Tumblr (3.0; @yutayamaguchi)http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/<p>Seinfeld + Porsche: a shared creative process.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/itWxXyCfW5s" width="560"></iframe></p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AERUnRx_QIY" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>via <a href="http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2013/04/to-paraphrase-jerry-seinfeld-comedy-writing-and-car-design-are-two-things-you-dont-see-people-doing-in-public-so-here.html" target="_blank">metacool</a>.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49745540035http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49745540035Sun, 05 May 2013 21:58:01 -0500CreativityDesignmetacool<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Em9wR9e5emY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The heart of leadership.</p> <p>via <a href="http://metacool.typepad.com/about.html" target="_blank">Diego Rodriguez</a>’s <a href="http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2013/05/the-heart-of-leadership.html" target="_blank">metacool</a>.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49744309831http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49744309831Sun, 05 May 2013 21:42:59 -0500Leadershipmetacool<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_to_run.html" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/><br/><p>TED Talks - Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49417754403http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49417754403Wed, 01 May 2013 23:33:34 -0500TED TalksRunning<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread.html" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/><br/><p>TED Talks - Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49239229797http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49239229797Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:41:35 -0500TED TalksMarketing<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/><br/><p>TED Talks - Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49237349824http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49237349824Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:11:00 -0500TED TalksBehavioral Economics<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work.html" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/><br/><p>TED Talks - Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49235564491http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49235564491Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:44:00 -0500TED TalksWorkPsychology<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/60770545?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Baratunde Thurston: Getting Things Done Is Inspiration + Sheer Willpower</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49151412940http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49151412940Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:04:00 -050099uCollaborationCreativityGTDInspiration<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/58119161?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffdb00" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Jad Abumrad: Why “Gut Churn” Is an Essential Part of the Creative Process</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49151270069http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49151270069Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:02:11 -0500CreativityProcess99u<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36881035" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Everything is a Remix Part 4.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120823482http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120823482Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:42:30 -0500Remix<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/25380454" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Everything is a Remix Part 3.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120782296http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120782296Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:42:00 -0500Remix<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19447662" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Everything is a Remix Part 2.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120738358http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120738358Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:41:28 -0500Remix<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14912890" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Everything is a Remix Part 1.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120693488http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49120693488Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:40:55 -0500Remix<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/><br/><p>TED: Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49114684500http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49114684500Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:29:00 -0500TED TalksCharity<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/63874727" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Teaser trailer to HEAVEN. A film I’m planning to shoot later this year.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49091513823http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49091513823Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500FilmsCinematographyFilmmaking<p><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/035053dfee5927766d1d28d2de9c49ed/tumblr_inline_mlyyhcZk8Q1qz4rgp.jpg"/></p> <p>Wow. What a great doc­u­men­tary. I was pleas­antly sur­prised by how the story moved me and had my com­plete atten­tion through­out the film. It uses the sense of mys­tery and nar­ra­tive struc­ture that made the story great. Right in the mid­dle of the film, the story takes a big turn that changed the tra­jec­tory of the story. It was sort of an unbe­liev­able story that fit the mythic struc­ture perfectly.</p> <p>Some great quotes from his con­struc­tion work col­league, Rick Emmerson:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="dquo">“</span>He had this kind of mag­i­cal qual­ity that all the gen­uine poets and artists have: to ele­vate things. To get above the mun­dane, the pro­saic. All the bull­shit. All the medi­oc­rity that’s every­where. The artist, the artist is the pioneer.”</p> <p><span class="dquo">“</span>What he’s demon­strated, very clearly, is that you have a choice. He took all that tor­ment, all that agony, all that con­fu­sion and pain, and he trans­formed it into some­thing beau­ti­ful. He’s like the silk­worm, you know? You take this raw mate­r­ial, and you trans­form it. You come out with some­thing that wasn’t there before. Some­thing beau­ti­ful. Some­thing per­haps tran­scen­dent. Some­thing per­haps eter­nal. Inso­far as he does that, I think he’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the human spirit, of what’s pos­si­ble. That you have a choice “And this has been my choice, to give you Sugar Man”. Now, have you done that? Ask yourself.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Highly rec­om­mended.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49091273922http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49091273922Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500FilmsFilmmakingMusicCreativityArtist<p><span><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/627af956069697efcb1ce5094119481d/tumblr_inline_mlyyknl9wD1qz4rgp.jpg"/></span></p> <ul><li><span>The film is about a tal­ented but tor­tured musi­cian named Brook who has a rough week when his 3 sis­ters come to spread their mother’s ashes to the sea.<br/></span></li> <li>His sis­ters are like the light that shines into his dark world. Des­tin Cret­ton does a great job of mix­ing humor and seri­ous moments, mak­ing it very enjoy­able to watch. You cry and laugh, giv­ing you a nice bal­ance between the two emotions.</li> <li>Direc­tor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2308774/">Cret­ton</a> does a good job flesh­ing out the main char­ac­ter as a sen­si­tive, yet tal­ented musi­cian, who feels things deeply per­haps more deeply then the peo­ple that sur­round him.</li> <li>The film works as a nice col­lec­tion of nicely observed lit­tle moments. Like how musi­cal notes add up to be big­ger then the sum of it’s parts, the film does a good job of sim­i­lar accumulation.</li> <li>I wish I got to learn more about the other char­ac­ters instead of mainly focused on the main character.</li> <li>The cin­e­matog­ra­phy was nat­ural, organic, and fit the story very well. Nice moments of using color and light con­trast to accen­tu­ate the mood. Edit­ing was great, shot com­po­si­tion choices helped to tell the story.</li> </ul>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49091388128http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49091388128Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500FilmsFilmmakingDirectors<p>Don Chad­wick on Photography.</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s our func­tion as design­ers to see things that other peo­ple don’t see. When you’re com­pos­ing a pho­to­graph, for instance, you’re being very selective.</p> <p>What is really important?</p> <p>Do I really need this or can I do with­out that? So this selec­tiv­ity process is in the design process itself.</p> <p>If you’re a curi­ous per­son like I am, you’re con­stantly chew­ing away on this visual lan­guage that sur­rounds you, and you extract out of that what you feel is nec­es­sary for your ideas that you’re try­ing to improve on.</p> <p>Cam­era becomes an exten­sion of your eyes.</p> </blockquote> <p><iframe frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tRx9OpaESss" width="300"></iframe></p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090985344http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090985344Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500PhotographyDesign<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/52861634" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Video about interactive design.</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090864265http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090864265Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500Interactive DesignDesignTechnology<p><a class="fancybox" href="http://www.yutayamaguchi.com/here/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/short_term_12_film_still_a_l.jpg" rel="gallery"><img alt="short_term_12_film_still_a_l" class="alignnone wp-image-785" height="219" src="http://www.yutayamaguchi.com/here/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/short_term_12_film_still_a_l.jpg" width="389"/></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.shortterm12.com/">Short Term 12</a> was the best film at <span class="caps">SXSW</span> this year. Great char­ac­ters and very well-written script. Every scene helped to move the story for­ward. It had a great use of bal­anc­ing com­edy and drama. Char­ac­ters were all believ­able and had a strong char­ac­ter devel­op­ment. Cin­e­matog­ra­phy felt per­fect for the story, very nat­ural, hand-held, imper­fect, human. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing his other films. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2308774/">Des­tin Cret­ton</a> is a Direc­tor to watch, he has a unique strong voice.</p> <p>To watch:</p> <p><a href="http://iamnotahipster.com/">I am not a Hipster</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1299384/">Short Term 12</a> (Short Film)</p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090822578http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090822578Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500<p><span><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/a965e22f3a36db51264f420d58808012/tumblr_inline_mlyy3vGKar1qz4rgp.jpg"/></span></p> <p><span>Today was the World Pre­miere for </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2635006">The Retrieval</a><span>, which I helped make 2 years ago. It was a beau­ti­ful film. Had moments sim­i­lar to August Evening. I can’t describe the feel­ing, but I think the clos­est I can think of is a quiet con­tem­pla­tion about how I’m liv­ing my life and my rela­tion­ships. There’s a bit of uni­ver­sal human­ity in his films that works emo­tion­ally. Proud to have been a part of the film.</span></p>http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090753378http://yutayamaguchi.tumblr.com/post/49090753378Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500FilmmakingFilms