At the beach in Yilan County, Taiwan
Trees pulled from the ground and thrown in the street during a typhoon in Taiwan
Saturday night in Da’an District, Taipei, Taiwan
Mingde train station entrance in Taipei, Taiwan
- Isaac: Someone holds the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday’?
- Dan: They’re representatives of Patty and Mildred Hill.
- Isaac: Took two people to write that song?
— From an episode of Sports Night
I have the same reaction whenever a musician is exposed for using ghostwriters.
It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.
— Matthew Weiner in an excerpt from Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal
Previously:
“When I wrote the pilot of Mad Men, I was saying, I’m already successful, why am I not happy?”
Traffic in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Midnight ramen at Afuri in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan
Keelung night market in Taiwan
Previously: Watercolors #2 (2013)
Street vendor at Shilin District night market in Taipei, Taiwan
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
— Jean Cocteau
On this day 7 years ago, I quit the only employed job I ever had. This month marks 12 years of business for my traveling one-man-freelance-design-and-dev band, with recent stops in California, Virginia, New Orleans, New York, and Taipei. Japan, Hawaii & Portland booked for later this year. Only the strangest of worlds could allow this. Thanks for your support.