Interview on the Wise Fool Podcast
“People really love it when you make the same compromises that they do, because it justifies them.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (The Wise Fool Podcast, 2022)
Ruben Jacobs: Artists as Adventurers
“I saw, in all these different practices, some kind of artistic creature who uses science but also design and technology to re-investigate the relationship with the Earth.”
—Ruben Jacobs (Riding the Dragon)
—Ruben Jacobs (Riding the Dragon)
Interview with Andrew Keen
"Maybe the ‘love’ metaphor is an interesting one; we shouldn’t fall in love with the future, it’s too dangerous. We need to keep a distance, have a mature relationship."
—Andrew Keen (John Adams Institute)
—Andrew Keen (John Adams Institute)
David LaChapelle: An Optimistic Apocalypse
"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
Audrey Tautou: The (Un)importance of a Famous Face
"I will always have problems because I’m a self-made photographer. When you are an autodidact, you learn only from your mistakes. So, I learn a lot."
—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)
—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)
Insight on the Role of a Photography Editor
“A well-edited work, much like a well-designed product, doesn’t just look natural – it feels inevitable.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)
Holly Krieger: The Creativity and Structure of Pure Mathematics
“One moment, you have no clue what some piece of mathematics is saying or how it’s working, and suddenly there’s like this neurological shift and it clicks into place.”
—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)
—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)
Max Pinckers: Outsourcing Creation to Machines
"A computer doesn’t emotionally interpret the picture. It sees a woman, it sees a child, and maybe it can recognise ‘grieving’ because it knows from all the other pictures that it’s supposed to be grieving, but it doesn’t feel anything."
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)
Rina Mae Acosta: The Happiest Kids in the World
"School is supposed to be a place to learn, not a place to compete and get the highest scores. It’s a place to let a child discover who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)
—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)
Klaus Pichler: This Will Change Your Life Forever
"Some scientific discoveries have come from looking at something that seems to be – at that moment – irrational and then discovering that it’s not that irrational. So, the earth isn’t flat, it’s a sphere."
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)