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"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait..."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:43:56 -0500

““The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.””

- ― Chuck Close, portrait painter

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Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:47:21 -0500

black-tangled-heart: Paintings by Renata Brzozowska

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:47:03 -0500

black-tangled-heart:

Paintings by Renata Brzozowska

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Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:45:16 -0500

How Jobs made us all design conscious

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:29:13 -0500

How Jobs made us all design conscious

For more information about Eames: The Architect and the Painter,...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:48:17 -0500

For more information about Eames: The Architect and the Painter, check out the dates and cities that you can view it!

http://firstrunfeatures.com/eames_playdates.html

Danish Modern

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:36:17 -0500

Instead of framing platinum records on your wall, all you...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:20:30 -0500

Instead of framing platinum records on your wall, all you successful musicians. It’s time to print your song in 3D.

fred-wilson:

i wonder if this was 3D printed. makes me think that there’s a strategic partnership between SoundCloud and Shapeways.

szymon:

Tōhoku - Japanese earthquake sculpture by Luke Jerram

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Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:56:04 -0400

Cue the goldmine of inspiration coming from Markover. Two...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:59:00 -0400

Cue the goldmine of inspiration coming from Markover.

Two members of the Markover team are still students at the University of Notre Dame, which conveniently gives them access to huge databases of archived images from magazines like the above images from Vogue 1999.

We will be mining this database for inspiration images and giving you only the best.

For more information about the above photos, here’s the source:

Fashion & Features: Date With Destiny: A New Generation Of Talent—From Actors To Artists To Athletes—Is Blazing Its Way To Superstardom. Model Raquel Zimmermann Wears Fashion’s Boldest Upstarts. Photographed By Norman Jean Roy.

black-tangled-heart: Eric Zener Loveoil on canvas72” x 84”

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:02:40 -0400

black-tangled-heart:

Eric Zener

Love
oil on canvas
72” x 84”

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Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:02:24 -0400

mcorpuz: Branding design by Patrick Enstrom.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:39:03 -0400

mcorpuz:

Branding design by Patrick Enstrom.

matiascorea: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:20:50 -0400

matiascorea:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.

Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.

Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

Ira Glass - writer/radio host/TV producer

Via http://tigerpony.tumblr.com/

architizer: An art installation simulating the inside of a...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:59:11 -0400

architizer:

An art installation simulating the inside of a swimming pool in Kanazawa Japan

black-tangled-heart: it’s tea time by Anka Zhuravleva

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:58:13 -0400

black-tangled-heart:

it’s tea time

by Anka Zhuravleva

usersillusions: Apple has made some very subtle updates to the...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:34:02 -0400

usersillusions:

Apple has made some very subtle updates to the visual design for iOS 5.

via Design Archive

black-tangled-heart: Simon Birch For All The Fear | For All The...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:28:02 -0400

For All The Fear

For All The Trouble

black-tangled-heart:

Simon Birch

For All The Fear | For All The Trouble
2008

Painters have process too. These were done by a Markover...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:11:00 -0400

Painters have process too. These were done by a Markover supporter and friend of the team: Steven Teller. He is a senior at SCAD.

Often times the people who don’t consider themselves creatives think there is a “photoshop button” for everything. While in the studio late one night, a friend joked that there should be a button like Staple’s Easy button that said: “Just photoshop it.”

At the time, we were referencing rendering and how long it takes to render a 3-dimensional product. Sometimes it was easier to just photoshop the rendering, instead of waiting for the computer to render all of the details.

But the creative process isn’t as easy as just photoshopping it. And to be clear, photoshop isn’t all that easy either!

We recognize this. Markover wants to help you gather and find inspiration. Find a direction to take and help others pick a direction.

Markover will encourage and critique your thumbnail sketches, your wireframes, your rapid sketches, your underlays, your drafts, and even your final projects. It’s a community for creators of all types. And we’re starting out by opening our doors to the design and art community.

We’ll even help you quickly connect with other people who are doing similar work so that you can get expert feedback.

If you want to be one of the first 100 people in the door, email KelseyFalter@gmail.com