Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit
  (tags: writing screenwriting mamet tv)
• Scientists find single ‘on-off’ gene that can change gender traits
  (tags: gender biology genetics)
• Judge Dredd artist John Hicklenton dies at suicide centre Dignitas
  (tags: suicide ethics switzerland uk 2000ad)
• Why there were more than 100 versions of Avatar shipped to different cinemas.
  (tags: film avatar movies technology complexity movie distribution)
• China is the world's biggest investor in clean energy. US is second. UK is third.
  (tags: china uk energy renewables usa investment)
• Is Rupert Murdoch supporting the Conservatives to save Sky from Ofcom?
  (tags: competition uk tv politics media)
• Sensors turn skin into control pad
  (tags: technology ui)

Comments

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Wonder if David Mamet would care to also offer advice to writers of copy for porn magazines, which is where he started his career.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Write to his agent and ask :)

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest a parody of the original, but surely the same rules apply, with the twist that every problem is *resolved* by the end of the scene (such as broken heating, painfully throbbing erection, spare lesbian, etc etc).

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The Mamet thing is excellent. (Shame about his typing...)
And explains a lot about why I can't write plot for toffee.

[girl-onthego.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the David Mamet link. That man is a dramatic genius. :)

[broin.livejournal.com]

The Mamet thing is great! I'm going to point some game designers at that. Also, me.