"I want people to not take experience for granted. People don't realize Experience is a thing! When you get up every day, ask what experience are you delivering, and to whom?
Michael Blatter is an experiential marketing innovator and pioneer. As CEO of Mirrorball Agency, Blatter has built a team of creators united by a clear mission: to design experiences that stimulate people’s emotions and create deep, meaningful memories.
Read More“Through journaling, I became aware of my habit of trashing every idea and being harsh with myself, killing my creativity. This realization changed my perspective.”
Scott Rhea is an image-maker whose work is represented in visual metaphors. Sparked by a personal journey to find the source of his creativity, Scott was ultimately seeking to become less dependent on people “liking” his work.
Read More“People who are shy aren't shy when they're wearing a fabulous costume — they’re as happy as they will ever be.”
Jim Glaser discovered his love of costume-wearing at the NYC Halloween parade in the late 80’s abd found a sense of liberation in the way costume brings together fashion, art, theatre, and acts as a uniting force for people.
Read More“ Finding the essence of the truth of a character is fascinating to me.”
Kathryn Leigh Scott is a farm girl who came to NY in search of an acting career. Kathryn paid her way through acting school by working at the Playboy Club; a job she credits for giving her self-confidence and the ability to be self-sufficient. Finding herself cast in the number one soap opera of the day, “Dark Shadows” Kathryn never looked back.
Read MoreFrank Meo has been inspiring photographers and creatives for decades. Helping people find their passion, and then teaching them to drill down and get really clear, is Frank’s own passion. Using logic, planning and strategy Frank gives photographers real tools to create an action plan that helps move their careers in the right direction.
Read MoreWinzday Love uses music to help people open up and reconnect to themselves. The way she sees it, it’s easy to open people’s hearts and minds when your music is authentic and comes from a place of love. For Winzday, music is magic, it’s the glue that holds everything together and is an amazing conduit for release.
Read More“Much of the brain we don’t use — or at least we don’t completely understand how it is used. “
Dr. David Simpson, a Professor of Neurology at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a researcher and a scientist working to advance the knowledge of medicine, both in terms of understanding disease and treating disease. Dr. Simpson is doing ground-breaking work using Botox to treat musicians and others suffering from movement disorders, such as focal dystonia.
Read More"I want to be like Matisse - cutting up paper when he was blind. He wasn't telling someone else to do it. You read about artists with such bad arthritis that they tape the brush to their hand so they can still paint. It's the act of it that's very important. It's ephemeral, what drives me. It's something that defies words. It just is.
Read MoreI think that as humans we’re meant to be in strong tribe-like groups. Technology has led us towards isolation. I think in most people there is a desire and a need to be around people that accept us for who we are. I want to help build a community who creates together, dreams together and is able to make positive changes together.
Read More“Coding is about taking structure and ideas and expressing patterns in a way that is both efficient and easy to understand.”
Daniel Panzer cut his coding teeth while working for Jonsar Studios, creating the apps that make our company run. Daniel’s analytical mind helped create the systems of display and delivery that are integral to the immersive photographic experiences Jonsar Studios creates at events.
Read More“There’s an art to making someone feel comfortable enough to open up, and then deeply understanding the problem they face and how to solve it.”
Spencer Shulem is the CEO at WeDo - and creator of a wellness and productivity app that tracks the micro-decisions people make in their lives so that individuals can make better decisions and improve their behavior.
Read More"Becoming a chef is like being in the military. There are levels that you have to go through. You have to move up through the ranks. You actually have to work your ass off and grind it out, put in time, get burned, get cut, get yelled at, get beaten up."
Read More"I believe the spark that gets the artist moving is the same spark that gets the scientist moving. I want to discover. I want to know more. In improv, it's listening to the last thing that was just said. You step out onto an empty stage and you know nothing. You don't know how it's going to go. I feel like there's a lot of similarity with how scientists go about things and improv. If it doesn't, we go sideways and make something else and build on it. They are kindred spirits. I'm fascinated by finding areas that science and comedy intersect."
Read More"Act 1 for me was churning through some introspective and creative stuff with the opera singing. Act 2 for me has to be figuring out how to take my skill set and make it meaningful... Now I need to reflect the world. I need to figure out how to take my ability to find other people's art and heart. And figure out a way to turn that into something relevant. I'm not sure how to do that yet. But what would I really like to do? What are my hopes and dreams? Well, I'd like to change the world. It's important to start with the why of what you do and then you figure out the how."
Read More"Everyone has their own view on what art is. For me, art is the concept of re-creation. The universe is the ultimate creation. We as humans have been gifted the power of creativity which is the power to re-create ourselves, to become creators. This is what I call art - to recreate the world through your work."
Read MoreI believe that we all have a deeper muse inside of us; a deeper resource. When we get out of our normal mind frame and consciousness and relax we literally come from a different reference point. It's then that this other stream of data comes through, this other author, this co-author comes through. To me the co-author is a deeper part of ourselves that we don't access on a day-to-day basis necessarily, unless we're receptive to that. My sense is that we have our normal every day thinking in the way that we see the world, but there are moments when that pauses or relaxes and allows for a deeper intelligence to come through.
Read More"I create art because I want to. I don't want to have a show. I don't see myself being the center of attention. I create art so I can let go. My canvas is my project - Makú, in Colombia. That's my art. That's what I have to put my intention and belief in. And that's what I'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life doing. I picture myself helping others and helping myself to grow and be a better person."
Read MoreJohn C. Bogle - Conversation with a Legend
John Bogle’s legacy is rooted in the concept that investing should be conducted solely in the interest of shareholders and investors. Bogle’s single-mindedness on fiduciary stewardship finds its meaning in the company he founded, the (low cost and simple) product strategies and corporate governance reforms he champions, and the nine books he wrote.
Read More"There’s no end to one’s evolution, and that’s the first lesson. There’s no end, so don’t look for it. Just enjoy the journey, because it’s just a journey."
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