Chicago born, Chris Bonk grew up in neighboring Mount Prospect and attended Prospect High School. After a 30-year career in advertising as an artist, art director, creative director, 3D animator and motion graphic specialist, Bonk made the transition to entrepreneurship. He currently is the owner of Bottle & Bottega Arlington Heights, a sip & paint studio. When he's not at the studio, you might find him either scuba diving in a tropical locale or behind the wheel of one of his several sports cars including a vintage 1971 Datsun race car, which he competes in with a vintage race club.
9½ Weeks
1986 Film, Directed by Adrian Lyne
A woman is seduced into the realm of BDSM and finds out she is getting too caught up in the whole thing.
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
This book goes through history pointing out examples of the Rules of Power. It shows how the rule works and how if you don't follow the rule things fail. One example is "Never Outshine the Sun King" - Louis XIV would behead anybody in his court who took attention away from him. A modern example is how Henry Kissinger was smart enough to let Nixon have credit for things he did to stay in Nixon's good graces until the proper time came. I can't say the Rules are moral or just, but they work.
Blade Runner
1982 Film, Directed by Ridley Scott
A dystopian future that plays like a 1940s Mickey Spillane detective story. It's the future and it's hard to tell people from replicants (artificially made creatures). Lots of atmosphere in this movie and lots of questioning of "do you know who you really are."
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
Both books are about a dystopian future, just different versions of the future. I liked Brave New World more, as it engages in the intellectual class versus the worker class. Pleasure is a part of the story when people go on “Soma holiday.” A guilt-free drug of sorts.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989 Film, Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Quintessentially ‘80s. A man returns to his hometown but is kind of a stranger in the way he acts towards his old friends. He's different. His ability to be nonjudgmental is what attracts his friend's wife and her sister to him.
Vanilla Sky
2001 Film, Directed by Cameron Crowe
It's a mind bender of a movie. Makes you wonder "Am I dreaming or is this real?"
Wild Things
1998 Film, Directed by John McNaughton
Sexy. Tons of plot twists. Keeps you guessing.