Justin Ashwood

Aspiring graphic designer and former thespian. A wannabe movie buff, a bookworm on my downtime, and looking to live in a long time ago, galaxy far far away.

[Justin Ashwood @asch1986]

I just placed my vote for the 2019 TV WEEK Logie Awards @TVWeekMag
https://t.co/Rzr4PXwZtV #goldenglesson

[ScreenAustralia @ScreenAustralia]

In the new 3-part series #WarOnWaste, passionate planet advocate and prankster @craigreucassel will once again dive deep into Australia’s waste crisis 🗑️
Episode 1 premieres tonight at 8.30pm AEST on @ABCTV

[Tracey Holmes @TraceyLeeHolmes]

At the #FRAvJAM #FIFAWWC📷 match I bumped into the inspirational young footballer from Afghanistan, Mona Amini, who has a message for the #FIFA president and secretary general

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Please Help! I found this picture outside ASDA today. On the back it reads, “Mum and Dad, 1955”. I would love to return it to its owner. It looks like an old and precious photo. Maybe if we all share it, we can find the owner. Thank you.

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

We know that when people have a say on policy decisions impacting them, that outcomes on the ground improve – it’s that simple.

Campaign Director Dean Parkin chats to Oliver Peterson about how the Voice will deliver these real outcomes.

#yes23

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

Great article from The Conversation this week outlining the facts around a First Nations Voice.

With so much information around, it’s important to make sure you’re armed with the facts.

Read the full article below: https://t.co/NDODIUQUtZ

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

Earlier today, the Referendum Bill passed Parliament.

Listen to Rachel Perkins, as she discusses this once-in-a-generation opportunity to walk alongside First Nations people towards a better future.

Pledge to vote 'Yes' at https://t.co/eZuLcrjHGi now!

#yes23

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

We’re already hearing misinformation & we’ll hear more.

It’s up to all of us to keep the debate respectful & based on fact.

The Voice is an opportunity to move forward as a country & ensure Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people can provide advice on laws that affect them.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

Today, over 20 national sporting organisations came together to announce their support for a First Nations Voice.

Watch the historic moment of unity, as sporting legends came together to read the open letter co-signed by all code leaders, below.

#yes23

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

A great read from Ash Walker, highlighting that local Voice-like models have been successfully working for years.

As Ash writes, “funding is deployed most effectively and efficiently when it is in line with community priorities”.

Read below ⬇️

https://t.co/bPB2otGXNl

[Justin Ashwood @asch1986]

@ilovenostalgia 18 Points

[Jimmy Rees @jimmyrees]

Tasmania gets an AFL team!! 😁 #meanwhileinaustralia #tasmania #AFL #funny

[Justin Ashwood @asch1986]

@ilovenostalgia Five

[Justin Ashwood @asch1986]

@mjrowland68 @abcnews have a look at kunanyi in the early morning sun

[Sammy J @sammyjcomedian]

"Allow me now to attempt the impossible by defending both Humphries and the comedy festival in 800 words or less without being cancelled myself." https://t.co/voRo9EmBCI

[Tasmania Today @today_tasmania]

A pretty cool capture of Cascade Brewery thanks to Wanda Craswell who says: "Cascade Brewery, the oldest operating brewery in Australia, since 1824! Isn’t that amazing!" 🍻 pic: https://t.co/WCRUrmxbfW

[Nate Byrne @SciNate]

Getting ready for @sydneymardigras and @SydWorldPride, today I'm the guest editor for the ABCQueer newsletter. Subscribe via the link this side of midday if you want rainbows in your inbox! 🌈📧🏳️‍🌈

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[Justin Ashwood @asch1986]

@BreakfastNews @abcnews Boo!

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Checking our emails on the go was not an easy task in 1984

[Justin Ashwood @asch1986]

https://t.co/5cDjG0D12u thanks in advance