Eric Rothman
@ericmsandwich
Filmmaker, editor, animator, stationary bicycle rider, sandwich enthusiast. My work has won very few awards. I currently reside in Dayton, Ohio.
Eric Rothman
newhappystar.com
I don’t know if I can say that I love all of David Lynch’s films, but I love him as an artist. He doesn’t accept “this is just the way things are done.” By default, life pushes you around, and to work the way you want to work, you need to ask for it. Sometimes you will forget to do this, but this clip of David Lynch being upset will remind you, and you’ll ask for what you need and the world will open up to you a little.
A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5 https://t.co/M8adOBcwL5
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Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it
Tina Roth Eisenberg • Learn To Do Everything Lightly
This has gotta be one of the best songs ever. Just a tragic yearning for opportunity and a better life, and kindof knowing deep down that running away isn’t going to be the answer, but doing it anyway because it’s a source of hope. I love so much toward the end of the song, we are tragically seeing into the future at how things do, in fact, fall apart, but then landing back in this moment of decision to go–now or never, this or nothing. And then there’s something deeply American about it all too: the promise of self-reliance as the spoils of hard work, and the romance of hitting the road and the freedom of that.
When I give of myself, when I genuinely care about others, I generate a feeling of connection, a feeling that is closely related to love. This is a feeling we long for. And it is common to think of it as something we must receive —that to feel a connection, we must find someone who sees us and who cares about our authentic self. But what people who... See more
Henrik Karlsson • On Feeling Connected
“I had accomplished enough in the business world and seen enough of it that I started just asking some basic questions, like, ‘What is it that I really love?’ And, ‘What would I do if money was not an object?’ I think everyone should ask themselves that question. And so I just kind of locked myself in a room and just wrote and wrote and wrote about
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It’s incredible.