Ken Burns on Story
“The stories that I like to tell are always interesting because the good guys have really serious flaws and the villains are very compelling. My interest is always in complicating things.”
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“The stories that I like to tell are always interesting because the good guys have really serious flaws and the villains are very compelling. My interest is always in complicating things.”
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Some lovely kinetic type animation from Motionpoems.
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Paul Rand is one of my favorite graphic designers, and I love his ideas about simplicity, creativity and visual communication. This video has a little bit of all that, straight from Rand himself.
Read more →“Americans love hamburgers—we eat about three burgers a week. But what are the hidden environmental costs?”
Read more →This motion graphic for the documentary “Waiting for Superman” is so smart and so clever, I always draw some inspiration from it. It can be hard to make data sexy or compelling, but this piece does the trick.
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“Let me remember that my courage is a wild dog, it won’t just come when I call it. I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.”
video via the lovely Kathryn Rende.
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“What’s it like to witness a mob attack, a starving child or the aftermath of a bomb, and take a photograph instead of stopping to help? As two journalists are under fire for recording rather than intervening in a sex attack in India, we ask people who know.”
Photographers Who Didn’t Step in to Help
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