In a world flooded with endless news, products, images, etc. I often find it hard to sift out things that are of value to me. Things that really stand out to me and that really make me go WOW (imagine me emphasizing the ‘-OW’ in WOW – because that’s how I say it aloud when something is really W-O-W).

“my weekly roundup” will be a regular post in which I share a list of things, (e.g., articles, products, websites, brands) that I thought were highly intriguing, highly innovative, highly aesthetically-pleasing and/or highly meaningful (to me) in the past seven days. The post is also an attempt on my part, to keep all the worthwhile things I've come across online in one place - with the click of a label - if I ever want/need to refer back to it.

• Marc Jacobs F/W 2010 Ad Campaign. Shown above. - Because I've always enjoyed Marc Jacobs' Juergen Teller-collaborated ads but I enjoy them even more when I enjoy the actual pieces as well.

• How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review blog) - Because it never hurts to gain another perspective (especially one who is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard) on how to achieve a happy work-life balance.

• Sally’s Styling Seminary: The Lineage of Styling (Fashionista) - Because like most things in life, there's always so much more that goes into an activity/job than what it seems. 

• Appreciating the Genius of Everyday Objects (Fast Co.Design) - Because I think it's important to appreciate the little things in life and to salute lasting design.

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So I haven't hit the writers block wall yet but I can see it coming. I'm on that road we call writing and up ahead on the writer's gps is a traffic block, a section of the road where my vehicle of story will be stuck. I can see it coming yet I haven't planned an alternate route.

Is it strange to suddenly have an awesome focus on my progress with my senior project script? Or am I just getting excited about one thing to avoid another? I think I just asked the same question twice when I already know the answer. Obviously.

Anyway, 25 pages are done and the story has slowed down. The genre is uncertain (on the page, but not in my mind) and I feel the music O listen to while writing it has had a large effect on it's meaning and tone. If these things are true then should I be in control, or am I just choosing not too. I just finished principal photography on a short film we're making for my junior-class project. I'm excited to see where they take the footage in the post stages but not looking forward to seeing my own mistakes.

I don't have the drive or the passion to put 110% into my feature length script, but I really want to make it a good one. Screenwriting to me is as important as film making.  I'm not showing a hundred pages at the senior show, though, but only 15 minutes or so. Is my mind ready to handle a 90-minute story? Should I be reading Shakespeare or the Old Testament to fully understand the limited combinations of story and how I can adapt one with my own unique twist? Probably. My drive for this script will come soon but I fear as I grow closer to senior project, my motivation will diminish.

Good writing is all about rewriting. I took this class to challenge my abilities with staying on top of my work and next term will prove that. To grow as a screenwriter and to become a greater story teller is important to me. I see the wall however and I don't look forward to climbing over it. Plus rewriting is gonna be tedious, I can't wait. Screenwriters have got to be crazy to want to do all this work, but really is there any other choice? I guess it's just something i'll have to do

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A synopsis:
Perfect, everything flowing according to plan. Bliss.
Goodnight, sweetie. Love you.
*some kind of slow, ethereal deterioration of his calm*
deep breath in, aaaaaannnd:
GO! 
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BASTA!
kitchen chair into middle of living room floor
plop offender in said chair
plop mom onto sofa
grin reeeeaaalllly big
so you want to stay up all night? no problem! you just have to do it from right. there.
look of sheer horror
ten minutes later a perfect angel goes to bed

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