{"id":377020,"date":"2022-04-06T23:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=377020"},"modified":"2022-04-06T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:24:20","slug":"follow-the-artist-and-designer-not-the-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/follow-the-artist-and-designer-not-the-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Artist and Designer, Not the Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example after Virgil has passed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.off---white.com\/en-us\/\">OFF-WHITE<\/a> not as interesting. Also after <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/17-lessons-steve-jobs-has-taught-me\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"113662\">Steve Jobs<\/a> died and now that Jony Ive has left <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/23\/apple-is-on-the-way-out\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"355961\">Apple<\/a>, Apple is no longer interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/why-tesla-is-the-future\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"357149\">TESLA<\/a> remains interesting because <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/10-lessons-elon-musk-has-taught-me\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"113713\">Elon<\/a> is still at the helm. <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/kanye-west-is-the-goat\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"376988\">Kanye West<\/a> is still at the reign at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yeezysupply.com\">YEEZY<\/a>, which makes it interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/21\/in-praise-of-amazon-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"334778\">Amazon<\/a> is no longer interesting, as <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/7-lessons-jeff-bezos-can-teach-you\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"32505\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> has left the helm. Same goes with <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/15-lessons-jay-z-has-taught-me-about-hustling\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"44893\">JAY Z<\/a> selling Tidal (no longer interesting).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For example after Virgil has passed, OFF-WHITE not as interesting. Also after Steve Jobs died and now that Jony Ive has left Apple, Apple is no longer interesting. TESLA remains interesting because Elon is \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/G61-105-of-243.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377020"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377030,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377020\/revisions\/377030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}