Creative and clever illustrations of a man living in Fukushima, before and after the nuclear disaster.
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This is what happens when you give hundreds of children, thousands of stickers.
The Obliteration Room is an interactive installation by artist Yayoi Kusuma.
9 Ways To Become More Creative In The Next 10 Minutes →
Modern culture often labels creativity as natural gift. Artists get showered with praise and proclamations of “you’re so talented,” but truthfully, talent has little to do with it. Creativity is a skill to be learned, practiced, and deve…
“Think before you press the shutter. It’s frustrating that today, even more than in the time of analogue photography, you often come back with a lot junk. Nowadays, it’s too easy to get a picture-click-clack; the camera works for you, but you need to use your brain, look closely and react fast. Don’t go out and expect that things will be wonderful-photography is hard work.”
-Thomas Hoepker
Step in One 2, installation by Rafael de Cardenas, can be seen at The Museum of Arts and Design until October 11, 2014. It’s an exhibit that “spotlights the creative communities thriving across the five burroughs”.
State of Mind series by Korean photographer JeeYoung Lee. She constructs each set in her 3x6 meter studio, taking weeks at a time to create these surreal scenes.
The Seven Vital, or Creative Principles, Hiram E. Butler, 1887.
Fantastic details from The Grand Budapest Hotel, created by graphic designer Annie Atkins.
It’s one thing to make a film, but an entirely different intellectual power to create a world within that film. Wes Anderson covers all the bases.
Left brain, right brain. An awesome and creative ad for Mercedes-Benz.
“Creativity takes courage.”
“I know squat diddly about typography myself”, says John Rabbit. He created this one page education on typography and it’s pretty great.
I’d like to add #30: Stop thinking about it and just do it.
Be An Artist, Right Now!
“Art is the ultimate goal. It saves our souls and makes us live happily.”
I’d love to share this amazing and inspirational TED Talk with all you artists and non-artists out there. Korean author Young-ha Kim discusses why we stop creating and how we can start creating again.
This can perhaps help you kick start the motivation you need to keep up your artistic endeavors. We all need it sometimes. I lost my artistic ambitions after graduating art school and it took me a year or so to get it back. I wish I had found this video at the time-it makes me sad to know I wasted a year of potential.
Be an Artist, Right Now
-Young-ha Kim