The legendary and much admired David Lynch has produced a series of short interviews, collected across 70 days and 20,000 not so desolate miles of American road trip. It provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of 121 regular people found in random locations across the states.
Everyone feels down from time to time, feels like they are climbing an ever growing mountain of expectations, tasks and targets. Is it any wonder if you stumble and slip down into the dark land of inertia from time to time? Sometimes we can be our own worst critics. Whatever creative field you are in, you are bound to get disillusioned from time to time and find it difficult to move forwards. It is all too easy to see the failures rather than the successes when you’re down. That’s when you know it’s time to give yourself a break, give yourself a hug. Then check out these top 6 ways to get back on track.
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Have you ever come across a great font in a book, a magazine, t-shirt, sign, poster, WHATEVER? Imagined how great it would look on your work but have no way of finding out what font it is? Fear not, WhatTheFont! to the rescue. WhatTheFont! is a great little web app that allows you to take a picture of that perfect font, upload it to their server, let their system do some fancy equations, mull it over for a while, then spit out the name of the font pictured in your file, fantastic. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone you can get this as a portable app too.
There are some fantastic videos online from TedTalks. It shows talks from some pretty switched on people from the TedTalks Conferences. This one gives a nice insight and some food for thought.
In the video the talker, Elizabeth Gilbert, discusses how we view creative people, and how we ‘burden’ them with their creative achievements by giving them full responsibility for them. She talks of the way it used to be believed that we had a genius rather than being one. The genius in this circumstance being some otherworldly being, so to speak, that comes to give us our inspiration and ideas.
With the falling price of recording hardware and the rise of internet communities, so comes the rise of the Interactive Web Series. It has the potential to create truly unique and boundary breaking results. To bring people separated by massive distances and cultural disparity together in creating truly unexpected and diverse results. In my view however, they seem to be falling short of their true potential. Not for lack of enthusiasm or determination, more due to their adherence to the traditions of narrative and lack of experimentation with mixed creative media. This is definitely a trend to watch and anticipate, and if you’re the one who comes up with a truly creative concept, a trend that could propel you into web famedom.
Until then here’s the list of the latest and greatest Interactive Web Series.
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Many things have affected the style of modern tattoo design that we are familiar with today. The tattoo artists Sailor Jerry and Hardy where two major players in sculpting its future and bringing it into popular culture.
Futurism was an art movement to set the mood for many more to come, the first to organise itself like a business and the first to shamelessly self-publicize its art and philosophy.
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