Hasta La Ideas

Chennye Randall, artiste basé à Seattle, imagine ce que les célébrités, les dirigeants du monde et les personnages fictifs ressembleraient s’ils étaient couverts de tatouages​. La manipulation est à la fois étonnante et amusante et elle nous permet de voir ces personnalités avec un regard totalement différent.

John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Kennedy.

Marilyn Monroe.

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Prince William and Princess Catherine.

John Lennon.

Bryan Cranston.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Javier Bardem.

Spock (Leonard Nimoy).

Audrey Hepburn.

Bruce Lee.

James Gandolfini.

Jonny Cash.

Matthew Mcconaughey.

Willam Dafoe.

Janet Leigh (Psycho).

Pour Vanity Fair, le photographe américain Mark Seliger a fait de jolis portraits des célébrités présentes lors de la cérémonie des Oscars 2014. Après la cérémonie, Bill Murray, Samuel Lee Jackson, Naomi Watts, Judd Apatow et d’autres personnalités se sont réunis pour un shooting glamour.

Bill Murray.

Lupita Nyong’o.

Sienna Miller.

Zooey Deschanel.

Neil Patrick Harris.

Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.

Naomi Watts.

Paul Rudd and Adam Scott.

Reese Witherspoon.

Sofia Vergara.

Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson.

Conan O’Brien.

Allison Williams.

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo.

Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeld.

Kerry Washington.

Lady Gaga, Nolan Funk and Donatella Versace.

Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak.

Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres.

Samuel Lee Jackson.

Selena Gomez.

We wrote about actor Vincent Kartheiser and his obsession with minimalism in our 2010 article “Celebrity minimalist: Vincent Kartheiser.” Back then, he was just beginning construction on his new home and admitted to using his neighbor’s bathroom because he threw out his toilet.

Three years later, construction on Kartheiser’s space is complete and the beautiful renovations are featured in the article “The Tiny Hollywood Home of Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser” in Dwell magazine’s November 2013 issue.

In the article’s accompanying slideshow, it is this picture of Kartheiser pulling his bed down from the ceiling that took my breath away:

Image credit: Dwell’s Joe Pugliese

The bed on pulleys with 300 pound counterweights is sheer genius, and the headboard (a large piece of redwood) is on a lever so it can fold down during the day to serve as a desk or sideboard. Another small-space idea that caught my attention in the article is his outdoor coffee table that is also a fire pit. The sliding closet doors that become a privacy wall for the bathroom is a nice touch, too.

Technically a one-room cabin at just 500 sq feet, Kartheiser remade the home and outdoor courtyard with builder Funn Roberts. It doesn’t say it directly, but the article seems to imply Kartheiser even shares this tiny space with his fiancée, actress Alexis Bledel.

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My friend Brittany (whom I’ve mentioned so many times on this site that I’m starting to think I need to add her to our About page) sent me a link to the following video, which I’ve found to be incredibly inspiring. As an unclutterer, there are numerous things that caught my attention with this piece and I want you to see it, too. This is a video that fashion icon Anna Dello Russo recently made for the clothing store H&M:

Dello Russo’s home is a perfect example of what I refer to when I say, “it’s important to clear the clutter so you can focus on what is important to you.” What is important to Anna Dello Russo? Fashion and, specifically accessories. Her place has a lot of accessories — more than I’ve ever seen in an individual collection — yet her home is completely uncluttered, simple, elegant. She doesn’t have anything in her home that detracts from her passion for accessories. Even the books on her bookshelf exist to provide her inspiration for new accessories and outfits. And, she is truly organized. Everything has a place, and everything is in its place.

Did you notice the descriptions she has written on her shoe boxes? Did you see how she keeps the packaging for her tights and carefully returns each pair to that packaging when she’s finished wearing them? Did you see how few clothes she actually owns? My guess is that she is a loyal follower of the one-in-one-out rule for her garments. Her purses and clutches are lined up in beautiful rows, and it’s obvious she knows exactly where each piece of jewelry is located in her home.

My favorite thing about this space is how it represents her love for accessories and that love is directly reflected in the decor of each room. She has some artwork on the walls, but mostly she lets the bracelets and hats and other items be the artwork. This is a woman who knows exactly what matters to her and doesn’t let anything distract her from her passion.

What matters most to you? Have you made room in your life for whatever it is you love? Have you cleared the clutter, the distractions, so you can spend more time focused on what matters to you? Do your spaces reflect who you are and what you love as well as Anna Dello Russo’s do?

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Back on September 1, 2009, the ABC News program Nightline aired the segment “Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Gets Dose of Reality.” The segment discussed how McAfee lost close to $90 million that year, and how it changed his understanding of possessions.

McAfee’s net worth dropped from within the ballpark of $100 million to less than $10 million, he told ABC News. But instead of feeling a sense of loss, he says he feels free.

“I feel a sense of freedom,” he said. “People think that it’s a joy to own things. But it really isn’t.”

The article continues:

“I feel freer. I have less responsibility and obligations. And I have enough money left to feed myself,” he said.

After 65 years, his attitude about money, he says, is forever changed.

“I think most people don’t sit down and ask, ‘What do I need?” not “What do I want?” Because we all want everything,” he explained. “But what do we need? We don’t need very much. We really don’t … The things we want and the things we need are two different things.”

The perspective is a good one, even for a man with $10 million still left in his pockets. Knowing what you need is an essential component of an uncluttered life. When you can tell the difference between the things that are important, and those that are not, you can clear the clutter and pursue a life focused on what really matters to you.

The full article.

Image from Quorumex, McAfee’s new company based in Belize.

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