We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.
And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.
As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.
When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.
Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.
My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.
As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.
Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.
Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.
From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
It depends on the project, what's happening that day on the project, at what stage were in on the project; it various from project to project and where we're needed.