John Brown - the author's official site » radio west http://johndbrown.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:26:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Jon Ronson, mild-mannered pal of extremists http://johndbrown.com/2009/06/1573/ http://johndbrown.com/2009/06/1573/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:25:13 +0000 John Brown http://johndbrown.com/?p=1573 Take a guy who does humorous journalism, but not in the sneering sort of way, and send him out to find out more about extremists (KKK, Islamicists, etc.) and conspiracy theories (he didn’t really believe in the Bildeburgers…until he was followed), and what do you get?

Well, you get British journalist Jon Ronson.

I just listened to a wonderful interview with him on Radio West.

Don’t miss it.

]]> http://johndbrown.com/2009/06/1573/feed/ 0 Story insights from the director of Pixar’s Up http://johndbrown.com/2009/06/story-insights-from-the-director-of-pixars-up/ http://johndbrown.com/2009/06/story-insights-from-the-director-of-pixars-up/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:32:59 +0000 John Brown http://johndbrown.com/?p=1568 How would you like to listen to a master story teller for almost an hour? You can. Radio West recently interviewed Pete Docter who directed Pixar’s recent motion picture Up.

Docter has been with Pixar since the beginning and he shares a number of insights into story telling. He talks about the importance of emotional hooks, getting ideas and developing them via the creative Q&A process, and editing a story from schlock to greatness, and much more. What a wonderful interview.

Click here to listen.

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