the world renowned architect, frank gehry who designs buildings like you've never seen before. how do you capture the essence of a world leader? i'll talk to the acclaimed and innovative photographer platon. finally, think you can't sell chopsticks to china? think again. first here is my take. these are the dog days of summer. in this hot sweltering weather most americans are busy working. i know i know not you folks in the hamp tons, but the others. meanwhile, most europeans are busy vacations. thus it has ever been, only it's getting worse. nowadays the average european gets about three times as many days of paid vacation as his counterpart in america. italy has the most with the average worker there getting 42 paid days off according to the world tourism organization. next was france with 37 days, germany with 35, brazil at 34, the uk at 28, canada 26, korea and japan both with 25. the united states was near the bottom of the list with the average worker getting 13 paid days off. why do we do this to ourselves? the conventioned answer is this attitude towards work makes the

he's frank gehry, perhaps best known for his undulating waves at the guggenheim among others.w do you come up with an idea? so much of what you have done was not conventional, was not the way buildings were build or the way people conceived of things. where did stuff come to you from? >> i'm very thorough which people probably don't realize. i do a lot of research. i spend a lot of time with the clients, with the site, with the program and invent as i go along ideas that respond to those. and in that process with the client involved and a clear understanding of budget and engineering and what can go on, we vet some directions together and they're complicit which i love because in the end when it looks strange, it want them -- they've been part of it. >> but the strangeness comes from where? >> well, i don't know why -- to me it's not strange. it looks like everything else is strange. and so stuff starts to unfold and little models and ideas and sketches. there are about 50 to 100 models made in that process. >> it's very deliberative. >> yes. then when i understand it complete