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 22:55:03 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1392 ...]]> Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that is requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Today felt like a day for reading Moby Dick.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/05/call-me-ishmael/feed/ 0 J.D. Salinger: My mail from producers has mostly been hell http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2010/01/j-d-salinger-my-mail-from-producers-has-mostly-been-hell/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2010/01/j-d-salinger-my-mail-from-producers-has-mostly-been-hell/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:45:30 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1180 Please forgive my latest letter obsession. I’ve discovered Letters of Note thanks to Shooting People’s Cath Le Couteur and I love this one from J.D. Salinger explaining why he doesn’t want The Catcher in the Rye turned into a film.

RIP one of my very favourite writers.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2010/01/j-d-salinger-my-mail-from-producers-has-mostly-been-hell/feed/ 0 Lester Bangs loses a cassette http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/10/lester-bangs-loses-a-cassette/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/10/lester-bangs-loses-a-cassette/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:11:21 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1119 I’m not just posting other people’s letters because I’m too lazy to write my own stuff. Honest. These letters are just so damn great!

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]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/10/lester-bangs-loses-a-cassette/feed/ 2 Mick Jagger writes to Andy Warhol http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/10/mick-jagger-writes-to-andy-warhol/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/10/mick-jagger-writes-to-andy-warhol/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:30:37 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1115 6a00d83451d49569e20120a657ccae970c-800wi

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/10/mick-jagger-writes-to-andy-warhol/feed/ 0 The Real and the Imaginary http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/the-real-and-the-imaginary/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/the-real-and-the-imaginary/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:29:46 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1088 Saturday in Brooklyn.

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]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/the-real-and-the-imaginary/feed/ 0 On Your Dick Van Dyke! http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/on-your-dick-van-dyke/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/on-your-dick-van-dyke/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:58:16 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1080 ...]]> Dick Van Dyke = Bike!

I was so inspired by the bicycle culture in Copenhagen when I was there in July that I have been riding everywhere since I got back to New York. It doesn’t feel quite as safe here and it is definitely extra scary without health insurance (I’d like a public option please Mr Obama!) but it has truly changed my life. I’ve explored more of the city this Summer than ever before and my daily commute to work is no longer a chore but a fun bike ride. We’ll see how that changes in the Winter but right now I’m loving my ride over the Williamsburg Bridge every day.

It’s so great that NYC is making such strides to improve bike routes. I’ve really noticed the change and apparently more people are cycling here now. I just wish the lanes were wide enough, and on every street, so that you could cycle around safely with your kids or bags on a beautiful Christiania bike. Anyway, I’m relishing the improvements and loving the annual Summer Streets.

Thanks Transportation Alternatives for all the great work you do to make the streets nicer and the city better!

The great Christiania bike:

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The Pedersen bike:

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The Sögreni Classic (I am obsessed by Sögreni – such beautiful design):

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]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/on-your-dick-van-dyke/feed/ 0 NASA wrote back! http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/nasa-wrote-back/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/nasa-wrote-back/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:49:35 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1063 A few months back we wrote to NASA telling them what films our members thought should be on the International Space Station. We suggested they swapped Man on Fire for Man on Wire; that they replaced Harold and Kumar with Harold and Maude. And here’s the thing: they wrote back to tell us what they thought! Scroll down to read Mr James Mullighan’s original letter to them, it’s quite funny.

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]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/nasa-wrote-back/feed/ 0 One Moment Caller http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/one-moment-caller/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/one-moment-caller/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:15:20 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1039 Gosh I’m so sorry about being away for so long. This has been a busy Summer. In a very good way but between work and travel I have been sorely neglecting doing any writing (both on this blog and elsewhere).

So here’s a song I like as a placeholder while I gather my thoughts and pull my socks up.

HT: Miss Anna Wood

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/08/one-moment-caller/feed/ 0 iPhone Joy http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/06/iphone-joy/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/06/iphone-joy/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:06:00 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=1000 ...]]> My iPhone got wet in the rain in Toronto and subsequently died and I fell out of love a little. But then I got a new one and downloaded some photo apps and the love has returned. If people getting carried away with iPhone apps makes you come out in a rash look away now!

This is my kitchen sink using the Camera Bag Magazine Filter. I love the colors. It doesn’t look quite this atmospheric without the filter.

And this is my favorite, taken with the ShakeItPhoto app – it develops just like a Polaroid! And you can shake it like a Polaroid picture too! Lend me some sugar, I AM your neighbor!

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