For my independent project, I want to do photos like this. Making illusions of my models floating in the air. This was done with no photoshop, really good photographer Tyler Shields.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi brings up stephan sagmesisters projects about happiness and studies what makes people truly happy. its a really good newsletter sort of thing.
I found a TED talk on Sagmeister talking about when he takes a year off to refresh himself. He also talks about projects that he did that were not in the books.