Sierra Mar – the dining experience at Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, California. Image copyright and credit: Yingtingx (I’ve been collecting beautiful images for inspiration since 2010. Check the archives under vwls.) Continue reading The perch

Los Angeles International Airport. Terminal 4. LA based photographer, Mike Kelley, created this image as part of a series, Life Cycles, that “explores the creation, use, and destruction of aircraft…The images were created entirely from above, opposite to our usual experience of seeing aircraft from below or within.” The entire series is worth a look. Check out this version of LAX in 1972: https://i.imgur.com/4Sv3vJc.png Image … Continue reading Up above

Could there be a better place to watch the night sky and sip your wine? Yet another hotel in a stunning location – this is the Sorrel River Ranch Resort and Spa, Utah. Image credit: Sorrel River Ranch Resort and Spa, Utah — (I’ve been collecting beautiful images for inspiration since 2010. Check the archives under vwls.) Continue reading Ranch life

Location advantage: 6000 feet, on a glacier. The only way to get to Sheldon Chalet, Denali National Park, Alaska is through a helicopter ride from the nearest town, Talkeetna. Image credit/copyright: Totement. Follow their work at https://www.instagram.com/totement/ (I’ve been collecting beautiful images for inspiration since 2010. Check the archives under vwls.) Continue reading Starry Nights

We are incredibly lucky in the hotel industry – location advantage is just one of several that we have to be thankful for. This is the Walliser Stube restaurant at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Eloise. Have you been there? Image: Room with a view. Copyright with Aimee Hernandez Photography. Print for sale at https://aimhernandez.smugmug.com/Prints/i-dTc7Lf9/A — (I’ve been collecting beautiful images for inspiration since 2010. Check … Continue reading Room with a view

Image credit: https://www.behance.net/gallery/75813403/Various-Personal-Work Charlie Davis’ illustrations exemplify the tethering of complex layers (vectors, free hand drawing and then layers) with the relative simplicity of the scene. Davis “is always looking to tell a story filled with lots of warmth, exaggeration, and shapes that stray from reality.” Artist: Charlie Davis. Illustrator/Designer based in London. More about the artist here: https://theblog.adobe.com/artist-spotlight-charlie-davis/ — (Beautiful images are inspiring; I’ve … Continue reading Designing Warmth

Mona Hatoum’s work reminds me of the latticework of mental models as used by Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, and Charlie Munger. Artist: Mona Hatoum, Impenetrable, 2009. Photo credit: Markus Elbanus/Courtesy The Artist and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art — (Beautiful images are inspiring; I’ve been collecting these since 2010. Check the archives under vwls.) More about the artist: Making the Ordinary Anything But Continue reading Impenetrable

Last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, called Artificial Intelligence (AI) the “most important thing humanity has ever worked on.” AI is, in his book, something that is more profound than electricity or fire. Maybe even more important than language itself. I shared a video of his talk on my LinkedIn feed recently and it ignited conversations on my … Continue reading My top 9 myths about AI

A classic LA sunset, El Matador Beach. Image credit: Artem Chebokha. (Check out his page.) — (Beautiful images are inspiring; I’ve been collecting these for inspiration since 2010. Check the archives under vwls.) Continue reading Survivor

Kurt Koffka: The whole is something else than the sum of its parts ——– Image credit: https://www.relativebrand.com/ (Beautiful images are inspiring; I’ve been collecting these for inspiration since 2010. Check the archives under vwls.) Continue reading Banff, Canada

thedesertmantra: Tantric Brutalism Continue reading Brutalist architecture