Scarlett's Stuff

lovingremixed:

newyorker:

…we seldom get to witness the actual creative sessions that go into producing films. So I was gobsmacked to discover, recently, that over several days in 1978, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and the screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan worked through an idea Lucas had for a film called “Raiders of…

At one point, hours into the conversation, Kasdan asks, “Do you have a name for this person?”

Lucas: I do.

Spielberg: I hate this, but go ahead.

Lucas: Indiana Smith.

The transcript does not note the sound of crickets, but nor is there any burst of enthusiasm.

Lucas: It has to be unique. It’s a character. Very Americana. Square. He was born in Indiana.

Kasdan: What does she call him, Indy?

Lucas: That’s what I was thinking. Or Jones.

northants:

futurisms | arbitrarily | saneasalice:

An article on fanfiction that’s not at all gross or condescending! Quite nice given the kind of press fanfiction usually gets.

Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

This is the best article about fanfiction I have ever read.

(via undividedself)

closetospring:

In the wake of recent debacles such as the Gay Girl in Damascus expose, and VS Naipaul’s wazzocky remarks about female authors, a team from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey claims to have developed software that can identify the gender of writers with an 85% accuracy…

i’ve been waiting for this to work again so i could try it

pasted in a few paragraphs of the original novel i’m working on, and it guessed 60.99% chance it was written by a male. lololololol.

(and the funny thing is, i think if i was reading it for the first time i would have guessed woman author. idk.)

the problem is even if you get down and “scientific” about it all of the “cues” are still SOCIALIZED.

90.95% male over here…. yeah. I don’t think that software has gotten all the bugs out of its system yet.

(via pandorasprings)