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Animation
- Melody Time
- Fun and Fancy Free
- Make Mine Music
- The Three Caballeros
- Saludos Amigos
- Bambi
- Madagascar 3
- Wreck-It Ralph Trailer
- Dumbo
- Fantasia
- Pinocchio
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- America’s Childhood: 75 Years of Disney Animation
- How To Train Your Dragon
- The Princess and the Frog
- Origins of American Animation
- Khoda – Interesting Animation Piece
Film Discussion
- Film Discussion 09: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Film Discussion 08: Lawrence of Arabia
- Film Discussion 07: The Shawshank Redemption
- Shawshank Redemption Discussion 4/7
- Film Discussion 06: Au Hasard Balthazar
- Au Hasard Balthazar Discussion 3/23
- Film Discussion 05: The Wizard of Oz
- Film Discussion 04: Man On Wire
- The Wizard of Oz Discussion 3/9
- Man on Wire Discussion 2/28
- Film Discussion 03: The Godfather Parts I & II
- Film Discussion 02: Fight Club
- The Godfather Part I & II Discussion 2/9
- Fight Club Discussion 1/31
- Film Discussion 01: Pulp Fiction
- The First Film Discussion: Pulp Fiction
- Film Discussion: Next Steps
- Film Discussion: Viewing Experience
- Film Discussion: Music
- Film Discussion: Sound Design
- Film Discussion: Editing
- Film Discussion: Acting
- Film Discussion: Color
- Film Discussion: Lighting
- Film Discussion: Cinematography
- Film Discussion: The Director
- Film Discussion: The Script
- Film Discussion: The Hero’s Journey
- Film Discussion: Genre and Other Films
- Film Discussion: Characters
- Film Discussion: Plot and Story
- Film Discussion: Where to Start
Inspiration
- Michel Gondry, director
- Frank Darabont, director
- Robert Bresson, director
- Victor Fleming, director
- Mark Twain
- Anne Sullivan
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Georg Hegel
- Randy Pausch
- Wayne Dyer
- Henry Ford
- Mahatma Ghandi
- Brian Tracy
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Napoleon Hill
- Beverly Sills
- James Oppenheim
- Robert Fritz
- Donald Trump
- Chris Prentiss
- William Saroyan
- Wayne Gretzky
- Dr. Seuss
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Yogi Berra
- Alan Kay
- Frank and Oak Summer Mix
- Andy Warhol, artist
- Bertrand Russell, philosopher and author
- James Baldwin, novelist, poet and civil rights activist
- Spinoza, philosopher
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet
- Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician
- Benjamin Franklin, early American political leader, scientist, and polymath
- Kent Beck, software engineer and the creator of Extreme Programming
- Oscar Wilde, writer and poet
- Mark Twain, Great American Novelist
- Paul Arden, author, advertising and motivation expert
- Chip and Dan Heath, authors of “Made to Stick”
- Midnight City – M83
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic and political activist
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet
- Eric Hoffer, social writer and philosopher
- Henry David Thoreau, author, historian and philosopher
- Stefan Sagmeister, graphic designer and typographer
- Lee Felsenstein, computer engineer
- John Maynard Keynes, economist
- Laurence Gonzales, author of “Deep Survival”
- Martin Luther King Jr., human rights activist
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States
- William Shakespeare, playwright, dramatist, and poet
- The Serenity Prayer
- Seth Godin on Change
- Bruce Barton, advertising executive best known for creating the “Betty Crocker” brand
- Codecademy: Great Intro to Programming
- Frank Tyger, political cartoonist and columnist
- Philip K. Dick, science fiction novelist
- Charles Darwin, naturalist and pioneer of evolutionary theory
- Frank Herbert, science fiction novelist and author of “Dune”
- Kurt Vonnegut, novelist, essayist
- Norman Vincent Peale, minister, author and a progenitor of the theory of “positive thinking”
- Herbert Stein’s Law
- Will Durant, writer, historian, and philosopher
- Salman Rushdie, novelist
- Aldous Huxley, essayist and author of “Brave New World”
- Eric Evans, technologist
- Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, fictional character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Get Them on Amazing Race
- Steve Jobs: An Inspiration to Us All
- How Do You Get Creative?
- 49 Questions: #36
- Go to a Film Festival!
- Power of Cinema – Terrence Rafferty
- 49 Questions: #41
- 49 Questions: #45
- 49 Questions: #16
- Great Intro to Web Design
- 8BIT is having a sale! Grab your theme today!
- 1927 Paramount Studio Map of California
- Head On – Charming Look at the Imagination
- George Lucas on The Daily Show (And What We Can Learn From Not Taking Our Work Too Seriously)
Media Commentary
- David Lean, director
- Reading List: September & October 2012
- Disney to Buy Lucasfilm; New ‘Star Wars’ Movie in the Works
- Lower-Literacy Users: Writing for a Broad Consumer Audience
- Louis C.K. and the Rise of the ‘Laptop Loners’
- Film Blending With Reality
- Fascinating Look at Motion Design
- Reading List: July & August 2012
- Fascinating Look at Time in Pulp Fiction and the Effect of TV on Filmmaking
- Reading List: June 2012
- Reading List: May 2012
- Reading List: April 2012
- Freeing Your Imagination
- Disney Magic at El Capitan
- …But Community Can Still Be Found in the Home Theater
- Shrinking Screens and Increasing Isolation
- 3 Things I Learned in Film School
- The Analogy of the Flickering Mirror
- The Voices of Silent Cinema
- Why Netflix and Hulu are Changing the World
- Is Love a Fairy Tale?
- Legends Worth Another Telling
- Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
- Successful Freelancing for Web Designers
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- A Hero’s Origin
Movies
- Django Unchained
- Anna Karenina
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Les Misérables
- Raiders of the Lost Ark in Black and White
- The Hobbit Production Videos
- Listen to the Entire Hobbit Soundtrack
- Skyfall
- Tasty Tartine Bread Documentary
- Alfred Hitchcock’s Media Persona
- The Sound of the Avengers
- The Avengers
- Thor
- The Incredible Hulk
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Iron Man 2
- The Avengers Initiative
- Amazing Grace
- Benjamin Button and the Secret of Contentedness
- Japanese Cinema – #4: Floating Weeds
- TRON and TRON: Legacy
- Iron Man: Transformation
- The Social Network
- Japanese Cinema – #3: A Story of Floating Weeds
- Fistful of Dollars (and why it contains my favorite piece of cinema)
- Japanese Cinema – #2: Madadayo
- Japanese Cinema – #1: Yojimbo
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Inception on the Radio
- The Sixth Sense
- Be Kind Rewind
- When Uncertainty is Certain
- The Yes Men Won’t Take No for an Answer
- Deducing the Limits of Reason
- What Is Humanity?
- Learning to Love Through Film
- Green Zone
- Like Father Like Son….Well Not Quite
- Look, Up in the Sky!
- Does Heaven Allow Too Much?
- Where Has The Family Gone?
- Self-Guided Tours Out of the Cave
- The Story In The Water
- When Life Seems Stranger Than Fiction
- Adam: Creating a New Kind of Love Story
- How You Too Can Have Your Own Avatar
My Work
- My First Guest Post is Up!
- Blogging Goals for 2013
- Dubacano Wines Website
- Playing Around with Pixelmator
- My Wedding Website
- Dubacano Website
- I’m Back!
- Exciting New Job!
- First Week of BlogX: Complete!
- Pardon the Construction…
- Initiate Your Date: Meeting Someone is Easy but Dating Requires a Plan
- Flight Log: 5-1-11
- Flight Log: 4-30-11
- Flight Log: 4-29-11
- Flight Log: 4-28-11
- Flight Log: 4-27-11
- Flight Log: 4-26-11
- Persimmon Recipe #7: Done!
- Persimmon #6: Back to the Cutting Board
- Flight Log: 3-31-11
- Persimmon Recipe #5: Baking in the Oven
- Flight Log: 3-9-11
- Persimmon Recipe #4: Taste Test
- Persimmon Recipe #3: Slicing and Dicing
- Flight Log: 2-22-11
- Persimmon Recipe #2: Inspection
- Persimmon Recipe #1: Preparation
- Persimmon Recipes
- Flight Log: 2-4-11
- Flight Log
- Beauty and the Trevi Fountain
Television
- Lost Season 3: “Par Avion”
- Lost Season 3: “Enter 77″
- Lost Season 3: “Tricia Tanaka is Dead”
- Lost Season 3: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
- Lost Season 3: “Flashes Before Your Eyes”
- Lost Season 3: “Not in Portland”
- Lost Season 3: “I Do”
- Lost Season 3: “The Cost of Living”
- Lost Season 3: “Every Man for Himself”
- Lost Season 3: “Further Instructions”
- Lost Season 3: “The Glass Ballerina”
- Lost Season 3: “A Tale of Two Cities”
- Lost Season 2: “Live Together, Die Alone Part 2″
- Lost Season 2: “Live Together, Die Alone Part 1″
- Lost Season 2: “Three Minutes”
- Lost Season 2: “?”
- Lost Season 2: “Two for the Road”
- Lost Season 2: “S.O.S.”
- Lost Season 2: “Dave”
- Lost Season 2: “Lockdown”
- Lost Season 2: “The Whole Truth”
- Lost Season 2: “Maternity Leave”
- Lost Season 2: “One of Them”
- Lost Season 2: “The Long Con”
- Lost Season 2: “Fire + Water”
- Lost Season 2: “The Hunting Party”
- Lost Season 2: “The 23rd Psalm”
- Lost Season 2: “What Kate Did”
- Lost Season 2: “Collision”
- Lost Season 2: “The Other 48 Days”
- Lost Season 2: “Abandoned”
- Lost Season 2: “…And Found”
- Lost Season 2: “Everybody Hates Hugo”
- Lost Season 2: “Orientation”
- Lost Season 2: “Adrift”
- Lost Season 2: “Man of Science, Man of Faith”
- Lost Season 1: “Exodus: Part 3″
- Lost Season 1: "Exodus: Part 2"
- Lost Season 1: “Exodus: Part 1″
- Lost Season 1: “Born to Run”
- Lost: The Archives
- Kings: Bible Stories for a New Generation
- The Office: A New Era
- Where the Truth Lies: Mad Men’s Deconstruction of American Nostalgia
- Lost Season 1: "The Greater Good"
- Lost Season 1: "Do No Harm"
- Lost Season 1: "Deus Ex Machina"
- Lost Season 1: "Numbers"
- Lost Season 1: "…In Translation"
- Lost Season 1: "Outlaws"
- Lost Season 1: "Homecoming"
- Lost Season 1: "Special"
- Lost Season 1: "Hearts and Minds"
- Lost Season 1: "Whatever the Case May Be"
- Lost Season 1: "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
- Lost Season 1: “Raised By Another”
- Lost Season 1: "Solitary"
- Lost Season 1: "Confidence Man"
- Lost Season 1: "Moth"
- Lost Season 1: "House of the Rising Sun"
- Lost Season 1: "White Rabbit"
- Lost Season 1: "Walkabout"
- Lost Season 1: "Tabula Rasa"
- Lost Season 1: "Pilot (Part 2)"
- Lost Season 1: "Pilot (Part 1)"
