Some Fucking [Good] Writing Tips
Rory Sutherland on how to save marketing. Honest to goodness thinking about the topic. Not just hot air. (People who don't believe marketing should be saved will not like this one. But read it and take the opposite advice to try to tank marketing.
The Art of Letting Go, The Liberation of Magic, and The Conflict Between Digital Immediacy and Effectiveness. All by W+K Amsterdam's Head of Planning, Martin Weigel. It'll take you a while to get through it all but it's all worth reading. And hey, it's the weekend. Do you really have anything better to do? (Liberation of Magic is, in my opinion, a piece that should be made into a little black book and given to every client and ad person the moment they walk into marketing. It's that important. It's that good. It's that beneficial to understanding the role that marketing can play in growing business.)
Newsweek piece about Rick Rubin. The man behind, but certainly not the face of, modern music as we know it.
For those interested in movie trailers.
Creating worlds for yourself, by George Tannenbaum.
Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, talks with David Chang, of restaurant fame, about all sorts of juicy stuff. This will probably end up being a separate post, too.
Stephen Fry on language. And why most people are missing the point when they get all uppity about it. (Link via Renji)
Turn in your badge...and your gun!
Speaking of guns and badges, this guy is the next Pete Stacker. He takes tweets and stuff from Reddit and turns it into short clips like this: