Episodes

  • Bruce Lee

    Bruce Lee
    Oct 29 2024
    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) — VideoThe Children’s Paradise — Comic Book#2 - Hayao Miyazaki — ICONS EpisodeMy Son-A-Chang — FilmAn Orphan’s Tragedy — FilmSins of the Father — FilmIn the Face of Demolition — FilmThe Guiding Light — Film#1 - 50 Cent — ICONS EpisodeThe Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin — BookThe Mind, Explored — NewsletterThe Orphan — Film1000 True Fans, Kevin Kelly — EssayBatman — TV SeriesThe Green Hornet — TV SeriesOnce Upon A Time In Hollywood — MovieTao Te Ching, Lao Tzu — BookLongstreet — TV SeriesBruce Lee Pierre Berton Interview — VideoThe Big Boss — FilmFist of Fury — FilmThe Way of The Dragon — FilmGame of Death — FilmEnter the Dragon — Film --- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.
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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • The Canvas Strategy — Turn Grunt Work into Greatness

    The Canvas Strategy — Turn Grunt Work into Greatness
    Jun 26 2024

    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.

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    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, Robert Greene — Book
    • The Baptism of Christ, Verrochio (Leonardo Da Vinci) — Painting
    • The 50th Law, Robert Greene — Book
    • The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi — Book

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    28 mins
  • Christopher Nolan

    Christopher Nolan
    Mar 4 2024
    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 — FilmChristopher Nolan, Founders Podcast — PodcastMemento — Film#6 - Coco Chanel — ICONS Podcast Episode2001: A Space Odyssey — FilmBlade Runner — FilmAlien — FilmStar Wars — FilmDay in the Life of a Knife Maker — YouTubeInterstellar — FilmFirst Man — FilmThe Place Beyond The Pines — FilmDrive — FilmBlade Runner 2049 — FilmThe Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy — BookBatman Begins — FilmThe Dark Knight — FilmThe Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World — BookLas Meninas, Piccaso — PaintingsWhy So Serious? (The Joker Theme), Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard — Music#5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast EpisodeSamson and Delilah, Rubens — PaintingFollowing — FilmPulp Fiction — FilmReservoir Dogs — FilmCitizen Kane — FilmTenet — FilmThe Italian Job — FilmOcean’s Eleven — FilmA Fistful of Dollars — FilmOppenheimer — FilmAmerican Prometheus — BookClear Thinking, Shane Parrish — BookSearching for Bobby Fischer — FilmHard Eight — FilmBottle Rocket — FilmThe Prestige — FilmCasino Royale — FilmHow To Do Great Work, Paul Graham — EssayWestworld, HBO — TV Show ---- ⁠ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Coco Chanel

    Coco Chanel
    Jan 31 2024

    What creative insights I learned from Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel by reading:

    1. Coco Chanel - The Legend and The Life, by Justine Picardie
    2. The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene

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    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) — Film
    • Chanel No. 5 — Perfume
    • #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode
    • #1 - 50 Cent — ICONS Podcast Episode
    • Lululemon ‘Dupe Swap’ Campaign
    • Westworld, HBO — TV Show

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Charlie Chaplin

    Charlie Chaplin
    Jan 17 2024

    What creative insights I learned from Charlie Chaplin by reading his autobiography.

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    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 (1921), Charlie Chaplin — Film
    • Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin — Film
    • Morning Pages Journal, Julia Cameron — Book
    • #2 - Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) — ICONS
    • Mad Men (2008)— TV Show

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    58 mins
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Dec 27 2023
    Ideas I got from artist Leonardo Da Vinci from reading: Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter IsaacsonMastery, 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 — BookEinstein, Walter Isaacson — BookSteve Jobs, Walter Isaacson— BookElon Musk, Walter Isaacson — BookMona Lisa, Da Vinci — Painting The Last Supper, Da Vinci — PaintingAssassin's Creed 2 — Video GameDrapery Drawing from Verrocchio's WorkshopRelevance Realisation, John Vervake — Cognitive Science ProblemThe Baptism of Christ, by Verrocchio & Da Vinci — PaintingThe Flying Man — Model in Rome AirportMap of Imola, Da Vinci — MapThe Grotesques, Da Vinci — SketchesThe Vitruvian Man, Da Vinci — DrawingMemento, Christopher Nolan — FilmSaint Jerome In The Wilderness, Da Vinci — Painting ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow @theICONSpod on Twitter or ICONS podcast on LinkedIn.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain
    Dec 13 2023

    Ideas I got from artist Anthony Bourdain from reading:

    1. Laurie Woolever’s unique book, ⁠Bourdain in Stories⁠.
    2. and watching Morgan Neville'documentary, ⁠Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain⁠.

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    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 In The Throat — Fiction Book, 1995
    • Gone Bamboo — Fiction Book, 1997
    • The Adventures of Tintin — Comic Series, 1929-
    • Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Film, 1977
    • The Deer Hunter — Film, 1979
    • The Long Goodbye — Film, 1973
    • A Cook’s Tour — TV Series, 2002-2003
    • Not Economically Viable — YouTube Channel
    • Apocalypse Now — Film, 1979
    • Heart of Darkness — Book, 1899
    • The Big Short — Film, 2015
    • Succession — TV Series, 2018–2023
    • No Reservations — TV Series, 2005-2012
    • Violent City — Film, 1970
    • Princess Mononoke — Film, 1997

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Hayao Miyazaki (Creator of Studio Ghibli)

    Hayao Miyazaki (Creator of Studio Ghibli)
    Nov 29 2023

    Ideas I got from artist Hayao Miyazaki from reading Miyazakiworld, A Life In Art, by Susan Napier.

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    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, 1984
    • Laputa: Castle in the Sky — Film, 1986
    • The Count of Monte Cristo — Book, Alexandre Dumas
    • The Three Musketeers — Book, Alexandre Dumas
    • The Prisoner of Zenda — Book, Anthony Hope
    • Gulliver's Travels — Book, Jonathan Swift
    • The Secret Garden — Book, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
    • Heidi — Book, Jeanne Willis
    • Panda and the Magic Serpent — Film, 1958

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    1 hr and 1 min