Inspiration - where do you get yours?

[zenie]

i wasnt interested in art in 2005, sorry

pmsl

zenie.deviantart.com

2005

 

[Flavour]

no seriously, me and my mate were in a bookshop in nyc in january 2006 and we got a book about futurism cos he wanted to hook up with this chick doin art history at nyu, and it all went from there

 

[zenie]

no seriously, me and my mate were in a bookshop in nyc in january 2006 and we got a book about futurism cos he wanted to hook up with this chick doin art history at nyu, and it all went from there

LOL cool man

Good that you did - youre all the better for it.

I confess I *really* got into art cos I fancied the fuckin arse off my art teacher, I think he knew it too.

I reckon I'd still have a go if I saw him now

Check the link man!!

 

[Firky]

we got a book about futurism

fascists

 

[Flavour]

you're a fascist you fuckin sonderkommando

fuck off

 

[Firky]

I don't read books on the subject

p.s

i aint a sonderkommando i chose to do it

 

[Stanley Edwards]

My biggest influence is probably music...

I was recently asked about influences (re; photography). Beyond Thomas Struth and every photograph my brain has seen fit to remember I could only come up with Super Furry Animals

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

She went to camberwell, you mong

yeah they let peopel with travel cards go anywhere these days...

 

[Dissident Junk]

This is a good way of forcing yourself to view a familiar environment in a different way. Almost the opposite to Dissident Junk's suggestion of visiting new or, unfamiliar environments.

Strangely, I find mundane, brain dead work can be inspiring. I often took two or, three weeks work on factory floors between contracts for design companies and corps in London. Three weeks of 12 hour shifts operating a plastic moulding injection press allows for plenty of time spent brain drifting.

Tis weird that you say this.

For weeks, I have been trying to ignore this overwhelming feeling that I want to get a job in a tea shop or a pub. Before christmas, I nearly got a job in a local garden centre but the reaction from family and friends was rather shocking, so I let it go.

I just feel that I need a non-mental job for a while, and that this is the only way I can finished my work. If I get a career job ( ), I'll end up chewed up AGAIN like a straw that a kitten has played with.

So what you said above is proably the reason why. Like Beckett digging holes, the repetition of 'brain-dead' work probably actually gives your brain room to 'breathe' or drift, thus generating ideas, visions and images.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

...
So what you said above is proably the reason why. Like Beckett digging holes, the repetition of 'brain-dead' work probably actually gives your brain room to 'breathe' or drift, thus generating ideas, visions and images.

One small problem. Working 12 hour shifts on continental type rotation leaves very little time to actually realise ideas. The place I refer to was not a nice place to work. 5 x 12 hour day shifts, two days off, 4 x 12 hour night shifts, 3 days off or, something, can't remember. They actually offered me 36K to stay as a line manager. Started thinking about it and realised I would have been committing myself to a lifetime of hell.

Garden centre sounds quite nice mind!

 

[maya]

My biggest influence is probably music and my own reaction to events and happenings either inside of me or in the world. I can't watch the headlines with out wanting to paint...heh

yeah, sorry- meant to say "use your senses", not eyes only, stupid typo
IMHO sound is superior to vision, although we live in a very visually dominated culture...
the logical conclusion to the all-pervasive intrusion of commercial images would be to feed the signal back onto itself, mixing and cutting it up to mutate the structure until it collapses or at least something new is born...
(and don't get me started on the whole "are printed texts really word or image?"-dead end debate... lol )