Always wear sunscreen . . .
I love this video.
it's GOOD because it's basically a self help video dishing out advise from a elderly man who has seen it all and has his world all figured out.
It has comedy and a lot of heart touching on subjects everybody will struggle with throughout their life.
To help you out heres the voice over:
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blind sides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
Other Inspirational UTube Video:
Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot'. . .
"We are too small, on the scale of worlds, humans are inconsuqential, a thin fuel of life on a obsure and solitary lump of rock and metal.
"Look again at that dot.
That's here.
That's home.
That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast compic areana."
"... become the master on a fraction of a dot."
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Dick - Father
Ricky - Son
"Rick is my motivator, to me I'm just the legs that push him along. I get the feeling, and we are just able to go faster. "
-Dick
"He had graduated from public school, from college, he's out there compeating in road races and triaphons. He lives a happier life than probably 95% of the population.
Rick would tell you that if he was physically able he'd play basketball, hockey, but then he always says the first thing he would do would be to sit me down in the wheel chair and push me. It makes me feel good that he appricates what I'm trying to do to help him out and he'd do the same for me."
Our message to anyone is, YES YOU CAN. You can do anything you want to do, if you make up your mind."
-Dick
Graphic Design ADVICE:
There is currently almost nothing to guide people who just recently moved to the US. The only way people can learn about things is through trial and error. This is why I created an informational guide for people who just moved to the United States. Hello USA! is meant to serve the function of a good friend that gives you advice and teaches you about the new culture.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Hello-USA-degree-project/493999
2.
_The FARM
The Farm aims to be an innovative meeting place and resource for the young talents of today. It is a place to grow, be inspired, create, learn, develop and explore. It is an arena to be trained and be globally competitive in any creative field. It is a vibrant laboratory and place to exchange ideas, talents and skills. Most importantly, and what makes The Farm unique, is that it provides the knowledge for artists and designers to create work that has an impact on society.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-FARM/379246
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4 may 1905 ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
This project was an assignment for a typography class. We were given two chapters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and asked to select one, and find a secondary text that formed a dynamic relationship with it. I chose to work with "Advice from a Caterpillar", and chose a chapter from Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams as the secondary. The concept of the book is that in the Alice texts, everything is changing all the time, often causing frustration, but in the Lightman text, nothing ever changes. The Alice texts were set in a way that nothing was the same: The lines change sizes, crash into each other, don't inhabit the same column, et cetera. From spread to spread, the change is even more dynamic and designed to intentionally frustrate the reader: On the first spread, it reads left-to-right. The next spread, to read it, the book must be turned upside down. On the final spread, the reader must figure out how to read the text backwards. Through all of this, the Lightman chapter remains the same and repeats itself three times.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/AliceLightman-smashup/225837
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Rehab. "A series about digging deep in the word, as opposed to going to worldly advice, to truly fix the problems in our lives."
http://www.behance.net/gallery/REHAB/1993919 WATCH THE CLIP
11.
. . . a travel guidebook to music festivals around the world. This book is designed to help music loving travelers find the festivals that best suit their interests and travel needs. It condenses hard-to-find facts on music festival into one source, offers easy navigation for the user, and integrates travel advice and helpful maps.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mud-Sweat-Tears-Book/476304
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Letters to a Young Poet
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Other Inspirational UTube Video:
Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot'. . .
"We are too small, on the scale of worlds, humans are inconsuqential, a thin fuel of life on a obsure and solitary lump of rock and metal.
"Look again at that dot.
That's here.
That's home.
That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast compic areana."
"... become the master on a fraction of a dot."
Carl Sagan was was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy. It's his voice (and thoughts) you can hear on this video. Carl lets us look at the world, as a pale blue dot, via his involvement with the Voyager space mission.
A message that we live on a DOT and our worries and the bubble that we live in really doesn't matter at all.
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Dick - Father
Ricky - Son
-Dick
"I may be disabled but I live a very fullfiling life, and if someone takes the time to get to know me they realise that I am no different from everyone else."
-Ricky
"He had graduated from public school, from college, he's out there compeating in road races and triaphons. He lives a happier life than probably 95% of the population.
Rick would tell you that if he was physically able he'd play basketball, hockey, but then he always says the first thing he would do would be to sit me down in the wheel chair and push me. It makes me feel good that he appricates what I'm trying to do to help him out and he'd do the same for me."
Our message to anyone is, YES YOU CAN. You can do anything you want to do, if you make up your mind."
-Dick
This video never fails to make me cry. none stop for about ten minutes.
I cannot explain why... it's the sheer vision of LOVE.
Dick and Ricky Hoyt.
A dad doing the triathlons carrying his disabled son all because his son says
" Dad when i'm running it feels like my disablity disappears. "
Where the hell is matt?
Just because he's been to all of these places and lived.
And thousands of good willed people joined in for the fun of it.
Graphic Design ADVICE:
1.
There is currently almost nothing to guide people who just recently moved to the US. The only way people can learn about things is through trial and error. This is why I created an informational guide for people who just moved to the United States. Hello USA! is meant to serve the function of a good friend that gives you advice and teaches you about the new culture.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Hello-USA-degree-project/493999
2.
_The FARM
The Farm aims to be an innovative meeting place and resource for the young talents of today. It is a place to grow, be inspired, create, learn, develop and explore. It is an arena to be trained and be globally competitive in any creative field. It is a vibrant laboratory and place to exchange ideas, talents and skills. Most importantly, and what makes The Farm unique, is that it provides the knowledge for artists and designers to create work that has an impact on society.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-FARM/379246
3.
4 may 1905 ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
http://www.behance.net/gallery/AliceLightman-smashup/225837
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Small Guide for Desperate Housewives
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The Creative Apothecary
Helpful quotes and tips for creatives. helpful quotes and tips for creatives. The concept is to inspire and motivate creatives from all industries. The Apothecary will provide illustrated quotes, products, applications, posters, t-shirts, mugs and badges.
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The volunteer road book was developed in order to enable the volunteers of Solidays (a French militant music festival fighting against HIV) to have any kind of information they could possibly need: map, festival's schedule, advice, security measures, a customizable personal schedule and a space to write down phone numbers.
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The Good advice project
Please see the whole project at www.TheGoodAdviceProject.com
The Good Advice Project is based on the very simple idea that sharing is caring. It brings people together. And it makes stuff grow. Enough with egoism and skepticism. Let's make the world better, by sharing what we know.
In January 2011, designer Jacob Lysgaard (JA) and photographer Hanne Hvattum (HA) decided to join forces and dive into the fruitful and mystical ocean of collaboration. They formed the creative constellation JAHA, and The Good Advice Project is their first common body of work.
Some said no and ran away. But most said YES, and by being openhearted and sharing they made this project possible. Hooray for them, and for sharing what we've got.
Enjoy the Good Advice.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Good-Advice-Project/933525
Please see the whole project at www.TheGoodAdviceProject.com
The Good Advice Project is based on the very simple idea that sharing is caring. It brings people together. And it makes stuff grow. Enough with egoism and skepticism. Let's make the world better, by sharing what we know.
In January 2011, designer Jacob Lysgaard (JA) and photographer Hanne Hvattum (HA) decided to join forces and dive into the fruitful and mystical ocean of collaboration. They formed the creative constellation JAHA, and The Good Advice Project is their first common body of work.
Some said no and ran away. But most said YES, and by being openhearted and sharing they made this project possible. Hooray for them, and for sharing what we've got.
Enjoy the Good Advice.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Good-Advice-Project/933525
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Model Advice
Branding & Promotion
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Forever Haiti
Campaign & Product Design
Solidarity Department at the University asked me to design a campaign in order to help Haiti, it was not immediately after the earthquake, but months later, the reason... Haiti will need help forever.
10.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/REHAB/1993919 WATCH THE CLIP
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http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mud-Sweat-Tears-Book/476304
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Letters to a Young Poet
Ranier Maria Rilke's letters were originally written to Franz Kappus, an aspiring young writer. Kappus began to send his poetry to Rilke seeking both literary criticism and career advice. Though these letters were written for a young poet, it applies to anyone looking to attempt to do anything creative in their lives. Since, these letters encouraged experiential wisdom and enlightenment of oneself to create. The design of the book was inspired by Zen which is an form of meditation that favors direct self realization. The illustrations and the type reflects the idea of this practice.
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Get a Damn Job
the kit:
the kit:
includes a book of job interview advice, cards with questions interviewers commonly ask, breath mints, and a pouch full of other useful items (tiny notebook, dental floss, nail file, comb, lint brush, etc.) to help you look and feel your best for this important and often stressful occasion.
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