Steve Nash's Playbook

If you can find a spare half hour I encourage you to check out the latest issue of FAST COMPANY featuring Canadian hoop star STEVE NASH. The article focuses on his business and charity work and I have to say I'm impressed with the guys creative talent in developing online videos. He could easily have a career in advertising or film. To read the article online click HERE and to view his video reel click HERE.

Entertaining

SLICK, COOL AND RECOMMENDED. WATCH IT OR FIND IT ONLINE.

Thomas Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. The value of an idea lies in the using of it. "

Summer 2010

AWESOME POSTER FOR UPCOMING FILM - CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT.

Flight Number

I still haven't wrapped my mind around the idea that 2009 is over and its a brand new year. Another idea completely lost on me is the fact that this is a beginning of a new decade. It can't believe that ten years is over just like that. While I can't sum up the past ten years I thought I would review this year in terms of travel. I didn't hit up as many cities as last year but I had two great to far out places. One trip to Las Vegas and another to New York. I hope to visit both places soon but I do wish I spent more time relaxing this year than I did working. Anyways, to you and yours I wish you all the best for 2010, hope you have a great year and an even better decade.

Anthony Mandler

TO VIEW HIS INSPIRING PHOTOGRAPHY CLICK HERE. AMAZING STYLE.

Barak Obama

"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

New York, NY

The city that never sleeps. The Big Apple or even Gotham. New York goes by many names but for nine days this month I called it home. I achieved one of my lifetime dreams to see a sporting event at Madison Square Garden and to watch three major league sports while on vacation. I loved New York, the sights and sounds assault your senses. The city gives you a certain energy level, a feeling of how big the universe really is and just how small we just are. In eight days I saw the Statue of Liberty, Knicks game, Jets game in New Jersey and Ovechkin play the Rangers, Empire State Building, eat dinner in the middle of Times Square, four plays (The Lion King, Chicago, Stomp, Wicked), New Yankee stadium, a comedy show, went to the circus, walked over Brooklyn Bridge and visited famous museums and I still felt that I could have done more. I recommend everyone to visit this great city. I loved it so much that I can't wait to go back.

Alice In Wonderland

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Waving Flag

For reasons beyond our own understanding, certain sights and sounds just stick with us. They make us feel something, sometimes a feeling we can't interpret or understand a feeling none the less. The first time I heard this song I felt this calmness, maybe its the music or the lyrics or a combination of both but I can't get enough of WAVING FLAG by K'NAAN. To hear the song click HERE and to watch a lip dub version of it click HERE.

Glow In The Dark

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Big Apple

A dream is just an idea until you do something to make it happen. I've said for years that I want to catch a game at Madison Square Garden in New York and now its finally going to happen. Inspired by JAY-Z'S live performance of Empire State of Mind, James and I have decided to take a trip to New York City. We will be leaving in mid November, I can't wait and am counting down the days. We'll be watching a Rangers, Jets and Knicks game and checking out the city that never sleeps. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

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Pop Artist

Great article in FAST COMPANY this year on their masters of design piece. My favorite was on DAVID BUTLER, the Vice President of Design at COCA COLA. He's done some amazing work and changed the way the entire organization looks at design, not just as a brand but as a process and system that can be implemented to sell more at any level of the corporation. To read the article click HERE. Also watch the fountain of the future video by clicking HERE.

Wisdom From Will

Paula Scher

"I’ve been through so many styles and trends that have been like that. That’s your first reaction when you see something new that you aren’t part of. It’s a generational shift. I’m 60, I’ve been through this a lot. You never can do what the kids do. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can’t be a designer and say, “Oh, this is timeless.” Nothing is timeless! Times change. The minute you say, “This is some fashion phase, I’m going to ignore this, because my work is timeless,” pay attention—you’re fooling yourself!"

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Warren Buffett

"I know it'll get better. We've been through all kinds of economic problems in this country for a couple hundred years. Our genius in the United States is not in avoiding problems, it's in overcoming problems. We've overcome every problem we've ever faced... Three of four years from now everything will be fine."

Michael Jackson's This Is It

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Fire

Watched the MICHEAL JORDAN speech the other day as he was inducted into the HALL OF FAME. The guy sure has put on a few pounds but he was classic MJ. He speech was witty, entertaining and well received. But was struck me was how he continued to speak about his drive and how every time someone criticized him, beat him, or told him he couldn't do something it drove him to work harder so he could prove them wrong. That's an important lesson. Instead of getting down on ourselves we should look for ways to make ourselves better, turn something good into something bad. To watch the video click HERE.