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Ideas from legendary artists — Host, Justin Campbell-Platt (@justincampbellp), dissects the biographies of painters, musicians, filmmakers (and more), to find ideas you can use for your creative work.

ICONS Justin Campbell-Platt

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Ideas from legendary artists — Host, Justin Campbell-Platt (@justincampbellp), dissects the biographies of painters, musicians, filmmakers (and more), to find ideas you can use for your creative work.

    #7 - Christopher Nolan

    #7 - Christopher Nolan

    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 hr 29 min
    #6 - Coco Chanel

    #6 - Coco Chanel

    What creative insights I learned from Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel by reading:


    Coco Chanel - The Legend and The Life, by Justine Picardie
    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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    #5 - Charlie Chaplin

    #5 - Charlie Chaplin

    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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    #4 - Leonardo Da Vinci

    #4 - Leonardo Da Vinci

    Ideas I got from artist Leonardo Da Vinci from reading:


    Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
    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 hr 31 min
    #3 - Anthony Bourdain

    #3 - Anthony Bourdain

    Ideas I got from artist Anthony Bourdain from reading:


    Laurie Woolever’s unique book, ⁠Bourdain in Stories⁠.
    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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    • 1 hr 6 min
    #2 - Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli)

    #2 - Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli)

    Ideas I got from artist Hayao Miyazaki from reading Miyazakiworld, A Life In Art, by Susan Napier.

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    Art mentioned:


    The Last Samurai — Film, 2003
    Spirited Away — Film, 2001
    My Neighbour Totoro — Film, 1988
    Princess Mononoke — Film, 1997
    Howl's Moving Castle — Film, 2004
    Ponyo — Film, 2008
    The Boy and The Heron — Film, 2023
    9 Shots — Song, 50 Cent
    The Wind Rises — Film, 2013
    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Film, 1984
    Laputa: Castle in the Sky — Film, 1986
    The Count of Monte Cristo — Book, Alexandre Dumas
    The Three Musketeers — Book, Alexandre Dumas
    The Prisoner of Zenda — Book, Anthony Hope
    Gulliver's Travels — Book, Jonathan Swift
    The Secret Garden — Book, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
    Heidi — Book, Jeanne Willis
    Panda and the Magic Serpent — Film, 1958

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    • 1 hr 1 min

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