What inspires you lot?
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- Benja82
Im running out of ideas and feel my brain is drying up. Where does everyone get inspiration from?
- phatlee0
Not working for a couple of weeks...
- vespa0
get away from your computer. go to a good gallery, always works for me!
- Baskerville0
use a pen and paper.
read smile in the mind.
- KuzII0
"Amatuers need inspiration, the rest of us get up and go to work"
Sorry, not very helpful, but I read it this morning in a Philip Roth book.
- paraselene0
everyman?
i like that quote, actually. harsh, but i like it...
- KuzII0
yeah, i like it too, in the context of where it was written - an artists interminable painting classes for the elderly - it was very apt.
yes, everyman.
- ian0
hobbies, comedy (Peter Kay, Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Eddie Murphy when he was funny), new music (bonobo, broken social scene, arcade fire, nathan fake), new films (I remember seeing donnie Darko when it came out the first time and just thinking how I wish I could do something as brilliant), comics, bartleby.com(for looking stuff up) jon burgermans illustrations, paper sample books, cool design books, the designers republic, tshirt graphics, graffiti, really bad horror films(except underworld evolution which I saw last night which sucks donkey balls), not talking to my creative director, the interweb, Ian Banks & Elmore Leonard novels, Indiana Jones (I still wanna be him when I grow up), 'The Elements of Typographic Style' by Robert Bringhurst, Asian supermarkets (weird colours/packaging & tasty food!), spending time with my niece Ruby who's 3 and now calls me Eeyore, nature, architecture, my lomo/fisheye, my friends and the fact that its friday and Im gonna get drunk tonight dagnammit!
- rasko40
a brief. once there is a brief, there are ideas, it's that simple.
- vespa0
briefs. once i see briefs, i get funny ideas, it's that simple.
rasko4
(Sep 8 06, 03:16)
- Teeuwen0
newstoday. i always rip sites from here and there. there's so much to choose from here.
it made me really successfull here.
- rasko40
lollocaust!
- moth0
Amatuers need inspiration, I just need the cheque.
- chossy0
No idea sometimes it just flows out of my brain. Other times I have to try quite hard to get my brains to flow out of my head but once my brains are flowing I'm pretty much cool.
:D
- ian0
Tequila
- kelpie0
the inordinate, creeping passage of time
- Concrete0
I agree with rasko, but sometimes the brief is too brief.
Get away from your computer.
Go for a walk, watch a film, read a magazine whilst listening to some music.
Come back and get the pencil and sketch pad out.
- chossy0
chill down baby find your neutral space, then your brains will flow out like a mummy lover.
- Benja820
I have noticed that working with a hangover is great fun! Is this an alcoholic in the making?
- pollypocket0
sambuca
- pollypocket0
whenever my head feels a bit fluffy, I go to the beach for an hour. It gives you time away form your work and then the ideas flow... never fails