I love her embarressed look, and i tried to get the colors very pastell-ish, which i think i succeded in doing pretty ok. Started on it in Hong Kong when i was sitting in the Pacific Coffe and wanted to make something happy-looking haha.
Today, was a great day for inspiration! I had my Creativity; Theory, Practice and history class. First we had the tutorial where we talked about
Frank Gehry, an architect we saw a documentary about last week which also was really inspiring. It really opened my eyes up to architecture, again, and i felt that one day i have to take a architecture class or just design a building somewhere :D. The reason why, is that Frank Gehry, who designed the
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (in spain) e.g. didn't seem to be limited in his designs by the safety aspects or how materials can bend and so on. He "just" made his designs, starting with a drawing, and then moving on to a model , and then he had this team of people who had to worry about what was gonna be on the inside. Almost like designing a jet plane coz he loves to work with metal in many different ways. So, step one, look up Frank Gehrys work, its amazing and if you can, try to watch the documentary
Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack and i promise you, you will get inspired.
Anyway, back to today. Later on during the lecture, we had a guest lecturer;
John Harman. Author, Scriptwriter and Ghostwriter. Who was really inspiring as well. He talked about where and how he gets his inspiration and how he processes it. He always walks around with a tape recorder and record everything that could inspire him someday. And that is also a really important thing for me. I love to find little details everywhere, which maybe its not obvious if u don't look carefully and fortunately i always carry my notebook around where i can write or draw the stuff down. Which is really helpful later on coz i have a lousy memory heh.
So think of this; where from do you get your inspiration from, and how do u channel it into something new? I get my inspiration from, well anything actually; movies, comics, people, places etc. But i try to read as much as i can, except that I'm really bad at taking time to read books. But i read a lot on the computer, and it doesn't matter what you read as long as you read something, whatever makes u going right? I channel it through my pictures or drawings. Most of the time to get my feelings out or when i want to create emotions in whoever is watching the things. I don't know why, but that is really important to me, to evoke emotions in other people. I guess everybody got different reasons of why they are creative. What is your reason?
I found this really interesting
link today. Or first i have to explain something. I'm really fascinated about really
old looking library's like the ones you always see in movies. Ive never been in one except the ones in Sweden and they aren't so exhilarating. So today i found this link, some of these libraries are really amazing coz they look so old and magical in a sense. Imagine sitting in a library like that and reading a really old dusty book about..errrr...i don't know :p anything i guess? There are even two Swedish libraries on that site, the Bernadotte Library and the Riksdagen Library. But i don't think you can gain access to them if u don't work there or something...
More inspiration :)...
I shot the pictures above this weekend in Fremantle with my Canon EOS 350, Polarisation filter and using my Nissin Flash, which works extremely good i would say. Even if its like 15+ years old. The top picture has the flash light coming from the left side 2 meters from the camera. Which gives a little surreal light coz the sun is coming from the right side.
Long day away from my greenhouse. Finally home...
