Friday Inspiration, Vol. 103

“If you’re not taking risks, then you’re not living life. Risk doesn’t have to be this totally dangerous thing, though, at the same time. Risk can be just doing something you didn’t think you could do in your career, going and talking to that girl you didn’t think you could talk to, any of that shit. If you’re not willing to do that kind of stuff, then what the fuck’s the point?” —Hayden Kennedy, 1990-2017 (Video)

Why creatives should “Make Relationships, Not Things.”

I don’t know how to describe this story, but I’m sure it’s the best co-obituary of a man and his favorite musician that I’ve ever read.

A landslide has turned a stretch of California coastal highway into a semi-private road bike ride—for a while.

Here’s an hour of jazz and hip hop that will make your Friday.

Photoshopping Climbers Out of Images Becomes Funny Rock Worshipping Scene

You still have a few more days if you want to back/pre-purchase the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap

—Brendan