Skip to content
josé néstor márquez
  • about
  • recent work
  • twitter
  • newsletter
  • blog

Category: work

business/movies & television/power/work

show me

October 16, 2021

i’ll believe all the pretty talk about diversity and inclusion when a pilot episode ends with The Cover Girl’s Show Me. either our history matters o...

art/ideas/movies & television/play/technology/work

desperately seeking sounds

April 7, 2021

After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the dr...

business/ideas/language/movies & television/power/work

Queens English

February 8, 2021

From my February 7, 2021 newsletter. Reprinted in full with a few grammatical corrections. “You don’t sound Cuban.” “Where’s your ...

art/design/technology/work

playhouse

November 24, 2019

Nearly two years ago, for the birthday of our oldest, I made a playhouse. I designed it using Sketchup, which allowed me to adjust the sizing and layout, while ...

movies & television/people/power/work

First families

January 9, 2019

I slept fitfully and repeatedly dreamed of the migrant family, as enshrined by Christianity. La familia sagrada. The holy family versus Herod, the king. The fam...

ideas/mental illness/power/work

Actual Science Fiction

January 31, 2018

A hundred years from now half the cops will have psych degrees and we’ll look back on today like a horror show. (the movie “Bright” is not actually ...

language/movies & television/work

language, screenwriting

October 10, 2016

We are advised to not include Spanish language dialogue in an English language script. Rather, every character should, at first, speak English and then their wo...

movies & television/work

movies are magic tricks

July 13, 2016

magic tricks work when the audience is not fully aware of what they are seeing. movies are the same. when it works, the audience says: “i didn’t see...

art/movies & television/work

visionary leadership

June 25, 2016

when you see what’s coming before everyone else does: from the excellent Attack the Block

people/power/work

the stories that win

June 25, 2016

John Cassidy: To get people to turn out and vote in your favor, you also have to give them something positive to rally behind. The Leave campaign, for all its l...

movies & television/people/work

the science of bad movies

June 15, 2016

Nora Caplan-Bricker: The ideal bedtime story, according to Nitun Verma, a national spokesperson for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, is one that “doesn’t...

art/movies & television/work

the nadir in “midnight run”

May 3, 2016

In the first image, the protagonist is defeated. He faces away from us, towards the past. The road ahead of him is indirect and would take him away from us. He ...

power/technology/work

You say Rachel, I say Really?

April 4, 2016

New software, same old problem:

art/ideas/people/work

a rage for rigor

September 17, 2012

TO THE HYPHENATED POETS Richer than mother’s milk is half-and-half Friends of two minds, redouble your craft. Our shelves our hives, our selves a royal je...

art/business/ideas/movies & television/work

Mad Men 2013

June 10, 2012

About 15 years ago I saw Tyler Brule, then just two years into Wallpaper, give a presentation that would forever change my understanding of art and commerce. He...

art/business/technology/work

The new co-viewing. Same as the old.

June 2, 2012

Television sets often determine the layout of the furniture in communal rooms. Their position in the typical American home is a clear testament to their social ...

art/ideas/movies & television/people/work

actor and spectator

May 28, 2012

in the actor-spectator relationship, both participants experience self-knowledge by “trading places” with another person. for the actor, self-knowle...

business/work

Cost management is for winners.

May 25, 2012

You don’t create better products by cutting costs. You cut costs after you create a better product. It may be tempting for companies with unpopular produc...

business/work

Do bad companies fire more workers?

May 19, 2012

Successful companies have better employees. They are more productive and more profitable because they are better at hiring (choosing, attracting) and developing...

art/ideas/technology/work

Scrapbooks made for sharing

April 15, 2012

From the Wikipedia entry on the origins of the scrapbook in the 15th century and their ongoing function as self-portraits: From the standpoint of the psychology...

Posts navigation

1 2 … 5 Next »