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Paying Attention: The Gooding & Co. Pebble Beach Auctions are always a great source of very carefully curated collector cars. Gooding & Co. stages their auctions on Saturday and Sunday, and so potential buyers have plenty of time to view the offerings. The schedule and other key information for their 2015 Pebble Beach program is listed …
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Paying Attention: It’s that time of the year again: Pebble Beach Concours Week. To the automobile enthusiast, this is the best week of the year (or at least one of the best) and for collector’s the world over, it’s the week in which pricing trends and new highs are set for the collectibles that go …
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“Take your pleasure seriously….”
The Art of the Movie Trailer. The Man From U.N.C.L.E., a movie remake/update of the very popular 1960s TV series, didn’t spend as much time in the movie theaters as the producers had hoped. Why is a bit of a mystery. The film was directed by Guy Richie (Madonna’s ex and one of the best …
Paying Attention: Did you miss out on starting your own hedge fund? Not to worry (we’ll have an article on that coming up soon)…you can go in a different direction and start your own ETF. No, it’s not quite as glamorous as having an entire floor of a skyscraper in NYC full of computers and …
Music: The production of music today often involves the process of sampling, a technique for copying a portion of a song (a chorus, a beat, a bridge) and blending that “sample” into a new piece of music. It’s not a new technique, but it’s far more widely used now than ever before and the reach for …
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“Do what you can. With what you have. Where you are…”
Paying Attention: Stunned by the big prices being paid at auction for fine art? A Picasso [ “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)] was sold this year for $179.5 million . At the same auction, a sculpture by Giacommetti went for $141.3 million (with fees). The fine art world is quickly becoming a very wealthy neighborhood. But there is an …
Paying Attention: In the midst of all the hoopla about what Back To The Future has been to the American Culture (spurred on, no doubt, by the October 21, 2015 future date seen in the film series second part) we might have forgotten what Back to the Future might have been, if another actor, Eric …
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“If you’re going through hell….keep going’”