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The majority of employees prefer hybrid work arrangements over fully remote and onsite, according to a Gallup Poll. Having two distinct experiencesin-office and at-homedelivers flexibility and variety, but it also provides an added benefit you might not expect: insights that could help you stick to common New Years resolutions.If you look back to pre-pandemic, we all got used to our routines, says Frank Weishaupt, CEO of the video conferencing provider Owl Labs. You took a job, it was at a location, you went there pretty much every day, and that set your parameters of what your life looked like.Today, though, routines around workplaces arent always set in stone, and where you work can support healthy habits or detract from them. According to Owl Labss 2024 State of Hybrid Work report, 84% of hybrid and remote workers say they eat healthier food when working at home versus at the office. But being at home isnt always an advantage. The report found that 47% of full-time office workers exercise during the workday, compared to 22% of remote workers.The data really differs from how people do things in one place versus the other place, says Weishaupt. How can you get consistency in your habits and manage how things might be for you in one location versus another?Leverage the Successful ConditionsStart by looking at the days where it seems easier to stick to your goals. If one location seems to strengthen your resolve, evaluate why that might be the case. For example, people who are in the office might find it easier to make time to exercise because of proximity, suggests Weishaupt.Youre away from home already, he says. You may not feel as guilty as the at-home worker who needs to leave the home to exercise.It can also be an access issue. Perhaps it feels easier to exercise because you can go on your lunch hour, or maybe theres a nearby gym or walking path.When it comes to eating healthier, working from home offers an advantage because you have more control. When Im working at home, I have access to healthier food and healthy snacks, because thats the way that we live in my house, and thats the way that we shop, says Weishaupt.Combat Underlying ChallengesIf the location is hindering your resolve, evaluate that, too. When it comes to exercising on the days you work from home, Weishaupt says there can often be a perception issue.If youre in the office and take an hour to disappear and go to the gym, the perception is that you took time to focus on your mental and physical health, says Weishaupt. If youre working from home, you may feel like you have to overcompensate for it a little bit by being always available. Thats a terrible thing, because you should always be able to prioritize and balance those things out, no matter where you work.When it comes to eating healthy, break rooms often offer temptations, like free donuts or candy. In this case, Weishaupt recommends duplicating the behaviors you have at home. For example, you can ask your manager if theres a way to offer different snacks at the office. Or you can prepare ahead of time by bringing your own food.Set yourself up for success, instead of assuming some sort of magic will happen on January 1, where youre never going to want to eat a Kit Kat again, he says.While diet and exercise are common New Years resolutions, you may discover that some workplace habits are stronger at home versus the office and vice versa. For example, maybe you are better at tuning out distractions at home but waste time chatting with coworkers on the days youre onsite. You might want to adopt some of the conditions you have at home, such as shifting your work hours to arrive early when fewer people are there. Or you could shut your office door (if youve got one) or wear headphones.Or perhaps you feel more productive at your desk at work? Consider the atmosphere of your home office to determine if you need to make changes, such as setting up stronger boundaries around work and home tasks.Spend some time thinking about what is better at work and what is better at home. The key is to understand the triggersgood and badfor your desired habits, and then prepare for them no matter where you are.

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The expectations for The Brutalist are high. Actor-turned-director Brady Corbet already took home the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in September. And now he enters Hollywoods big award season with seven Golden Globe nominations, including Director of a Motion Picture, Screenplay of a Motion Picture, and Drama Motion Picture.The Brutalist is a historical epic that follows Lszl Tth (Adrien Brody), a renowned Bauhaus architect, who makes his way from Budapest to Pennsylvania after the Holocaust. There he meets the Van Burens, a wealthy family with vast resources the kind that could revive the career of a talented architect. Though a series of events would derail the initial work, Lszl is resilient and with time, is invited to design a massive, ambitious community center.After intermission yes, theres an intermission we see Lszl living off of the Van Burens land. Hes even been able to use their connections to reunite his family who were forcibly separated from him during the war. But if Lszl sounds easy to root for, hes not. Because at the corner of every win comes a loss. And its the booze, drugs, and philandering that wear him down. Eventually, The Brutalist departs Pennsylvania for a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy for the films most startling scene.I spoke with Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the script with his wife Mona Fastvold, and we discussed his prickly protagonist, the films nearly four-hour runtime, and why rich people feel they need to collect artists more than their art.Actors Guy Pearce, Adrien Brody, and Isaach De Bankol A24The Verge: At the heart of The Brutalist is a story about doing whatever it takes to survive during uncertain times. What made this story so urgent for you?Brady Corbet: I really always try to work with themes that will continue to be relevant for me, irrespective of how long it takes to get them off the ground. When I made Childhood or Vox Lux or The Brutalist, theyre films that are historically steeped, thematically rich. Its rich material. I had suspected when we got to page 173 or whatever and wrote the end that it might take some time to get this one off the ground.And the film is dealing with themes of individualism and capitalism and immigration and assimilation, and these are all things that I think that virtually anyone has some real experience with in whatever line of work that theyre doing. Obviously I know how much journalists have to fight to cover what they want to cover and get paid a living wage, and its become increasingly difficult for artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, you name it. I think its something that anyone can relate to. And of course, as everyone is anticipating how the new administration will be handling immigration, of course, I think its especially on top of mind right now for viewers.The moment when Lszl tells Audrey, Im not what I expected either really spoke to this characters survival instincts. Can you talk about finding that with Adrien Brody?Adriens a really, really smart guy. And not to speak ill of performers, but he is uncommonly attuned to what this film was doing in terms of its themes and really everything that it had on its mind. I think he just really understood the material and he understood where to put the emphasis on the syllable. And I think that when I met him, he has this really graceful quality, and he also reminds me of a performer of another era.Im so fascinated by the patrons that dont want to just collect the work. They want to collect the artists.For me, hes like Gregory Peck or early De Niro. As we are moving into an era where I find it very difficult actually to cast period pieces, theres a lot of actors that I love that have a lot of plastic surgery, and its very difficult because you cant cast someone thats had so much plastic surgery in a film that takes place prior to 1975. I really hold on to these performers, Men, women, and young people, so many young people that are getting plastic surgery like 18, 19 years old that just are natural. And I think that Adrien, he has this anguish thats there as well. I dont know precisely where that comes from, but its clear to me that this is a person thats lived a lot. Hes squeezed a lot of juice out of the lemon.And I think that that was just all very appealing to me. I think that of course, his heritage was a factor. I knew about his background. I was aware of the fact that his mother had fled Hungary in 1956 during the revolution. He was uniquely well suited for the role.Theres a certain type of wealthy person that loves to collect people. Guy Pearces character, Harrison Lee Van Buren, is the pinnacle of a people collector.Im so fascinated by the patrons that dont want to just collect the work. They want to collect the artists.Guy really understood it immediately. I think when he read the screenplay, he fully comprehended the piece. The movie was self-selecting, I would say, because all of the folks that stuck with the project as it fell apart and came back together so many times. They all had a really strong point of reference for what this was about.Its just such a specific person. I see them everywhere.It absolutely is. Listen, I think that the sequence in Carrara, and when it really starts getting into when the reality becomes liquid and it reaches Greek mythical status after two and a half hours. What was so important to me about Carrara is that Carrara marble is this material that should not be possessed, and yet it lines our kitchens and bathrooms. But the material itll be gone in 500 years. Those mountains will not exist. And thats incredibly disturbing because theyre like Swiss cheese right now, of course, and there are constant rock slides.Its not as dangerous as it was 70 years ago where people literally were chopping off their hands every single day, but its still quite dangerous. There are helicopter pads and they serve two purposes there. The first purpose is to carry out people that get badly injured. The second reason is that many buyers like to fly in and choose a slab for their home or a sculpture or whatever.Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce A24Its this VIP thing, which I feel is totally hilarious and disturbing. And for me, I think that that theme of that which cannot and should not be possessed. The visual allegories were very rich in that place.Throughout the first act, youre sliding in all these romantic historical notions of Pennsylvania. Whyd the story just need to take place there? What was it about Pennsylvania that was important for you?In 1935 when the Bauhaus Dessau was shut down by the Nazis, Walter Gropius was able to get many professors, proteges, artists, designers stationed at universities in the Northeast predominantly. There is a reason that so many of the greats ended up in that part of the country. Thats specifically why, but for me especially because of Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn it was just important to set the film in a place that is very, very rich architecturally.I want to meet a compelling strangerAnd it was actually only through the process of working on the movie that I really learned so much about the history of Pennsylvania. And thats the thing thats interesting about making a film is that its important that you know enough to make a movie on the subject matter, but also, there should be some space for you to discover something as well because youre going to be working on it for so many years that it has to be exploratory. I want to be discovering something with the audience. Im not that interested in telling the audience or teaching the audience.(Light spoilers follow.)As a director, how do you go about building trust with the audience to stay engaged through the runtime intermission and all?I just think its intuitive. I watch good stuff. I watch bad stuff. I watch everything. And cinema is a language at this point that I feel pretty well-versed in. I feel pretty fluent at this point. And I think that it becomes second nature. What I just keep saying about this film is that the film is long, but its not durational cinema. Theres a lot of extraordinary durational cinema. I love the work of Lissandra Alonso or Bela Tarr or Mikls Jancs, who was also the father of my editor, David Jancs. But with this movie that wasnt part of its makeup or intention or design or editorial.It is interesting because, and for some viewers, I think people can sometimes find it very frustrating because I intentionally omit a lot of the stuff that, for me, I feel like the first 30 minutes of most movies, its just so much exposition. Its just theyre telling you about these characters backgrounds and exactly what theyve been through. And I just dont think thats very interesting. I want to meet a compelling stranger.And I want to get to know them over the course of the movie. I dont want to watch a movie where in the first five to 10 minutes you know exactly how its going to end. And thats almost everything.Ecstasy is always accompanied by agony and vice versaIts very, very rare. And what was interesting for me about this was in terms of subverting the classical structure, I was like, Its a natural place to end the movie with a retrospective of this characters work. But whats very unusual, beyond the fact that formally its quite unusual a lot of it was shot on DigiBeta, and its a big adjustment to jump from 1959 to 1980 is that Adriens character is not given a voice in that sequence. He is physically present for his achievement, but hes perhaps not mentally present for his achievement. His wife is dead. And theres a great quote, and its one of the southern Gothic writers. I dont know if its Flannery OConnor or Faulkner or Cormac McCarthy. Its one of them. But theres a great quote, which is, Mans spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His noon signals the onset of midnight.[Ed note: Its Cormac McCarthy and the exact quote is His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.]And I think thats very true. Its this interesting thing where these moments that for the public or for anyone on the outside looking in seemed to be these moments of glory. You generally are spiritually too exhausted to really appreciate it in a way. And it was important for me to do something that was, yes, its absolutely classical in terms of A, B, and C, but the quality and the tone is theres a real melancholy. And theres a lot going on at the end of the movie. Ecstasy is always accompanied by agony and vice versa. And its important for the films to represent that.The Carrara marble quarry in Italy. A24And then the last thing that Id like to say is that I think that Ive always been disturbed by the way survivors are portrayed in cinema, which is that theyre frequently altruistic. Theyre like saints. My problem with that is that it suggests that we can only empathize with someone if theyre perfect. And for Adriens character, it was important to me that it is a love story. He loves his wife very deeply, but he also has a wandering eye. Hes very much a man of the mid-century. Hes a philanderer. Yet both of these things can be true. We can empathize with him even when he is behaving badly.The high cost of making things hangs really heavy on Lszl and his entire family. Did you know that in the end when we reached the epilogue that itd be worth it?I dont know if it is worth it for him. I dont know. I think that thats something which is a little bit ambiguous about the films conclusion, is that when you speak to most people at the end of their lives, they usually say, Take it from me, spend more time with your kids.

2024 was a bit of a bumpy road for PlayStation. Things started out well with the surprise success of Helldivers 2, the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and the slick action duo of Stellar Blade and Black Myth: Wukong. But things took a downward turn in the summer thanks to Concords (failure to) launch. The doomed hero shooter and subsequent closing of developer Firewalk Studios was certainly a low point for Sony, even if a delightful little robot did his best to brighten the mood in the fantastic Astro Bot. Since then weve seen the arrival of the PS5 Pro, an even more powerful PlayStation 5 console that comes at an eye-wateringly premium price and has been met with a mixed reception. But with time ticking away, theres barely time left in 2024 to dwell on PlayStations past. It already feels like time to look ahead to 2025.So what does the upcoming year have in store for PlayStation? With almost all of its first-party studios keeping cards close to chests, you may be mistaken for thinking things are looking quiet. But let's delve in deeper to see exactly what games to expect for the PS5 in 2025, as well as make a few hopeful guesses of our own.The Best PlayStation Game of 2024IGN's Twenty Questions - Guess the game!IGN's Twenty Questions - Guess the game!To start:...try asking a question that can be answered with a "Yes" or "No".000/250The Games We Know Are ComingFirstly, lets look at what is scheduled to come from those all-important PlayStation Studios. Sucker Punchs Ghost of Yotei is certainly looking like the headline attraction, and its coming to the PS5 in 2025. The sequel to 2020s open-world samurai adventure, Ghost of Tsushima, is set to be a stunner as were introduced to both a new hero and Northern Japanese location. Lets hope for some gameplay trailers early next year or in the summer, ahead of a winter release.Theres also Fairgames, the debut game from Haven Studios. Its a multiplayer heist shooter, and so it will certainly be fascinating to see what lessons PlayStation has learned from the live-service disaster of Concord. First revealed in 2023, were yet to see any gameplay, but hopefully that doesnt mean it wont hit its target of a 2025 release date.And those are the only PlayStation Studios games we currently know are slated for a 2025 release. And with no actual release dates locked in yet, we can barely plot out what to expect in each part of the year. But that isnt to say there wont be more big games coming to the PS5 next year, though, and we can certainly theorise at what else we might see from some of Sonys first-party stable.We now know that Naughty Dogs next adventure will take us to the stars in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. We dont expect to be playing this in 2025, though, but well happily eat up any more info Neil Druckmann and the team wants to share about it especially if that includes some of that laser blade gameplay.PlayMarathon has a lot of weight resting on its shoulders, not only because it will be Bungies first full release since it was acquired by Sony, but alongside Fairgames, it will be PlayStations first big new live-service shooter to follow in the quickly fading footsteps of Concord. The Destiny developers have as strong a shooter pedigree as anyone in the business, so it will certainly be interesting to see the result of its work as it aims to revive its long-dormant 90s series as a multiplayer extraction shooter.Could 2025 be the year that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach emerges from its oily cocoon? Hideo Kojima was at The Game Awards but didnt bring a new trailer with him. Unacceptable behaviour, if you ask me. Are we any closer to knowing what its all about? Whos to say, but we certainly want to play it. And the sooner we can, the sooner Kojima can move on to working on Physint, the upcoming stealth-action PlayStation exclusive from the Metal Gear master.As for third-party exclusives, theres a fair few to look forward to.As for third-party exclusives, theres a fair few to look forward to especially if youre into big swords. Phantom Blade Zero looks set to be a flashy hack-and-slash action RPG from Chinese studio S-Game. A semi-open world samurai bloodfest with soulslike elements, it certainly doesnt look to be lacking in style. No release date has been given as yet, but let's hope for next year.Speaking of blades, Where Winds Meet is a PS5 console-exclusive RPG set in ancient China. Taking place during the Ten Kingdoms Era, you step into the shoes of a warrior who wields influence over warring dynasties, shaping history with the point of your sword, as well as mystical and magical abilities. Originally set for a 2024 release before being delayed to add even more content to its packed, mammoth open world, it wouldnt be a shock to see it finally arrive within the next 12 months.PlayBut wait, there are more swords and even bigger blades in Ballad of Antara, a free-to-play co-op action RPG packed with multiple protagonists and intertwining stories coming to the PS5 in 2025. Well get a better look at it soon, with a beta promised to be on the way.Think were done with swords? Think again. This next game even has one in the title: Sword of the Sea. You dont use this one to fight with, though; instead, youll be plonking your feet on it and riding around at speed, Tony Hawk and Metaphor: ReFantazio style. From Abz and The Pathless studio Giant Squid, the reveal trailer couldnt help but remind us of Journey, as a mysterious cloaked character hoverswords around vast desert ruins. Another relatively fresh announcement, having only been revealed at Septembers State of Play, The Midnight Walk is the next game from Lost in Random developer Moonhood Studios. An adventure handcrafted from clay, its set to be one of the most visually striking games of 2025. Plus, its even coming out on PS VR2. At least someone is helping out that long-forgotten little guy.The last PS5 console exclusive were going to highlight is a game we wrote about exactly this time last year in our 2024 PlayStation look-ahead. Hopefully 2025 will be the year we finally get to clumsily bumble our way through the world of Baby Steps. A PS5 console-exclusive, the team up from the developers behind Getting Over It and Ape Out looks equal parts agonising as it does hilarious.PlayThat may be it for exclusives, but there are plenty more multiplatform games coming out in 2025 that are set to make it a bumper year for PlayStation players. Alongside the arrival of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle onto PS5, theres Elden Ring Nightreign, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Assassins Creed Shadows, Monster Hunter Wilds, Mafia: The Old Country, Judas, Borderlands 4, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater to name but a few. Oh, and a little game called Grand Theft Auto 6. Could be good. Who knows.Hopes and DreamsNow for the fun part: the section where we get to cross our fingers and conjure up games that dont exist yet, but maybe will appear before our eyes in 2025.Insomniac has had a relatively quiet year for a studio that puts out new releases with such regularity, that is but understandable considering it continues to recover from the data breach suffered at the end of 2023. We know that Wolverine is in the works but dont yet know exactly when it will be in our hands. And, if rumours are to be believed, a Venom game is scheduled to arrive before it. While it may be unlikely that well be playing either of these superhero stories within the next 12 months, we might get a clearer picture of what is coming next from the Spidey studio.The same can be said for Santa Monica Studio. Whats next for the God of War developer is a mystery, although we do know Cory Barlog game director of 2018s God of War moved on to helm a new project in 2021 after leaving Eric Williams to fill Ragnaroks director seat. Could we see what Barlogs game is in 2025?The 100 Best PlayStation Games of All TimeAs for other studios, can we expect yet more delves into the world of Horizon from Guerrilla Games, with an online multiplayer game reportedly in development at the Amsterdam developers? And it's been a long time since Bend released Days Gone almost six whole years, in fact and the studio has hinted that it's making another open-world adventure. Little is known apart from that, but its safe to say wed like to learn more. The truth is, we know very little about what is in the pipeline from many of Sonys first-party studios, so dont be surprised if the PS5 is in for another relatively quiet year in 2025. Wed be more than happy to be wrong about that, though, and be pleasantly surprised by a flurry of reveals and releases.Finally, could Sonys interest in acquiring the massive Kadokawa company (which, alongside a huge anime portfolio, also owns FromSoftware) finally result in a Bloodborne remaster or sequel? I know we said these are hopes and dreams but dont be silly.Hardware and TechIn terms of hardware, Sony has been very busy over the past couple of years with the PS VR2, PlayStation Portal, and PS5 Pro all released to varying levels of success. As a result, we expect things to be quieter on the hardware front when it comes to 2025. However, it may be the year that we see the PS5 Pro justify itself further as an expensive upgrade if games like Ghost of Yotei and GTA 6 start to push the base PlayStation 5 to its limit. It will certainly be interesting to see how developers embrace this new tech over the next year or so, and if we start to see genuinely impressive comparisons between the original PS5 and Pro.PlayBut while we expect actual hardware releases to be quiet, weve heard whispers that there may be some news to share of fresh PlayStation tech in 2025. Could we see Sony take another stab at the handheld market? Just stick some internal storage into the Portal. I have no qualifications when it comes to hardware engineering, but how hard can it be, lads? In all seriousness, though, if recent reports are to be believed, then maybe we could actually see a successor to the PSP and PS Vita in the coming year, or at least an announcement of one.Lets be honest, its all guesswork isnt it? Got your own theories and hopes for what well see from PlayStation in 2025? Let us know in the comments below, as well as what youre most excited to play.

Be it via Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, or Rear Window, we all have our fantasy versions of New York City. For many design cognoscenti, their dreams took the shape of the late fashion designer Isabel and artist Ruben Toledos penthouse apartment, showcased in a 2006 New York magazine article and dubbed by a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission chairwoman as a little Parnassus in the skyfitting, as Parnassus was the residence of the Greek muses.Frank Frances StudioAlfredo Paredess Midtown design studio (shown here and above left) is in the former penthouse loft of Isabel and Ruben Toledo. Set atop Alfred Zuckers late-19th-century Baudouine Building, the penthouse is now home to ELLE DECOR A-List interior designer Alfredo Paredess small but mighty studio. Paredes, who worked at Ralph Lauren before opening his eponymous firm in 2019, remembered the space fondly from seeing it in print. When he heard it was available, he knew he had to have it and moved there this past fall while still several months away from the end of his previous lease. Frank Frances StudioParedes with a portrait of the couple.Architecturally, Paredes changed nothing. What was once the Toledos sleeping area is now a war room for the studios designers, while Rubens main workspace is now a sitting area that showcases a few of Paredess own designs: a pink sofa and navy armchairs. The positive, creative spirit the Toledos imbued in the space lives on. The most beautiful rooms are the ones that have been there forever, Paredes says. We couldnt agree more. This story originally appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of ELLE DECOR. SUBSCRIBE