Category: On the Move

Digital Entrepreneur & Influencer, Caroline Daur

A dominating force inside the digital world of social media: Caroline Daur, high fashion and lifestyle influencer, has created a platform that is popping up all over everyone’s Instagram feeds, and motivating her fans to take chances and indulge in wildly cool mint-colored silk dresses while jet setting to five-star locations.

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Hamburg born and based, Daur has taken the concept of exploring her personality through fashion and has combined it with a growing passion for travel, garnering over 2.2M followers. Today, transforming from blogger to model and entrepreneur, this 24-year-old digital starlet is driving a new age on the web where admiring style icons can find out the top trends instantly rather than six months later inside a store or magazine.

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Collaborating with powerful brands such as Moncler, Prada, Maison Valentino, Bottega Veneta and Dolce & Gabbana, Daur is taking social media partnerships to next level, all-encompassing heights. A spokesperson that tells the narrative of Germany’s girl next door and style superstar who knows what works and what doesn’t, Daur is pioneering a new space where glossy catalogues take a back seat and Instagram becomes the driving authority. The next-gen ideology of fashion news, this new platform largely developed by influencers like Daur herself, is changing the way consumers shop and the way brands invest in advertising. Inventing a new profession coined influencer marketing, Daur has carved out a commentary that not only disrupts the traditional nature of the fashion industry but the domain for travel and lifestyle headlines.

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And this is only the beginning. The opportunities are endless as Daur takes her followers around the world, showcasing her most coveted coffee houses, ski retreats and star-studded red carpet events. Curating a vision that says all things ultra-luxe, Daur is showing her followers that there is no better space to research the most glamorous destinations and wardrobes to take along on the trip than on her IG feed. Self-made without a manager, agent and assistant, Daur is the true story of success that anything is possible.

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On The Move: Dr. Amber Straughn – Astrophysicist & Galactic Explorer

In popular science fiction, people travel throughout multiple galaxies. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jeff Bezos’ Space X, and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, among other world challengers, hope to someday make this fiction a reality.

Dr. Amber Straughn is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and serves as the Deputy Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Communications. A forerunner in her field, Dr. Straughn’s specialty is cutting-edge. She observes, using Hubble Telescope data, “…the overall picture of how galaxies grow, and how supermassive black holes, star formation, as well as gas inflows and outflows, affect galaxy evolution over cosmic time.”

She shares her love of space throughout the world, from local schools to massive events such as Comic Con and the World Science Festival, and television appearances on PBS NOVA, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and many others.

Dr. Straughn lives in Maryland with her husband Matt, two Great Danes and a cat. A private pilot who owns a Cessna 182, she is on the move in this planet’s skies, while exploring, as the Star Trek opening line states, “Space: the Final Frontier.”

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee began as an online series on Crackle and is now streamed on Netflix, where its tenth season recently aired. Seinfeld’s roving talk show combines coffee, laughs and vintage cars into quirky, caffeine-fueled adventures with the sharpest minds in comedy. The success of the show is partly due to its simple format: two comics in a car conversing over coffee.

Seinfeld has taken Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Judd Apatow, Larry David, Tina Fey and Ellen DeGeneres, among others, on coffee dates in classic cars. He even drove Barack Obama around the White House.

Each classic car, like each conversation, is matched to the guest. The blue ’76 Lamborghini Countach for Jim Carey, the Mercedes 280 SL for Alec Baldwin. With Stephen Colbert he riffs about masculinity and with Ali Wentworth he banters on about the art of winning a fight. The shows are filmed at pre-selected restaurants.

Seinfeld ran for 15 years, starting in 1989. The Emmy-nominated Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee premiered in 2012 and is still going strong. The series, despite its seeming irreverence, portrays the comedic maestro’s talent as he shares the mobile stage with his humorist peers, in a feel-good, witty second act.

“Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.” – Jerry Seinfeld

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A strong work ethic, a positive outlook, and healthy living can take you anywhere. At least that is what we can be led to believe when we take a look at the accomplishments to date of Maye Musk.

Musk gives credit to her parents who were honest, hardworking and adventurous. This solid-footing has fared Musk and the world well. She tried to instill those values, the same ones she applied to her own life, which was wrought with challenges, in her very successful children: Elon, Kimbal, and Tosca.

Musk started modeling at the age of 15, while studying nutrition. She has earned two Master’s degrees in this field. Her parallel careers continue. A successful mother, she ran her nutrition business for over 45 years, and has been breaking records and paradigms in the modeling world.

At age 70, Musk was chosen as the face of Covergirl. She has been featured on the covers of Vanity Fair, Vogue, in the Beyoncé video Haunted and in a James Bond video game that her ten grandchildren are particularly fond of.

“As long as you’re doing something that is good for the future, then I think you should remain positive and do it.” – Maye Musk

 

Born in 1935 as Lhamo Thondup, he was renamed Tenzin Gyatso when revealed to be the 14th Dalai Lama. He assumed this highest political and spiritual position of Tibet at age 15. In 1959, the Dalai Lama and several thousand followers were forced by the People’s Republic of China to flee their homeland. They settled in northern India and established an alternative government there. The current reincarnation of the Buddhist deity Avalokite?vara, a Bodhisattva of Compassion, has made it his life’s mission to preserve the cultural heritage of the Tibetan people.

Gyatso’s charisma, broad-based education and relentless nonviolent advocacy has made him one of the world’s most influential leaders. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet and also became the first Nobel Laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental concerns.

In 2011, Gyatso officially separated “the church from the state” by declaring the Dalai Lama’s position a nonpolitical one, leaving all political authority to the democratically elected Tibetans-in-exile. The Dalai Lama, if reincarnated, from this time on is decreed to be purely a position of spiritual authority.

The 14th Dalai Lama has spoken to millions of followers at hundreds of conferences, lectures and workshops worldwide. He has travelled to more than 67 countries in six continents. He has received over 150 awards, honorary doctorates, and prizes in recognition of his message of peace, nonviolence, inter-religious understanding, universal responsibility and compassion.  He has also authored or co-authored more than 110 books and held discussions with heads of state and participated in many events promoting inter-religious harmony and understanding.

What is his message? Fundamentally he believes the purpose of our lives is to be happy and to get there one must practice compassion and kindness.   One of his dictums is: “Follow the three R’s: respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.” For the 14th Dalai Lama, happiness is a simply a matter of kindness.

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama

Antonio Banderas

His film career began when he was 19 in the city of Madrid, where he was recognized by Pedro Almodóvar and cast in Labyrinth of Passion. The two continued to work together in provocative 80s movies including: Law of Desire and the Academy Award-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

He relocated to Hollywood and soon became America’s ideal Latin Lover, chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People magazine. He has won numerous awards and nominations for his works in film, including three ALMA awards and three Golden Globe nominations, among many others. He was recognized with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005.

Banderas has captured audience’s hearts in roles that continue to delight. He charmed the world with his portrayal of Zorro in The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro. The young-at-heart were enchanted by his roles as Puss-in-Boots in the Shrek franchise and also in the Spy Kids’ movies.

This year he is portraying Picasso in National Geographic’s Genius: Picasso, a 10-part television series about the 33 days Picasso took to paint Guernica. In addition, he will appear in The Voyage of Doctor Doolittle in April 2019 and continue the Almodóvar – Banderas collaboration, along with Penelope Cruz and Julieta Serrano, in Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory). The movie is to be released in Spain in 2019.

“I don’t believe in careers; I just picture myself always as one of those old actors from the 19th century who go from village to village in their repertoire.” – Antonio Banderas

Academy Award-Winning Director, Guillermo del Toro

“To watch his masterpieces is an experience in escapism and wonder” – Jordan Peele

Guillermo del Toro is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. Filmmaking his been his passion since he was a child in Guadalajara, México, making short films with his father’s Super 8.

Del Toro first became known in 1993 for the film Cronos which he directed. He continues to direct and produce. In 2006, his film, Pan’s Labyrinth, was nominated for six Academy Awards. He also directed Hell Boy, Blade II, and Pacific Rim. In addition, he has produced many well-received movies including: The Orphanage, Julia’s Eyes, Biutiful, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, and Mamá.

In 2017, del Toro’s achievement was honored for his masterfully executed film, The Shape of Water for which he was awarded the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has signed on Guillermo del Toro with a contract that covers live-action feature films, as well as a new label in the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, which will be produced and curated by the director. Guillermo del Toro was recently named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world.

“He is an auteur whom artists adore. We look up to him because he doesn’t compromise in his mission to burrow down into the craggy pit of love and fear and invite us down there with him.” – Jordan Peele

Elon Musk – On the Move

A modern day Captain Kirk, Musk aims to “go where no one has gone before seeking strange worlds” via interplanetary satellite communication and travel.

He is a dreamer, a schemer and a one of the most powerful and innovative people on this planet. Originally from South Africa, Musk immigrated to Canada the US, where he has since made his home as one of the movers and shakers in Silicon Valley.

His personal net worth has reached 12.5 billion. The visionary PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk, is taking us into the future. He is the founder and brains of the electric car company Tesla Motors and the energy providing company SolarCity. The basic premise of both companies is to help combat global warming. In the same vein, his prototype public transportation system ‘Hyperloop’, is ready to be tested. Its goal is to span hundreds of miles, using low air pressure, with ‘capsules’ in ‘tubes’ that will transport people at up to 800 MPH.

He is also the founder and CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). SpaceX is the first privately funded space exploration company to create a liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit, successfully launch and recover a spacecraft, send a spacecraft to the International Space Station, and send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit.

His latest market achievement: lithium-ion batteries made available to consumers and utilities. And up next? Musk plans to create a giant global high-speed internet provider with up to 4000 satellites that could potentially reach Mars. His dream:  to establish a Mars colony with a population of 80,000 by 2040.

“It will be important for Mars to have a global communications network as well,” he says. “I think this needs to be done, and I don’t see anyone else doing it.”

“History has demonstrated that while Musk’s goals can sound absurd in the moment, he certainly believes in them and, when given enough time, tends to achieve them,” states Ashlee Vance, the biographer who wrote Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

Timothée Chalamet

A Star on the Rise

Chalamet, is a young American actor, born in 1995, who grew up New York City, where he attended LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

As a teenager he began acting in commercials and live theater and had some minor roles on television. He made his film debut in 2014 with Men, Women & Children, Interstellar, The Adderall Diaries and Miss Stevens, among others.  

It was 2017 when he made cinematic history, first with roles in Hostiles, and then the highly-acclaimed Lady Bird. However it is Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name that was his breakthrough role.  Already able to speak French and play guitar, Chamalet learned Italian and piano for this coming-of-age love story which garnered him the recognition of the youngest actor nominated for a Golden Globe, and the third youngest for an Academy Award.

This year, he stars in Beautiful Boy and headlines with Selena Gomez in Woody Allen’s comedy, A Rainy Day in New York for which he is donating his entire salary to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, the LGBT Center of New York and RAINN.

With diverse experience across film, television and theater, and raised on diverse Mexican and American influences, Sofía Sisniega is one to watch.

Graduated from the three-year theater conservatory “Stella Adler Studio” in New York and inspired by her father, independent film director, writer and chess grand master, Marcel Sisniega, Sofia has worked on more than sixteen feature films, sixteen plays, ten television series and several short films.

Sofia, a native English and Spanish speaker, has both American and Mexican citizenships and was raised between the two countries. A burgeoning icon in both countries, she is most well-known for her roles in the TV series “Gossip Girl: Acapulco” and the Netflix Original series “Club de Cuervos.”

At age 16, she starred in her first movie, “Mujeres en el Acto”, followed by “Arresto Domiciliario”, both directed by independent director, Gabriel Retes. After graduating, she continued her work in Mexico with “Bacalar” directed by Patricia Arriaga and produced by Walt Disney Studios. She participated in “Get the Gringo” with Mel Gibson, “El Gringo” filmed in Bulgaria, starring Christian Slater, “Trading Water” with Carrie Ann Moss and Zoe Kravitz, “Sundown” with Teri Hatcher, among others.

Sofia recently finished shooting 2 movies in which she also stars: “Hermanos Marquez Castillo” a comedy set in the 1940s directed by Fer Rovzar/Mark Alazraki and “Compulsion” directed by Batan Silva, a psychological thriller where she plays an American Neuroscientist.

Sofia also has many credits in television works. Sofia portrayed the main role of “Serena” in the Spanish version of “Gossip Girl” produced by Warner Brothers International Television. Sofia also played the role of Paty Villa in Netflix’s first Original series in Spanish, “Club de Cuervos” Seasons 1, 2, 3.

Sofia just finished filming the first season of “Aqui en la Tierra” a FOX series produced by Gael Garcia for which he directed the pilot and plays a recurring role. In this ensemble of amazing actors she plays one of the main characters: Julia, a wealthy girl with drug abuse problems. The series is directed by top up-and-coming Mexican directors.

Sofia is also currently shooting “La casa de las flores,” the new Netflix Original series in Spanish created by Manolo Caro.

From the very start, theater has always been a part of Sofia’s life. Her theater background in New York and Mexico includes performances in plays by Shakespeare, Eugene O’Neill, Anton Chekhov, García Lorca, Strindberg, Tennessee Williams, Sophocles, Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter and others. In March 2017, she finished a long run of the classical play in verse “Don Juan” by Zorrilla at the Helenico, one of the most important and respected theaters in Mexico. Inspired by Fellini’s movies, Sofia played the lead role of Doña Ines in this successful production.

In 2017, Sofia also played Viola in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” (“Noche de Reyes”) at the famous Foro Shakespeare in Mexico City, which won awards for the best production in Mexico.

 

With a flourishing career across film, television and theater, Sofia Sisniega looks to bring expertise and diversity to the industry for years to come.