Industrial Revolution: Apple Wins Again And Again...

Congratulations to my supermodel wife for Apple Legal victory today. Keep rocking!

Tribal Law: Bay To Breakers Turns 101

Our rituals consist of our habitual ways of looking at the world, talking to our inner self and moving our body. At the 101st celebration of San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers, the 7.5-mile cultural festival, it was clear that there were many rituals taking place here. People from all over the USA had taken immense pride to be a part of this celebration. I personally have run this event for nine years with a personal best of 52 minutes (under one hour for all runs). From the run's starting point near San Francisco’s financial district to the beach, people covered the ground in various costumes and some even ran or walked it in their full nudist birthday suit. The colorful display of people and their wild imagination really made the bash truly fantastic. San Francisco's outgoing-culture was on display today as nowhere else. This year's winner: Sammy Kitwara, an elite runner from Kenya finished in 34 minutes one minute slower than his own course record set in 2009. Looking forward to the Bay To Breakers unique ritual in 2013.

Art Of Engagement

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who designed the original Porsche 911, the snazzy, powerful sports car that became the lasting signature for the German automobile company founded by his grandfather and later run by his father, died on Thursday in Salzburg, Austria. He was 76.

Thank you Ferdinand Porsche for many exciting thrills. Rest in peace.

Cultural Encounters: Jean Paul Gaultier @ de Young

Jean Paul Gaultier is a voyeur of multiplicity, curious about everything and especially fascinated by differences. He finds inspiration in diversity, embracing realms seldom seen in the hallowed halls of fashion–from street looks to the styles of many ethnic cultures. “I respect individualities and I like particularities. I mix and match, collect, twist and crossbred codes. Past, present, here, elsewhere, masculine, feminine, remarkable, humdrum–it all coexists,” says Jean Paul Gaultier at the exhibit at de Young Museum in San Francisco.

For Gaultier the skin and the body are inexhaustible sources of inspiration. His transparent knits become “second skins”; and with his prints of flayed flesh or tattooed bodies, he transforms each wearer into a trompe-l’oeil work of art. In his words: “I like the blemishes, scars, emotions of the skin, of the flesh, of movement, everything that is human.” This carnival fascination has led to designs both romantic and fetishistic–a duality that reflects Gaultier’s playful, provocative and sophisticated understanding of the gender issues that resonate still today. Through his fashion, he demonstrates that nothing should be overlooked and everything is possible.

"Designers are the catalysts of their time; their role is to translate the changes, the mutations, the evolution of society." – Jean Paul Gaultier.

Gaultier celebrates a woman capable of asserting her masculine side and her feminine.

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Cadence Gets His Porsche

Adventurous. Enthusiastic. Courageous. Liberated. Direct. Determined. Spirited. Mature. These are some of the words that represent the Porsche 911.

The Porsche 911 was created to redefine the everyday driving experience, delivering exhilarating performance with surprising practicality. Today, my son got his in lime green and truly loves the automobile. With its potent and efficient powertrain, luxurious and purposeful interior, outstanding performance and safety, the baby Porsche delivers a rare combination of driving passion and everyday play.

Royal Bank Of Canada: Future Proof Your Dreams

JustMachine has global reach. Here is a new branding project for the Royal Bank Of Canada­–repositioning itself in a more transparent way such that it's in honest consideration for home mortgages in Canada.

Driven By Vision

In an age where high levels of competence at your craft are assumed, the thing that differentiates us is vision: the way in which you wield your craft to tell stories you see with your eye and your heart.

Vision is what you see and the unique way in which you see it. It is the meeting place of all that you are, all that you bring to your craft and the medium of ideas. The hard work in making your vocation is not finding someone, anyone who will pay you to count beans; it’s in finding a market for your vision. The biggest earners are those who have retained their vision while serving their chosen market. They’ve married their craft with their commerce and done it while uploading their creative integrity, excellence and loyalty to their vision.

Vision is your biggest asset. It’s that one intangible for which clients will hire you. Arguably, there are levels of competence at this craft. And there are certainly true masters and total hacks, but those are the extremes.

By saying this whole journey begins with vision, I mean the vision for your life: the ability to receptively see the future as you’d like it to be, to hear the whisper of the voice that is calling you to something beyond what you are now. Calling you to a life beyond convention–to a sustained creative endeavor that nourishes both your soul and family. It is vision that will help you find your way when it’s confusing with good opportunities threatening to jeopardize even greater ones. It is vision that will put you back on the track when the pull of the commercial world is so strong it draws you too far from your craft and you need to make your way back. It’s what makes great art and great lives. It’s all the virtues at once–the hope to see a different future, the faith to reach for it and the love to keep going when it seems like working at the local job would be the path of least resistance, if not also the path of least reward.