Mind Sieve 7/30/12

ArmadilloCon was this past weekend! Woot! (So this is being prepped early. Heh heh.)

Superman Official Trailer - love the repeated sonic booms!

From Nerdist News - Man of Steel poster

Batman vs Captain America In Real Life - Ultimate Fan Fights #1 from GakAttack. What's really fun is that at the end of the video, you pick who wins, which takes you to another short video with the victory for the side you like. Sweet!

One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (5 Piano Guys, 1 Piano) from the Piano Guys. This is quite imaginative! 

The Runway Trailer - though already released last year in Ireland, looks like it might be coming our way? Looks rather fun!

From What If? Yoda - How Much Power Can Yoda Output? Science geekery at its finest! How fun!

Follow Your Curiosity: Some New Ways To Explore Mars from NASA. How cool!

Engineering Technology Revealing Secrets Of Roman Coins from Science Daily. Sounds like this technique could be super useful.

Halo 4: Forward Onto Dawn Trailer. Not bad! Not bad at all. :)

Hootsuite Adds Intelligence to Content Browsing from Bundle Post.

How To Build A Social Brand That's A Sweet Orange In A World Of Bitter Apples from Pam the Marketing Nut.

Pixar Insider Reveals The 22 Rules of Story Telling from Best Seller Labs. Good ones!

From Chuck (NSFW) Wendig - Ask A Wendigo: "Just What The F*** Do You Do, Anyway?" where Chuck speaks about his writing process.

Huh. This almost seemed like the Science Mind Sieve~! Heh.

Mind Sieve 6/25/12

June has been so weird!!!!!!

Designing From Bones - Cannibalizing Fiction from Gene Lempp. Literally! Hee!

Les Miserables 2012 Trailer. Oh this is looking so good!

Killing Them Softly Trailer with Brad Pitt.

A totally cool marriage proposal - does raise the bar for guys everywhere. :P


An Ancient Civilization Upened By Climate Change from The New York Times. I'm surprised it took them this long to figure this out. The world has continually changed since its inception. Cool they have proof of what happened to the Indus though.

Rub Some Bacon On It from Rhett And Link - The answer to all our problems! Who knew? :P (This cracked me up!)

Warehouse 13 Season 4 Trailer - Booyah! Guilty pleasure anyone? Hee!

32,000 Year Old Plant Reborn From Ancient Fruit Found in Siberian Ice from Bloomburg.com

Wreck-It Ralph Preview. This is so going to send old time games into nostalgia land! Looks like it will be super fun.

An Author's Guide To Fan Fiction from Jami Gold. Covers a lot of info here, peeps. The stuff isn't the same when based on a book or short story than on a TV or movie. And the lines are getting even more blurred. Eek!

Interesting post from Robert Lee Brewer on What Is Branding All About Anyway?

What Editors Do from Elizabeth Burton over at She Writes Blog.

Self-Publishing And The Burden Of Proof from Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. Great discussion as usual!

Okay, battling health crap so this is it for this week. Next week might be a little bare, not sure yet, as there's surgery in my future, and I've no idea how I will be for a week or so after. Here's crossing fingers I'll get to share more stuff ASAP after the deed is done. :P Wish me luck!

Mind Sieve 4/9/12

Gooood Morning~! (Afternoon or even evening, depending on when you stumble over this) :P

Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 Theater Trailer 

The Origin of GakAttack - really sweet and inspiring. Never let go of your dreams. (But be careful! This happy ending doesn't happen to everyone!)

New Prometheus Trailer - SQUEE!!!

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Trailer #2 - mind boggling! Should be fun!

Roman Coin Horde Found In Bath By Archaeologist from the History Blog.

Native Club Owned By Cook Given to BC Museum from the History Blog. Beautiful work!

Designing From Bones - The Greatest Story Never Read from Gene Lempp. Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript!

Fun Sicence: Randomness from Charlie. A truly cute science lesson. 

Me and My Cello - Happy Together (Turtles) Cello Cover from the Piano Guys. This is HILARIOUS!

Marketing Pet Peeves - Change Your Mind Set! by S R Johannes. Preach it, sister!

Does Advertising Work For Authors? by Lindsay Buroker.

From Bob Mayer - The Write It Forward Author Branding Plan.

3 Ways To Turn Facebookers Into Die-Hard Fans by J Kent Holloway over at the Marketing Tips Blog.

So You Want To Be An Author? Part 4 - Ideas from Donna Newton.

Some Novels Should Be Written Slowly from Roz Morris. Excellent advice! Personally, I'm in fear for some of the authors I love because they are being made to write too fast. And it shows!

Seven Simple Tips For Writing Great Dialogue from Ali Hale/Luke. Great stuff! I'm very much a proponent of #4. (To me 'said' tags are NOT invisible. Too many drive me batty. :P)

Three Ways To Spark Literary Magic-Voice Part 2 from Kristen Lamb. YES!

From Chuck (NSFW) Wendig - 25 Lies Writers Tell (And Start To Believe). Hallelujah! Truth as always  from the Beard. (The man is but an accessory to the Beard. Ask him.) :P

Okay, the plate floweth over. Enjoy!

Mind Sieve 2/27/12

Greetings!
Yes, it's time for another exciting link overdose on Mind Sieve! Bwahahahaha!

Damsels In Distress movie preview and article at The Hollywood Reporter. Funky looking movie.

Firefly cast at SciFi Expo 2012!  I was there, but never got that close. lol. Trevor's figurines look really nice! Wait till you see Jayne's! Even has a hat. lol.

83 Animal Mummies Found At Abydos from the History Blog. Don't normally hear about animals as mummies. Cool!  (In a morbid curiosity way, not because I think it's cool they made some! :P)

Designing From Bones -  A Story Of Tragic Love from Gene Lempp. Once again proving that communication is key! Eek!

Day In The Lyfe: Castle Star In The Music Lab by Jon Huertas. The boy can sing! Nice!

Space Launch System: Future Frontier a neat little video with a peek at the future with NASA.

New Jaden Smith Image for M Night Shyamalan's After Earth by Total Film

Girl Plays Vader For Kinect Star Wars Video from The Mary Sue. This is freakin' awesome! lol. You won't see where it's going, I assure you. lol

Hitler Hears About The End of Chuck Finale. ROFL!  (Be warned! It has spoilers!)

Scientists Build The First Single Atom Computer from Mashable Tech by Stan Schroeder.

YES!!!!!  Space Battleship Yamato 2199s New Promo Video article by Anime News Network. (The preview has the original music! YES! Hope they keep it for the series!!!!!)

56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest by Beth Hayden. Noooo! Not another place I'm going to be putting myself! Eek! (But since I was totally clueless on Pinterest, this was a darn nice article~!) :)

Supercharge Your Social Media Strategy By Getting Back To Basics by Stanford Smith. Dang it, I really really need a clone!!!!

6 Reasons For Writers To Be Optimistic by Rachelle Gardner.

Don't Eat The Butt #3: Persistence Can Look A Lot Like Stupid by Kristen Lamb.

From Chuck (NSFW) Wendig - 25 Things I Want To Say To "Asprigin" Writers.

That's it for this week. Enjoy!

And because I gotta - Zumaya Publications Kindle Thriller Sale is still on, so my novel Vassal of El is only $2.99! FYI! :P

Mind Sieve 1/9/12

Howdy! Welcome to the latest round of fun. Let's see what I can rustle up to share with everyone this week.

This is a blast from the past and a total blast to boot! Star Trek as the A-Team.

From ZD Net - Japanese Vending Machines: Now Dispensing Wi-Fi.  50 meters around the vending machine. Sweet! Drink and surf! Heh.

Secrets of Life on Newport's Medieval Ship Revealed by Nicola Smith at BBC News. 10th Anniversary of the find.

Poster for Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman's "The Paperboy" - looks promising. Very retro.

Ukranian Lighting Engineer Stuns the Audience.  This is way way cool. Had seen something similar before but not to this scale. Starts about a minute in, so wait for it. You won't be sorry!

This is a longer version than the one you see on TV. This is so darn cute I had to share it when I saw someone post it again. Heh heh.  The Force: Volkswagon Commercial.

This is beyond wicked awesome! From the Tel-Aviv Quantum Levitation peeps at www.quantumlevitation.com This will blow your mind!

From Gene Lempp - Designing From Bones - Fantastical Realm, Real World - Lemuria. Ah King Julian causing trouble again! (Yes, I watch way too much Penguins of Madagascar. But I'm, telling you, those Lemurs can be a handful. And like Julian wouldn't just LOVE having a cult. heh heh. :P)

Worldly Wednesday: Muslim Terrorists? from Ellie Ann. Great post about seeing the whole truth. Nice!


Looters Butcher Roman Mosaic In Spain from the History Blog. This is just sad. :(

Bayard and Holmes Post Apocalyptic Management Services. Heh heh, heh heh. Heh heh heh heh.

How to Build Your Reputation as a Writer by Paul Rance. Nice, quick little post with some definite wisdom thrown in.

Your Author Blog or Website - what an editor might look for. Great post by Theresa at EditorTorrent.

From Chuck (NSFW) Wendig - 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing.

On the same vein I give you a post from DIY MFA - Making the Most of Failure. More awesome wisdom for the new year!

From EditorTorrent - Switching Senses.  Great tips!

Internal Dialogue from Lisa Gail Green. Nice explanation and an example! (I love me some internal dialogue!)

Okay, my eyes are being mean to me today so this is it. Enjoy!

Mind Sieve 1/2/12

Happy New Year!

From the guys who brought us Jedi Ninja comes Demon Hunter: Prologue. Some sweet moves in this one.

From the Piano Guys - Carol of the Bells (for 12 Cellos). What fun!

First Earth-sized Planets Spotted by Pallab Ghosh with BBC News. But too hot now for life. Bummer.

My Little Pony and Gundam stop motion crossover. lol. Love & Tolerate featured over at CruchyRoll.

From the NY Times Black Hole Forecast: A Cold Gas Cloud by Ritchie S King. What's actually most amusing about the article is the correction added on 12/29/11. Heh heh heh.

Preview for the upcoming Spartacus: Vengeance starting in late January 2012. Booyah!

From NASA - Celestial Bauble Intrigues Astronomers.

From Science Daily - Paint-on Solar Cells. This could be totally revolutionary. Sounds utterly awesome!

Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines in Literature courtesy of Michael Conor Sullivan.

To Celebrate Edgar Alan Poe's 200th Birthday, the University of Virginia has an exhibition and digital compliment called From Out That Shadow.

10 Electric Cars Coming in 2012 by Patrick Connor. Looks like the movement is on!

Lego Troopers Calendar by Mike Stimpson. Some really cute pics in there!

From BBC News - Archaeologists Make Virtual Map of Neolithic Stonehenge. Seems you can download a program and take a virtual tour of the area as it would have been back in the day. A Bournemouth University and Google project.  Cool!


The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Reports Discovery of Its First New Particle by Johnathan Amos and BBC News. Go Science!

Tons of info on Johannes Kepler over at NASA. Since it is his name being used for the search for habitable planets. Also, I've been stumbling over his name all week, especially since I'm reading the novel Galileo's Dream and Kepler was around the same time. Interesting stuff.

Volcanic Activity in the Red Sea is Creating a New Island from Earth Observatory. There's before and after pics with markings. Cool!

Authors: Don't Get Burned by Branding from Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. Tell it, Brother Beard!

Why Traditional Marketing Doesn't Sell Books from Kristen Lamb.

5 Common Writing Hazards from Kristen Lamb. Great list!

How To Force A Story To Evolve: 6 Revision Tips by Jamie Gold. Another great list!

Clearing The Air On - And In - Your First 100 Pages by Larry on StoryFix.com. Let the mental roller coaster begin! Heh heh.

Pardon Me, Passing Through: Describing Movement by Janice Hardy. More good stuff!

Okay, that's it for this week. See you next time!

Mind Sieve 12/12/11

Welcome to another mental sifting Monday! Got a bigillion things to run through today. Loads of sharing going on this week.

Cool new video by Charlie. His stuff is always so fun!

New kick-ass trailer for John Carter of Mars. Love that this book is being made into a movie! YES!

From The Week - The 'Mysterious' Whale Graveyard Discovered in the Desert.

At Central Stn a cool post with a ton of pictures on Mysterious Paper Sculptures. Some of these are mind boggling.

 15 Infant Dinosaurs Found in a Nest in Mongolia from The History Blog.

Okay, this is FREAKING COOL! Miniatur Wunderland - model railways, moving miniature cars, crime scenes, moving boats. This is AMAZING!

Shea MacLeod shares Mythos Monday: Roman Misrule, Pagan Yule and An Attitude of Gratitude. Just in time for the winter holiday season!

OMG!  This is so hilariously AWESOME!  Cello Wars by the Piano Guys. (Make sure to watch when the credits hit. Killed me!)

In a cool behind the scenes look, Rumiko Takahashi (Best known for Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, and Inu Yasha) shows the process by which she creates her manga. Totally fascinating!

Trailer for the Whedon-Penned The Cabin In The Woods. Looks cool in the mystery department part. Ooo!

New preview for the Liam Neeson movie The Grey. Man Against Nature booyah!

A neat post about how America got it's name from Debra Eve - Amerigo Vespucci: The Power of Recognizing the Obvious.

German City Evacuated to Defuse WWII Bombs from the History Blog. Fascinating really. I'd heard before Jerusalem has tons of unknown and still active minefields. But it never occurred to me Germany had active bombs from British and American drops in the Rhine. Eek!

A House Fit For a Hobbit. Too cute!!!!

Charity Album for SweetRelief.org called Novum Initium - Soundtracks by various artists including Christopher Lennertz and other popular game composers.

Designing From Bones - Demon, Protector, Patsy by Gene Lempp. The Black Shuck - not your typical cuddly puppy.

Nice post from Nathan Bransford on How to Network Without Networking. Great advice!

Post by Sarah over at Glass Cases on Stop Helping Yourself. Several easy tips for queries.

Be A Tweep, Not A Tool Part 2 - Beware the #FF Firehouse by Kristen Lamb.

Weather Thesaurus Entry: Snow from The Bookshelf Muse.

From Chuck (NSFW) Wendig - 25 Financial F***-Ups For Writers. Preaching wisdom with colorful language. :P

The Seduction of Self-Publishing (or "Why I'm Glad I Didn't Have The Option 5 Years Ago) by Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. SUPERB post!

Is Your Novel A Spineless Weakling by Kristen Lamb.

Out of eyeballs and out of time. Enjoy ya'll!

Mind Sieve 12/5/11

Welcome back for another Mind Sieve experience! Bwahahahaha!

Weird preview of a movie called The Ghastly Love of Johnny X!

Maya 2012 Apocalypse Conspiracy Blown Wide Open! from the History Blog. Yes, let the paranoia sing! Cracked me up! lol

Creating Artificial Muscles More Powerful Than Anything In Nature from EarthSky.org. There's even a cool 2+ minute video talking about it. Sweet!


Prelim info for a new Philip Gardiner film called His Name is SATAN.  New take on Jack the Ripper from 1888 to 2012. Sounds kind of interesting!

From TL Jeffcoat Weapons Weekly - The Shikomi of the Ninja! Take that Pirates! Bwahahaha! (I am ever of the opinion ninjas can be pirates (they are spies after all) but pirates cannot ever be ninjas.) :P

This was too cute! 12 Tips For A Cat-Safe Christmas by PetFlow. Now none of my cats over the years has ever tried to climb the tree. Play with the dangling bits, eat the silver strings, but not climbed it. For that, we had ferrets. Myaka brought the tree down many times. Crazy thing! Heh heh.

What It Looks Like Inside Amazon.com from Matt Stopera. It's like looking at the warehouse from Indiana Jones. lol. And unlike warehouses I had to do inventory counts at, this one is super clean! Sweet!

The First "47 Ronin" Photos With Keanu Reeves and Jin Akanishi from Crunchyroll.com.  Seems they've changed the story line of the 47 Ronin legend to include an Anglo. lol. I'll be there though. I'ma sucker for samurai stuff.

From the History Blog - Ancient Egyptian Leather Chariot Trappings Found. Quite cool really! Never realized they'd not had a mostly intact set before!

Maintaining Crew Health One Step At A Time from NASA and the International Space Station. Honestly, totally fascinating. There are so many variables we never think about regarding space and how it affects those up there. 

7 Life Lesson You Can Learn From Star Trek by David Borgenicht. Oh yeah!

Richard Castle has published his very fist graphic novel -  Deadly Storm. Yes, from the fake author who's brought you the fun reads of Heat Wave, Naked Heat, and Heat Rises - Richard Castle is now getting into comics! lol. These guys kill me. Heck, just visit the website if for no other reason to read the synspsis of Richard Castle's non-existing other books and the synopsis on the website and covers. You have got to love these people! lol. 5 pages of non-existent books! 5!!!!

Ah an ever creepier trailer for The Woman in Black. Eek!

This is rather cool! Especially for the writerly types. From Flavorwire and Romy Oltuski - Famous Authors' Harshest Rejection Letters.

From Design Taxi - Using Only Paper, Artist Crafts Stunning Sculptures. They really are!

Designing From Bones - Port of Discovery by Gene Lempp. Ancient Egyptian pet cemetery in a port city? Who knew!

5 Reasons to Sign Up For A Writers Conference by Sarah Baughman. Some good points! And if you can't afford a fancy writers conference, there's always your fantasy and SF conventions. They have writers' tracks and some even have workshops. And they're a great place for networking as well. :)

From Rachelle Gardner - How To Write A Terrific Author Bio. Some great tips!

My Social Media Survival Guide by Jenn Reese. Yes, YES! #3!!! Number 3!!!!! Lol.

Be A Tweep Not a Tool - How Hashtags Can Win Friends and Influence Enemies by Kristen Lamb.

Writers Learn the Waiting Game by Steve Laube - Great post on the waits thrust upon us as authors and there's no way to get around it. :P

Chuck (NSFW) Wendig hits it out of the ballpark yet again with his 25 Things You Should Know About Your Completed Novel. Booyah!

Wonderful post to get across by what is meant by How to Show (Not Tell): A Writing Lesson by John LeCarre from Mary Jaksch.

Nice short blog post by Nathan Bransford on Every Writer Gets Rejected.

The NaNoWriMo Epilogue: "Miles to Go Before You Sleep" by Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. He's totally on TARGET, peeps! I've seen too many people think that the end of November is all there is to this. Nuh uh. You're only getting STARTED! Bwahahahahaha!

Okay, I've reached my eyeball limit. Have an awesome week, ya'll!

Mind Sieve 9/5/11

A ton of stuff to sift through this week. Let's see how far I get. heh. (Also, warning! Blogger just changed their interface and it was acting wonky when I was putting this together. Already botched one piece (which I think I fixed). Hopefully there aren't more!

        

 I've heard this name battered around all over the place - The Hunger Games. Looks like there's going to be a movie. Here's a peek.

For "Supernatural" Fans, the author of the upcoming Mythology of Supernatural, Nathan Robert Brown, answers a question about the tattoo the brother's wear as of Season 3.  Interesting!

This super cool video of time lapse photography by Randy Halverson is totally breathtaking!

Fans of Movies shared a link to The Hollywood Reported and a story about the 'Phineas and Ferb' Duo Developing Feature Film. Like we get another season of 'Phineas and Ferb' and a new pilot! Sweet!  (If you've never watched 'Phineas and Ferb' go NOW! You won't be sorry. What's not to like about a Spy Platypus?!?! Go!)

Jan from One Minute Book Reviews shares a growing list of tongue-in-cheek definitions for 40 Publishing Buzzwords. Too cute!

Amy Wilkins shares the Geek Zodiac! (I was born in the Year of the Undead! Brains, Brains! Or maybe, Blood! Blood! heh heh.)

Total Film shares the 3rd Trailer for Apollo 18. Has the gentleman from Alphas in it. Looks creepy!

 12 Things Happy People Do Differently by Jacob Sokol is a nice little list of how we can improve our own happiness quotient. Some nice tips on the list. (Let's be Happy!)

Way cool article called Computers Get Under Our Skin by Laura Sanders. Science is just mind boggling.

           

Kristen Lamb dips her toes into the waters of Marketing Fiction - Branching Out to Fresh Blood & Bringing New Readers into the Family. I hope she gives us thoughts on HOW to do this and WHERE to do this soon! (Come on Kristen!!!) :P

   

         

Tobias Buckell has a very interesting post called Writers and Pellets, which discusses the difference and importance of milestones and goals. Quite fascinating!

   

          My plans were defeated by fate so this is all you're going to get for this week. :(  Hopefully there's enough to keep you mildly occupied for a bit. :)