Blog Heap o'Art of Links 21 November 2015

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Jackson on Hobbit Film: "I Didn't Know What I Was Doing"
Graeme McMillan, Hollywood Reporter Sat 2015-Nov-21 3:28pm

…"I was able to wing it, right up until the point that I had to start shooting this very intricate battle, and I couldn't wing it on that, really," he continued, discussing the decision to postpone the sequence. "We had allowed two months of shooting for that in 2012, and at some point, when we were approaching that, I went to Zane and Carol, our producers, and ultimately talked to the studio and said: ‘Because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing now, because I haven’t got storyboards and prep in this three months that we have now got this battle, why don’t we just finish earlier?' "…

Didn't know what he was doing. Shocked, shocked, I tell you!

I quit watching the first one when Doctor Who with bird dung dribbling down his face was racing along on a sled pulled by giant bunnies. Just like in the book!

The First Do-It-Yourself Novel
Alex, Weird Universe Sat 2015-Nov-21 3:09pm

Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta was the first-ever do-it-yourself or interactive novel. It was published in French in 1962, and an English translation followed a year later. The novel came in a box, as a set of looseleaf pages. Readers were instructed to "shuffle them like a deck of cards" before reading, so that chance would decide the order of events in the narrative.…

Mindful Webworks for art's own sake (and some for fun). The art and wonder of it all await your scrutiny.

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