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Dora Maar a souvent été rabaissée au rôle de muse de Picasso. Elle était pourtant une photographe et une peintre de génie. Pour elle, aimer, c'est faire de sa vie une oeuvre. En photographiant, en étant modèle du peintre. En devenant peintre, elle même.  Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture et voix : Alice Deroide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fluent Fiction - Catalan: A Barcelona Encounter: Rekindling Friendship at Museu Picasso Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ca/episode/2026-06-13-07-38-19-ca Story Transcript:Ca: En un matí calorós d'estiu, el sol resplendia amb força sobre les antigues teulades del Barri de La Ribera a Barcelona.En: On a hot summer morning, the sun shone brightly over the ancient rooftops of the Barri de La Ribera in Barcelona.Ca: Oriol, amb una camisa de colors i unes ulleres de sol, caminava amb pas dubitatiu cap al Museu Picasso.En: Oriol, wearing a colorful shirt and sunglasses, walked hesitantly towards the Museu Picasso.Ca: Les estretes carrers plens de vida el rodejaven mentre ell pensava en el motiu de la seva visita.En: The narrow, lively streets surrounded him as he pondered the reason for his visit.Ca: Marçal, el seu amic més entremaliat, l'hi havia desafiant.En: Marçal, his most mischievous friend, had challenged him.Ca: "És el moment que resolguis el que et queda pendent amb la Gemma," havia dit.En: "It's time you resolve things with Gemma," he had said.Ca: Oriol va assentir, encara que nerviós.En: Oriol nodded, though he was nervous.Ca: Quan Oriol va arribar al museu, va veure un grup de nens amuntegats a l'entrada.En: When Oriol arrived at the museum, he saw a group of children crowded at the entrance.Ca: Sense voler, es va veure arrossegat entre els nens.En: Unintentionally, he was swept along with the children.Ca: La guia era... Gemma!En: The guide was... Gemma!Ca: Amb un entusiasme radiant, explicava la vida de Picasso amb claredat i passió.En: With radiant enthusiasm, she explained the life of Picasso with clarity and passion.Ca: Oriol la recordava bé, tan fascinant com sempre.En: Oriol remembered her well, as fascinating as ever.Ca: Però un detall nou: no el reconeixia.En: But one new detail: she didn't recognize him.Ca: Era la seva oportunitat, però... el bigoti!En: This was his opportunity, but... the mustache!Ca: Potser per això no l'identificava.En: Perhaps that's why she didn't identify him.Ca: Gemma va començar a guiar el grup pels salons del museu, amb els nens que la seguien atentament.En: Gemma began to lead the group through the museum's halls, with the children following her attentively.Ca: Oriol volia sortir, deixar-ho estar, però una pintura de Picasso va captar la seva atenció.En: Oriol wanted to leave, to let it go, but a painting by Picasso caught his attention.Ca: Un record va brollar.En: A memory surfaced.Ca: Ell i la Gemma havien fet una còpia d'aquella pintura a l'escola.En: He and Gemma had made a copy of that painting at school.Ca: Mentre ella parlava, Oriol no va poder evitar dir-ho en veu alta: "Recordes el dia que vam vessar pintura a la classe?"En: As she spoke, Oriol couldn't help but say out loud, "Do you remember the day we spilled paint in class?"Ca: Gemma es va girar, sorpresa.En: Gemma turned, surprised.Ca: Va mirar més de prop al desconegut amb un bigoti.En: She looked more closely at the stranger with a mustache.Ca: Una rialla escapà dels seus llavis mentre va exclamar: "Oriol!"En: A laugh escaped her lips as she exclaimed, "Oriol!"Ca: Era un reconeixement ple de calidesa.En: It was a recognition full of warmth.Ca: El nerviosisme d'Oriol va començar a dissoldre's com el gel al sol d'estiu.En: Oriol's nervousness began to melt away like ice in the summer sun.Ca: Després de la visita, mentre els nens marxaven, Gemma i Oriol es van quedar a la vora d'una finestra amb vistes als carrerons plens de vida.En: After the visit, as the children left, Gemma and Oriol stayed by a window overlooking the bustling alleyways.Ca: "Va ser un error de nens," va dir Gemma amb un somriure.En: "It was a childish mistake," Gemma said with a smile.Ca: "Ho hem de deixar enrere." Ella li va proposar una visita privada.En: "We need to leave it behind." She proposed a private visit.Ca: "Sense nens, només art," va afegir.En: "Without children, just art," she added.Ca: Oriol va acceptar amb un somriure nou.En: Oriol accepted with a newfound smile.Ca: La seva venjança infantil s'havia convertit en res.En: His childish grudge had turned into nothing.Ca: Al seu lloc, hi havia una comprensió renovada.En: In its place, there was a renewed understanding.Ca: La rancúnia havia desaparegut.En: The resentment had disappeared.Ca: Els museus tenen aquesta màgia: recorden el passat, però també ofereixen nous començaments.En: Museums have this magic: they remember the past but also offer new beginnings.Ca: Oriol es va adonar que, com els pinzellades de Picasso, cada relació pot evolucionar i trobar el seu propi equilibri.En: Oriol realized that, like Picasso's brushstrokes, each relationship can evolve and find its own balance.Ca: Satisfet, va sortir del museu, el cor més lleuger gràcies a Marçal, a Barcelona i als picassos que s'hi trobaven.En: Satisfied, he left the museum, his heart lighter thanks to Marçal, Barcelona, and the Picassos found there. Vocabulary Words:the rooftops: les teuladeshesitantly: dubitatiuthe narrow streets: les carrers estretesto ponder: pensarmischievous: entremaliatto challenge: desafiarcrowded: amuntegatsunintentionally: sense volerradiant: radiantto recognize: reconèixerthe mustache: el bigotithe painting: la pinturato spill: vessara laugh: una riallawarmth: calidesato melt: dissoldrebustling: plens de vidachildish: de nensto propose: proposarresentment: rancúniathe brushstrokes: les pinzelladesto evolve: evolucionarnewfound: nourenewed: renovadaunderstanding: comprensióto offer: oferirsatisfied: satisfetto sweep: arrossegarthe mobile screen: la pantalla mòbilthe magic: la màgia

La venganza será terrible Alejandro Dolina, Patricio Barton, Gillespi Introducción • 0:01:13 Saludos, recuerdo de la función en La Plata y agradecimiento al público • 0:04:21 Presentación de funciones en Avellaneda, Canning, Rosario, Córdoba y La Trastienda Segmento Inicial • 0:08:20 Las tribulaciones del capitalino que se muda a un pueblo • 0:11:10 Saludo obligatorio y fin del anonimato en la vida pueblerina • 0:13:20 Juicio social por la apariencia y la ropa • 0:14:27 Precauciones con romances, moral local y chismes • 0:18:23 Perros callejeros, siesta sagrada y ritmo lento del pueblo • 0:27:29 Rumores, Don Soilo y conflicto con los recién llegados • 0:35:08 Invitaciones sociales, fútbol local, apodos y pertenencia al pueblo • 0:39:01 Moda de irse a vivir a pueblos como San Antonio de Areco • 0:40:53 Colecta para un bebedero y nueva disputa por la hija de Don Soilo • 0:45:30 Expulsión humorística de los porteños del pueblo • 0:46:53 Lectura de mensajes de oyentes Segmento Dispositivo • 0:55:57 Hábitos extraños de pintores famosos • 0:56:06 Manías cotidianas y alimentación de Picasso • 0:58:23 Excesos y rutinas de Francis Bacon y Toulouse-Lautrec • 1:01:40 Fobias y obsesiones de Cézanne • 1:04:53 Fascinación de Manet por los pies y fabulaciones de Diego Rivera • 1:07:15 "El pintado" ♫ Segmento Humorístico • 1:10:38 Denuncias a falsos psicólogos • 1:12:59 Paquetes de sesiones, teleconsultas y clichés del consultorio • 1:16:40 Herramientas terapéuticas, reemplazos y pseudoespecialistas • 1:20:22 Monoambientes, falta de sala de espera y exposición de intimidades • 1:23:53 Matrículas dudosas, astrología y problemas domésticos del terapeuta • 1:25:18 Lacanianos, palabra plena y sesiones arbitrarias • 1:27:51 Psicólogos agresivos, hartazgo de pacientes y cierre del sketch Sordo Gancé / Manuel Moreira • 1:35:14 Presentación musical • 1:38:29 "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" ♫ • 1:41:20 "Desafinado" ♫ • 1:44:09 "Tenderly" ♫ • 1:46:55 "El orangután" ♫ (Resumen generado automáticamente con IA, puede contener errores)

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Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and exposes the complex history and legacy of the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize.When a white student quoted a line from Blazing Saddles, blurting out the N-word in the middle of class, Professor Elizabeth Pryor froze. In that moment, she was shockingly confronted with not only the most notorious slur in the United States, but the line quoted by the student was one her father - the iconic comedian Richard Pryor - had written.The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. After the incident in her classroom, Professor Pryor dove into her research to better understand the history of the word, and processed it with her students, eventually emerging as a leading scholar on the n-word as witnessed in her popular Ted Talk, "Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word."The more she learned, the more Elizabeth's own memories of the N-word rose to the surface. Growing up the Black and Jewish biracial daughter of a groundbreaking Black comedian - navigating the world her Jewish mother showed her and the Hollywood her father shared - meant the word was part of the most painful, but also tender moments of her life. Her reckoning with this word meant a reckoning with memories of her father, who skyrocketed to fame in the 1970's, making the n-word a hallmark of his act.SOMETHING WE SAID: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me is a hybrid: part memoir of the daughter of a legendary comedian, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the n-word, seamlessly braided together. Elizabeth not only peels back the curtain on life with Richard Pryor, a comedian Jerry Seinfeld has called the "Picasso of our profession," but also our country's legacy of racism and Black resilience.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Inauguriamo una rubrica, “Le figure Chiave del Flamenco”, e parliamo di Vicente Escudero, un bailaor fondamentale nella storia del flamenco. Nasce a Valladolid, in Castiglia, nel 1888 lontano dalla cultura del flamenco. Fin da bambino aveva una passione smodata per il baile flamenco, il padre era calzolaio ed era disperato perché Vicente rompeva tutte le scarpe ballando. Qualunque scusa era buona per lui per ballare e soprattutto per creare ritmo. Batteva i piedi sulle bocche dei tombini di ghisa, e ognuna aveva un suono differente e questo lo affascinava tantissimo. Il padre lo inviò ad imparare un mestiere in una tipografia, ma Vicente era più interessato a creare ritmi sulle macchine da stampa che ad imparare ad usarle. Nella sua vita i suoni metallici e delle macchine furono un amore costante. L'approccio al flamenco è totalmente autodidatta, e volle capire la logica profonda del flamenco per cui visse anche per un periodo a Granada, al Sacromonte. Ai cafés cantantes era felice di ascoltare i bravissimi musicisti che ci lavoravano, ma non venne accolto nell'ambiente flamenco perché faceva cose e suoni molto particolari, e i musicisti non si trovavano bene con lui. Incontro fondamentale fu con colui che definì e riconobbe per tutta la vita come il suo maestro, Antonio de Bilbao, al Café de las Columnas di Bilbao. Nel 1908/1909 fugge a Lisbona per evitare di fare il servizio militare, e da lì va a Parigi. A Montmartre vive fra gli artisti delle avanguardie, e diventò amico di tutti gli intellettuali, nonostante non avesse lui stesso una istruzione, scriveva molto male, ma aveva una intelligenza molto acuta e brillante. Veniva molto affascinato da questi artisti, soprattutto pittori, che avevano tanto desiderio di eliminare ciò che non era essenziale. A Vicente interessavano linee rette, geometriche, senza spazio per strizzare l'occhio al pubblico, a differenza di ciò che si faceva all'epoca nei cafés cantantes. Parigi lo consacra come artista flamenco riconosciuto, in America viene considerato come il miglior ballerino del mondo, Manuel de Falla lo contratta per mettere in scena El Amor Brujo a Parigi con Antonia Mercé La Argentina. Ma la Spagna lo riconosce finalmente come ballerino molto tardi, nel 1930, all'età di 42 anni! E comunque il pubblico spagnolo intellettuale lo capiva ma il largo pubblico no. Fin da bambino era affascinato dai suoni meccanici e in un esempio di lotta fra l'uomo e la macchina, danzò con due motori elettrici nascosti dietro le quinte del teatro, circa trent'anni prima che John Cage rendesse celebre il concetto di musica concreta, e che facesse queste opere di rottura, come “4'33””, in cui per 4 minuti e 33 secondi il pianista chiude il pianoforte e la musica diventa i rumori ambientali. L'interesse di Vicente Escudero per il suono lo portò a cercare suoni nel silenzio, fatti con le unghie, con le mani, si costruì nacchere di metallo per aver suoni nuovi. Per primo ebbe il coraggio di ballare por Seguiriya, che era considerato il tempio del cante e che Escudero stesso diceva di ballare senza respirare per non profanare il tempio. Ma da allora in poi divenne possibile ballare por Seguiriya, e la cosa è molto importante: il flamenco non accetta le innovazioni con facilità. Il suo lavoro sulla Seguiriya era anche molto teatrale, nella penombra, con cantaor e chitarrista illuminati in controluce, il bailaor al centro come se fosse la rappresentazione stessa della musica. Ebbe persino un passaggio in cui provò a cantare, con scarso risultato, e anche a dipingere e disegnare, per sperimentare tutto. Di lui restano poche testimonianze in video, soprattutto di quando era già anziano, e irrigidito dall'età e anche da una malattia degenerativa. La cosa più importante del suo lascito è il Decálogo del buen Bailarín, pubblicato nel 1951 a Barcellona, frutto delle sue riflessioni sul baile durate tutta la sua vita professionale. Stabilì 10 regole del baile maschile. Perché solo maschile? Secondo lui la donna, sempre ammesso che abbia profondità e capacità, è sempre bella, ma l'uomo che balla spesso è effeminato, ridondante e troppo ornamentato nei cafés cantantes. La Spagna di quell'epoca aveva in mente una netta distinzione fra i sessi. I principi del decalogo sono: bailar en hombre, senza essere effeminati, sobrietà senza eccessi e passi acrobatici da circo, e il movimento non è solo nel viso ma in tutto il corpo, soprattutto nelle gambe, girare i polsi con le dita unite (se no, se le dita anarchicamente vanno per conto loro sono movimenti da donna), fianchi fermi e verticali, bailar tranquillo e sereno senza correre, mantenendo un'armonia fra piedi, braccia e testa (con il naso fermo e tutto sincronizzato), un'estetica senza mistificazioni, ballare con abiti tradizionali e sobri, senza colori strani, aver varietà di suoni senza fare ricorso a strumenti che amplifichino il suono (forse non usava i chiodi). Difficilmente un bailaor applicava tutti questi punti, neppure Vicente stesso. Rispetto alle avanguardie artistiche, il decalogo arriva tardi, nel 1951. Il corpo si evolve sempre più lentamente rispetto alle avanguardie artistiche, e ha bisogno di più tempo: il pittore può cambiare pennello o colori, e infatti in tutte le avanguardie artistiche si parte sempre dalle arti figurative. Nella sua vita privata fu bohémien, visse con una ballerina flamenca cubana, Carmita García, e quando Carmita morì visse con la bailaora catalana María Márquez a Barcellona, con cui creò una piccola accademia di danza. La sua ultima esibizione come ballerino è del 1969 a 81 anni a Madrid. La sua importanza è di aver portato le avanguardie artistiche europee, cubismo, espressionismo, dadaismo, futurismo nel baile flamenco, senza scopiazzare i balletti russi o la danza moderna, creando un flamenco filosofico, che dialoga con Picasso, con Duchamp, mostrando che il flamenco può essere un sistema estetico con una teoria filosofica. Il suo “Mi Baile” uscito nel 1947 è un testo autobiografico e fu il primo testo del genere scritto da un bailaor. È stato molto studiato da Victoria Cavia Naya, che ha pubblicato nel 2002 per l'Università di Valladolid “Vicente Escudero baile y Vanguardia”, un ottimo studio su questo personaggio. Escudero sostituisce i braceos rotondi con linee rette essenziali, studia lo spazio scenico, cosa nuova nel flamenco, identifica il movimento fisico con l'emozione, in linea con l'espressionismo. Il Decalogo non è una gabbia ma una struttura che possa permettere al flamenco di durare senza snaturarsi. È interessante che un non gitano, non andaluso, autodidatta, riconosciuto più all'estero che in Spagna, parta da Parigi per fare un'operazione del genere! La sua figura ricorda tantissimo Israel Galván, che infatti nei suoi bailes fa un sacco di citazioni fisiche di Vicente. Il punto di vista è lo stesso: il baile come pensiero, come concetto, come filosofia. Le epoche storiche sono molto diverse, Galván nasce quasi un secolo dopo, nel 1973, destruttura il corpo del bailaor, rendendolo grottesco, animalesco, mentre Escudero vuole salvare la virilità sobria del baile maschile dalle frivolezze superficiali dei cafés cantantes. Sono ambedue stati molto radicali e probabilmente sono stati apprezzati più all'estero che in Spagna. Escudero ha segnato un prima e un dopo. Sono Sabina Todaro, mi occupo di flamenco e danze e musiche del mondo arabo dal 1985. Dal 1990 insegno baile flamenco a Milano e Lyrical Arab Dance.Mi ha sempre affascinata Vicente Escudero con la sua esigenza di dare regole precise. All'inizio ho visto più il suo aspetto sessista, ma oggi non c'è più questa grossa distinzione fra i sessi ballando. Ricordo che quando ho iniziato io gli insegnanti correggevano gli allievi maschi dicendo di non muovere le dita o di non alzare troppo le braccia. Ogni elemento ha portato un regalo che ha determinato il cammino dello sviluppo del flamenco. Se vogliamo capirlo, dobbiamo rispettarne tutti gli aspetti.  

Nuestro podcast más viajero vuelve a Alemania con una ruta excepcional a través de cuatro ciudades del sur del país llenas de encanto y belleza. En este nuevo episodio de El Placer de Viajar, el podcast de viajes de Libertad Digital y esRadio, Carmelo Jordá y Kelu Robles nos proponen una fascinante ruta por el sur de Alemania para descubrir otras cuatro ciudades agrupadas en la asociación Historic Highlights of Germany. El viaje comienza en la encantadora ciudad de Friburgo de Brisgovia, situada a los pies de la Selva Negra. Esta localidad destaca por ser considerada la más cálida y sostenible del país, con una vibrante vida universitaria y un casco antiguo medieval repleto de calles empedradas. Kalu resalta la presencia de los Bächle, unos pequeños riachuelos medievales diseñados originalmente para combatir incendios y que hoy aportan un encanto único al paisaje urbano. Asimismo, menciona lugares indispensables como su catedral gótica de piedra rojiza, su mercado tradicional y el barrio ecológico de Vauban, un modelo de arquitectura pasiva y autogestión vecinal. A la conversación se une David Alonso para detallar la siguiente parada: Túbinga, otra pintoresca ciudad universitaria a orillas del río Neckar. A diferencia de otras urbes germanas, su centro histórico sobrevivió intacto a los bombardeos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, conservando sus características casas con entramado de madera. El color de sus fachadas reflejaba antaño la jerarquía social de sus habitantes, siendo el dorado el estatus más alto. David resalta la visita al castillo de Hohentübingen, propiedad de la Universidad, que alberga un museo y protege una colonia de murciélagos, razón por la cual están prohibidos los conciertos allí. Para completar la experiencia, se recomienda dar un paseo en el Stocherkahn, una de las embarcaciones típicas del lugar capitaneadas por los propios estudiantes universitarios. La tercera ciudad del recorrido es Ausburgo, una de las más antiguas de Alemania, fundada por los romanos en el año 15 a.C. bajo el mandato del emperador Augusto. Ausburgo vivió una época de gran esplendor durante el Renacimiento gracias a la influyente dinastía de banqueros Fugger. Jacobo Fugger construyó en 1521 la Fuggerei, el complejo de viviendas sociales más antiguo del mundo que todavía sigue en funcionamiento, donde sus residentes pagan un alquiler simbólico anual a cambio de rezar tres veces al día por los fundadores. David también hace hincapié en el extraordinario sistema de gestión de agua de la ciudad, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO, que cuenta con más puentes que la propia Venecia y canales que separaban el agua potable de la industrial. Carmelo se encarga de presentar la última joya alemana de la ruta: Ratisbona, ubicada a orillas del río Danubio. Esta ciudad destaca por ser el único casco antiguo medieval intacto de Alemania que se ha conservado en su totalidad, lo que le valió la declaración de Patrimonio Mundial por la UNESCO. Entre sus monumentos principales sobresale el Puente de Piedra, una colosal obra de ingeniería del siglo XII que durante siglos fue el único puente permanente en un tramo de 600 kilómetros del río. Carmelo destaca la imponente catedral de San Pedro, de estilo gótico francés, que celebra su 750 aniversario, así como las características torres medievales de las familias patricias y la histórica fábrica de salchichas Wurstkuchl, que lleva más de 500 años documentados ofreciendo comida junto al puente.Museos desconocidos de Madrid En la segunda parte del episodio de esRadio, los presentadores cambian de rumbo para centrarse en Madrid, recomendando una serie de museos menos conocidos pero de gran valor cultural que no suelen recibir la atención que merecen. El primero es el Museo del Romanticismo, situado en la calle San Mateo, que ofrece una inmersión en la vida cotidiana de la burguesía decimonónica a través de la recreación de un palacete de época. Kelu y Carmelo también elogian el Museo Cerralbo, ubicado cerca de la plaza de España, que custodia la impresionante colección de arte privada del marqués de Cerralbo, compuesta por más de 50.000 piezas que abarcan desde pinturas hasta armaduras expuestas en un palacio espectacular. La ruta artística continúa en el Museo Lázaro Galdiano, en la calle Serrano, un espacio rodeado de un precioso jardín que alberga obras maestras de gran nivel. Entre sus tesoros pictóricos se encuentran lienzos de Goya, Zurbarán, El Bosco y una obra muy especial vinculada al taller de Leonardo da Vinci. Por último, Carmelo califica a la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando como el gran museo oculto de Madrid. Este recinto de la calle Alcalá posee una de las mejores colecciones de Goya del mundo, incluyendo sus planchas de grabado de cobre originales y lienzos icónicos como El entierro de la sardina, además de pinturas de Zurbarán, Murillo o Ribera y creadores contemporáneos como Picasso, Canogar o Zóbel. Para cerrar este bloque dedicado a la capital de España, Kelu propone una visita única a la estación de Chamberí, conocida popularmente como la estación fantasma del Metro de Madrid. Diseñada por el célebre arquitecto Antonio Palacios y clausurada en 1966, la estación ha sido rehabilitada como museo para mostrar cómo era el suburbano madrileño a principios del siglo XX. El espacio conserva las taquillas originales, antiguos carteles publicitarios de cerámica de los años veinte y los tornos de acceso de la época. Es una parada obligatoria para quienes desean comprender el desarrollo de la ciudad y disfrutar de la historia viva del transporte público madrileño. Escríbenos, explícanos qué te gusta más y si hay algo que no te gusta tanto de El Placer de Viajar, dinos de qué destinos quieres que hablemos y si quieres que tratemos algún tema y, por supuesto, pregúntanos lo que quieras en el correo del programa: elplacerdeviajar@libertaddigital.com.

In the summer of 1937, some of the 20th Century's most famous artists, writers and photographers were holidaying in the south of France. They included artist Pablo Picasso, photographer Lee Miller, poet Paul Éluard and the painter Man Ray.The group were part of the Surrealist movement – a style of art inspired by dreams and hidden thoughts that can look strange and bizarre - and one of their most recent converts was artist Eileen Agar. Through a 1985 BBC interview with Eileen, digital archivist Jonathan Charlton tells the story of that summer in an episode produced by Jane Wilkinson.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by and curious about the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from how the Excel spreadsheet was developed, the creation of cartoon rabbit Miffy and how the sound barrier was broken.We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: the moment Reagan and Gorbachev met in Geneva, Haitian singer Emerante de Pradines' life and Omar Sharif's legendary movie entrance in Lawrence of Arabia.You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, like the invention of a stent which has saved lives around the world; the birth of the G7; and the meeting of Maldives' ministers underwater. We cover everything from World War Two and Cold War stories to Black History Month and our journeys into space.(Photo: Roland Penrose, Ady Fidelin, Picasso and Dora Maar, Cote d'Azur, France 1937. Credit: Lee Miller Archives)

durée : 00:03:35 - Par Jupiter ! - par : Charline Vanhoenacker - Des œuvres de Picasso, Rembrandt ou Giacometti sont menacées par la guerre au Moyen-Orient. 250 œuvres ont en effet été prêtées par la France au Louvre Abu Dhabi, situé entre les tirs de missiles. (qui a payé 400 millions pour prétendre porter ce nom, "Louvre") Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

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We talk with Erin Dragotto from the Museum of Art and Light about why the Picasso experience feels so powerful when you see the full creative timeline in one place. We also dig into how arts access, school partnerships, and citywide collaboration can help Manhattan grow as a destination for culture and community life. • what it means to see Picasso's work in context with his life and creative range • how long the Picasso display runs and why timing matters • the transportation reimbursement bus grant for grades 3 to 8 • Why removing barriers is the fastest way to expand arts education • how arts and culture support tourism and economic development • museums working together through Museum Month and future partnerships • early attendance numbers and how visitors are finding the museum • Manhattan High students are building a full exhibition with “Planet Oket'ra" You can always find out more at your website, which is artlightmuseum.org. GMCFCFAs

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a single bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti sold for $812,000, a record driven by its last pre-replant vintage from century-old Burgundy vines, and John calls it the greatest wine he has tasted. A 19-year-old mustang named Gringo set a Guinness World Record by performing 38 tricks in 2:47 using clicker training and positive reinforcement. In North Sumatra, an orangutan finally used a canopy rope bridge installed to safely cross a road splitting a habitat of about 350 wild orangutans, easing risks like car strikes and genetic isolation. In Paris, a man won Picasso's 1941 “Head of a Woman” via a 100-euro charity raffle that sold 120,000 tickets and raised 12 million euros for Alzheimer's research. A Southwest Oakland flight was delayed after a passenger's four-foot, 70-pound robot, Bebop, had its oversized lithium battery removed.5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media networkJohn also hosts Daily Comedy NewsUnlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media!  For Apple users, hit the banner which says Uninterrupted Listening on your Apple podcasts app. Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Doyen des ponts de la Seine, le Pont Neuf incarne à lui seul, lʹhistoire et les transformations de la capitale française. Incontournable des circuits touristiques, il a également inspiré de nombreux artistes, parmi lesquels Renoir, Picasso, ainsi que Christo et Jeanne-Claude qui lʹavaient emballé en 1985. Quarante et un ans après, cʹest lʹartiste français JR qui le rhabille. Son projet : transformer le pont en une immense caverne de 120 mètres de long. À cette occasion, Monumental revient sur lʹhistoire de ce monument emblématique avec Nicolas Lyon-Caen, chargé de recherche au CNRS.

De daders van de kusntroof in Assen moeten bijna vier jaar de cel in. Zij zijn lang niet de enige die kunst stelen: wat levert het op en hoe vind je gestolen kunst weer terug? Frederique duikt in de wereld van de kunstcriminaliteit.

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. L'heure du backlash 1953. Un matin ensoleillé, profitant de l'absence de Pablo, Françoise boucle ses valises et quitte Vallauris avec ses deux jeunes enfants. Après dix ans de relation, elle s'est lassée de ses attitudes possessives et autoritaires. Quelques années auparavant, Pablo lui avait assuré qu'on ne quittait pas un homme comme lui. « Nous verrons », avait-elle répondu. Pendant les années qui suivent la rupture, la vengeance de son ancien compagnon est sans pitié, à tel point qu'il entraîne tout un pays derrière lui. Son but ? Organiser sa mort sociale. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In dieser inspirierenden Folge beim CULTiTALK begrüßt Georg Wolfgang als Host den Leadership-Mentor, Unternehmer und Buchautor Christian Fuchs. Gemeinsam tauchen sie tief in das Thema "Stille Kündigung" ein – ein Phänomen, das aktuell viele Unternehmen beschäftigt. Christian, Geschäftsführer der Mentex GmbH, schildert offen seinen Werdegang, angefangen beim Start im elterlichen Unternehmen und seinen Erfahrungen im Mittelstand bis hin zu prägenden Stationen in DAX-Konzernen. Dabei wird deutlich, wie grundlegend sich Führungskultur und der Anspruch an Leadership gewandelt haben. Ein zentrales Thema ist das neue Verständnis von Führung: weg von reiner Hierarchie, hin zu echter Beziehung auf Augenhöhe, Nahbarkeit und Sinnstiftung. Christian schildert eindrucksvoll, wie dies gelingt – und warum es immer noch Chefs gibt, die lieber Kontrolle ausüben als Richtungsweisung und Mitgestaltung ermöglichen. Er spricht auch über typische Fehler in der Auswahl von Führungskräften und erläutert, weshalb nicht jeder starke Experte ein:e gute:r Leader:in ist. Anhand der Bilder von Picasso, der gemeinsam mit dem Team gestaltet wird, und der Metapher der 51-Prozent-Regel macht Christian nachvollziehbar, wie schleichende innere Kündigung entsteht und wie Unternehmen mit einfachen Reflexionen und anderen Prinzipien die Motivation und Identifikation ihrer Teams stärken können. Du erfährst, welche massiven, oft unsichtbaren Kosten durch innere Kündigung entstehen, wie man diese erkennt und wie Führung durch Klarheit, Vertrauen und Beteiligung eine positive Bewegung im Unternehmen erzeugt. Persönliche Anekdoten, praxisnahe Tipps und die Einladung, das eigene Führungsverständnis zu hinterfragen, machen diese Folge zu einer wahren Inspirationsquelle.   Alle Links zu Christian Fuchs: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-fuchs-com/ Unternehmen: https://mentex-code.com/ Buch: https://mentoren-verlag.de/werke/die-stille-kuendigung-das-buch/   Alle Links zu Georg und dem Culturizer: Georg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georg-wolfgang Culturizer: https://culturizer.app CULTiTALK:  https://cultitalk.de

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. Quand le Minotaure attaque À cette époque, la jeune femme n'est pas son épouse, mais c'est tout comme. Elle est sa compagne, la mère de ses enfants, la première critique de ses œuvres. En quelques années, elle est devenue le centre de son monde. Plus amoureux que jamais, Pablo ne peut plus se passer de sa présence. Mais de son côté, Françoise étouffe… jusqu'à frôler l'asphyxie. Bientôt, elle sera obligée de mettre fin au cauchemar. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. Piégée dans la toile Cela fait bientôt trois ans que Picasso a quitté Dora Maar pour Françoise Gilot. Trois années que Pablo et Françoise ont passées séparés, sans vivre sous le même toit. Leur relation amoureuse s'est épanouie autour de leur passion pour la peinture, à tel point que l'idée d'une vie commune fait son chemin dans l'esprit du couple. Mais c'est cette vie commune, au sein d'un espace domestique, qui va précipiter la début des violences. Car lorsque les deux artistes commencent à fonder leur foyer, Françoise se rend compte qu'elle a fait l'erreur de sa vie… Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. L'ogre et la muse Paris, mai 1943. Il est midi et demi. Françoise Gilot, une jeune artiste de 21 ans, est attablée au restaurant Le Catalan, en compagnie d'un ami. Elle est un peu nerveuse, car dans un coin de la pièce, un peintre légendaire déjeune en petit comité… et ne cesse de lui jeter des coups d'œil. Ce monstre sacré a un nom : Pablo Picasso. Les mots qui suivent vont marquer les débuts d'une idylle passionnée, placée sous le signe de l'excellence artistique… Et de la brutalité masculine. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Malinconia dei confini. Nord è l'ultimo romanzo dello scrittore francese Mathias Énard ed è il primo volume di una trilogia legata alle stagioni e ai punti cardinali. Il nuovo film di Pedro Almodóvar, Amarga Navidad, è una riflessione sull'autofinzione e sulla natura della creazione artistica. Alla fondazione Rovati di Milano una mostra curata dallo storico dell'arte e archeologo Salvatore Settis s'interroga sulla ricorrenza di un gesto che esprime dolore: dai sarcofagi romani a Guernica di Picasso.Yekatit 12 di Andrea Sestante è una graphic novel che racconta la resistenza etiope contro il colonialismo italiano fascista. CONYasmina Melaouah, traduttriceMaria Sole Colombo, critica e curatrice cinematografica Vincenzo Latronico, scrittoreAndrea Sestante, fumettistaCi piacerebbe sapere cosa pensi di questo episodio. Scrivici a podcast@internazionale.it Se ascolti questo podcast e ti piace, abbonati a Internazionale. È un modo concreto per sostenerci e per aiutarci a garantire ogni giorno un'informazione di qualità. Vai su internazionale.it/abbonatiConsulenza editoriale di Chiara NielsenProduzione di Claudio Balboni e Vincenzo De SimoneMusiche di Tommaso Colliva e Raffaele ScognaDirezione creativa di Jonathan Zenti

What This Episode Is About You've invested in a sales strategy. You've done the training. So why aren't you getting the results you expected? In this episode of the Selling to Corporate® podcast, Jess Lorimer reveals the single most important skill that professional salespeople use to create consistent, replicable results - and it's almost certainly not what you'd expect. Jess makes the case that the gap between coaches, consultants and professional salespeople isn't intelligence, experience or even strategy. It's one surprisingly simple skill that most business owners overlook, underestimate or quietly choose to ignore. This episode explains exactly what it is, why it matters more than any tactic or technique and what happens to your sales process when you don't use it. Who This Episode Is For Coaches, consultants, trainers, speakers, and done-for-you service providers selling to corporate clients Anyone who has invested in a sales strategy or programme and felt it 'didn't work' Business owners who find themselves constantly tweaking, adjusting, or second-guessing their sales process Those who are great at selling one offer or to one type of client, but struggle to replicate that success elsewhere Anyone who suspects their sales process isn't producing consistent results but isn't sure why Questions This Episode Answers What is the most important skill in B2B sales? Why does a sales strategy that worked stop working over time? How do professional salespeople create replicable results across different industries and offers? What's the difference between buying a sales strategy and actually executing one? Why does tweaking a sales process - even slightly - make results impossible to measure or replicate? Key Takeaways  1. The Most Important Sales Skill Is Following Instructions The single most important skill professional salespeople possess is the ability to follow instructions precisely and consistently. Not prospecting. Not objection handling. Not closing. Following instructions. Jess is direct: in her experience working with thousands of professional salespeople and thousands of coaches, consultants, speakers, trainers, and done-for-you service providers, the difference in results almost always comes down to this. Professional salespeople follow a proven process exactly as written. Most coaches and consultants - however intelligent and however well-intentioned - don't. This isn't a criticism of intelligence. In fact, Jess argues that high intelligence can be a liability here. Smart people are more likely to spot what feels 'wrong' about a set of instructions, more likely to rationalise a small adjustment and more likely to believe their version of the process is 'good enough'. It usually isn't. 2. Any Proven Strategy Has the Ability to Work - If It's Executed Properly Jess teaches seven different methods of B2B lead generation. She has clients who generate all of their corporate revenue from cold email outreach. She has clients who generate all of their revenue from networking alone - a method she personally dislikes. The method is not the determining factor. Execution is. The two reasons a sales strategy fails are almost always the same: The strategy being used is not proven. It was built in an AI tool, borrowed from a B2C context or sold by someone without hands-on B2B sales experience. The strategy is proven but it is not being followed correctly. Steps are skipped, wording is changed, volume is reduced or the process is quietly adjusted whenever something feels uncomfortable. If your sales process is not producing results, the first question to ask is not 'what strategy should I try next?' It is 'am I executing my current proven strategy exactly as intended?'   3. Small Changes to a Sales Process Create Big Problems One of the most common patterns Jess sees with experienced clients is a gradual drift away from the original process. It rarely starts as a conscious decision to change strategy. More often it starts with a lost deal, a knock to confidence, and a small adjustment made under pressure to 'save' the next opportunity. That one small change leads to another. The language shifts. The attachment changes. The objection handling softens. The reassurance given increases. None of it feels significant in the moment. But cumulatively, the process becomes unrecognisable - and critically, it becomes impossible to measure, troubleshoot or improve. Standardisation is not a constraint on creativity. It is what makes it possible to know whether your sales process is working, identify where it is breaking down, and fix the right thing. When every part of the process is slightly different, there is nothing consistent to evaluate. 4. Sales Should Be Boring - Creativity Comes in the Conversation Jess uses the analogy of Picasso: before he painted eyes on the sides of heads, he spent years learning the rules of perspective, line and composition. The creative leaps came after the foundations were mastered, not instead of them. The same principle applies to B2B sales. Your lead generation process, your outreach approach, your proposal structure, your pricing framework - these should be repeatable, measurable and consistent. They should feel a little boring, because boring is what makes them scalable. The creativity, the consultative problem-solving, the bespoke solution-building - all of that happens in the sales conversation itself, and in the delivery of the work. That's where you get to be brilliant and distinctive. Your process is what gets you to that conversation in the first place. 5. Following Instructions Builds the Confidence That Creativity Cannot When a sales process is followed precisely, it produces predictable metrics. Those metrics tell you what is working and what is not - early enough to make useful adjustments rather than emergency ones. That predictability is what gives professional salespeople confidence, even in difficult markets. When a process is modified and the results decline, the person executing it has no way of knowing which change caused the problem. That uncertainty erodes confidence and often leads to further changes, making the situation worse. Following instructions is therefore not just a technical requirement - it is the foundation of sustained confidence in your own sales ability. 6. Replicatable Success Requires Transferable Process, Not Transferable Luck Jess draws on her own sales career across jewellery, recruitment, tech, and sales training - including becoming the top diamond salesperson in her region at 16, and a top performer within her first year at a company operating across 30 countries - to make a specific point: success that can be replicated across industries, offers, and client types is built on process, not personality. If you are excellent at selling one particular offer but cannot replicate that success with other offers or other types of decision maker, it is a signal that your results are not yet built on a transferable process. They are built on familiarity, repetition or relationship - which are not scalable. A proven, correctly executed process is what creates results that transfer. Key Quotes "The most important skill professional salespeople have in their arsenal is following instructions." "Literally any proven strategy has the ability to work if it's being done properly. The problem is that most people aren't using proven strategies - or they're not following the instructions for the ones they have." "Your sales process shouldn't be where you feel creatively satiated. It should be where you are able to replicate a clear process and be given consistent metrics so you know what is working and what isn't." Resources + Links Mentioned in This Episode Cold -> Closed The self-paced B2B sales experience for coaches / consultants / speakers / trainers and done-for-you service providers who want scalable, sustainable sales from brand new corporate clients in 90 days or less. https://smartleaderssell.thrivecart.com/-cold-to-closed-product/ Join the B2B Sales Edit: Busyness to Business Weekly newsletter for coaches and consultants; sharing the real B2B sales techniques that have taken over 30,000 sales processes from busy -> balanced and profitable. https://magic.beehiiv.com/v1/988ac64b-5875-4924-9d10-50faad2aa4ad?email=%EMAIL% Episode Sponsored by The Expert Services Directory Access The Expert Services Directory here and use code PODCAST for a special bonus. https://bit.ly/ExpertServicesDirectory A curated directory that proactively markets your services to corporate decision makers every month. Standard listings reach 1,000+ decision makers per month; Directory Plus listings reach 2,000+. Only 10 suppliers per category. Standard listing: 1,000+ decision makers per month Directory Plus listing: 2,000+ decision makers per month Application required — not all applications are accepted If You've Enjoyed Listening to The Most Important Skill Professional Salespeople Have, Check Out These Episodes STC159 - Mindset Wobbles That Stop Your B2B Sales Progress (and How to Fix Them!) https://bit.ly/SellingToCorporate159 STC162 - 3 Things That Will Help You Maximise Any Sales Training You're Embarking On https://bit.ly/SellingToCorporate162 STC171 - The Simple Sales Technique I Use to Sign Corporate Clients Every Month https://bit.ly/SellingToCorporate171   Content Disclaimer The information contained above is provided for information purposes only. The contents of this article, video or audio are not intended to amount to advice and you should not rely on any of the contents of this article, video or audio. 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Laura is headed to Cannes and may or may not accidentally end up in White Lotus season 4, the Solidcore guy somehow gets even weirder, and the JP Morgan “cannons” lawsuit continues to spiral into one of the funniest workplace scandals on the internet.This week, we get into:Men paying for fake cauliflower ear surgeryRobert Pattinson getting ghosted by his own stalkerElon Musk losing his OpenAI lawsuitThe scientifically hottest male dance movesCatholic school “mixers”A law associate asking if hanging an original Picasso in his office is too obnoxiousWhispering Angel rosé discourseWhy women absolutely do NOT want fake cage fighter earsPlus: ringworm in the Bahamas, White Lotus filming chaos, and the return of “leave room for Jesus.”

The Listing Bits Podcast is now available on your favorite podcast player! Overview Greg Robertson sits down with Katrina Romatowski, founder and CEO of reSpace, to discuss a new approach to housing affordability through co-homeownership. Drawing on nearly three decades in real estate, development, and housing advocacy, Katrina explains how reSpace redesigns homes into private suites with shared common spaces and enables buyers to purchase fractional ownership interests. The conversation explores affordability, homeownership as a wealth-building tool, aging-in-place design, MLS challenges, and the growing need for alternative housing models.  Key Takeaways Katrina grew up throughout the Pacific Northwest, worked in construction from a young age, and built a career spanning real estate sales, development, and brokerage.  Her real estate company was founded as a social purpose corporation, leading to the creation of a nonprofit focused on housing and mentorship for people exiting incarceration and recovery programs.  The idea for reSpace emerged after selling a small infill home for nearly $1 million and questioning who could realistically afford it.  Inspiration came from fractional ownership models such as Picasso, but Katrina wanted to apply the concept to primary housing rather than luxury vacation homes.  reSpace creates homes with private suites that include ensuite bathrooms, closets, workspace areas, and personal amenities, paired with shared kitchens and living spaces.  Buyers purchase an ownership interest in the property, allowing them to live in high-cost neighborhoods at a price point closer to renting an apartment.  The model is designed to help first-time buyers, retirees, siblings, friends, and other groups gain access to ownership while maintaining independence.  Katrina argues that homeownership remains one of the most important pathways to building middle-class wealth and that affordability challenges are increasingly shutting people out of that opportunity.  A major hurdle for reSpace has been gaining MLS support for fractional ownership listings, despite existing standards that support partial-interest ownership categories.  Current projects include The Grove in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and a historic mansion redevelopment in Leschi, with plans to expand through technology and partnerships.  Links reSpace Snapshot by reSpace Katrina Romatowski on LinkedIn Links Signal Conference 1000Watt Sponsors Aligned Showings — MLS-owned showing software built to simplify scheduling, improve communication, and keep MLS data where it belongs. Giant Steps Job Board – Built for organized real estate and PropTech, not generic tech bros and recruiters who don't know what an MLS is. Production and editing services by: Sunbound Studios

Episode 382: MANNY MARROQUIN “The Famed Mixing Engineer Who Crafted Classics for Kanye, John Mayer and Alicia Keys” The Road Podcast crew is in LA for the NAMM show and have a sit down with multi-Grammy Award-winning mixing engineer @MannyMarroquin whose career spans over two decades, defining the sonic landscape for artists like @KanyeWest, @AliciaKeys, and @JohnMayer. Manny joined the @ROADpodcast to break down the delicate balance between technical precision and emotional resonance in modern mixing. Starting with the core distinctions between engineers and producers, Manny explains his "emotion over technicality" philosophy (04:05) and the "Batman and Robin" approach to song structure (09:00). He provides an inside look at legendary sessions, discussing the ego free mindset required for 808s & Heartbreak (11:15), the "a-ha" moment of "Love Lockdown" (18:32), and the grueling 20-mix saga behind “Stronger." The conversation shifts to the synesthesia of sound, where Manny compares audio engineering to the brushstrokes of Renoir and Picasso (23:30), and explains his process of turning his chair away from the monitors to find objectivity. After diving into the mechanics of club records like "Let Me Love You" (35:50) and the future of music trends in 2026, he discusses the "less is more" choice for @JohnMayer's "Gravity" (55:55). The episode concludes with his venture into the culinary world with @Verse.LA (1:13:01) and a reflective look at his journey from Guatemala (1:26:01). Try Beatport for free: https://tinyurl.com/yc8da2pz Join DJcity for only $10: bit.ly/3EeCjAX

Writer and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre, and trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed on 100 years of Miles Davis - the musician regarded as the Picasso of jazz.Artist Keith Tyson has just donated a quarter of a million pounds for an astronomy post at Oxford University. He's joined by Professor Ken Arnold, director of the Medical Museum at the University of Copenhagen, to discuss the relationship between art and science.Playwright Rory Mullarkey on his new play at the Royal Exchange, Even These Things, which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Manchester by the IRA.Jazz's "Saxophone Colossus", Sonny Rollins, remembered.Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Pablo Picasso revendiquait ne pas aimer la musique. Il n'a pourtant cessé de peindre des musiciens, collaborant avec Satie, Stravinsky et Falla. Ses portraits d'instrumentistes sont souvent des autoportraits qui ne disent pas leur nom – ceux d'un homme hanté par ses obsessions.Picasso, figure incontournable de l'art moderne, a entretenu tout au long de sa vie une relation fascinante avec la musique. Franck Ferrand nous emmène dans les coulisses de cet artiste aux multiples talents, révélant une facette méconnue de son génie créatif.Dès son plus jeune âge, Picasso baigne dans un univers musical qui imprègne profondément son œuvre. De la zarzuela andalouse aux cabarets parisiens, en passant par les collaborations avec les Ballets russes, le peintre espagnol semble avoir été habité par une véritable passion pour les sonorités. Pourtant, lorsqu'on lui demande son avis sur la musique, Picasso n'hésite pas à affirmer qu'il ne l'aime pas. Une déclaration surprenante quand on constate à quel point elle transparaît dans ses tableaux cubistes, ses natures mortes et ses portraits d'instrumentistes. Franck Ferrand décrypte cette paradoxale relation, révélant la place centrale qu'occupe la musique dans la démarche artistique du maître.Des joueurs de flûte aux guitaristes cubistes, en passant par les collaborations avec des compositeurs comme Satie et Stravinsky, Picasso semble avoir cherché à retranscrire dans sa peinture les vibrations sonores qui l'habitaient. Une quête incessante qui l'a mené à repousser toujours plus loin les frontières de l'art, faisant de lui l'un des plus grands créateurs du XXe siècle.

Quick SummaryIn this candid solo session, Kelsey answers your top marketing questions — covering pricing strategy, how to evaluate cold PR pitches, and what to do when your Instagram feels scattered and purposeless. Woven throughout are honest life updates: navigating her second pregnancy, the power of accountability, and how to embrace change as an entrepreneur.In This EpisodeWhy accountability partners (and assistant nudges) are the secret to getting things doneHow pregnancy #2 has looked very different — and why Kelsey is packing her calendar before mat leaveDebating winter babies vs. summer babies (she genuinely wants your input)The Picasso story and what it teaches you about price vs. valueHow to know if your prices are too low, too high, or just rightThe truth about cold pitch emails — when to say yes and when to runA step-by-step Instagram strategy for business owners who feel scatteredThe four-part Instagram sales funnel: Create, Connect, Collect, ConvertWhy showing up imperfectly beats waiting for perfect every timeKey TakeawaysAccountability changes everything. You'll cancel on yourself, but you won't cancel on someone else. Use that psychology intentionally — schedule with others, hire coaches, or create external check-ins to move your biggest projects forward.Pricing is a gut check. If you feel undervalued after every transaction, your prices are too low. If you feel like you're ripping someone off, they may be too high. When it feels like a mutual exchange of value — you've nailed it.Evaluate cold pitches with your wallet and your gut. Only pay for media opportunities you're 100% okay losing. Ask for traffic stats, audience demographics, and backlink terms. Some are incredible; many aren't.Brand pillars create consistency. Before you open Instagram again, define 3–4 content pillars — at least one professional, one personal — and some rules for what you won't post. Decision fatigue is the enemy of consistency.Don't stop at "create." Most business owners post and walk away. The real magic is in connecting with your audience, collecting intel on what they need, and then actually making an offer.Memorable Quotes"Picasso was pricing based on his value. He's put in thousands and thousands of hours — so to charge on an hourly basis simply does not make sense.""Once you make that leap, you can then decide: is this the right place for me, or do I need to keep moving forward? That's what you do through life — you just keep turning the next page.""The ratio of people who show up and create good content is probably 1% of Instagram users. The people who want to consume? Probably 99%. So yes, it feels competitive — but the opportunity is massive."Resources MentionedKelsey's Website: KelseyReidl.comKelsey's Instagram: @KelseyReidlInstaSales Course — Kelsey's four-hour Instagram sales funnel course (free for podcast listeners — DM "InstaSales" to @kelseyreidell on Instagram)Wave Mastermind — Kelsey's business mastermind communityYahoo! News — Referenced as an example of a paid media placement that converted to high-ticket clientsAbout the HostKelsey Reidl is an entrepreneur, fractional CMO, and host of Rain or Shine (formerly Visionary Life). She's been podcasting for 8 years, helping entrepreneurs show up consistently and build sustainable businesses. She runs the Wave Mastermind and specializes in marketing strategy, website design, and business growth. Kelsey is a mom to a 2-year-old, an avid mountain biker, and a firm believer in the "rain or shine" mentality.

El gran Pablo Picasso visita Uherský Brod. Colombia volvió con todo: un concierto de marimba que no dejó a un solo checo en su asiento. “Cuando empecé a dibujar no sabía mucho de cómics, mis influencias vienen más del cine, la pintura y la música”.

The newly released Epstein-related documents highlighted a major financial transaction involving billionaire Leon Black, revealing that he secured a $484 million loan from Bank of America backed by works of art. The loan, documented in materials connected to the Epstein files, used high-value paintings by artists such as Picasso, Giacometti, Titian, and Matisse as collateral. While the size of the loan drew attention because of its connection to the Epstein documents, art-backed lending itself is a common practice among ultra-wealthy collectors. These loans allow wealthy individuals to unlock liquidity from valuable art collections without having to sell the works, often at relatively low interest rates due to the borrower's overall wealth and the value of the collateral.The report also highlighted the rapid growth of the art-lending industry, which is estimated to be worth between $38 billion and $45 billion globally and is expected to exceed $50 billion by 2028. Wealthy collectors frequently borrow against artwork to fund investments, acquire additional art, or access cash while avoiding the significant tax consequences that come with selling pieces. Auction houses such as Sotheby's Financial Services, along with specialty lenders and private banks, dominate much of this market. Because selling art can trigger capital-gains taxes of more than 30%, borrowing against art has become an attractive financial strategy for collectors who want liquidity while continuing to hold and display their valuable pieces.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Epstein files highlight how the wealthy borrow against art collectionsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

¡Messi no pinta y Picasso no hace goles! ¿Sientes la presión de ser la madre o el padre perfecto? La experta en ciencias de la felicidad, Valentina Luján, nos explica cómo el perfeccionismo nos genera frustración y culpa. Son 3 tips clave para aceptar que la imperfección es parte de la vida. Disfruta el podcast de Por el Placer de Vivir con Cesar Lozano en Uforia App, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Uforia Podcasts en YouTube y en ViX. ¿Cómo te sentiste al escuchar este Episodio? Déjanos tus comentarios, suscríbete y cuéntanos cuáles otros temas te gustaría oír en #porelplacerdevivir 

This week on The Creep Dive we spiral headfirst into one of the strangest tabloid stories currently unfolding online: Katie Price's whirlwind marriage to alleged millionaire entrepreneur Lee Andrews a Dubai-based “visionary CEO” whose AI-generated Instagram empire, mysterious business claims, suspicious exes, possible travel bans and sudden disappearance have left the British tabloids absolutely foaming at the mouth.Is he a billionaire futurist? A Tinder Swindler-style scammer? A man held together entirely by Canva, motivational quotes and black-and-white podcast photos? We investigate.Then, because apparently this episode accidentally became about fame, fraud, mythology and the terrifying power of collective belief, Jen takes us into the extraordinary true story of the Mona Lisa theft the bizarre 1911 heist that transformed a relatively overlooked Renaissance painting into the most famous artwork on earth.Featuring: fake wealth, fake identities, Picasso being questioned by police, Katie Price refusing to back down, the psychology of scams, AI self-invention, a handyman hiding the Mona Lisa in a trunk for two years, and the increasingly unsettling feeling that modern life may just be one giant confidence trick held together by vibes and good lighting.Listen ad-free and get an extra full bonus episode every week over on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thecreepdive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Partido de San Martín, Buenos Aires Alejandro Dolina, Patricio Barton, Gillespi Introducción • 0:01:14 Presentación del programa en San Martín, con Dolina, Barton y Gillespi. Segmento Inicial • 0:02:08 Conversan humorísticamente sobre un informe acerca de cómo tener un amante sin que la pareja lo descubra. • 0:03:07 Señalan que, según el informe, conviene ser sincero con el amante y dejar claras las “reglas del juego”. • 0:08:44 Comentan que sería más conveniente que el amante también tenga pareja, para que ambos tengan el mismo interés en mantener el secreto. • 0:10:00 Discuten que la relación extramatrimonial no debería prolongarse y derivan en una mención humorística a Picasso. • 0:10:51 Recomiendan que amante y pareja pertenezcan a mundos distintos y no se conozcan, especialmente evitando relaciones en el trabajo. • 0:12:22 Bromean con los riesgos que implican las mascotas, los pelos en la ropa y los rastros dejados en visitas a casa del amante. • 0:17:13 Desaconsejan repetir siempre los mismos días y horarios para los encuentros y mencionan la necesidad de un cómplice. • 0:22:33 Dolina cierra con una reflexión sobre la mentira: distingue entre las mentiras interesadas y aquellas piadosas que buscan no herir. Segmento Dispositivo • 0:25:39 Dolina anuncia una charla sobre el calendario revolucionario francés, Fabre d'Églantine y la religión de la razón. • 0:26:05 Cuenta que el barón de Batz, agente monárquico, comprometió en maniobras bursátiles ilegales a Chabot y a Fabre d'Églantine para desacreditar a los revolucionarios. • 0:27:48 Explica que, para desviar la atención de ese escándalo, Fabre d'Églantine impulsó la creación del calendario revolucionario. • 0:28:28 Describe la burla que provocó el nuevo calendario, con sus nombres de meses y el reemplazo de santos por animales, frutos e instrumentos de labranza. • 0:31:06 Relata el intento de descristianización y la conversión de Notre Dame en “templo de la razón”. • 0:31:48 Narra la ceremonia del culto de la razón con una actriz personificando a la diosa razón. • 0:32:40 Cuenta episodios sobre Mademoiselle Maillard, elegida para encarnar a la diosa razón, y una anécdota de duelo disfrazada de hombre. • 0:34:33 Describe cómo esas celebraciones derivaron en orgías dentro de las iglesias y en una sucesión de bacanales. • 0:37:18 Señala que Robespierre puso fin a esa etapa, instauró el culto del Ser Supremo y mandó arrestar a los implicados. • 0:37:51 Cierra con una reflexión: si hubiera que fundar una religión, el amor parecería más adecuado que la razón. • 0:39:06 Interpretan una canción vinculada al tema del amor. Segmento Inicial • 0:43:57 De regreso en San Martín, Dolina comenta una paradoja de Bertrand Russell sobre los catálogos de bibliotecas que se incluyen o no a sí mismos. Segmento Humorístico • 0:46:47 Presentan un informe con consejos para sobrevivir a un tsunami y a una erupción volcánica. • 0:48:02 Sobre el tsunami, remarcan que ante un terremoto costero hay que ir inmediatamente a un lugar alto y no acercarse al mar cuando retrocede. • 0:51:05 Bromean con la utilidad del celular, la ropa de abrigo, la comida y los puntos de encuentro familiares en medio de una evacuación. • 0:53:10 En la parte sobre erupciones volcánicas, insisten en mantenerse informado, no acercarse al volcán y protegerse de gases y cenizas. • 0:57:44 Añaden recomendaciones sobre evacuar con equipaje limitado y no dejarse llevar por rumores. Sordo Gancé / Trío Sin Nombre • 1:01:37 Presentación del segmento musical. • 1:02:35 “Drive My Car” ♫ (The Beatles) • 1:06:07 “La moza del pueyrredón” ♫ • 1:11:40 “No te perdono más” ♫ • 1:14:19 “Un poco de amor francés” ♫ • 1:18:06 “Night and Day” ♫ • 1:20:32 Dolina agradece al público y hace una breve reflexión sobre el trasfondo trágico de la condición humana aun en medio de la risa. • 1:23:20 “Hit the Road Jack” ♫ (Resumen generado automáticamente con IA, puede contener errores)

https://youtu.be/tU0kHdf7oXo Drew Allen, CEO of Grace Technologies, is driven by a mission to lead a life of adventure and impact. At Grace Technologies, that impact is tangible: the company develops electrical safety and predictive maintenance solutions that help industrial teams prevent downtime, improve productivity, and, most importantly, send workers home safely at the end of the day. We explore Drew's Product Engineering Framework — Clarify the Problem You're Solving, Understand the Constraints, Think from First Principles, Build a Prototype, and Iterate within a Time Limit — a practical approach to innovation in technical product development. Drew explains why rapid iteration beats overbuilding, how constraints can unlock better engineering decisions, and why time-boxing product development prevents teams from getting stuck in endless perfectionism. He also shares how Grace Technologies is expanding into the data center market, where rising power density is creating new safety challenges and new opportunities for growth. — 5 Steps to Engineering Breakthroughs with Drew Allen  Good day, dear listeners. Steve Preda here with the Management Blueprint Podcast, and today’s guest is Drew Allen, the CEO of Grace Technologies—the leading innovator of electrical safety products and predictive maintenance solutions that help companies maximize productivity and foster a safety culture. Drew, welcome to the show.  Hey, thanks for having me, Steve. I’m excited. I’ve really enjoyed your books, and they’ve had a big impact on our business. So it's great to have this conversation today.  Yeah, glad to have you here. So if you enjoyed the book or read Pinnacle and Summit OS perhaps, then you’re going to be familiar with this question. What is your personal “Why,” and how are you manifesting it Grace Technologies?  So my personal “Why” is to lead a life of adventure and impact. And I think that manifests in our company. We try to be as innovative as possible. Typically, around 30% of our annual sales come from products released within the last two to three years. We try to take risks, not in kind of a willy-nilly way, but we try to be smart about our risk-taking, but still make sure that we’re taking risks and we’re on the forefront of the technology edges. In our business, it’s really easy to see the impact that we have. Not many businesses get to say that we literally send people home at the end of the day. We literally save lives, and we don’t take that responsibility very lightly. And so it’s a little way that we can kind of make a dramatic impact in the world. We get a lot of stories of people who have been going to go to work on an electrical system. They were just moving throughout their day, trying to do their work, and all of a sudden they saw that our unit was indicating and they were about to put their hand on that bus bar or that cable, and they stop and realize, “Oh, there's still power there.” And they could have been either severely injured or dead. And so we get those stories quite frequently, and so it's really impactful to hear that, to know that we're doing that kind of good in the world.Share on X  Yeah, I love that. And yes, I mean, it’s dangerous. My son actually worked for an electrical contractor last year, and they told him the story that they were in big industrial facilities and one of their workers was trying to fix a light and he got shocked. And the only way to save him was to kick the ladder out from under him. He ended up breaking his leg. So it was kind of funny story afterward, but also a very dramatic one at the same time. So yeah, you definitely want to avoid situations like that.  100%.  And I think what you do is really great, and focusing on the safety aspect is very important as well. What I'm wondering—because I'm a framework guy and I'm always looking for new frameworks people have developed—and obviously within the Pinnacle system there are a lot of frameworks. But you’ve been doing this for a few years, and I’m sure that you have come up with your own. So what is your favorite framework—something simple enough for listeners to understand in maybe three to five steps—that could help them improve their business?  My favorite framework really comes from Jim Collins' work on the Flywheel. And I think you reference it in your book as well, Steve. I think if people can see their business—or even their life—through the lens of a flywheel, it becomes really useful. So in our business, our flywheel is relatively simple. And I think there are probably only a limited number of flywheel models companies really operate under. Our version of a product flywheel works like this:  We start with amazing new products and services. If we do that well, we naturally excite our channel partners. When our channel gets excited, they can't help but get us specified by customers. Once we're specified by customers, it grows our revenues, unit sales, and customer base.Share on X And as that happens, it expands the power of the brand, which allows us to set high prices and deliver higher gross margins to be able to reinvest into R&D for amazing new products and services. And I think while maybe there’s a couple of pieces in ours channel-specific or whatever, we found that most of my focus as CEO is just constantly figuring out how do I push those pieces of the flywheel, and where is the current bottleneck in the flywheel? Is the bottleneck getting the specifications? Is the bottleneck the wrong product? One of the challenges in our business is that we have a 12-month product development cycle plus an 8-to-12-month sales cycle for products. So if I miss, I'm basically down for two years. And I don't really know it early enough unless I'm paying close attention to the leading indicators—which we've become much smarter about over the last few years. A lot of business people tend to focus only on lagging indicators, and they're not always clear on what the leading indicators are in their business—or how correlated those leading indicators are to the lagging results.  I'll say this: the most recent releases of Claude have made it incredibly easy to input a bunch of variables and figure out how strongly your leading indicators correlate with your lagging success. I probably haven't done that kind of work since college and deep regression analysis or logarithmic modeling. And now Claude makes it so easy. So if you can identify the leading indicators tied to your future success, and you know there's an 80% or 85% correlation, then that leading indicator is almost as valuable as the lagging indicator itself. And if your lagging indicator is revenue, that gives you a pretty strong signal about what you should actually be focusing on.Share on X Yeah. That's a great way to reverse-engineer those leading indicators from the outcomes you're targeting. I love that. So when you say that one of the flywheel cogs is for people to specify your product, what do you mean by that exactly? We come out with a product, and then we get meetings with large end-user customers. Okay? Our products are really sold into two major markets. One is the industrial market—everything from where things come out of the ground, like oil and gas, pulp and paper, and mining—to all the downstream processing industries, including automotive, tire and rubber, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, all those kinds of industries like shipbuilding, naval yards, and all those kinds of environments. All of these places have complex electrical and control systems. And when a factory or facility is being designed or upgraded, someone is writing a specification document.  That specification literally defines how everything should be built—including the machinery and the electrical systems. So we want to make sure our products, from an electrical safety perspective, are included in those specification documents. We've been really fortunate to get into some of the world's largest companies' control specificationsShare on X companies like Amazon, Procter & Gamble, GM, and Ford. These large organizations really see the value in our products from both a productivity and a safety standpoint. And that's really the key to our success: driving specifications with large end-user customers. Yeah. So it sounds like when you get specified, then essentially you’re baked in to their product, and then you kind of have, at least for the time being, you have a monopoly of supplying them. Is that the case?  Yeah. And some specifications are a little more open. They may specify our type of device, or they may even list competitors as alternatives. And then it becomes a little more of a street brawl when we're competing. But either way, we want to grow the overall market for products like ours—not just our own products—because we're in the safety business. And I think it's really shortsighted to be selfish about that. I think we have much more opportunity if the overall pie grows than if we focus only on increasing our individual slice of the pie. Of course, I'm going to do the best I can to grow our share. But ultimately, electrical safety and electrical reliability in factories are still major problems. And the number of deaths, injuries, and life-changing accidents we hear about—it continues. We hear those stories all the time, and we don't want those things to happen. Yeah. Love it. So your business is innovation-driven, and you are designing these electrical appliances that increase productivity, reduce risk. What is the major success factor in being able to come up with new products along these lines?  Yeah, so I guess I'll tell you my biggest failure. Okay? I'll use the failure to illustrate the point. That's good. I think I was about 25 or 26 years old, and I was working with a customer—a very large publicly traded company. They liked our product, but they needed it in a different form factor, which meant we had to re-engineer the product, retool it, and go through all the certification processes again. And I just took it hook, line, and sinker. I thought we were really onto something. I probably had delusions of grandeur and thought I was some Steve Jobs-like figure who could just wave a magic wand. And by the way, I don't think that's actually what Steve Jobs did, so I want to put that out there for a minute. I think what we see from the outside as consumers is often not the reality inside the company. So I just want to say that.  But anyway, instead of taking small iterative steps and quickly prototyping and getting feedback, I did a full design based only on feedback from that one customer before cutting tooling and paying all the certification costs. It ended up being about a $400,000 project. And I think we still have inventory from that project—and this was probably 12 years ago or something.  Oh my gosh.  So what have I learned now? The best innovation happens through rapid iteration. A lot of your listeners have probably seen the Elon Musk SpaceX Raptor engine images, right? You have this incredibly complex engine that goes up into space, and then the next version looks much simpler, and the third one looks like it came out of a sci-fi movie. It's almost like the Picasso bull sketches.  There are nine different bulls until Picasso eventually gets it down to two lines, and you still understand it's a bull. Okay? And I think that's what iteration looks like. What you see as a final product from Apple is actually the result of thousands of prototypes, iterations, and constant testing behind the curtain. For me, I want to test with customers directly, because you get much better feedback that way. I think the more rapidly you can prototype, the more rapidly you can iterate and get real customer feedback, the more innovative your product is going to be. I really think that when you try to make too big of a leap all once, you usually can't get there. And I think 10% compounded over time is a much better strategy than trying to go 10X in a single shot. Yeah. It's kind of the Kaizen principle of continuous improvement through small steps. But actually, I was listening to an interview with Jensen Huang, and he said he hated Kaizen because he wanted more first-principles thinking—completely rethinking things from the ground up. And I think Elon Musk does that too. Although honestly, I think he does both, which is really interesting. But I love Kaizen. I think it's a wonderful concept to continually improve things. We do work with SpaceX. We don't do much with NVIDIA—a little bit, but not much. And while you can think from first principles, you still have to iterate on the prototypes, right? Yeah. You have to constantly try things. So you may have a first-principles vision of where you want to go, but you're not going to get there by designing the perfect thing 100% upfront. You get there through iteration. Yeah. So you really need both. That’s a really good point. So Drew, what is it that you are trying to figure out in your business right now?  So over the last 12 to 18 months, our largest orders have started coming through the data center sector. Back in 2015 or 2016, I tried to push into data centers, and we just had no product-market fit. None. Everybody kept talking about the data center business, and I was like, “Well, they're just not using our products. We tried…” But what suddenly changed was the increase in power density inside data centers. And what I mean by that is this: You can now have a hundred megawatts in a traditional data center hall. That's basically the equivalent of multiple oil and gas refineries worth of electrical load inside a single data center hall. A hundred megawatts—yeah.  And so the electrical risk profile has really changed. And because of that, now there is product-market fit. So now I'm trying to figure out: How do I set up the right distribution channels? How do I build the right sales network? Because data centers definitely buy differently than our traditional industrial customers. And then, as CEO, you always have to decide where you're going to focus your time. I've been very intentional about not losing the core identity of Grace through our industrial business. So I've had to build a separate group that really focuses on the data center market. That also means bringing in a board member who really understands the data center space. Right now, though, it's a huge growth area for us, so figuring that out has been super important.  The other thing is that over the last few years, we've launched an incredible number of new products. But a lot of those were what I'd call necessary innovations—things we had to execute on quickly. So now we're finally getting to a point with the engineering team where we can start from a clean sheet of paper again. We can think more deeply about where we really want to go—maybe even from first principles. Because honestly, I feel like we've been operating in a reactive mode for the last few years. So it's going to be really exciting to finally have some white space again and be able to innovate more intentionally for the future. Yeah. So you want to have that sci-fi engine for Grace Technologies that SpaceX has for the rockets, right?  Yeah. That's the goal. And our mission is to accelerate the industrial world to zero downtime and zero harm. Until we get there, it's a pretty lofty goal. And I think it's going to require a lot of innovation to achieve it. So what's the process when you're trying to get to that kind of innovation—when you're rethinking something from first principles? Is there a process you can follow or work through? Or is it more about letting your imagination wander? Like when Albert Einstein came up with the theory of relativity—he was daydreaming in the patent office and suddenly had these insights. What's your process for getting there? So first, we want to be really clear on the problem statement. Getting absolute clarity on what problem we're solving is the first step, right? If you don't know what problem you're solving, there's no amount of engineering you can throw at it that's going to make sense. Second is understanding the constraints. For one of our new product development efforts, we decided to move away from a digital platform and go to a fully analog electrical platform because we realized one of the main constraints was size. And size is really determined by the power supply.  When you run a digital circuit, you're operating at something like 100 to 300 milliamps. If you go to an analog circuit, you're operating at the microamp level. So you're literally at around 10% of the power requirement. And if you're at 10%, you can make the power supply about 90% smaller. Now, it's much easier to do things digitally because you just program the microcontroller. You're not dealing with the art of analog circuitry. So I think that's a good example of thinking from first principles. Okay—we're solving this problem. One of the major problems inside that problem is the size of the unit. How do we reduce the size? Well, we have to reduce the power supply. How do we reduce the power supply? Reduce the power draw from the circuit. How do we reduce the power draw? Go analog. And that's how we got there.  But even then, the amount of prototyping and iteration we've done on that over the last 12 months has probably involved 75 major iterations of the circuit, tons of prototypes, tons of testing, and countless tweaks that probably never even hit my radar. I know I'm getting a little nerdy for the podcast, but I think it's a really good example. And if you take it out of engineering for a minute and look at our sales engine, it works similarly. Ultimately, what drives sales? You have to have unique selling conversations with customers. So everything I focus on becomes: How do I maximize those conversations?  Getting people interested in the product and actually getting to the point where we can sit down and fully tell our story—that's kind of my North Star.Share on X I know that if we increase the number of those conversations, sales will increase. And of course, there's optimization on both sides of the meeting—follow-through, follow-up, competitiveness, lead quality, all of that. But the big North Star in our sales function is: How many unique selling conversations are we having with customers? Okay. I love it. So this is a framework that I’m more excited about than the flywheel because we are almost 400 episodes in. Here is what I heard. So be clear on the problem, step number one. Understand the constraints, step number two. Think from first principles, that’s step number three. Build the prototype, step number four, and perform iterations. Step number five, essentially the optimization. And with the sales engine, it’s kind of a similar process that you described, but less technical perhaps.  Yeah. And one other piece too is that all of this has to be time-constrained.  What do you mean by that?  I think people miss that point. If you don't have a time constraint, it will literally take forever. So inside of your framework, you need a time box, and I think that's really critical. I like what Elon says about timelines. He assigns timelines that he believes have about a 50% probability of being achieved. I think that's actually a really smart way to think about it. And that means that about 50% of the time, you're going to miss the target. But that's okay, because you want that level of tension and flexibility in the system. You still have to be aiming at something. If you don't put a time box around iteration, if you don't set launch dates, product development can drag on forever. For example, we have a major trade show every fall, and we always try to have products ready for that event. That creates a really effective natural time box for us. And if your business doesn't already have natural time boxes, then as CEO, you need to create them. Yeah.  Otherwise, iteration, product development, and even sales initiatives can lose momentum. Sales naturally has monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles. But in engineering especially, having that time box is really important. Yeah. And what I read about Jensen Huang is that one of the innovations he introduced was creating two overlapping time boxes. So instead of having just a single one-year cycle, he created two teams working on separate one-year cycles that were staggered by six months. That way, they could effectively iterate on the product twice as fast. I thought that was amazing. And I also had a client—an engineering software company—whose challenge was that they couldn't launch a product for three years because they were such perfectionists. So we talked about putting a stake in the ground and committing to a release every year. Maybe the scope would have to change, maybe they'd have to narrow it or simplify it, but the release date itself would become a forcing function. And once they did that, their product suddenly started gaining much more traction. That's a fantastic point. Yeah. I was advising one of the companies we're invested in. I was actually on a call with them yesterday, and they're starting to run out of time a little bit, right? And that was literally the conversation we had. “Okay, we had this wish list. We had this dream product-development idea. Now what can we realistically get done in three months?” So we started stripping out everything that couldn't be completed in that timeframe, and those items will move into the next iteration cycle. But I think it's super critical. You've got to put a stake in the ground and force things through. Yeah. Constraints create creativity. Yeah. that's fantastic. So, penultimate question—I have one more just to wrap things up. If you had a magic wand, what would be the one thing you'd want to fix inside your company over the next 12 months? I think we have a lot of relatively new and young salespeople. We operate in a very technical field, and trying to get them to really understand the application space from a technical perspective is difficult. And when you're selling to engineers, they can immediately tell if you don't know what you're talking about. So the challenge becomes: How do you compress 20 years of experience into a brand-new sales or business development person in just a few months? Trying to accelerate that learning curve is probably one of our biggest challenges. We're trying to use AI to help visualize the kinds of equipment our products go on.  And frankly, even after doing this for years, I still run into things I don't fully understand. But I have enough experience that I can have a relatively technical conversation, understand the constraints, and work through the problem set. But compressing that knowledge into a faster training process—that's definitely been hard. I'm also opening a sales and engineering office down in Austin, so I'll be moving there in June. The plan is to build out another R&D facility there. That's one of my major time boxes over the next 12 months—getting that operation fully up and running. But from a more holistic perspective, I think really solving that sales knowledge-transfer problem is critical. And on one of our product lines, honestly, I'd love ideas from listeners.  We have an IoT condition-monitoring product, and we've been very successful at selling pilot programs. What we've found, though, is that it's been much harder than expected to convert those pilots into broader expansion deployments. So we're asking ourselves: Are we making the barrier to entry for the pilots too low? Are we attracting the wrong type of customer—people who don't actually have the authority to make a larger purchase decision? Or are we missing something in the sales process that would better position the expansion after the pilot succeeds? Those are a few of the areas we're really trying to figure out right now. Yeah. Love it. That’s fascinating. So if the listeners would like to learn more about Grace Technologies—or maybe you spark something in their mind and they want to reach out and communicate to you, or have access to someone in your company to answer the questions about the products. Maybe they want to have more safety and more productivity with their electrical safety equipment. Where should they go, and where can they find you? Yeah. You can reach me at drewa@gracetechnologies.com or find me on LinkedIn. I think it’s Allen-Drew is my handle, but Drew Allen on LinkedIn. I love hearing from people. I really enjoy advising startups, especially in the industrial electrical space. If you have a product idea or you’ve got a startup, I do a lot of advisory work, and we’ve invested in a number of startups as well. We’re really passionate about having more innovation in the industrial world. I believe that the reindustrialization of America is super important, and I’m a big proponent, and so love to support companies that are doing cool things in our space.  Oh, that’s fantastic. So if you’re listening to this and you have a startup in the engineering space, then definitely this is your opportunity to get mentored by Drew, and maybe to get opportunities that you don’t have yourself. So reach out to him. And if you just enjoyed this conversation with an entrepreneur who’s innovating fast and who is working from first principles and time boxes and and leveraging constraints, then definitely stay tuned on this channel because I have more wonderful guests coming on every week. So thank you Drew for coming, CEO of Grace Technologies, the leading innovator of electrical safety products and predictive maintenance solutions. So thanks for sharing your wisdom and thanks for listening. Important Links: Drew's LinkedIn Drew's website Drew's email: drewa@gracetechnologies.com

If Michael Jackson could wake up at 3 AM and call everyone to the studio because he was afraid God would give his melody to Prince, what's your excuse for waiting until tomorrow? In this episode, I break down the story behind MJ's legendary urgency and what it really means to live with haste, not fear. If you truly love your craft, you will not be able to sit still with a great idea rotting inside you. Key Takeaways Michael Jackson believed inspiration was on loan and if he didn't act on it immediately, it would be given to someone else. Living with haste is not about fear or anxiety, it is about respecting the urgency of your gifts and your time. The saddest thing about graveyards is all the dreams buried with the people who never acted on them. Truly legendary people do not just do what they are good at, they relentlessly pursue what they genuinely love. Picasso said on his deathbed that he was just starting to understand his craft, which is the mark of real childlike curiosity and mastery. Action Steps Identify one idea, project, or creative impulse you have been putting off and take one concrete step on it today, not tomorrow. Ask yourself honestly whether you love what you do or if you are just good at it, then start making decisions based on that answer. Commit to leaving nothing in the tank by consistently sharing your gifts, whether that is through content, conversations, work, or service to others. Notable Quote If I don't do this now, God is gonna give that melody to Prince.

Dr Sophie Matthiessen, Senior Curator of International Art at Auckland Art Gallery nous présente l'exposition "Facing Modernity" au Shepparton Art Museum qui se tiendra à partir du 23 mai. Cette exposition réunit des œuvres de Picasso, Degas, Matisse, Cézanne, Dali, Rodin et d'autres artistes, jamais exposées auparavant en Australie. Les oeuvres proviennent de la Galerie d'art d'Auckland Toi o Tāmaki.

durée : 00:09:49 - Les journaux de France Culture - Des oeuvres originales de Maillol, Picasso ou Dubuffet au milieu de boutiques hors taxes et de cafés et restaurants ! Depuis fin 2012, un micro musée a permis de découvrir à Roissy des artistes et des institutions publiques. Un court envol culturel, gratuit, à condition d'avoir un billet d'avion. - réalisation : Éric Chaverou - invités : Serge Lemoine Ancien directeur du musée d'Orsay, spécialiste de Mondrian, auteur, Céline Marchand directrice du pôle international et territorial de Paris Musées, Marie-Alix Molinié-Andlauer Docteure en géographie et chercheuse post-doctorante à Télécom Paris , Mathieu Daubert directeur adjoint d'ADP chargé du commerce, du tourisme et de l'hospitalité Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

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Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Antonio Vincenti in a conversation that goes beyond advertising to explore a journey that reshaped public space across Arab cities, turning the street from chaos into a visual language that shapes urban memory.From Lebanon to Amman, Baghdad, Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, Africa, and Europe, Antonio reflects on how “Picasso” began as an outdoor advertising idea and evolved into a broader vision tied to the city and the way people experience public space. The discussion looks at outdoor advertising as part of the urban fabric, where image and city merge, and the street becomes a cultural layer beyond commercial use, within complex environments that balance order, beauty, and chaos. It also touches on expansion beyond Lebanon into Africa, the Gulf, and Europe, and the ambitions, challenges, and key decisions that shaped that journey. On a human level, the conversation explores Antonio beyond business, the impact of success on personal and family life, and the hidden cost of long-term ambition.Join Ricardo Karam and Antonio Vincenti in a conversation about cities, image, creativity, and the lasting impact of how we see the world.في هذا اللقاء، يجلس ريكاردو كرم مع أنطونيو فينسنتي في حوارٍ يتجاوز عالم الإعلانات ليغوص في مسار رجلٍ أعاد تشكيل الفضاء العام في عدد من المدن العربية، وحوّل الشارع من مساحة فوضى إلى لغة بصرية تصنع الذاكرة اليومية للمدن.من لبنان إلى عمّان، بغداد، الجزائر، تونس، المغرب، إفريقيا وأوروبا، يستعيد أنطونيو كيف بدأت "بيكاسو" كفكرة في الإعلان الخارجي، لتتحوّل إلى مشروع أوسع يرتبط بالمدينة نفسها وبطريقة رؤية الناس للفضاء العام.يتناول الحوار الإعلان الخارجي كجزء من النسيج الحضري، حيث تمتزج الصورة بالمدينة، ويتحوّل الشارع إلى مساحة بصرية وثقافية تتجاوز البعد التجاري، في بيئات عربية معقّدة تتطلب موازنة دقيقة بين النظام والجمال والفوضى. كما يمتد النقاش إلى تجربة التوسع خارج لبنان نحو إفريقيا والخليج وأوروبا، وما حملته من طموحات وتحديات وخيارات مفصلية في مسار النمو. وفي البعد الإنساني، يقترب الحوار من شخصية أنطونيو خارج إطار الأعمال، ومن أثر النجاح على الحياة الشخصية والعائلية، والثمن الخفي للطموح الطويل.انضموا إلى ريكاردو كرم وأنطونيو فينسنتي في حوارٍ حول المدينة، الصورة، الإبداع، ومعنى أن يترك الإنسان أثراً في الطريقة التي نرى بها العالم.

Pablo Picasso's Guernica is probably the most well known painting of the 20th century, and has become a universal symbol of the horrors of war. But it has also been the subject of renewed controversy in recent weeks in Spain - over a yet another request by the Basque government for the painting to be displayed at least temporarily in Bilbao. The current request comes ahead of the 90th anniversary of the bombing that the painting evokes - when during the Civil War the Nazi Condor Legion unleashed a relentless aerial assault on the Basque town.The long-running debate over moving the painting to the Basque Country centres on competing claims, with Basque sovereignists arguing that it should be displayed in the same location as the events it commemorates, against Spanish government's insistence it remain at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid for reasons of conservation and national heritage. Today on Sobremesa, we discuss the controversy and the relationship between the work's power and universality and the concrete, historical atrocity inflicted on Gernika the town. To do so Eoghan is joined by Brittany Kennnedy, Senior Professor of Practice at Tulane University's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Brittany is the author of Between Distant Modernities: Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South.Please remember if you like what we are producing, consider making a donation to our buy me a coffee page:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/thesobremey⁠

Stuck inside those four walls? We're making our escape with Band On The Run, the 1973 record by Wings! After a tough Beatles breakup, a burnt out Paul McCartney was struggling to stay relevant in the music world. He started Wings alongside his wife Linda and guitarist Denny Laine, and after a few tough outings, Band On The Run proved to be their major breakthrough! Despite a tumultuous recording process in Lagos, Nigeria, hits like JET (!), Let Me Roll It, and Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five have become catalog staples. We're catching up on our personal Beatles history and learning about the foundation of Wings! We trace the band's Lagos trip through cholera outbreaks, broken equipment, and knifepoint robberies, but learn why Paul needed this record so badly. The Mixtaper relies on James' fear of "jelly babying" himself with another round of McCartney facts! We'll break down jailbreak ambience, investigate a holiday hostage, and drink a drink with Lily The Pink in Fact Or Spin. We might have No Words... but what's the use in worrying?How's your Scooby Doo impression? What would your last words be? Do you forget when Picasso was alive? Which of the sections of Band On The Run stands above the rest? Let us know your Wings takes in the comments and on socials!Keep Spinning at www.SpinItPod.com!Thanks for listening!0:00 Intro3:27 About Wings12:48 About Band On The Run25:58 Awards & Accolades26:50 Fact Or Spin28:09 Paul Insisted On A Jailbreak Ambience Check31:07 Paul Kidnapped The Easter Bunny35:22 Paul Guest Starred In A Comedy Production40:13 Paul Is Related To The Inventor Of The Woman's Tonic49:23 Album Art52:42 Band On The Run57:03 Jet1:00:31 Bluebird1:02:15 Mrs. Vandebilt1:06:38 Let Me Roll It1:08:29 Mamunia1:09:52 No Words1:11:04 Picasso's Last Words1:14:24 Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five1:17:29 Final Spin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoy vamos a hacernos una pregunta incómoda: si estos grandes artistas vivieran hoy, en la era de la cancelación, ¿los seguiríamos celebrando igual? ¿Podemos separar al artista de su obra o ya no? Porque admirar el talento también implica confrontar la historia y no siempre es cómoda, recibimos a Gerardo Kleinburg, escritor, crítico y promotor musical para hablar sobre este tema. 

A 60 ans, le peintre Henri Rousseau, ancien commis d'octroi et flâneur en banlieue parisienne, se fait connaitre pour ses jungles aussi sauvages qu'imaginaires. Il invente un style encore inconnu, le primitivisme.Découvrez la fascinante histoire du Douanier Rousseau, ce peintre autodidacte qui a su conquérir le monde de l'art malgré les railleries de ses contemporains.

REDIFF - Vjeran Tomic, surnommé l'homme araignée. Un cambrioleur escaladeur comme on en voit seulement dans les séries télé. Plus de quinze ans avant le Louvre, il a commis un vol entré dans l'histoire criminelle. Cinq tableaux de maître dérobés au musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Un scénario spectaculaire, et des arrestations mais peu de réponses. Retrouvez tous les jours en podcast le décryptage d'un faits divers, d'un crime ou d'une énigme judiciaire par Jean-Alphonse Richard, entouré de spécialistes, et de témoins d'affaires criminelles.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Roqe Ep.435 - IRAN RISES - Who Benefits from the Delay? - Shayan Sami'i, Picasso Moin The regime wants you to think it's over - it's not. On this episode, Jian opens with a message to those declaring the Iranian uprising finished, making the case that this narrative risks amplifying the regime's messaging at a critical moment. Then, a panel examining the current pause in confrontation between the United States and the Islamic Republic, and the central question: Who benefits from the delay? Jian is joined by Shayan Sami'i (Washington DC area), a national security analyst, and Picasso Moin (Istanbul), activist and commentator. The conversation covers the regime's strategy, mounting economic pressure, diaspora momentum, the Berlin rally, and Canada's recent move denying entry to a regime-linked official connected to a FIFA event. This episode is supported by: Stellar Law - stellarlaw.ca Quasar Homes - @quasarhomes

Paul W. Downs is a creator, writer, and star of the award-winning television show Hacks. We chat with him from his home in Los Angeles about furries, protein-rich gravy, Picasso plates, the Cinnabon Mochalatta Chill, Paul Newman and Martha Stewart, the AMAs in Vegas this year, Hacks coming for magicians this season, shaving his body as a teen swimmer, buying Gucci at the outlet mall in New Jersey, celebrity selfies, the meme work of Joe Mande, working with your wife, and Paul workshops his sleep-guillotine system. instagram.com/paulwdowns twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TODAY on The Great Women Artists podcast is the esteemed writer, Deborah Levy on avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein. The author of several novels, including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside the critically acclaimed Living Autobiography trilogy (some of my favourite books of all time): Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate, Deborah Levy is one of the most recognisable and influential writers working today. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Booker Prize, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company. But the reason why we are speaking with Levy today is because she has just published a new novel, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, which follows a narrator who has travelled to Paris to find out more about Stein, the enigmatic, trailblazing writer and patron; a woman who bolted through the 19th to the 20th century and paved the way for modernism as we know it today, with her daring, experimental writing, from Tender Buttons to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and her patronage of artists such as Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse – and I can't wait to find out more. My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein https://www.waterstones.com/book/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein/deborah-levy/2928377373535 THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: www.famm.com/en/ www.instagram.com/famm_mougins // www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Mikaela Carmichael Music by Ben Wetherfield

We waste $165B in time and money on The Annoyance Economy… and Surcharges are Surging.Amazon is the biggest car dealer in America… but it doesn't sell cars, it sells access.Sotheby's auction house should have a Picasso-worthy business… so why is it low on cash?Plus, want to understand the Straight of Hormuz, Trade War, & Economy?... Look at the humble tomato.$AMZN $F $GMBuy tickets to The IPO Tour (our In-Person Offering) TODAYLos Angeles, CA (6/3): SOLD OUTGet your TBOY Yeti Doll gift here: https://tboypod.com/shop/product/economic-support-yeti-doll NEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW:Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/NEW LISTENERSFill out our 2 minute survey: https://qualtricsxm88y5r986q.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp1FDYiJgt6lHy6GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Linkedin (Nick): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/Linkedin (Jack): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today's top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, The Best One Yet is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.