A Distinctive Taste
A collection and interpretation of media and influences. Designed for the mindset that appreciates style, substance, and creativity.
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Photoset reblogged from WHEREMYHOUSE
Rick Owens
Dressing the Home: The Private Spaces of Top Fashion Designers, 2008
by Marie Bariller, photography by Guillaume de Laubier
Q: What are your favorite color combinations in interior design? Are they the same as those you use in fashion?
A: I cocoon myself with “dust,” a soft, warm gray I’ve been using in my collections since day one; I always think of it as a transition color, twilight or dawn, a gentle hush of expectation…And a crisp, modern iPod white.
Q: What are your favorite materials?
Plywood, resin, bone, cashmere, glass, foam, rubber, leather, and fur. -
Post reblogged from Utilitas, Firmitas, Venustas.
I am headed to Venice today for a 5-week printmaking/bookmaking program, and afterwards heading up to Denmark for a week! I’ll be remotely uploading photos of my work and my travels but I won’t be able to check messages, so if you want just tag something with my username and I’ll see it when I can - and see y’alls in July!
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Banksy on Advertising
Via Upworthy. Select to embiggen.
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Photo reblogged from Fast Company
The Writer Behind “Dark Night” and “Man of Steel” On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas.
David S. Goyer, the writer behind “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Man of Steel,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops” and the new Starz series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” credits a rigorous schedule and daily meditation with his multitasking successes.
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, conceived of the helicopter and developed a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics (among many other things), making him one of the most famous figures in history. And yet we know surprisingly little about the Renaissance Man—all of which makes him ideal fodder for historical fiction.
Da Vinci is just the kind of superhuman figure that David S. Goyer relishes. The screenwriter who crafted the Dark Knight movies (he cowrote that trilogy with director Christopher Nolan) and Man of Steel (the upcoming reboot of the Superman mythology, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Nolan) has created Da Vinci’s Demons, a new series debuting this week on Starz.
Goyer is no slouch himself. The last TV show he created was the one-season ABC series FlashForward; he has directed movies, including Blade: Trinity and Zig Zag; he’s written two novels and he developed the story for the wildly successful videogames Call of Duty: Black Ops Iand II.
In a tightly scheduled 15 minutes, Co.Create asked the master multitasker how he manages it all and how he balances the expectations of die-hard fans with his own creative vision. Naturally, we couldn’t help squeezing in a question or two about the much-awaited Man of Steel.
- Stick to a rigorous schedule- unless Zack Snyder calls.
- If you have a good idea, don’t save it. Use it.
- Help a director out.
- Find the hole in the history.
- Embrace Reinvention.
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Photo reblogged from Movies In Color
Request Week - (somewhere-a-dog-barked)
Scarface, 1983
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starting the day off with @madcapcofffee and Monocle. Trevor just placed third in the national barista competition. Dude was robbed. (at Canvas Co-Working)
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Video reblogged from Social Survival
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Photo reblogged from OPEN Forum
“If you hire, train, and manage correctly, you’ll have someone who is better than you are. If they’re not, you haven’t done your job,” shared Chef Thomas Keller at Monday’s Stanford GSB View From The Top Series talk. Read the top leadership insights from Chef Keller on Twitter: http://stnfd.biz/jVQqS
A great leadership and management tip from one of the a world renowned chefs and restauranteurs courtesy of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Video reblogged from Wingtips and Loafers
Dan Pallotta’s new TED talk criticizing charity systems is great stuff. “The way we think about charity is dead wrong.”
Why you should listen to him:“The nonprofit sector is critical to our dream of changing the world. Yet there is no greater injustice than the double standard that exists between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. One gets to feast on marketing, risk-taking, capital and financial incentive, the other is sentenced to begging,” Dan Pallotta says in discussing his latest book, Charity Case. This economic starvation of our nonprofits is why he believes we are not moving the needle on great social problems. “My goal … is to fundamentally transform the way the public thinks about charity within 10 years.”
Pallotta is best known for creating the multi-day charitable event industry, and a new generation of citizen philanthropists with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Day events, which raised $582 million in nine years. He is president of Advertising for Humanity, which helps foundations and philanthropists transform the growth potential of their favorite grantees.
“He liberates charity from its Puritan constraints and cogently attaches it to entrepreneurship.” - Gary HartBut how to implement his solutions?
The more you know…
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One year later everyone in this picture is closer to their dream. Really proud of my friends and know and sorry @alex_delany for whiting you out.
