#100: Justin Daashuur Hopkins - "AD 100 + The Origin of NOH/WAVE"
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About Justin: Justin Daashuur Hopkins is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA. He is also the Co-Founder / Art Director of LA based art collective, NOH/WAVE.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Music
- The origin story of NOH/WAVE
- Justin’s introduction into illustrating and working as a professional illustrator at the age of 14
- Traditional educational systems
- Creative business partnerships
- The challenges of working with commercial clients
- Balancing out one’s ego
- Defining purpose in one’s life
- Cultural movements
- Joseph Campbell
- Justin and Yoshino’s childhood
- The film, “The Florida Project” by director Sean Baker
- “The Book of Five Rings” by Miyamoto Musashi
- “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” by Douglas Hofstadter
- Robert Rodriguez and resourcefulness
- The tower metaphor
- Vasyl Lomachenko