Jasmine Tong

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everything Gen-Z stands for, owning her image, proudly growing in her self-worth
Kendall Jenner is the New Face of L'Oréal Paris - FASHION Magazine
And while there was never a master plan, there was always a profound commitment to humane and progressive values: a deep connection with customers, a powerful loyalty to culture and colleagues, a passion for life, a thirst to create.
The Leadership and Artistry of Tony Hsieh
“It’s a constant experimentation with new ideas,” Tony once said of the Downtown Project. “The whole point is that there’s no master plan.”
The Leadership and Artistry of Tony Hsieh
Create spaces that cultivate interactions. Design structured interactions between people of different backgrounds. Create open communication channels. Get everyone on the same page. Don’t forget to get out of your bubble.
Collisions, Co-learning & Connectedness: Remembering Tony Hsieh – Impact Hub Bradford
It’s not fair to celebrate radical thinking when it succeeds, and then disparage that same thinking when an experiment doesn’t work out. The point, for those of us who want to learn from Tony’s big ideas, is that breakthrough innovators tend to suffer setbacks as often as they unleash breakthroughs, which is why so few of us have the guts to follow in their paths. With an artist like Tony, for his contributions to be meaningful, they almost have to be messy.
The Leadership and Artistry of Tony Hsieh
Jim Collins and Jerry Porras published their mega-hit Built to Last, which identifies the attributes of long-prospering companies. One of those attributes was a “cult-like culture” built on fervently held ideology, indoctrination, tightness of fit, and elitism. I saw echoes of that analysis in the tightly-knit Zappos culture. It makes me think about how for decades, students at Texas A&M have recited a slogan to describe their famously distinctive (and cult-like) culture: “From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.”
The Leadership and Artistry of Tony Hsieh
Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, describes shame as “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”
5 Ways to Silence Shame | Psychology Today Canada
“I feel like it gives me more responsibility to not ruin half a million people’s day.” To combat this, she is strict about her tone of voice and the content she posts.
WePresent | How do you build a creative career on Instagram?
Whether it’s valid or not, followers give a lot of credibility
WePresent | How do you build a creative career on Instagram?
While the imagery she posts always focuses on her art—there are never photos or herself—the captions she publishes are often frank about her personal life and state of mind
WePresent | How do you build a creative career on Instagram?
I get so much from the accounts I follow that are open and honest
WePresent | How do you build a creative career on Instagram?
In the same way, Rosanna Morris’ social media presence is sometimes only superficially about her work. Often the content is more concerned with her home and personal life, her process, or behind-the-scenes shots of her studio space. Her partner and three kids feature regularly. It’s not a balance that she’s always comfortable with, but the personal and honest side of the medium is also what attracts her to it.
WePresent | How do you build a creative career on Instagram?
People need to be empowered to create and interpret a product how they see fit
WePresent | How to (hopefully) make it big on TikTok
Now, the only way you can get your content out to folks who don’t yet follow you is through videos; specifically reels. Static posts don’t get shared beyond the people who already follow you. Another blow to engagement came from changes to Instagram’s algorithm that prioritizes posts by users with a large following or a history of high-performing content. By contrast, TikTok is much more egalitarian, serving up content on the For You page whether you’re brand new to the platform or an old pro.
WePresent | How to (hopefully) make it big on TikTok
But Allen-Miller was confident that the collaborators she’d worked with for commercials would be more than capable of creating feature films. “I wanted to work with people who I knew would hear and respect me,” she says, “so everyone—hair, make-up, costume—were people I’d worked with on commercials. But I had to fight for that a bit and be like, ‘Piss off, I know what I’m doing.’”
WePresent | How do you fund and create a feature film?
Kwan and Scheinert also work with the same teams across their projects wherever possible, so the whole team gets to hone their skills and develop their craft together. “We’ve always done our best work following our own selfish interests,” says Scheinert. “And we really appreciate being able to work with our friends.”
WePresent | How do you fund and create a feature film?
Eventually, after a heavy year of shooting music videos and commercials, the pair took some time out to write something of their own. “All of our music videos were us just jamming a story in,” says Scheinert. “Sometimes too much story. But we were itching to do dialogue and really get into the writing process.”
WePresent | How do you fund and create a feature film?
Directing for advertising really isn’t about stories and human beings and emotions,” she says. “It’s about a product, so the character aspect just isn’t as important. But without character development, you can’t really direct a film
WePresent | How do you fund and create a feature film?
Fashion often turns to other fields to burnish its intellectual credibility and lay claim to eccentricity that defies commercial appeal.
Laila Gohar’s Exquisite Taste | The New Yorker
I think the only thing that establishes credibility is your own work.
Laila Gohar’s Exquisite Taste | The New Yorker
she is inclined to believe that things will work out, and, perhaps because of this, they often do
Laila Gohar’s Exquisite Taste | The New Yorker
Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.
WePresent | Join FKA twigs on her healing journey in Atlanta
This year I want to create more things, with the intended audience being myself, while still publishing everything. I want the authenticity, vulnerability, and experimentation that comes with not having to worry about an audience, while also being comfortable enough with myself to post publicly.
My 2022 Reincarnation Plan | LiamHz
It won't be until I sit alone with my thoughts that I'll snap out of it and realize that the lives of these people I respect is no longer the life I want to live.
People, Parties, and the Whispers of SF | LiamHz
I've been surprised by how few (young) people I meet attempt to understand paths of life that aren't travelling towards being a founder
People, Parties, and the Whispers of SF | LiamHz
True freedom of the soul cannot exist purely in opposition to something else — it has to be born from finding something we positively want to be. So perhaps a better question to ask ourselves than “how do you frame freedom for yourself?” is “what do you really want?”
commitments - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud
As Aristotle articulates, freedom used to mean the “cultivated ability to exercise self-governance, to limit ourselves in accordance with our nature and the natural world.” He conceived of freedom as independence from our base desires — which implies that in order to attain it, we can’t necessarily ‘live as we like.’ This is crazy considering the fact that our current cultural conception of freedom (that we adopted from Rousseauian liberalism) is essentially the opposite: ‘doing away with obligation to anyone or anything other than ourselves.’
commitments - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud
"I know that's what people say - you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, you'll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the person reminds you of them."
Echoes of Love | LiamHz