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Posts tagged "inspiration"
Jessica writes a post for “all the hungry, young designers that are struggling to find their own voice, but end up a bit too close to their inspirations.”
When you’re learning, it’s not wrong to copy people—to learn from them the way that they learned from others before them. What many young artists have a problem realizing though, is that the work you create while practicing and learning is completely separate of what you do professionally….Copy all you wish in private, and once you feel confident in your skills, create your own original public work.
(Of course, “original” in this context means not just copying one artist, but dozens of them—devouring a depth and breadth of sources and weaving them into something new.)
Also check out her “Inspiration vs. imitation” doodle.
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger,” off Lust For Life (1977)
I am a passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window……everything is made for you and me
‘Cause it just belongs to you and me
So let’s take a ride and see what’s mine.
I used to think this song was about drugs. Now I think it’s a song about looking for inspiration…and drugs, probably.
“The silly things that people do in the night. Posing. Pretending. Imagining. Getting wrecked.”
—Iggy Pop
(Source: fuckyeahseventiesmusic, via musical-moodswings)
lonelysandwich’s inspiration for his great video for Warby Parker:
You should know, Bowfinger is one of my favorite movies.
How Clark Gable and It Happened One Night inspired Bugs Bunny
IMDb:
Friz Freleng’s unpublished memoirs mention that this was one of his favorite films, and that it contains at least three things upon which the character “Bugs Bunny” was based: - The character Oscar Shapely’s (Roscoe Karns) personality - The manner in which Peter Warne (Clark Gable) was eating carrots and talking quickly at the same time - An imaginary character mentioned once to frighten Oscar Shapely named “Bugs Dooley.” Other mentions of “Looney Tunes” characters from the film include Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly) and King Westley (Jameson Thomas) being the inspirations for Yosemite Sam and Pepé LePew, respectively.
I read and I read and I read. I read like a thief casing a joint. Always looking for things to steal!
Kurt Vonnegut, “Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?”
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him.
It was music.
I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out.
It was disgust with civilization.
