After starting 2 years ago, ICONS Podcast is evolving. In this special episode, I'm announcing the rebrand to 'Make Like The Greats' — a name that better reflects the podcast's true mission.
Here are the creativity lessons I learned from Rick Rubin by reading: Rick Rubin In The Studio, by Jake Brown
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Chapters:
00:00:00 How One Piece of Work Can Change Your Life
00:03:07 Rick Rubin, The Icon
00:05:49 Growing Up with AC/DC and Magic
00:14:00 Attending NYU (Enter Hip-Hop)
00:17:29 Producing a New Kind of Single
00:22:25 The Birth of Def Jam
00:29:57 Launching LL Cool J and a Movie
00:38:41 How Rick Rubin Works
00:40:22 Working with RUN-DMC
00:46:40 Working with Red Hot Chili Peppers
00:59:14 Working with Johnny Cash
01:10:10 Aim for Greatness
What creative insights I learned from Al Pacino by reading: Sonny Boy, a Memoir.
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Chapters
00:00:00 Life's on the Wire
00:01:24 Al Pacino as an ICON
00:07:52 Life Has Two Paths (Street Life)
00:17:33 The Other Path (Acting)
00:29:09 The Collaborators
00:44:37 Making The Godfather
00:56:05 Making Scarface
01:08:18 What Keeps Coming Back To You
01:20:56 The Greatest Word In English Language
What creative insights I learned from Bruce Lee by reading: Bruce Lee, A Life, by Matthew Polly.
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Chapters 00:00:00 How Bruce Lee was Found by Hollywood 00:01:41 Bruce Lee as an ICON 00:05:33 The Many Names of Bruce Lee (The Child Star) 00:18:28 Bad School Kid (Fighting) 00:25:14 Martial Arts - Wing Chun 00:38:52 Moving to the US and Cha-Cha 00:48:41 America & Teaching Wing Chun 01:02:52 What Robin was to Batman 01:13:59 Jeet Kune Do 01:21:44 Longstreet 01:29:09 The Hong Kong Films 01:41:38 Hollywood’s New Man: Enter the Dragon 01:49:54 The Passing 01:54:11 The Icon (Bruce Lee's Legacy)
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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What creative insights I learned from Christopher Nolan by reading: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, by Tom Shone.
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What creative insights I learned from Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel by reading:
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To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow @theICONSpod on Twitter or ICONS podcast on LinkedIn.
What creative insights I learned from Charlie Chaplin by reading his autobiography.
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To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow @theICONSpod on Twitter or ICONS podcast on LinkedIn.
Ideas I got from artist Leonardo Da Vinci from reading:
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Ideas I got from artist Anthony Bourdain from reading:
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Ideas I got from artist Hayao Miyazaki from reading Miyazakiworld, A Life In Art, by Susan Napier.
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To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow @theICONSpod on Twitter or ICONS podcast on LinkedIn.
Ideas I got from artist 50 Cent from reading:
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To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow @theICONSpod on Twitter or ICONS podcast on LinkedIn.
