Jorge Arrieta
founder - artist - designer
current location: nashville, tn
expertise: art + design
uncanny skill: unconscious omniscience
fact: have not owned a tv in over 9 years
bliss: going for a walk with my daughter and looking at the stars on a clear night.
author(s): Joseph Campbell, Kahlil Gibran, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, Dale Carnegie, Flannery O’Connor, Howard Zinn, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Stephen King, John Neihardt, Hermann Hesse
artist(s): Pablo Picasso, Aubrey Beardsley, Banksy, William Kentridge, Francesco Goya, Salvador Dali, Lynd Ward, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Stan Lee, Caravaggio, Basquiat, van Gogh, da Vinci, Jorge Yances
film(s): Ikiru, The Good the Bad the Ugly, Old Boy, Rocky, Zeitgeist
music: Eric Sadie, Magnolia Electric Co., Moondog, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Jones, Pink Floyd, Miwa Gemini, Hank Williams, Dead Kennedys, Philip Glass, Violent Femmes, Beastie Boys, Peter Hyrka, Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra, Nirvana, Uncle Tupelo, Elliot Smith, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Stone Jack Jones, Huddie Leadbelly, Bill Monroe, Scout Niblett, Radio Head, Public Enemy, KRS One
more influences: Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr, Jesus, Lao Tzo, Black Elk, Confucius, Helen Keller, Alfred Hitchcock, Carl Sagan, Rod Serling, Crazy Horse, Dwayne Booth (Mr. Fish), Pele, Dr Joseph Mercola, Johan Galtung, Cameron Shayne, Tank Man, Johannes Gutenberg
food: fresh homemade juice, homemade smoothie, The Roscoe at Silly Goose
cause(s): freedom (especially from government intrusion), peace
links: jorgearrieta.com, popsiclesandgrenades.com, standingonawhale.com
Mike Angennet
ceo and founder of Open Source Minerals, Chairman and founder of Jeweltree Foundation
current location: Maastricht, The Netherlands
expertise: ethical diamond sourcing
uncanny skill: making omelets
fact: Long gone family member was goldsmith in Amsterdam and made the tora crown for the jewish portugese community there
bliss: persistent
author(s): Pablo Neruda, Albero Manguel, Shakespear, Sonny Barger (to name a few, I studied literature a lifetime ago)
artist(s): Giorgio Morandi, Hundertwasser, Jean Tinguely (among others)
film(s): The King's Speech, Smoke, A night on Earth, Pulp Fiction
music: Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Los Amigos Invisible
food: jain
cause(s): promoting fairer trade
link(s): www.jeweltreefoundation.org
