Jay Maisel – Light, Color, Gesture
Jay Maisel talks about his passions Light, Color, Gesture.
Hear more here.
Read more here.
Tony Robbins – 5 Keys to Thrive
Tony Robbins offers helpful advice in his 5 Keys to Thrive.
This is the YouTube introduction.
Watch all 5 segments here.
Malcolm Gladwell – On Spaghetti Sauce
He’s really talking about market research and differentiation.
How much diversity do you need in your brand?
Steven Johnson – The Web As a City
Steven Johnson uses the metaphor of a city to describe the complex world wide web.
Skies
Don’t just make the most of the weather, make the weather too!
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Atmospheric FX.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing workshops.
What’s Unique About B&W
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Learn what’s unique about black & white and how to best adjust and print it.
Read more in my Black & White lessons.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
3 Types of Color
Learn new ways of seeing and enhancing color.
Use 3 elements of color (Luminosity, Hue, Saturation) to adjust three types of color (Ideal, Ambient, Synthetic) and craft a unique palette that’s right for your authentic vision.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Photoshop Color Strategies.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing workshops.
Janine Benyus Shares Nature's Designs
Looking for a little hope? How about a lot!
Want one big idea that might change your world?
Here’s one.
Life that survives creates conditions for more life.
Janine Benyus shows us how.
And she gives us 12 more big ideas.
Avatar
James Cameron’s Avatar. Stunning special effects. Green message celebrating cultural diversity. Critique of western expansion and materialism. Resolution through violence leaves you with lots of troubling questions relevant to our world today.
Want a more sophisticated anthropological exploration? See Wade Davis below.
Wade Davis on Endangered Cultures
Cultures are disappearing at a rapid rate. Of the 6000 languages spoken today only half will be passed on to the next generation. Cultures are the rainforests of civilization. They show us the full spectrum of what it means to be human and how richly diverse human experience can be. No one makes this point better than Wade Davis.
I highly recommend his book Shadows in the Sun.
Find his books here.