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"yes, the dirty secret is out--some of us look at other work for isnpiration "
Nothing dirty about collecting inspirational references. But when did personal inspiration collecting evolve/degenerate into a self-congratulatory parade? Isn't the point.. sorry, I mean: WASN'T the point once that we tried to have a little bit of individual style about our work? Wasn't part of that our own private collections of inspiration that informed our work *uniquely*?
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Yes Digs, I am aware that I make it onto ffffound enough to possibly make me feel favourably towards ffffound, but my mind is not made of a soft pliable jelly and my thought processes not so easily massaged. Its another case of pop eating itself. We have nowhere left to go but to reference, and reference that reference, and to make a virtue of the act of referencing by doing it publicly in the hope that we make good references and are rewarded by the fact that lost of other people liked our references enough to reference them themselves, and then share that reference and feel some sense of kudos that our references get referenced by others who are busily referencing, and then we hope, hope, hope like hell that one day we will also get referenced when some interested party sees some work we produced as a result of referencing references from fffound and likes what we did enough to stick it on ffffound as inspirational reference for other referencers to reference.
How far away are we from a moment when someone sees a piece of their own work and thinks it looks so right for ffffound that they put it on ffffound as a reference?
Its all lost when that happens.
- the public part is not for flaunting one's taste to the public, it is part of the functionality of finding work to savemagnificent_ruin
- save to one's collection.magnificent_ruin
- this man has a serious point ;). but you are one of the less people I know with a unique style.moamoa
- So its a goldfish bowl of references then. It urges you to collect the same references!Horp
- and you´re allowed to place your statement ;)moamoa
- actually I have added a few of my own pieces to my fffound collection for the same reason I have a website... to expose it to a new audiencemagnificent_ruin
- new audiences. That's how I was selected to be in a book, for instancemagnificent_ruin
- so there are multiple possible reasons to post something theremagnificent_ruin
- let's not oversimplify how and why you would employ this toolmagnificent_ruin
- do you look through books for inspiration? do you ever wishe you could remember something you saw, which is now buried in your bookmarks?magnificent_ruin
- your bookmarks? I domagnificent_ruin
- Maybe I just dont understand. I am thinking of retiring next year. I am so at odds with this industry now.Horp
- Being at odds with the industry is all that motivates my artistic impulses.MrOneHundred