Anselm Jed Liu: 5月 2011

18th May, 2011
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18 different 2 point Perspectives (Inc. "Eye Level"; "Above" and "Below")

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MashUp - Idea of Power

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Oprah Winfrey

(Oprah's final shows: The greatest lessons we've learned, accessed 17/05/2011, http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/830955/oprahs-final-shows-the-greatest-lessons-weve-learned)

We've learned a lot from Oprah Winfrey over the last 25 years, but what does she believe are the greatest lessons learned? Don't worry, her latest show sums them up perfectly.

The Oprah Winfrey Show decided it was time to take a look back in a nostalgic show fittingly called: Oprah's Most Memorable Guests: The Greatest Lessons on The Oprah Show. Did you really think we were going to usher the queen of talk out without learning a few more lessons?

The show brought back some memorable guests that were very powerful, including a group of white supremacists who used Oprah Winfrey's stage as a platform 23 years ago.

When she pitched the show back then she thought it would be about learning, but the group used it as a platform to spread their word instead. Winfrey realized that no matter how groundbreaking the show was, she would never use the show as a platform in that manner again. Two of the white supremacists joined Oprah on the stage 23 years later to apologize in an emotional reunion.

Another guest from the past that helped moms everywhere was the mother who was so busy in her own life that she left her daughter in a hot car one summer. Her daughter accidently died. Her story reached another mom who was heading in the same direction in her own life and it was a huge wakeup call.

We couldn't leave the show without a little Oprah "ah-ha moment." Of course, she quoted Maya Angelou, saying, "When you know better, you do better."

Oprah admitted that had she not been given the advice that you can't bring your childhood into your relationship, she and Stedman might not have made it.

What was a lesson you learned from Oprah Winfrey? Tell us, we want to know

Jonathan Ive
(Jonathan Ive | Most Creative People 2010 | Fast Company, accessed 17/05/2011, http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2009/jonathan-ive)

Ten years ago, before the iPod and the iPhone became objects of the world's electro-lust, Jonathan Ive sat down with Fast Company to talk about his first Apple blockbuster, the iMac. The machine could not have been a more radical departure from the ubiquitous beige-box PC: a desktop computer in bright candy colors with a see-through shell showing its inner machinery. Bursting onto the scene with all the subtlety of a streaker, the iMac became the top-selling computer in the United States.

"With technology, the function is much more abstract to users," Ive, then 32, told us. "So the product's meaning is almost entirely defined by the designer." Even then, it was clear that Apple's head of design knew what he was doing. Ive defined his overarching design principles as "simplicity, accessibility, honesty, and enjoyment."

Today, Apple represents the most successful and faithful marriage of business and design, as $32 billion in sales last year attest. And Ive -- with an assist, of course, from CEO Steve Jobs -- has been the company's lodestar in its journey to global trendsetter. Apple is notoriously secretive about its design process (even most Apple employees are barred from the company's design lab); given the uncertainty around Jobs's health, it's not surprising that Ive was not made available for an interview. But no one is in a better position to explain Ive's impact on Apple and the business community than Robert Brunner, who, as Apple's previous design chief, hired Ive at the company and recommended him as his successor.

"He likes to make perfect stuff," says Brunner, offering the first of three keys to Ive's success. That design perfection -- the first touch-screen smartphone, the dominant MP3 player, the first titanium laptop -- has become the benchmark by which companies in all industries judge themselves. "I've even had a plumbing company say, 'We want our showerhead to be our version of the iPod,' " says Brunner, now a partner at the design firm Ammunition. "Ive has this design ability combined with a craftsmanlike mentality."

The second key is Ive's understanding of the interplay between design and manufacturing. Even when Ive was just out of school, before he joined Apple, Brunner recalls, "he showed us his work, and I was amazed. He had taken a phone and come up with a radical design, but it was so refined it could have been manufactured right then." At Apple, Ive has taken those insights one step further. Consider the new MacBook, which is carved from a single piece of aluminum and demands aeronautics-caliber precision. "[Apple] had to reinvent its factories to make it," Brunner explains. "It's mind-boggling." While most companies create designs that can be manufactured with existing equipment and processes, Ive and his team meet the problem halfway, often overhauling manufacturing to get "perfect" products built on a mass scale.

Finally, Ive has had support from the top -- something designers at many firms struggle for. "You need a CEO who gets it," Brunner says. "Something like the iPod is a melding of design and user experience and marketing and pop culture, and you don't achieve that without coordination throughout the company."

After studying design at Newcastle Polytechnic in his native U.K., Ive cofounded an indie firm called Tangerine Design, where he applied himself to hair combs, power tools, and toilets. He eventually signed on as a design lead in Apple's creative studio. When the young Brit succeeded Brunner in 1996, he was just 29.

It was a heady job at a time of crisis. Apple was on the verge of collapse. When Jobs returned the following year to rescue the company he had cofounded, he vowed on his second day that industrial design would be essential to survival. As Jobs soon discovered, Ive shared that vision -- and had the skills to execute it. The iMac was a sign of things to come.

"We feel that we're just getting going," Ive told us a decade ago. He couldn't have been more right. -- by Chuck Salter.

Lady Gaga
(Lady Gaga says she loves tea and wants to live in England, accessed 17/05/2011, http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/05/17/lady-gaga-says-she-loves-tea-and-wants-to-live-in-england-115875-23136234/)

As the world's most outrageous pop star, she's expected to cause a stir - but her opening gambit was not quite what you'd expect.

"Would you like a cup of tea," says Lady Gaga, pointing towards a tray with eight boxes of different blends of PG Tips. "I have lots of tea."

She wears meat, arrives on stage in a coffin and sleeps in full make-up and a wig, but right now Gaga is fussing over a kettle and mugs in the fully-fitted kitchen area of her tour bus.

The New Yorker invited us aboard for an insight into her astonishing life, and by the time we get off the Gaga express, she'll have revealed all about making out, breaking up, and, er, deep-fried Mars bars.

Oh, and left us with the remarkable memory of the superstar stretched flat out on an animal print-covered bed, wearing little more than her underwear.

To get to the bus, we're ushered through tight security into the 25-year-old singer's "garden", backstage at the Carlisle Airfield site where she performed at BBC Radio 1's One Big Weekend.

FURNITURE

"She has her own plot of land out there," a production staff member reveals. And she needs it, with five tour buses and two Winnebagos ("just for makeup").

There's a lot less chaos than the gossip about her rearranging furniture and sending out production runners to Argos for a replacement sewing machine would have you believe.

Inside, Gaga is sitting at a make-up table, scattered with hundreds of products and illuminated by a mirror framed with lightbulbs. She immediately gets up with her arms outstretched for a hug, asking everyone who arrives how they are.

It becomes apparent that underneath the studded leather jacket she's wearing is just her bra.

It's then that she dashes up to the kitchen area to stick the kettle on.

There are only four people in the bus. It's oddly quiet, but Gaga, who only just split from long-term boyfriend Luc Carl, says she likes her own space.

"I like being alone," she says. "I lived alone for so long when I was in NYC fighting for my shot at stardom, so there is something that is very sentimental to me about time with my wigs and a glass of whisky."

So what does Lady Gaga do when she's not being Lady Gaga? "To relax, I like to be by myself," she says. "I play piano by myself sometimes. I write poetry, I read and I play with my wigs and I listen to my music." Her wigs seem to be her latest obsession. Last week, she said they would be the first thing she saved from a fire. They are a "surrealist extension" of her being - and she's even called her new song Hair.

"Sometimes, I plan my outfits very far in advance, and sometimes not very far at all," she explains. "Today, I have a few things backstage that I really like, and I'll just, you know, as I see how the audience involve, I'll change my mind."

In other words, she puts on whatever she fancies mid-way through a show? She nods.

"Sometimes it's more in advance," she says. "Some of the more technological pieces - the real couture, embroidered stuff, takes a long time.

"Today's a festival. I used to go to festivals all the time and the spirit of the festival is to be free. So I kind of want to mirror that on stage."

Pointing to her shoes, which have impressively pointy heels, she says: "These are my wellies. Gaga does wellies. Six-inch high heels." She later tells Fearne Cotton she had been told to put wellies on, but responded: "F*** off."

She makes no apologies for her language. She says on stage: "They left me a nice note on my mirror, saying: 'Radio 1 has kindly requested there be no cursing during your set.' I can try to wash my mouth out."

Nevertheless, she says she enjoys coming to the UK, and would "maybe" move permanently.

"I'm a New York girl at heart, but I love it here," she says.

But she hasn't snapped up the Scottish castle she was rumoured to be buying.

"I'm not really interested in setting the record straight about anything," she says. "But I don't have a castle."

Her publicist chips in: "The castle in Carlisle keep phoning me, saying they know you love staying in castles so would you like to stay in their castle."

Gaga looks bemused, and categorically states: "The Disney castle is the only one I stay in."

ARTIFICIAL

She's stayed in the Disneyworld castle? "Yep. Me and all the princesses shacked up. We have slumber parties," she says.

Her publicist groans. Gaga is, without a doubt, one of the world's most hard-working pop stars. She has been touring her Monster Ball show for 18 months and, weeks after the final date, she's already in full album promotion mode, preparing for the release of Born This Way next Monday.

"The album is about living halfway between reality and fantasy at all times, challenging the social idea that magic is artificial," she explains. "Whereas I believe that what's magical inside of you is what makes you special, and unique."

At this point, she reaches out and strokes my coat. "You should harness that leopard print jacket and proclaim it every day in your life, be proud of who you are and be proud that you were born this way, and know that you can be born over and over again until you become the you that defines you the best."

So, what rebirth is next for Gaga?

"I think, after you hear the album, you won't expect me to do too much after that," she says. "It's going to be a wonderfully long and liber-ating journey promoting the record, and then I'm going on tour again." It's no wonder there are constantly reports of Lady Gaga's fatigue, with a seemingly never-ending schedule and few extended periods of time off.

She has just become the first person to top 10 million followers on Twitter. But her fans regularly beg her to rest. The tiny singer is also constantly rumoured to be on wacky diets, or not eating at all. But she definitely enjoyed a large bite of a 420 calorie deep-fried Mars bar presented during the conversation.

"This is really good," she says, offering the horrific-looking Scottish delicacy around. "Here, take a bite."

With a mouth full of battered chocolate, she says: "I don't eat, so this is like Christmas in my mouth." Her publicist groans again. Given the chance to say one final thing, the singer thinks for a while and reveals: "I love to make out. I've never said that before." But she refuses to elaborate.

As the interview ends, Gaga says her goodbyes and flops down on an animal throw-covered bed in the next room, leaving the door wide open. She's still wearing her six-inch heel boots - and little else.

Later, she emerges from a coffin on stage (20 minutes late - she runs over the stage curfew by half an hour) and wears leather knickers emblazoned with a crucifix. But she also breaks down in tears after performing Edge of Glory, written for her grandfather, and Speechless, written for her father. "I've got a thing for men who drink too much, like my dad," she says. She even chips in a reference to the royal wedding, for the headlines.

It's the typical mixture of emotions, controversy and sexuality expected from Gaga.

And she makes a decent cuppa too.

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