What creative insights I learned from Al Pacino by reading: Sonny Boy, a Memoir . --- Download the Bonus PDF (Al Pacino’s Best Performance + Insights Summary) here --- ICONS is now on YouTube - check it out! --- Art mentioned Home Sweet Homicide — Theatre Production Pulp Fiction, 1994 — Film Creditors — Theatre Production Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 — Film The Indian Wants the Bronx — Theatre Production Serpico, 1973 — Film Sea of Love, 1989 — Film Carlito’s Way, 1993 — Film Does a Tiger Wear a N...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 9
What creative insights I learned from Bruce Lee by reading: Bruce Lee, A Life, by Matthew Polly . --- Download the Bonus PDF (Bruce Lee's Unmade Script + Insights Summary) here --- Check out the visual experience of this episode on YouTube now! --- Art mentioned: Bruce Lee Screen Test (1965) — Video The Children’s Paradise — Comic Book #2 - Hayao Miyazaki — ICONS Episode My Son-A-Chang — Film An Orphan’s Tragedy — Film Sins of the Father — Film In the Face of Demolition — Film The Guiding Ligh...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 8
BONUS EPISODE: How to turn your early-career frustrations into a great career. What I learned from reading the 2008 blog post, The Canvas Strategy, and Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday . --- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out --- Download the Bonus PDF (Canvas Strategy Checklist) here --- Art mentioned: The Canvas Strategy , Ryan Holiday — Blog post Perennial Seller , Ryan Holiday — Book The 48 Laws of Power , Robert Greene — Book Mastery , Robert Greene — Book The Laws of Human Nature...
Jun 26, 2024•28 min
What creative insights I learned from Christopher Nolan by reading: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, by Tom Shone . ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Christopher Nolan’s Best Work + Insights Summary) here ---- Art mentioned: Inception — Film Christopher Nolan, Founders Podcast — Podcast Memento — Film #6 - Coco Chanel — ICONS Podcast Episode 2001: A Space Odyssey — Film Blade Runner — Film Alien — Film Star Wars — Film Day in the Life of a Knife Mak...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 7
What creative insights I learned from Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel by reading: Coco Chanel - The Legend and The Life, by Justine Picardie The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Coco Chanel's best work + insight summary) here ---- Art mentioned: Patterned paved corridors of Abbey , Aubazine Interlocking knot and loops in window , Aubazine La Pausa staircase side-by-side with Aubazine Abbey Qui Qu’a Vu Coco — Song Chanel logo in Mayfair lamppost Palmy Days (1931) — Fil...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 6
What creative insights I learned from Charlie Chaplin by reading his autobiography . ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Chaplin’s Best Work + Insights Summary) here ---- Art mentioned: The 48 Laws of Power , Robert Greene — Book How To Make Movies , Charlie Chaplin — Short Film #4 - Leonardo Da Vinci — ICONS Podcast The Kid , Charlie Chaplin (1921) — Film City Lights , Charlie Chaplin (1931) — Film Devil Wears Prada (2006) — Film Heat (1995) — Film #3 - Anthony Bourdain — ICONS The Idle Class (192...
Jan 17, 2024•58 min•Ep. 5
Ideas I got from artist Leonardo Da Vinci from reading: Leonardo Da Vinci , by Walter Isaacson Mastery , by Robert Greene ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Da Vinci's Best Work + His Letter to Ludovico Sforza + Insights Summary) here ---- Art mentioned: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life , Walter Isaacson — Book Einstein , Walter Isaacson — Book Steve Jobs , Walter Isaacson— Book Elon Musk , Walter Isaacson — Book Mona Lisa , Da Vinci — Painting The Last Supper , Da Vinci — Painting Assassin's C...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 4
Ideas I got from artist Anthony Bourdain from reading: Laurie Woolever’s unique book, Bourdain in Stories . and watching Morgan Neville'documentary, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain . ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Bourdain's Best Work + Insights Summary) here ---- Art mentioned: Parts Unknown — TV Series, 2013-2018 Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast — New Yorker Profile, 2007 Don’t Eat before Reading This — New Yorker Essay, 1999 Kitchen Confidential — Non-Fiction Book, 2001 Bone ...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 3
Ideas I got from artist Hayao Miyazaki from reading Miyazakiworld, A Life In Art, by Susan Napier . ---- Download the bonus PDF (Hayao Miyazaki's best art + summary) here ---- Art mentioned: The Last Samurai — Film, 2003 Spirited Away — Film, 2001 My Neighbour Totoro — Film, 1988 Princess Mononoke — Film, 1997 Howl's Moving Castle — Film, 2004 Ponyo — Film, 2008 The Boy and The Heron — Film, 2023 9 Shots — Song, 50 Cent The Wind Rises — Film, 2013 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Film, 198...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 2
Ideas I got from artist 50 Cent from reading: The 50th Law , by Robert Greene Hustle Harder Hustle Smarter , by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson ---- Download the bonus PDF (50 Cent's best art) here ---- Art mentioned: Get Rich or Die Tryin' — Album, 50 Cent The Massacre — Album, 50 Cent Power of the Dollar — Album, 50 Cent Bike Lanes — Short Film, Casey Neistat Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee — TV Series, Jerry Seinfeld F*ck You — Song, 50 Cent Guess Who's Back — Mixtape, 50 Cent High All The Time — S...
Nov 18, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1
