Great video on the creative process by Ira Glass (This American Life). The main point is that if you want to make really good work, you need create and then discard much of it. It's only through sheer volume that can you generate a steady stream of good work.

This is why editors and collaborators are so important to the creative process.

Quoted:
- It's time to kill. It's time to enjoy the killing. Because, by killing, you will make something else even better live.
- Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
- All radio/television production is trying to be crap.

Single page cheat-sheet for wikipedia editing codes.

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Explore what film editors can do for a movie. BBC documentary about the craft of film editing, with interviews from (should be famous) film editors, and directors like Spielberg, Lucas, and Scorcese.

Quoted: The is a documentary about the unappreciated art of film editing. It shows how film editing came about, and explains all the groundbreaking .... Feb 21, 2007.

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Another video by Lasse Gjertsen (the "human beatbox").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXHT6_zoCzA&NR

Here he plays drums and piano. Really impressive:

Quoted: By and with Lasse Gjertsen. All the sounds are the actual audio from the original video tape. No alterations has [sic] been made other than basic timeline editing.
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I can neither play the drums nor the piano. 2006