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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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Art mentioned:

• Inception — Film
• Christopher Nolan, Founders Podcast — Podcast
• Memento — Film
• #6 - Coco Chanel — ICONS Podcast Episode
• 2001: A Space Odyssey — Film
• Blade Runner — Film
• Alien — Film
• Star Wars — Film
• Day in the Life of a Knife Maker — YouTube
• Interstellar — Film
• First Man — Film
• The Place Beyond The Pines — Film
• Drive — Film
• Blade Runner 2049 — Film
• The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy — Book
• Batman Begins — Film
• The Dark Knight — Film
• The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World — Book
• Las Meninas, Piccaso — Paintings
• Why So Serious? (The Joker Theme), Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard — Music
• #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode
• Samson and Delilah, Rubens — Painting
• Following — Film
• Pulp Fiction — Film
• Reservoir Dogs — Film
• Citizen Kane — Film
• Tenet — Film
• The Italian Job — Film
• Ocean’s Eleven — Film
• A Fistful of Dollars — Film
• Oppenheimer — Film
• American Prometheus — Book
• Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish — Book
• Searching for Bobby Fischer — Film
• Hard Eight — Film
• Bottle Rocket — Film
• The Prestige — Film
• Casino Royale — Film
• How To Do Great Work, Paul Graham — Essay
• Westworld, HBO — TV Show

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1. Coco Chanel - The Legend and The Life, by Justine Picardie
2. The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene

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Art mentioned:

• Patterned paved corridors of Abbey, Aubazine
• Interlocking knot and loops in window, Aubazine
• La Pausa staircase side-by-side with Aubazine Abbey
• Qui Qu’a Vu Coco — Song
• Chanel logo in Mayfair lamppost
• Palmy Days (1931) — Film
• Chanel No. 5 — Perfume
• #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode
• #1 - 50 Cent — ICONS Podcast Episode
• Lululemon ‘Dupe Swap’ Campaign
• Westworld, HBO — TV Show

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What creative insights I learned from Charlie Chaplin by reading his autobiography.

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Art mentioned:

• The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene — Book
• How To Make Movies, Charlie Chaplin — Short Film
• #4 - Leonardo Da Vinci — ICONS Podcast
• The Kid, Charlie Chaplin (1921) — Film
• City Lights, Charlie Chaplin (1931) — Film
• Devil Wears Prada (2006) — Film
• Heat (1995) — Film
• #3 - Anthony Bourdain — ICONS
• The Idle Class (1921), Charlie Chaplin — Film
• Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin — Film
• Morning Pages Journal, Julia Cameron — Book
• #2 - Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) — ICONS
• Mad Men (2008)— TV Show

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1. Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
2. Mastery, by Robert Greene

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Art mentioned:

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson — Book
• Einstein, Walter Isaacson — Book
• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson— Book
• Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson — Book
• Mona Lisa, Da Vinci — Painting
• The Last Supper, Da Vinci — Painting
• Assassin's Creed 2 — Video Game
• Drapery Drawing from Verrocchio's Workshop
• Relevance Realisation, John Vervake — Cognitive Science Problem
• The Baptism of Christ, by Verrocchio & Da Vinci — Painting
• The Flying Man — Model in Rome Airport
• Map of Imola, Da Vinci — Map
• The Grotesques, Da Vinci — Sketches
• The Vitruvian Man, Da Vinci — Drawing
• Memento, Christopher Nolan — Film
• Saint Jerome In The Wilderness, Da Vinci — Painting

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1. Laurie Woolever’s unique book, ⁠Bourdain in Stories⁠.
2. and watching Morgan Neville'documentary, ⁠Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain⁠.

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Art mentioned:

• Parts Unknown — TV Series, 2013-2018
• Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast — New Yorker Profile, 2007
• Don’t Eat before Reading This — New Yorker Essay, 1999
• Kitchen Confidential — Non-Fiction Book, 2001
• Bone In The Throat — Fiction Book, 1995
• Gone Bamboo — Fiction Book, 1997
• The Adventures of Tintin — Comic Series, 1929-
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Film, 1977
• The Deer Hunter — Film, 1979
• The Long Goodbye — Film, 1973
• A Cook’s Tour — TV Series, 2002-2003
• Not Economically Viable — YouTube Channel
• Apocalypse Now — Film, 1979
• Heart of Darkness — Book, 1899
• The Big Short — Film, 2015
• Succession — TV Series, 2018–2023
• No Reservations — TV Series, 2005-2012
• Violent City — Film, 1970
• Princess Mononoke — Film, 1997

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