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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
the Hawthorne effect
The experimenters concluded that it was not the changes in physical conditions that were affecting the workers’ productivity. Rather, it was the fact that someone was actually concerned about their workplace, and the opportunities this gave them to discuss changes before they took place.
The man who conducted the experiment, who went on to teach industrial research at Harvard, said it this way:
The desire to stand well with one’s fellows, the so-called human instinct of association, easily outweighs the merely individual interest and the logic of reasoning upon which so many spurious principles of management are based.
"The desire to stand well with one's fellows", i.e. respect. In all of the scene work we do in the class, we see how the desire for respect is a core need for all of us, and how even while working towards long term goals as a characters, we always have one eye on the quantum of respect that can be won or lost at each moment.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Tomorrow -- Change.
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Henry V, William Shakespeare
Hat tip to fivethirtyeight.com
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
thinking about friendship
Nehamas on Friendship
Give it a listen.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
sacrifice? not so much.
"The sane would not think it was worth dying for anybody's sentences, including their own. Instead of being profoundly moved by the idea of sacrifice, they are profoundly suspicious of it; indeed, if their skepticism is for anything, it is for all the ways we have been educated and seduced and cajoled into believing that our capacity for sacrifice, whether of self and/or others, is one of the best things about us."--Adam Phillips, Going Sane
Friday, October 24, 2008
shoot with Roman
I posted one of my Killer Instinct flyers in a downtown Los Angeles coffe house called Lost Souls a few weeks ago. I got an email from a guy named Roman Wyden who saw the flyer. Roman is a filmmaker, but he pays the bills sometimes through headshot photography. He has a website for his headshot business, and is attempting to aggregate useful information for actors on his site in a blog format, as a way of promoting his stuff. He hit me up to internview me about my class, which I of course I was happy to do.
We did the interview in his loft which is in the same building is Lost Souls. It should be out in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, take a look at Roman's site. Seems to me he would be a great guy to shoot headshots with, since he brings a filmmaker's eye to the process of producing headshots.
http://shootwithroman.com/
So check it out!
A
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