The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
The film is hosted by Hollywood star Dennis Hopper and is directed by Hermann Vaske. Shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Hopper delivers a powerful performance. Arty as you’ve never seen him before, he puts advertising into perspective of popular culture at the end of the 20th century. Spitting colour, laughing his head off, destroying books, Dennis Hopper sends Hermann Vaske on a mission to talk to the greatest ad men, directors and artists to find out about the crossover between various creative disciplines. In a visually dazzling, wickedly funny slam of creativity and media obsession, Hermann conducts unconventional kinds of interviews
Epilogue
Interesting to see that part 4, which is about using shock as a paradigm and which you should surely skip if you detest shocking imagery, hasn’t survived the test of time. Pulp Fiction by Quintin Tarantino, quoted in this part of the film when it was just released, has.
Steve Jobs - Stanford Speech
Steve Jobs Stanford Speech
In the eighties and nineties almost nobody in the industry gave a shit about what Apple was doing. It was called elitist and irrelevant. Apple first had to become a multi billion dollar company to be taken seriously. Steve Jobs talks about why he did all the effort trying to achieve this. Not because of the money, which is nice and gives you freedom. Spreading solid ideas, possibly beliefs, aesthetics and death are far bigger motivation.
Is it me? Mark Mieras
Brain research touches on our entire lives. It sheds light on phenomena such as love, empathy, ambition, consciousness, forgetfulness, friendship, addiction, appetite, enjoyment and happiness. On stages of life as childhood, puberty and old age. Ben ik dat? / Is it me? does all this. With this new edition Mark Mieras watches brain research closely. The book is updated with the most recent research and expanded with seven new chapters on: stress, creativity, meditation, sport, intuition, brain stimulation and subliminal influence. A book for anyone with brains.
(Dutch only)
On Creativity:
Get creative!
Creativity is the art of letting go. Creative minds dimm their control centers and keep their attention off-focus. Just a matter of turning the right buttons.
Creativiteit is de kunst van het loslaten. Creatieve geesten dimmen hun controlecentra en houden hun aandacht off-focus. Gewoon een kwestie van aan de juiste knoppen draaien.
Fendi Hotel
Brand Extension to the max
Fendi has opened its restored Palazzo Fendi palace in central Rome as it seeks to woo the richest shoppers.
After a refurbishment lasting about a year, the building will include a “by invitation only” suite, a seven-room hotel and a roof restaurant. The customer experience “will link that person to our brand,” Chief Executive Officer Pietro Beccari said in an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg TV. “It’s a place to cement a relation.”
Fendi is mirroring the strategy of Louis Vuitton, also part of France’s LVMH, to make even the wealthiest customers feel special. Maintaining exclusivity is becoming more challenging for luxury labels as the industry’s growth slows amid collapsing demand in China and a strengthening dollar.