Vintage baseball gear, stackable monster toys, Scooby Doo, Foo Fighters, and blazing your own trail.

In this episode, I talk to designer and illustrator Don Clark, who founded Invisible Creature with his brother Ryan in 2006. It's a Grammy Award-nominated, multi-disciplinary creative studio housed in a dreamy refurbished barn just outside of Seattle.

Music

Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)

Runners - Lecrae

Space - M.I.A.

Polyethylene, Pt. 1 & 2 - Radiohead

The Pretender - Foo Fighters

Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes

Reading List

Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, by Andy Crouch

The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, by C. S. Lewis

The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden, by Kevin DeYoung (author) and Don Clark (illustrator)

Watch List

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Mad Max (1979)

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Suburban fluxus, Wes Anderson films, carpet crop circles, and the complex (and often comedic) dynamics of family life within a consumer culture.

In this episode, I talk to Hillerbrand+Magsamen, a husband and wife collaborative artistic team – Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen – who met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and now live and practice their art in the suburbs of Houston, Texas with their two children and three dogs.

Music

Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)

Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads

We Are Family (Single Version) – Sister Sledge

Stranglehold – Ted Nugent

O Superman – Laurie Anderson

Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes

Watch List

Hillerbrand+Magsamen:

Whole

DIY Loveseat

Accumulation

Higher Ground

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Kid Cudi, The Alchemist, and the lost art of collecting wine and revisiting it over time.

In this episode I talk to scientist and entrepreneur Corey Miller, who’s an MD and PhD, as well as the Founder and CEO of Bare Bottle, a San Francisco-based start-up that seeks to strip away the exclusivity of the wine industry by pairing beautiful wines with exceptional designs, and telling the stories of the makers behind both.

Music

Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)

Red Red Wine – UB40

Velvet (The Voice Performance) – Chris Jamison

French Kiss (Striptease Mix) – The Lovers

Soundtrack 2 My Life – Kid Cudi

Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes

Books

The Alchemist, by Paolo Coehlo

Watch List

French Kiss

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