Minutes of a Monday #20

Brain Food > Inch by Inch

“When Charles Darwin left England on December 27, 1831 he had with him the first volume of Charles Lyell’s landmark work, Principles of Geology. In this work Lyell gave a clear and compelling statement of the “uniformitarian” perspective in geology: that the earth’s physical features were produced by geological forces operating across immense periods of time. The forces that could be observed acting in the present were the same as those that had acted in the past in producing the physical features of the earth.

There was no need to invoke unique, cataclysmic events (e.g. the “Great Flood”) to explain the earth’s appearance. In Lyell’s view, all geological change occurred gradually. The great topographical features of the earth were built through the slow accumulation of small changes that occurred over vast stretches of time.”

Extract from the book ‘Creative People at Work’, chronicling the evolution of Charles Darwin’s thinking.

Soul Food

“Character is destiny” Heraclitus

Rare Air

“I went up to JJ and was like ‘what am I talking about?’ I don’t even know what I’m talking about.’ And he’s like ‘it doesn’t matter - you’re gonna run in and say it really fast and that’s all the audience is gonna tell. With the music behind it, there just gonna know something is f*ckin’ wrong.’”

Actor Chris Pine talks about JJ Abrams’s scene direction for Star Trek.

Appendix

“Overhead will determine the choices you make. If you have to pay $2,000 a month to live in a closet, then you’re going to write about cryptocurrency. Sorry!”

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver talks about why she feels she doesn’t need to live in NYC to be near the literary ‘scene’.

LOL

Even Sky are getting heated about Prince Harry’s new book:

AOB

Wrapped on my first feature film in Budapest last week called Stockholm Bloodbath. A week like no other I’ve ever had. I’ll put more bones on that story in an article later this year.