RT @brendanphughes: New toast: “May you never be the subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph.” — Pulitzer Tweets (@pulitzertweets) January 9, 2013
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Just got retweeted by Pulitzer. NBD.
Posted by Brendan on January 9, 2013
http://www.brendanhughes.com/just-got-retweeted-by-pulitzer-nbd/
Behind the scenes of Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass [slideshow].
Posted by Brendan on November 19, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/behind-the-scenes-from-my-first-short-film/
I’m directing two short films by Rolin Jones.
Chronicles Simpkins Fundraising Video from Brendan Hughes on Vimeo. Starting in November, I’ll be directing two short films by Rolin Jones. Adam O’Byrne is producing. After only six years in Los Angeles I’m finally getting this bird off the ground. The video above depicts the intertwining biographies of Adam, Rolin and myself. We’ve started an Indiegogo [...]
Posted by Brendan on October 17, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/im-directing-two-short-films-by-rolin-jones/
I will perform in NYC on June 26
Friends in New York! On Tuesday, June 26, I will be performing at Ars Nova. “Performing what?” you ask, in my imagination, “why, performing the act of inventing a religion with diagrams, theories and preposterous arcana,” I reply. “How is that possibly entertainment?” you hopefully don’t wonder. “If you’ve ever seen me introduce a play [...]
Posted by Brendan on June 21, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/i-will-perform-in-nyc-on-june-26/
I will perform in LA on June 19
Friends in Los Angeles! On Tuesday, June 19, I will be performing at Atwater Crossing, with special musical guest and former office-mate Jeffrey D. I will attempt to lasso the cosmos for the 21st century agnostic using obscure scientific trivia, personal medical records, ontological diagrams, sociological arcana, whimsical apocrypha, the Oxford comma and jokes. Jeffrey will [...]
Posted by Brendan on June 6, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/i-will-perform-in-la-on-june-19/
What Would Hegel Do?
Damn you act one! Break, damn it. My head is rammed firmly into the entrails of what will ultimately be the third draft. Hopefully in time for the anniversary of the first draft, for those of you keeping score at home. Describing the below to Emily, she said if I were an economist I would [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 24, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/what-would-hegel-do/
Character Growth is a Palindrome
I’m trying to make this story have more inevitability. Working from the end, I am identifying each payoff (or potential payoff) and determining where to pepper the set-ups and builds. Yesterday, this pattern emerged. Many pieces of yellow, college-ruled paper gave their lives for this graph. The story elements column has been redacted. If for [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 8, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/character-growth-is-a-palindrome/