The Blog

Newspread Ideas - Valentin Ozich

Earlier this year, I Love Ugly Creative Director and Founder Valentin Ozich sat down with Newspread for their first Newspread Ideas event. Hosted locally on Auckland's K Road by Platform Store, th...

New Music — Understood by Mick Jenkins

Mick Jenkins is back with a new single. "Understood" finds the Chicago rapper laying down the law over some blissed out production courtesy of Kaytranada. Jenkins teased on Twitter that him and Kay...

What we're reading — Mastery by Robert Greene

Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with ...

New Podcast — The Tim Ferriss Show: #148: Josh Waitzkin

Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The movie S...

Plant A Seed — A Memo by ILU

The problem with the world we live in today is that we've been conditioned to think that just because we can stream that new TV Series in a second, or FaceTime someone on the other side of the wor...

New Music — Project 0 by Chester Watson

Our good friend Chester Watson is back on the new music grind presenting his latest EP Project 0. "With 'Project 0' I’m giving people who have grown with me and my sound some familiar lo-fi vibes ...

What We're Watching — All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks

For the first time ever, The New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, the most successful team in global sports history, allows cameras into their super secretive world to witness one of their most diff...

What We're Reading — Seeking Wisdom: From Munger to Darwin by Peter Bevelin

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of B...

Kent Loon - Maleficent Feat. Chester Watson

Our longtime friend Chester Watson just dropped a fresh music video, featuring on Kent Loon's track Maleficent. New music on the way, so watch this space...Chester Watson - SoundcloudKent Loon - So...