When Organizing Isn’t Enough: SHED Your Stuff; Change Your Life by Julie Morgenstern My rating: 2 of 5 stars Listened to the Audiobook. Ridiculous amounts of “stories” from four fictional archetypes going through different life changes bludgeon you over the head with the same points over and over, and there’s really nothing new here. Envision…
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
The Den
I am listening to the audiobook of When Organizing Isn’t Enough: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life. It’s a lot of obvious fluff, but it included this (probably apocryphal) gem: A well-known Zen parable tells of a wanderer on a lonely road who happened upon a fierce stream that had washed out the bridge to…
AE CS5 Optimum Memory Settings & Performance
After I upgraded to After Effects CS5 recently, I found that my rendering was a lot more sluggish than it used to be. Thankfully, I found this FAQ item on Adobe’s forums, and following the suggestions there — especially those about recommended memory-per-core settings — really got me back on track. For the record, I’m…
The War of Art
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield My rating: 3 of 5 stars At first I found the definition of Resistance (uppercase ‘R’) intriguing — a personification of the reasons you’re afraid to finish, why you procrastinate. As you progress through the book, though, the…
Attack of the Giant Amazon! Effects Breakdown
Remember that Amazon spec ad I produced a while back? Well, at the suggestion of my friend Jose, I’ve revisited it with this behind-the-scenes video that shows how each of the effects shots were built. Attack of the Giant Amazon: Behind the Scenes from Mark Boszko on Vimeo.
Home Made Egg Nogs
According to the taste test I did a couple of years back for an egg nog-focused podcast (that was, ultimately, never quite completed), we did several home-made nog recipes based on various combinations of dairy and liquor. The one that won our never-before-revealed taste test was this recipe from the folks at the marketing department…
Regarding Your Restaurant’s Website
Dear Restaurant, I really enjoy your comestibles! But your website makes it a little hard to find the information I need. When I go to a restaurant website, I’m usually out somewhere, hungry, accessing it from my phone, and I’m looking for these three things, in this order: Hours, so I can see if you’re…