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April 27, 2018

The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, April 27

This week in music, worldwide recorded music revenue continued to rise in 2017, ABBA reunited and Kanye stirred controversy again. Keep up with what is new and important in music with the Daily Chord, offering six assorted links each weekday. For an added reminder, subscribe to our email blast and get the headlines in your inbox.


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April 27, 2018

The Fluid Self Photo Series by Ussi’n Yala exclusive on Adobe Stock

The Fluid Self Photo Series by Ussi’n Yala exclusive on Adobe Stock

The fine folks from Adobe Stock has shared an exclusive collection of gorgeous photos by Ussi’n Yala. He is a photographer originally from Gabon, Central Africa. What started as a simple hobby has now turned into a career. You just gotta appreciate his goal to challenge our perception of beauty and Adobe Stock is using their platform to bring more awareness and increase appreciation of African art and photography. A true stunning collection to share, check it out!

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As a stock marketplace, it’s our duty and responsibility to provide the most relevant, contemporary, and high-quality images to the world’s creatives. Following British photographer Bex Day’s beautiful and authentic portrayals of the transgender community, we are proud to present Ussi’n Yala’s emotive portraits exploring gender and prejudice, exclusively for Adobe Stock.

Ussi’n’s goal is to challenge the notion of beauty and break stereotypes with his images: “I hope to free people from the injustice and social barriers we face today. I want to produce a work that will have an impact on the way society works and the way we see the world.” In October of 2016, he exhibited the photo series “Pink Albino” at the African Art Fair in Paris. The portraits were created to address and shed the prejudices held against albinos in Africa.

For his shoot on The Fluid Self, Ussi’n collaborated with two close friends, designers Clément Réthoré and Sandra Boutz. All three of them are based in France, but each faces a unique challenge of identity and acceptance due to their identity and sexuality: Ussi’n is black, Clément is gay, and Sandra is Jewish. “We each live in a constant state of discomfort in society and which is, in part, connected with who we are,” says Ussi’n, “and we wanted for this project to merge our peculiarities, while also telling the love story of two men.”

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Apr 27, 2018

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April 26, 2018

UI Inspiration: This week’s selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and more

UI Inspiration: This week’s selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and more

It’s that time of the week for our collection of UI/UX interactions to boost your UI inspiration. We are focusing on cool animations, layout designs, UX thinking and more. We are mixing it all from static, dynamic and even live prototypes, this might be a great weekly series to bookmark! This week we have a lot of really interesting interactions with a simple flow for taking a screenshot on an iPhone by Xiaochu. What’s good is about this interaction is the drop you make to actually into “screenshot mode”, check it out.

In this collection we are featuring the work from ted pioli, Adrien Laurent, Xiaochu, abhishek bora and more.

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UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by ted pioli

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Adrien Laurent

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Xiaochu

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by abhishek bora

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Margox

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Lorenzo Dolfi

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Advanced Group

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Roma Sapielkin

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Max Osichka

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Tran Mau Tri Tam ✪

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Monty Hayton

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Piotr Czyżewski

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by ⋈ Brandon Termini ⋈

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Łukasz Peszek

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Sergey Krasotin

UI Inspiration: This week's selections from Ted Pioli, Adrien Laurent and moreDesign by Hoang Nguyen

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Apr 26, 2018

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April 26, 2018

Eric Liedtke & Karlie Kloss: Create the World You Want to Live In Featured Session at SXSW 2018 [Video]

At SXSW 2018, supermodel and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and adidas Head of Global Brands Eric Liedtke, sat down with NPR’s Guy Raz for a conversation on creating change.

Onstage, Kloss and Liedtke share their stories, their inspirations, and their visions. Although their work is seemingly worlds apart on a surface level, Kloss and Liedtke both exude a visible passion for improving the world and solving issues they care about.

Kloss didn’t enter the tech industry with the intention of creating a non-profit to address the gender disparity. She instead entered tech as the by-product of her curiosity.

“I wanted to understand what code was and all of the ways that technology was transforming the world around me.”- Kloss

While learning code she recognized the cultural issue in the tech industry and launched the nonprofit, Koding with Klossy, that empowers girls to learn to code and become leaders in tech.

Liedtke’s story is slightly different. A lifelong ocean conservancy advocate and avid water-sports fan, Liedtke used his executive position at adidas to launch a large-scale sustainability-focused campaign. He explains that as a company it is essential to ask, “what is one of the most important things we can do and make a difference in?” With Liedtke’s vision as a guide, adidas chose to address the waste and massive scale consumption of single-use plastics.

“Right now there is about 270 million tons of plastic in the oceans… a huge dump truck of single-use plastics goes into the oceans every minute.” – Liedtke

To curb the production and use of single-use plastics, adidas eliminated plastics in their retail stores, global campuses, and products – and from what Leidtke describes, that’s only the beginning.

The session ends on an optimistic note encouraging the audience to take action, pursue what they are passionate about, and create change with only one thing in mind: “Don’t let perfect get in the way of better.”

Whether you are driving change as the CMO of one of the world’s largest brands, developing a non-profit and using your platform to educate, or making more thoughtful decisions as a consumer, action of any scale is essential because the cost of inaction, as Kloss and Liedtke describe, is severe.

Watch the video above for the full Featured Session. Browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.

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April 25, 2018

Why Your buyer’s Information Needs are So Critical?

When you think about how to create an effective visual storytelling strategy, it’s always critical to understand your target buyer’s information needs at each stage of the buyer’s journey.

Why?

Your buyer’s needs constantly change as she moves through the stages of your buyer’s journey.

At the top of the funnel (TOFO), the Discover stage you’re dealing with complete strangers with very narrow attention span. That’s why your buyer needs you to answer her in the shortest time and space: Why should I care?

 With this in mind, based on your prior research about your buyer persona you could address basic questions addressing the core problem your product or service helps solve as an initial hook.

Once your stranger becomes a visitor and decides to check out your Website for more information, this is where you want to unpack their information needs into WHAT and HOW.

At the Consider stage, you provide information that helps your buyer deepen their understanding of a given hot topic, and opportunities to try your product/services.

At the mid-funnel (MOFO), the Purchase stage your buyer is now getting ready to close the deal she just needs you to give her more proof points, like success stories and the basic terms – to seal the deal.

Naturally, the sales cycle length depends on your audience type and price point, but the more expensive your product/service is, the more proof information your buyer would need and the longer time it would take.

Congratulations! Your buyer decided to purchase your product/service. As a new Customer, her information needs at the Adopt stage are automatically transformed into wanting to protect her investment and maximize her value.

Therefore, you need to lay out a series of core questions your new customer most likely would ask about and create a corresponding onboarding program to make them feel special and catered to.

At the bottom of the funnel (BOFO), the Advocate stage you want to create a special program for your most happy customers and turn them into advocates, so they can help spread the word on your behalf by boasting their experience working with your product/service.

Here your buyer’s information needs are all about looking for good opportunities to brag or show off their great success using your product/service.

So as you can see as your buyer moves along the stages of the buyer’s journey her information needs change and as a result, the stories and tactics will have to match each stage, the buyer persona and the platform culture you plan to engage them on.

Mapping out your buyer’s information needs is an essential factor in ensuring your buyer constantly receives relevant information to help her enjoy the overall interaction with your company – to improve her life.

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April 25, 2018

Surreal Handpainted Silk Photography

Surreal Handpainted Silk Photography

Mikel Muruzabal shared a beautiful post on Behance The surreal photos were created for the new campaign of Alfredo Arranz handpainted silk. The title of the post, is Handpainted Silk photography and it’s a great example of art direction. Everything about the compositions looks just right. The color palette, the perspective, the amount of content on focus you name it. 

Mikel is a fashion, advertising and architecture image maker based in Pamplona and Barcelona, Spain. His focus is on full post-production and CGI for brands and agencies, and he also tries to leave some free time between assignments to develop parallel projects in architecture and landscape areas.

Surreal Photography

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Apr 25, 2018

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April 25, 2018

Bernard J. Tyson on Re-Connecting the Mind to the Body at SXSW 2018 [Video]

At the 2018 SXSW Featured Session, Re-Connecting the Mind to the Body, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Bernard J. Tyson, speaks on the connection between physical and mental health, and how we can advance mental health initiatives in the future.

At the beginning of the Featured Session, Tyson polls the audience with a few questions about mental health which indicate the majority are affected by related issues. These answers serve as the framework for the conversation exploring mental health in our society.

Delving into the deep research being done on suicides, Tyson states that one of the most striking findings has been that “over 50% of the individuals who commit suicide actually show no signs whatsoever to loved ones, to family members, in the health system, before they commit suicide.”

Critical of the models that we have used to treat these issues in the past, Tyson suggests that they are inadequate to advance healthcare further, and suggests that improvement will only occur once we reform our health systems in the United States, and internationally.

“For whatever reason, we decided to detach the head from the body…So when something went wrong with the brain, we built a whole separate healthcare system over there – separate records, separate resources, separate ways of thinking about it. We’re gonna start a revolution around mental health and mental wellness, we’re gonna transform our organization, and we’re gonna reconnect the head with the body.”

Watch the video above for the full 2018 SXSW Featured Session Re-Connecting the Mind to the Body, where Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson discusses a revolution in the treatment of mental health in our society.

Learn from a diverse group of thought leaders at SXSW – browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SXSW News for the latest SXSW coverage, recaps, announcements, and stay tuned for information on SXSW 2018.

Photo by Kara Mosher

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April 25, 2018

SXSWfm 2018 Showcasing Artist Interview: Yoke Lore

SXSWfm had the opportunity to interview Adrian Galvin, previously known as a member of Walk The Moon, as he joined SXSW 2018 to showcase his solo project, Yoke Lore. They sat down on the roof of the Austin Convention Center to talk about his time in Walk The Moon, being in a dance company, and what’s next to come for his new EP. Read an excerpt of the interview below, and listen to it in full on our Mixcloud.

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Yoke Lore Interview Highlights

Welcome to SXSW 2018!

Yoke Lore: Thank you so much. It’s great to be here!

How many times have you played at SX?

YL: This is my second year.

Why was important for you to come back?

YL: SX is a place that I really get to connect with people that I don’t usually get to connect with. I have a label in Germany, a label in Australia, and people working my music in the UK, and radio people in New Zealand, and I just know them as names on an email. It’s nice to have eye contact with them, and one – to express my gratitude to them, and another – to make the connection stronger so we can do more… So it’s good to connect with them. And I’m always on tour, and a lot of my friends are in bands that are also on tour, so it’s nice to see homies that I don’t usually get to see often.

You were in a band called Walk The Moon. What was your relationship with that?

YL: I met Nick Petricca in an acapella group my freshman year of college, and he was a senior. We began Walk The Moon, and I dropped out of college to tour and write with them, and that was a ton of fun. Then, at some point, it was getting very, very serious and there were other people involved and lots of money involved, and the music got a little bit away from what I really wanted to do, but that was right for Walk The Moon. It was the path that Walk The Moon was on, and who am I to stand in the way of that. So I was like, I would rather go back to college, finish my scholarship, and then start something myself.

When did you start this [solo] project?

YL: Roughly two years ago.

And how did you get that name, Yoke Lore?

YL: I very much believe that value in life kind of occurs when things come together. The value of a life can be measured in its relationships. And I know it’s true because it’s true everywhere. You can measure the integrity of this beam by how well it’s connected to the fucking screws that are hooked into the other beam. It’s not about how strong the metal is, it’s how strong the connection is, and that’s true in everything and everywhere. So I want to tell stories about how things are connected. A yoke is something that holds oxen together as they tail the fields. Or it can be the yoke of an empire, holding peoples and makes them one. But whatever it is, it’s a vice of sorts. And lore is obviously stories in a verbal tradition, and I’m trying to verbalize some stories about my connections.

You just released a new song. Tell me about that – what does that song mean?

YL: The song is called “Fake You,” and it’s pretty much about those moments when you have to contend with the fact that your perceptions about the world might not actually be how the world works. In those moments, it can be really, really jarring. it’s kind of the story of my experience with that idea, and that sensation that happens pretty often if you are an aware person. You often come up to the idea like, oh shit this isn’t what I thought I was. Or oh shit, this person is not who I thought they were. Or oh shit, I’m not as good as I thought I was at this, or anything like that. Those moments can be jarring but it’s important to know that your perceptions aren’t reality, and to have that in the back of your mind when you do things.

What’s next for you? Is this [single] kind of a teaser that you’re about to release more things – an EP, and album?

YL: An EP is going to come out this summer called Absolutes. “Fake You” is the first one. All of these songs are about conflicts of absolutism that come up, where things that were seemingly pure are not pure… Fake You is the first, and I’m going to release a video for Fake You next month, and then another song and a video. I’m going to stagger back and forth.

Tune in to hear the full interview with Yoke Lore below. Keep checking our Mixcloud page in the coming weeks as more interviews with 2018 SXSW Showcasing Artists are released. You can listen to SXSWfm 24/7 via our online player.

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2018 Showcasing Artist, Yoke Lore – Photo by Shelby Magness

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April 25, 2018

A SIGMA Factory Tour – cinema5D Exclusive

<b>During my latest visit to Japan I was lucky enough to be the first journalist who was allowed to independently film at SIGMA’s Art and cinema zoom</b> …
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April 24, 2018

The Last O.G. Episodic World Premiere Q&A with Tracy Morgan at SXSW 2018 [Video]

The Last O.G., an American comedy television series created by Jordan Peele and John Carcieri, premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival in the Episodic screening section. Following the screening, Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh moderated an extended Q&A with Jorma Taccone, Tracy Morgan, and Tiffany Haddish.

In The Last O.G., Tracy Morgan plays an ex-con released after a 15-year prison stint, who is shocked to see just how much the world has changed including his old Brooklyn neighborhood. The neighborhood has undergone gentrification, and his ex-girlfriend, played by Tiffany Haddish, is married to a white man whom she’s been raising the twin sons he never knew existed. With no money and no connection to his kids, he falls back on what he learned in prison while adjusting to society. Jorma Taccone directed the pilot episode.

“The show that we are doing has levels to it,” said Taccone at the SXSW premiere. “Comedy is going in a lot of different directions, now especially; it’s not just comedy, there’s drama, there’s some heartfelt stuff. I really hope that people want to see Tracy [Morgan] in this new kind of mode because there are just different things he’s trying to bring to his performance.”

Watch coverage from the red carpet and Q&A moderated by Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh with Jorma Taccone, Tracy Morgan, and Tiffany Haddish. The Last O.G. airs on TBS on Tuesdays at 9:30pm/8:30c.

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The Last O.G. – Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

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