Places and Spaces I’ve Been by Pharrell Williams.  Available at Amazon.com

Redefining cool for a new generation, Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, popular culture, and street savvy, Pharrell Williams’s output is unique. By playing off different disciplines—namely music, fashion, street art, and design—and using each as an element in the other, Pharrell has redefined the role of the contemporary recording artist, blazing a trail for other musicians and prominent cultural figures. Illustrated with lavish photography, this book also explores his musical career in depth, charting his many projects from his production team The Neptunes, to the band N.E.R.D., and his collaborations with friends Kanye West, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and other hip-hop royalty.This unprecedented volume documents Pharrell’s prolific body of work and his contribution to contemporary culture. In his own unique graphic language, he details his extensive creative pursuits, including clothing lines, jewelry, and accessories designs for Louis Vuitton, furniture and other product design, limited-edition toys, graphic designs, skate graphics, and collaborations with Moncler, Marc Jacobs, the artist KAWS, and with architects Zaha Hadid and Masamichi Katayama/Wonderwall. 

A ship in the harbor is safe but thats not why ships are built

there was once a man who’d become unstuck in the world

and he travelled around like a leaf on the wind

until he reached the place he had started out

his car, his job, his phone, his shoes

everything was right where he left it

nothing had changed

and yet

he felt excited to have arrived here

as if this were the place he were going all along

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there was once a man who became unstuck in the world

and each person he met became a little less stuck themselves

he travled only with himself

and he was never alone

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there once was a man who became unstuck in the world

with a polariod camera he made pictures of all the people he met

and then he gave all the pictures away

he would never forget their faces

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there once was a man who became unstuck in the world

instead of hooks or a net he threw himself into the sea

he was never thirsty

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there was once a man who became unstuck in the world

he took the wind for a map

he took the sky for a clock

and he set off with no destination

he was never lost

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there was once a man who became unstuck in the world

he realized he was not his car

he realized he was not his job

he was not his phone, his desk or his shoes

like a boat cut from its anchor

he began to drift

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