Posts Tagged ‘ inspiration ’
one of my favorite aspects of visual media, be it still images, video or hybrid clips, is the ability to go back through everything much further down the road. sometimes this it’s tough to look at everything other times it’s pure joy. regardless, it’s a great way to keep pushing your style forward + chasing that personal evolution we’re all after.
here’s one of my favs from last year.
“It’s not the strongest of the species,
nor the most intelligent that survive;
it’s the ones most responsive to change.”
–Charles Darwin
i like that. you would darwin would know a thing or two in that direction too. the more i hear on resiliency the more it makes sense to me. as in this article on philly here. though have to admit when even blinking in the direction of adversity good ole joe simpson + his story ‘touching the void’ always sticks in my head.
Paul Stolz, author of the
on a fine tuesday here are a few twists of inspiration i’ve picked up lately.
creative expression at it’s absolute best via cabin46. this is the sickest thing i’ve seen in far too long, way down with bruce.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
unkl doing right.
“Conventional wisdom says that to be successful, an idea must be concrete, complete, and certain. But what if that’s wrong? What if the most elegant, most imaginative, most engaging ideas are none of those things?” Matt May has answers with Creative Elegance: The Power of Incomplete Ideas.
great portland tunes cranking lately with the thermals.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault
different mind sets play more than we may ever know but like they say, “if everything you’re doing is turning out right you’re not trying very hard.” this goes against the idea of the midas touch and what is called a fixed mind-set, the belief that you’re artistic intrinsically, via genetics, etc and thus don’t need to work at what you do as it just comes. the other side of the coin is a growth mind-set that is set against this ‘talent myth’. the current science view is that we are born with