🌟 Editor's Note

Hey People!

If you thought my ego was inflated already, get ready. There’s nothing quite like being invited to be a guest on a podcast. It feels like an editorial right of passage, and I couldn’t be happier that it was with my good friend Ken from the Chronedo podcast. Past guests include watch industry royalty like Jean-Claude Biver, so I’m absolutely honoured to be a part of it.

Ken and I speak about the business of watch media, how being unbiased is a bullshit impossibility (something I’m very passionate about) and all things editorial. It was a great conversation, and I hope you will give it a watch and let me know what you think!

You can watch the episode on YouTube (above) or if you don’t feel like looking at my face for 30 minutes, listen to it on your podcast player.

Please enjoy!

Cya in the next one x

The Lebond Attraction - A Thoughtful Tribute To Gaudí's Unfinished Skyscraper

Does great art need to be finished to be appreciated?

This is the question I asked my seven-year-old last night as I was telling him to come to bed mid lego build. ‘You can finish it tomorrow’ I said as the clock ticked past 9pm, a full hour after his agreed upon sleep time.

After he reluctantly left his Magnum Opus unfinished on the floor and climbed in to bed, I got to think about other unfinished masterpieces, and how we tend to idolise them and their creators. The patron saint of unfinished work, Leonardo da Vinci, immediately came to mind. Works like the Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, and the grand Battle of Anghiari were all abandoned for one reason or another. Most likely Leo’s perfectionism, curiosity and more than a touch of undiagnosed ADHD. Another master of the unfinished is Antoni Gaudí. His La Sagrada Família is famously still under construction more than a century after his death. It’s unfinished art at its absolute best.

My question is, are we supposed to think less of these great artists for their lack of completion? And is it a sign of disfunction, or pure genius, to be perpetually dissatisfied with what you’re doing? Perhaps it’s this fluidity of ideas and whip-lash motivation that makes these people great?

These are interesting thoughts, all of which I shared with my son as he was drifting off to sleep. ‘I’m too tired daddy, can we talk about it another time?’. Our conversation was left unfinished…..was the next great artist lying beside me?! He will be taking lego commissions shortly.

Did You Know? 🏗️ Gaudí's Sagrada Família is still unfinished. Construction on Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece in Barcelona began in 1882 and is still ongoing, making its construction time longer than the building of the Egyptian pyramids.

Cya in the next one,

Mitch x