During the Christmas Break, I started reading a few biographies.
I love biographies. I like stories about real people, real situations, and facts. I like them because, contrary to schoolboy belief, memories and biographies and histories, in general, are very exciting.
The account of a real life can be filled with adventures that we may never encounter in our own personal experiences. Of the three biographies I have been reading, the one about the artist Lucian Freud is the most compelling. It reminded me of something I discussed with Jamie Lin once.
He told me that artists and entrepreneurs have a lot in common. Being an artist myself, I know a little about what this means, but to go on about it for thousands of words will likely bore you, so I will just focus on one element of it.
Let me first start with a quote from Freud, who, yes, was the grandson of the late psychologist Sigmund Freud, though profoundly more artistically inclined.
"The fact of your life being your subject matter doesn’t in any way change the nature of art or artistic enterprise. And therefore it seems absolutely obvious, as well as convenient, to use as a subject what you are thinking and looking at all the time — the way your life goes.”
Artists are experts in the logical pursuit and maybe even the dissection of irrational facts of life. They take this observation and they articulate it in such a way that it presents to the audience a newly envisioned life, that is so detailed and so crafted that it entices us to think and to possibly even live in a new way.
If you even slightly doubt this, look at any of the pieces of impressionist art which are famous for being able to not only depict a scene of life, but to also depict the way in which the scene is seen. Look at pointillism. Look at the frightful and pitiful sculpture work of Giacometti.
All in all, this is to say that art is the action of becoming something new through observation and visual presentation. And to create such a thing requires significant work.
And here is the similarity between artists and founders. Really great founders are perhaps the best at acute observation of human nature. They take those observations and through trial and error, and injecting a little of the uncertainty of creation, they present to us, the consumer, a new WAY of doing something.
It does not happen slap dash, or haphazardly. It happens DELIBERATELY. Despite how irrational and illogical a new thing appears to be, that new thing came into being through the logical action of pairing creativity or imagination with, one might say, the biography of the consumer. So that it fits into that life in such a way that in a short time, or over a lifetime, it simply becomes as necessary to life as breathing.
Thank you for indulging my love of art and startups in this post. Please search the web for images of Freud's work, or any of the art I mentioned here. I am including one, which, as part of a collection in the UK's Royal Academy of Art, has common use rights, and can be freely circulated.
Spend a few moments looking at it. The one thing I will note about the portrait is that, as it is a portrait of the artist by the artist himself, the eyes seem to be missing. They seem to be chiseled into a squint, almost as if shaped out of mountain or rock. To me, this is the story of the artist. Work that over time shapes the ability to see and make the work -- a talent that is critical and permanent, and created as if it is a force of nature itself.
If you are a founder, ask yourself if you are also creating deliberately, and fashioning out of a passion for reality a new reality. Of being, in that reality.
This is not easy to do. This is a life's work. It never stops. But it also has the force of nature.
Doug Crets
Communications Master, AppWorks Accelerator
Image: Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud, Royal Academy of Arts
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jamie doug 在 AppWorks Facebook 的最佳解答
For founders who are building in AI and Blockchain in Greater Southeast Asia, this is a good detailed look at the AppWorks team and its goals and mission to help founders grow in the region.
One key pullout of the story below:
"[Founding partner Jamie] Lin anticipates that 60% to 70% of the accelerator’s newest crop will be teams from outside Taiwan, with most hailing from Southeast Asia. In comparison, 38% of teams that joined its 2018 sessions were from overseas."
Aside from the growth of the fund, to a third fund of US$100 million, we really can't say enough about how true it is that Taiwan is linked to SEA.
The push of life's complexities are leading founders around the region to harness tech and solve problems for customers, and the pull of Taiwan, as a place that has had a remarkable history of e-commerce growth, makes the island an important stop on the path of founders looking to startup.
If you are a Blockchain or AI founder, and you want to explore the market in Taiwan with other founders, join us: http://bit.ly/2CWsXqI
Doug Crets
English Communications Master, AppWorks Accelerator
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指標性與金球獎分庭抗禮,舉足輕重的英國奧斯卡「BAFTA 英國影藝學院電影獎」僅接在後於昨天公佈自家 2018 年也就是第 71 屆的入圍名單,由《水底情深》、《意外》和《最黑暗的時刻》領先群雄,後兩部更帶有強烈的英國色彩,令人欣喜的是《銀翼殺手 2049》重回奬片競爭行列,但可惜之處也如同金球在最佳導演名單內依然沒有任何一位女性入圍,頒獎典禮於 2 月 18 日舉行。
▍2018 BAFTA 完整入圍名單:
最佳影片:
《以你的名字呼喚我》Call Me By Your Name
《水底情深》The Shape of Water
《意外》Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
《敦克爾克大行動》Dunkirk
《最黑暗的時刻》Darkest Hour
最佳導演:
《敦克爾克大行動》Christopher Nolan
《水底情深》Guillermo del Toro
《意外》Martin McDonagh
《以你的名字呼喚我》Luca Guadagnino
《銀翼殺手 2049》Denis Villeneuve
最佳動畫:
《酷瓜人生》My Life as a Courgette
《可可夜總會》Coco
《梵谷:星夜之謎》Loving Vincent
最佳女主角:
《最後相愛的日子》Annette Bening
《意外》Frances McDormand
《老娘叫譚雅》Margot Robbie
《淑女鳥》Saoirse Ronan
《水底情深》Sally Hawkins
最佳男主角:
《霓裳魅影》Daniel Day-Lewis
《逃出絕命鎮》Daniel Kaluuya
《最黑暗的時刻》Gary Oldman
《最後相愛的日子》Jamie Bell
《以你的名字呼喚我》Timothee Chalamet
最佳女配角:
《老娘叫譚雅》Allison Janney
《最黑暗的時刻》Kristin Scott Thomas
《淑女鳥》Laurie Metcalf
《霓裳魅影》Lesley Manville
《水底情深》Octavia Spencer
最佳男配角:
《金錢世界》Christopher Plummer
《柏靈頓熊熊出任務》Hugh Grant
《歡迎光臨奇幻城堡》Willem Dafoe
《意外》Sam Rockwell
《意外》Woody Harrelson
最佳新人奬(觀眾票選):
《逃出絕命鎮》Daniel Kaluuya
《惡女馬克白》Florence Pugh
《上帝之國》Josh O'Connor
《雷神索爾 3:諸神黃昏》Tessa Thompson
《以你的名字呼喚我》Timothee Chalamet
傑出英國電影:
《最黑暗的時刻》Darkest Hour
《史達林葛屁了!》The Death Of Stalin
《上帝之國》God’s Own Country
《惡女馬克白》Lady Macbeth
《意外》Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
《柏靈頓熊熊出任務》Paddington 2
最佳外語片:
《她的危險遊戲》Elle
《他們先殺了我父親:柬埔寨女孩的回憶錄》First They Killed My Father
《下女的誘惑》The Handmaiden
《當愛不見了》Loveless
《新居風暴》The Salesman
最佳原創劇本:
《逃出絕命鎮》Jordan Peele
《老娘叫譚雅》Steven Rogers
《淑女鳥》Greta Gerwig
《水底情深》Guillermo del Toro、Vanessa Taylor
《意外》Martin McDonagh
最佳改編劇本:
《以你的名字呼喚我》James Ivory
《史達林葛屁了!》Armando Iannucci、Ian Martin、David Schneider
《最後相愛的日子》Matt Greenhalgh
《決勝女王》Aaron Sorkin
《柏靈頓熊熊出任務》Simon Farnaby、Paul King
最佳配樂:
《銀翼殺手 2049》Benjamin Wallfisch、Hans Zimmer
《最黑暗的時刻》Dario Marianelli
《敦克爾克大行動》Hans Zimmer
《霓裳魅影》Jonny Greenwood
《水底情深》Alexandre Desplat
最佳攝影:
《銀翼殺手 2049》 Roger Deakins
《最黑暗的時刻》Bruno Delbonnel
《敦克爾克大行動》Hoyte van Hoytema
《水底情深》 Dan Laustsen
《意外》Ben Davis
最佳剪輯:
《銀翼殺手 2049》Joe Walker
《敦克爾克大行動》Lee Smith
《水底情深》Sidney Wolinsky
《意外》Jon Gregory
《玩命再劫》 Amos、Paul Machliss
最佳藝術指導:
《美女與野獸》Sarah Greenwood、Katie Spencer
《銀翼殺手 2049》Dennis Gassner、Alessandra Querzola
《最黑暗的時刻》Sarah Greenwood、Katie Spencer
《敦克爾克大行動》Nathan Crowley、Gary Fettis
《水底情深》Paul Austerberry、Jeff Melvin、Shane Vieau
最佳服裝設計:
《美女與野獸》Jacqueline Durran
《最黑暗的時刻》Jacqueline Durran
《老娘叫譚雅》Jennifer Johnson
《霓裳魅影》Mark Bridges
《水底情深》Luis Sequeira
最佳妝髮設計:
《銀翼殺手2049》Donald Mowat、Kerry Warn
《最黑暗的時刻》David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac、Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji
《老娘叫譚雅》Deborah La Mia Denaver、Adruitha Lee
《女王與知己》Daniel Phillips
《奇蹟男孩》Naomi Bakstad、Robert A. Pandini、Arjen Tuiten
最佳音效:
《玩命再劫》Tim Cavagin、Mary H. Ellis、Julian Slater
《銀翼殺手 2049》 Ron Bartlett、Doug Hemphill、Mark Mangini、Mac Ruth
《敦克爾克大行動》Richard King、Gregg Landaker、Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
《水底情深》Christian Cooke、Glen Gauthier、Nathan Robitaille、Brad Zoern
《星際大戰:最後的絕地武士》David Parker、Michael Semanick、Stuart Wilson、Matthew Wood
最佳視覺特效:
《銀翼殺手 2049》Gerd Nefzer、John Nelson
《敦克爾克大行動》Scott Fisher、Andrew Jackson
《水底情深》Dennis Berardi、Trey Harrell、Kevin Scott
《星際大戰:最後的絕地武士》
《猩球崛起:最終決戰》
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All Keys: Doug Petty
All Guitars: Dan Petty
Bass: Brian Allen
Drums: Jamie Wollam
All vocals: Tanya Chua
Recorded and mixed by:Richard Furch for eMixing.com
Mixed at the mixHaus studios, LA
(p) (c) 2011 Tian Ya Music Productions
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