And of course, our big picture goal is to be able to continue making inspired, creative music, for as long as possible, while continuing to pay our bills.
Their online acumen and passion for making an impact inspired her to craft a program called Pando Projects, a non-profit whose mission is to "empower people to step up as leaders and develop new, local solutions to the problems in their communities".
The artist Renée Stout has made work inspired by hoodoo for more than three decades.
This year's Nobel Prize in physics honors three particle theorist of Japanese origin, one for pioneering the use of a key conceptual tool and the other two for making, in essence, an inspired educated guess that expanded the family of fundamental subatomic particles.
In the hilarious yet pathetic "Four Rajeshes," the narrator, a man called Rajesh, confesses to homosexual passion as a railway-station manager in an early-20th-century south Indian village even as he berates a present-day man called Rajesh, presumably the "real" author of the story, for making the whole thing up, inspired by nothing more than an old photograph.
Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post of Internet memes, wins the "more meta than thou" award for making "An Infographic Backlash Infographic" inspired by the tragic tale of a guy whose job it was to game Digg back when Digg had enough traffic to make it worth gaming.
The problem that many people had with the verdict against Thicke and Williams was that it seemed they were being punished for making a song that was inspired by Gaye, and sounded similar, but was compositionally very different.
Still, it's clear that Dirty South is more driven by the challenges he's chosen for himself in making movies inspired by electronic music soundtracks than in DJing.
Caron's passion for the cause inspired Sven to make a short documentary on the issue as part of a global film competition organized by WaterAid in partnership with WorldView.
