“It has to have a complex character, it has to be a attractive, it has to also have a sense of humor...”
The world-renowned Thai architect's Venice Beach tribute to concrete and animal kitsch.
“That’s the kind of work that I like - architecture, design, art - it all integrates into a meaningful kind of life.”
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Kulapat Yantrasast (born in Bangkok) is the founding partner and creative director of wHY, an interdisciplinary design studio with workshops of buildings, grounds, objects and ideas.
“It is your right to choose what you do and what you don’t do. It is your right to choose what you believe in and don’t believe in. It is your right to curate your life and your own perspective.”
Lady Gaga stopped by Yale University's campus for the Emotion Revolution Summit, organized by the Born This Way Foundation in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. The event aims to "ignite important conversations about making schools a place where all students can thrive."
“I started to say no. I’m not doing that. I don’t want to do that. I’m not taking that picture, I’m not going to that event, I’m not standing by that because that’s not what I stand for. And slowly but surely, I remembered who I am.”
Photography by Justin Sullivan.
I think it was in the time of spring 2012, when I came across David Shiyang Liu's lovely piece of work about Ira Glass. It was the most inspiring and motivating video I had ever seen in my life. I watched it over and over again, listened to Ira Glass' voice, and told myself, that I am not the only person who is constantly disappointed about the gap between one's taste and one's skills. Later in 2012, I decided to do my own filmed version of Ira's interview - using my own language to tell his message. It took me about a year from concept to upload. I made it for myself and for anybody who is in doubt about his/her creative career. I also think that Ira Glass' message isn't only limited to the creative industry. It can be applied to everyone who starts out in a new environment and is willing to improve. THANK YOU Ira Glass, whom I've never met in real life, but who had such a big influence on my development. Thank you for telling beginners what nobody else does. David Shiyang Liu for the video that inspired me to start the project. You all should watch his awesome kineticTypo-version here: http://vimeo.com/24715531 The people from current.tv who originally recorded the interview with Ira Glass. See the relevant part here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY The people from Magic Lantern who gave DSLR videography a new dimension (I chose this project to be a test run with the RAW plugin)! Steven Sasseville for painting the "taste" painting for me. Pedro Sousa for his advice and working his ass off at the "creative work" chalkboard. Wolfgang Kraus for letting me borrow his sound equipment. Kai Löhnert for working out on his birthday in the "fight" take. Wolfgang Hendrik Schnabel for giving me the museum-like atmosphere and his silhouette in the painting takes. Hermiyas Ötztürk for his hairy "good enough" hand. Orange Hive Studio for light equipment and location. Mima and Heinz Sax-Schmitz for the location of the "ambitions" take and finding me the "finish 1 story" typewriter. Joyce Chen (https://vimeo.com/clownmori), Soufiane Mabrouki (http://vimeo.com/user21466567), Damien Tsenkoff (https://www.behance.net/damtsnkff), Nikita Samutin (www.baselinedesign.ru) and Andrej Mikula (http://amara.org/en/profiles/profile/65015/) for taking the time and patience to create Chinese, Arabic, French, Russian and Slovak subtitles and dissolving language barriers to make even more people understand Ira's words. A SPECIAL THANK YOU Solveig Gold for being the most patient and supporting person in my life. She appears in a lot of scenes in this video. Jutta and Uwe Sax for several pieces of equipment and their support.
Visual by Daniel Sax
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
“We feel tragic when we disappoint people, but how often do we make a promise to ourselves, and too soon (often the next day or next occurrence) disregard it completely. First and foremost, keep the vows you make to yourself - the rest will follow.”
Mona is dedicated to living her yoga with heart, and to teaching with a commitment to the ancient traditions of yoga. She attends continuing education workshops and study groups, and is devoted to the on-going learning experience of being teacher and practitioner. Mona is the co-founder of OM River Yoga, and has taught in and managed various studios and retreat centres in the US, Australia, and Indonesia. Currently Mona lives in London, and teaches for Yoga Today, an online studio filmed and based in beautiful Wyoming, USA.
“As human beings, we are conditioned to over-analyze and doubt ourselves into submission because of our various fears.
As artists, it’s up to us - the programmers of our own destiny - to listen to ourselves and re-write the software.”
Photography by Justin Sullivan.
These past two years, I went through a wild ride of emotional twists and turns. Struggling to balance out the high's and lows, I found myself nosediving into the deep end.
One minute, I'm holding up a bottle of Dom Pérignon, with my best friends/bandmates on Sir Richard Branson's private island, under a full moon after "our greatest gig ever", and the next minute, I'm holding onto my sister's hand while she feeds oral chemo to her three year old son (Hunter). Within just a few months, I went from zero to sixty and back to zero, losing myself within the gears. My mind and body quickly became stuck in overdrive, and my blood felt like it had nowhere to go.
It took several more volatile months and an intense band breakup 'til I finally felt the sea floor. I remember one morning, I looked in the mirror and I swear I saw Shrek.
There was just nowhere else to go, but up.
After a few insecure but helpful therapy sessions, some yoga, and Eckhart Tolle, I kept thinking that there must be something else I can add to this mix.
Having been a Beatles fan since birth via my mom, I was always intrigued with stories of their trip to Northern India in the late sixties to learn Transcendental Meditation. I've tried to meditate here and there in the past, but now I felt a deep urge to finally learn the practice. After some research, I found the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Foundation not far from my home.
The hard part wasn't the 10 mile drive, or the mental and physical requirements of the week-long training, but rather the fear of walking into something new. All that fear of the unknown, just about om'd me out.
Well, it's been 10 months since I learned TM and I find myself back on the trail, continuing up the mountain. Am I all fixed? Definitely not. But I do feel much more balanced and even. I'm also noticing that I'm much less reactive to my emotions, and much more in touch with me again. I still have many more years of practice ahead of me, and thousands more hours of life, love, and music to learn, and many more peaks and valleys to go, but I think I'm back on my way, living better from the inside/out.
A friend of mine once told me, "when it's good, just wait, and when it's bad, just wait." Now, I know how he feels.
“Creating art and music - that’s my version of going for a run. It’s kind of meditative...”
Chaz Bundick and his creative partner Brendan Nakahara design a t-shirt for Yours Truly and talk about their design process at Yes Press studios in Berkeley. Win the t-shirt featured in this video, and check out Chaz's immersive, week-long feature, on the newly re-launched Yours Truly http://yourstru.ly/stories/toroymoi Whether it’s design or visual art or music, Chaz Bundick wants to make things that are approachable, then relatable, then, maybe, useful, or at the very least not so complicated that it becomes intimidating. To him, design is a puzzle – there’s what it looks like, and there’s why it looks like that. He compares his feeling when he’s making art to the feeling he has when working through a puzzle. “It makes me feel present, if anything. It makes me feel like I’m actually doing something, getting something done,” he says. “To turn your brain off for a second and take a break from craziness – ‘Got to feed the dog.’ ‘Got to get gas.’ ‘Got to get food.’”
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“It’s important to just remind yourself that when you’re creating you should always make what you want to experience.”