Man About Town

http://www.manabouttown.tv/

Classy. I love everything about this.

Bruce Lee's Lost Interview

Needed to revisit this interview today.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Dark Side of the Lens

DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.

For everyone who loves the sea, you have to watch this epic short film. I feel inspired!

Influencers

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

Bjork - Undo

It's not meant to be a struggle uphill


This is magical. Play and repeat :)

I am your mind.

Are you ready to have your mind officially blown?

Roy Ayers is pure soul. Wow.



This stunning cinematic arrangement featuring Flying Lotus makes me crave some classic Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble "Drips/Take Notice" feat Flying Lotus from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on Vimeo.

The Empathic Civilization

Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.

I really love this one. Discovered several amazing RSA Animate talks via a life less mediated.

Kokoro

"The fine things we shall write if we have talent enough, are within us, dimly, like the remembrance of a tune which charms though we cannot recall its outline, or hum it, nor even sketch its metrical form, say if there are pauses in it, or runs of rapid notes."

Marcel Proust, The Return to the Present

Kokoro (Sakamoto + Fennesz) from giuseppe la spada on Vimeo.

Oto (Sakamoto + Fennesz) from giuseppe la spada on Vimeo.

Trioon I by Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto from Victor Lara on Vimeo.

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Berlin from Karl Kliem on Vimeo.

Never fall in love with potential

if you can't see with your own eyes



And a new August favorite, Cults - Oh My God:

Inspiring Interview with artist Francesco Clemente

A thoughtful, meditative conversation that touched me today. What an extraordinary human being.



"How do you find your voice as a painter?"
"Y o u h a v e t o m a k e r o o m."

The Giving Tree

I felt like revisiting childhood stories today and immediately I thought of this classic favorite -- The Giving Tree. To my delightful surprise, I stumbled upon a movie version narrated by Shel Silverstein himself.



Unconditional love means that you're willing to give your all and never expect anything in return.

Life feeds on life...

Gigantik from Nigel Upchurch on Vimeo.

Joni Mitchell - California

Sublime.

Le Grand Content

Stumbled upon this hilarious short trying to make sense of the everyday nuances and variables of our data-overload world through flow charts and graphs.

It's business time.

This prick. Is he for real? I think he's dead serious. Miami Vice's business card "doesn't fit in a rolodex because it doesn't belong in a rolodex." His ego is apparently too big for it also (nevertheless pretty pretty hilarious):


My friend passed on a more legit source on the topic. Here's a fun article about making creative business cards.

I'll continue taking my advice from a real leader -- Mr. John Wooden. A few words of Coach Wooden's wisdom:

1. good values attract good people
2. love is the most powerful four-letter word
3. call yourself a teacher
4. emotion is your enemy
5. it takes 10 hands to make a basket
6. little things make big things happen
7. make each day your masterpiece
8. the carrot is mightier than a stick
9. make greatness attainable by all
10. seek significant change
11. don't look at the scoreboard
12. adversity is your asset













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I was also very moved by J.K. Rowling's brilliant speech to Harvard students last year, passed along recently by a friend. She humbly expresses the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination. I highly recommend it!

Oh yea, it's Business Time. Conditions are perfect. With that said, goodnight world.