Justin Stahl

• 2011-06-17

  Conan O'Brien on Failure

  “It is our failure to become our perceived ideal, that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. Your perceived failure can become a catalyst for reinvention.”

• 2011-05-21

  John Jay on creativity

  Source: twitter.com

• 2010-11-21

  Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

  — Albert Einstein

• 2010-11-20

  Metal-fabricator Neil Youngberg never planned on taking over his grandfather’s business and is now faced with passing on his legacy. Shot on location in Neil’s metal fabrication shop, the 3rd generation craftsman gives a sincere overview of his life’s work, dispensing hard-worn wisdom while illuminating the sobering realities of the role private business plays in an ever changing economic landscape.

  Source: vimeo.com

• 2010-11-14

  Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don’t mind, and those that mind don’t matter.

  — Dr. Seuss

• 2010-11-10

  

  Holstee Manifesto

  Source: shop.holstee.com

• 2010-10-29

  A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

  — Nikola Tesla, 1893

• 2010-10-28

  We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there’s some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You’re making it too complicated.

  — Brad Bird

• 2010-07-26

  He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson