Photo Inspiration

So I noted in one of my recent posts that I've been really inspired by the photography found in the Anthropologie catalogues.

I think there's two sides to my design/photography inspiration (and thus what I turn out). There's a bit of an outlandishness that I like. Punk rock posters and most of of the photography in Zink magazine run on that spectrum.

Then there's whimsical nature that I really like in desing, illustrations and photography. This is where Anthropologie and Kurt Halsey paintings find their spot.

Right now my inspiration wall is getting filled with photos and designs that call this type of mood. My flickr favorites are also doing the same.

Oh yea... and I love the coat...

Leona Naess lyrical day....

I was doing a photoshoot run-through in the Newhouse photo studio and "New York Baby" came up on my ipod that I had hooked to the sound system. From there on the day has become a Leona Naess day. Her lyrics are poetic and her music is even better. There's a bit of a whimsical feeling you get from listening (although some of it's a bit angry sounding that still comes through). Here are some of my favorites.




He Is Gone
"Throw me down
Pull me back
Crash into me and then break apart
Pull me up
Just pull me up close to your heart
Throw me down
Pull me up
Crash into me and then fall apart
Pull me up
Just pull me up close to your heart"

New York Baby
"You know what they say...
New York, baby is no place to be
When you're standing alone.
I'm no one's baby, no one's girl,
Come home, baby come home..."

Ballerina
"I'll never feel the weight of your hands
Side mine like diamonds
Lay so far ballerina
Cupcake and my earthquake
Wakes me from my sleep bed
Never comes hardly breathing
Waiting for me
I didn't really want you
But I want you now
Was so foolish of me
To you feel you tumbling down
Into that empty room
The lights went out
Want to rescue want to scream out loud
I didn't think I needed you
But I need you now
Was so empty in me
Feel you crashing down
Into the empty world
The music stops
Want to rescue want to scream out loud"

Mexico
"My friends think that we're all wrong
Another muse for another tragic song
But whoever wrote a plan
Was a fool when it comes to a woman and a man"

Design Inspiration--posters/clothes

After my online shopping (see previous blog entry) I decided I should redesign (for kicks) the Urban Outfitters website. They had a much better site up until recently (a month?). I don't know what made them go with this. It might have something to do with the partnership they've got with Nylon Magazine. READ: really bad site, but that's because it's color overload-- however it's mostly because their magazine is designed in this nature--which leads to-- is it bad design on their mag's part as a whole or does it work for the audience they're trying to get?

Anyway- I was inspired at first to use their photos and create some sort of poster-- then I realized I could do that with my own photography since i've modeled much of my work around the Urban Outfitters/Antrhopologie/Free People "look". (see below websites).


Anthropologie (site is OK...)



Free People (don't like the site, but like the clothes)

Anyway- then I realized that while I could do the poster-- maybe I should find time to look into just redesigning the site as a whole for kicks.

Of course I've got Danceworks to work on and photoshoots to do, but personal work is always a good thing.

So the inspiration is on.. hopefully I'll knock out AT LEAST the poster in the near future.

-LP

Today's source of inspiration

I've gotten away from my original idea for this blog it seems.. well--I've gotten away from bluntly stating "this inspired me," but clearly any of the stories here were inspirational enough to make me write about them.

Today's source of inspiration came from Greg's lecture about graphic design.

I was inspired by his enthusiasm of teaching as well as the content he was covering. Even though I knew the Gestalt Principles he lectured, I was able to bring new meaning to my own work. I sat in class sketching through most of it (exactly WHAT are TAs supposed to do in class....?) and scribbled down notes here and there.

I hope I can one day have the ability and knowledge to stand in front of a classroom (lecture hall) of that size and teach with confidence and humor the way he did.

Bravo.