Preserved Topic: sources for inspiration are...

for me:

this magnificent Asylum and all its inmates. seriously.

plus:

1-Hokusai(japanese,18thC)-sketch books

2-J.M.W.Turner(eng.,18thC)-venice sketch books

3-movie trailer advtg the Lord of the Rings

4-movie trailer that precedes announcements in the United Artists movie theaters...it goes before the messages: stop talking, etc.

5-any artist who pours endless amounts of Time, Craft, Composition, and Love into his work.

6-a beautiful woman....this is very rare and it does not include Jenifer Lopez, or any of the others currently in fashion, nor playboy bunnies, nor marilyn monroe, nor a host of others that seem to be everyone's favor at the moment...

7-mozart-don giovanni

8-beethoven's 3rd and 4th piano concerto.

9-ballet

10-i prefer process to performance so i would much prefer to see an artist, dancer, musician practice vs. a performance.

36 years of my life... pack of cigs, Rolling Rock,

Malcolm X, Ghandi, the planet earth, blue skies, and emotions....
~Vp~

am not sure about the cigs, but definite yes to everything else, especially Ghandi. his autobiography for me at a young age blew me away..

Ciggies.

Kitaro, Enya, Voyage.

Creativity.

Pamela Anderson

The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim,...

a coooold beer, some friends, and having a nice talk.

OK, I can do this.

Robert Heinlein & Philip K. Dick, Winnie the Pooh & Alice in Wonderland, Robert Crumb & Matt Howarth, Antique Books & Trash in the Street (literally), Bjork and Tori Amos and Lorena McKinnet, Flea Markets and Antique Stores, Independent Hip-Hop Magazines (yay!), Malin my Love and Matti my Partner.

These are a few of my favorite things. (In no particular order. =)

Your pal, -doc-



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yeah!! daft punk! long life french house!!

shade, roger sanchez, internet and my swimming pool!


All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

I am also inspired by ballet - and a specific woman... my wife who has many years of ballet training! Family has been a help to my creative output - I don't think I would have gotten together enough to land such a great job without a family. The intense responsibility at times hinders, but it's worth it.

Other inspirations and/or enhancers:

1. Music - mainly electronic music since it is so in tune with the tool of the trade that I use. Aphex Twin, Bjork, Amon Tobin, Banco De Gaia, Higher Intelligence Agency, Infected Mushroom...

2. Well designed event flyers. I collect as many as possible from a variety of events - though mostly musical. Some flyer desingers are very talented and orginial.

3. The Appalachian Mountains. The beauty of this place is an awe to behold. Growing up in Florida and becoming used to sun and even the beach, I am smitten by these hills.

4. Hot coffee/tea.

5. Large, well-designed sculpture. There are so many small-time sculptors that just make great stuff. I'd like to take a class in metal sculpture making.

Great question! I think this is something to be aware of - to refine and understand so you know what helps your creative process.

1-chk out createch.com re this inspiration thread

2-appalachian mts, ben nevis in scotland, the boise cascade in wash, the schwangunks in ny, etc= Yes

3-i like your great new sig

4-i was a metal sculptor for my mfa prior to going to royal academy in london.

6-ballet-!!!

--definitely kicks butt and Rules!
--practicing ballarinas destroy me...rodin and degas picked up on this as well
(degas never was able to convey the lines in his charcoals or sculptures..)
--Giselle is Absolutely Awesome. while dating my wife for several yrs. i took her to it. she really cried with it....definitely had to marry her..
--ballet is line is sculpture=kicks ass.
--ballarinas for their disciplin and training and years of perseverance and respect for classic aesthetics should be paid BIG MONEY(as well as worshipped.)
--the practice sessions where a turn of the head, movement of hand, arm, or leg KILLS ME!

and on i go...

what has your wife danced in? what companies does she like? ugh..you have it all.

i obviously have it bad.

cb

Dire Straits, Mettalica ++
Reading
Golfing/Cycling/Walking
Hot coffee/tea
etc.

I think that most things in life inpsire you to some degree, it just that you do not notice everything ... it becomes part of you subconsciousness!

-= Veneficuz =-



The Greatest Illusion is the Illusion of Reality

Salvador Dali, d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25, Yves Tanguy, Rene Magritte, Gamer's Republic, Industrial metal music

What inspires me? Well...um...just have yourself a look around you. What do you see? What else is there that you cannot see? What is interesting but is missed by the less observant?
So I guess I'm trying to say, pizza, chips, and a can of Coke. Oh, and Muskoka! Cottage country rules!


DOG
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THE

Boudga,

yes. those artists are seldom mentioned but..............did anyone every think of starting a Thread on: Drugs I Know and Love.

seriously. anyone in the asylum has to have knowledge of drugs.

i would start it but twitch would shut it down and lock me out..

i would however join it with references to: sodium pentathol, paxil, trazadon, percodan, etc....

paxil makes me seriously constipated and limp....i hate that shit!

well dude. you are lucky; very lucky.

some of us are not allowed a choice in the matter. i hear ya.

however. if you had diabetes and had to have insulin what would you stop the insulin?

some of us take what we have to take. of course there is also prozac and zoloft; they throw me through the roof.

percodan, now that is another experience entirely.

i passed out from a 50mg dose of Zoloft....we don't mix well

listen to music or just draw till it turns into something(but that only works on papar some reason)

Good music, expresso, random sketching, and sometimes, just sometimes chemical enhancement.


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Issac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, The Ring World ( whoa !! ), Harry Harrison, Metal Music, Sweet Leaf, Fast Cars, warm sunny days, Nature`s fury, The adaptability of Man, Victorian houses, craftsmanship ( in any trade ), and I love to watch people do what they are good at. and Pepsi



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LarryNiven, Peirs Anthony (prior to Zanth), Richard Wilbur, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, most fusion jazz, especially Jean Luc Ponty and Michael Urbaniak.

Also inpsired by excellent chowder, sunny days, forests with moss and ferns, harleys...
there's more but I'm usually inspired by just writing things down

now letme think.. hmm..
OZoneAsylum of course.. then comes my 3D games.. then comes ciggies.. magazines.. hardcore music..
Japanese anime.. and etc etc etc..ohh i don't know..
when i'm inspired.., i'm inspired.. it happens everytime.. everywhere..

cherrioo..

:: Ahh, well, sanity is always questionable :: I'm a normal person, I just be having crazy thoughts ::

countryboy - She's really into Russian and Modern. Honestly, I am trying to get her more involved online - I'll ask her to post a ballet topic on createch.net!

Yes Please
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thinking back of what inspire me *a lot*:

The BIble inspire me so many times. My friends around me are encouraging in all sorts of things. When I have no idea at all, I have lots of books to retrieve those info that I need. I copied, tweaked, modified, improvised the work of the people that I like, especially in web design, simply because they inspire me. I surf the internet a lot. When I get lost in my thought, I smoke and get rid of that thing for a while. A lot of people in hte Asylum inspire me to *do this*. I listen to all sorts of musics. I believe that different music stimulates different inspiration.

Thanks for bringging up this discussion, countryboy.