MyÜberLife

As we approach the rounding-out of another year, 2011, and we reflect on the ’many sights of wonder’ we have encountered this past year, we are filled with inspiration, hope and dedication for the year to come.  A new year, 2012, will bring with it opportunity, obstacles and the ‘vesseled’ lessons from the year before; a new year allows us to use all the harnessed creative energies from the year before to aid us on our future creative and business endeavors.      

One of the benefits of living in today’s world is the ability to constantly train one’s creative pallet through continuous edification, emotional growth, and an accumulation of multiple creative energies.  Today, our world offers diverse mediums, where creativity is constantly shared online and at a ‘magazine subway-strap-hanger glance ‘offline,’ if one looks, one can find an abundance of inspiration all around.

In my attempt to live the words I write, I went through hundreds of editorial ‘tears’ from this past year to document in my scrap book, searching for reminders of 2011 inspirations.  In the process, I came across the ‘Wired with Love’ editorial featuring model’s Nina Reijnders and Victoria Lipatova, who take on the role of bondage vixens for photographer Koray Parlak’s most recent work in Marie Claire Turkey.  ’Wire with Love’ was outfitted by stylist Hakan Öztürk and makeup by artist Ali Riza Ozdemir, with hair by Ferit Belli.  Together, all of the elements, from the leather whips, to lace veils, to photo framing technique and more; all make for a rich composition of sadist-meets-saint editorial narrative.

‘Wire with Love’ thematically exemplifies the notion that creativity, when explored in technique as well in philosophy, can create art.  When juxtaposed on each other, the exploration of both light and dark subject matters, allows for beauty to emerge. ‘Wire with Love’ serves as a philosophical metaphor for this past year: no matter what life throws at us, we, if we seek to, can create beauty, even from the darkest of places.  As, Marquis de Sade, French philosopher, where the word sadism is derived, once said, “Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.”

In May 2012, my wish for all of you is saintly resurrection in all your creative and business pursuits as well as moments of pleasure in your darkest hours.  Posted by Jey Van-Sharp of MyUberLife

Browsing today, we found these images with powerful references. Upon further investigation we discovered it was the simple brillance of Napoleon Hill.  These words are excerpts from Napoleon Hill’s book ‘Think and Grow Rich.’  We recommend this classic read to all of you fashionistas, artist, musicians, creative types of all sorts and future business moguls.  This book, by far, is the most powerful book I have read on success. 

Who was Napoleon Hill: Napoleon Hill (1883 –1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.  He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success.  His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill’s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies).  Hill’s works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success.  He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933-36.

Hill considered the turning point in his life to have occurred in the year 1908 with his assignment, as part of a series of articles about famous and successful men, to interview the industrialist Andrew Carnegie.  At the time, Carnegie was one of the most powerful men in the world.  Hill discovered that Carnegie believed that the process of success could be outlined in a simple formula that anyone would be able to understand and achieve.  Impressed with Hill, Carnegie asked him if he was up to the task of putting together this information, to interview or analyze over 500 successful men and women, many of them millionaires, in order to discover and publish this formula for success.

As part of his research, Hill interviewed many of the most famous people of the time, including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell,George Eastman, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Charles M. Schwab, F.W. Woolworth, William Wrigley Jr., John Wanamaker, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and Jennings Randolph.  Hill was also an advisor to two presidents of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin 

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These are some of the many reasons why we love Vogue Italia. These creatively-creepy looks and child like comforts have a compelling affect on the viewer.  A very creative shoot, to say the least.  

This editorial, understandably titled Mechanical Dolls by Tim Walker, captures models Audrey Marnay and Kirsi Pyrhonen in surreal doll poses.  Mr. Walker, who has been on a roll, merges fashion photography and fine art in this October issue of Vogue Italia.  He manages to walk the line between art and fashion gracefully, blurring the lines of reality, reversing the concept of personification; giving dolls human like qualities.  Mr. Walker distorts the child fantasy into a dark twisted one, all while skillfully using high fashion clothing as reference. Charming! 

The models are styled by Jacob K in doll like looks from the Fall collections of Louis Vuitton, Stella McCartney, Alberta Ferretti, Kenzo and others.

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