Music for my kaleidoscope mind.

So I think I will follow yesterday's theme of what can inspire me - and music is a huge part of that for me! As cliche as it sounds...

But when I listen to music, I think. And when I think, I see pictures.

My mind is one giant kaleidoscope of colours, images, and patterns.

And snapshots.

I tend to take a lot of snapshots of memories with my mind, there for me to flick through like and album.

Okay, enough about that... here are some of the songs currently inspiring me! Enjoy!

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Flickr favourites

I thought I might give you all a bit of an insight into some of the Flickr photographers whose work I love + adore. Flickr is one of my biggest sources of inspiration.

Francesca Jane Allen
This photograph is probably one of my all-time favourites. The rich colour, the textures, the textiles... everything.

Molly Hare
I absolutely adore photographs of mountains, and this one I feel just shows how intense they are.

New Legs
I could so see this becoming inspiration for a textile print! A line drawing to symbolise this would look amazing.

Ash Lie
Isn't this collage amazing?

Monika Traikov
I have loved this designer's work for so long, and I always find I come back to them to just wonder at how they have done some of the images, and creates a huge curiosity in my own work.

Look left and look right
I just love this photographer.
This photograph is beautiful.

Oakmoss
I have a guilty-pleasure for softened, out-of-focus images.
Especially this one.

Alisa Demidova
This photographer's work is stunning. I feel like I have been taken to a different period in time.

Veerledee
And this lovely photographer is a new friend of mine. Her story, her strength, and her ability to take each day as it comes is just remarkable and so inspiring!

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A few thoughts.

Today I had the 'pleasure' of getting my first round of vaccinations in preparation for India. I received a typhoid/hep-A and a Polio vaccine, one in each arm, so I went and bought myself some food to console myself afterwards haha. I am just waiting now to see whether I will get the common side-effects of nausea and a fever...

So right now I am really on the inspiration buzzzzzz, and here are some images that are getting me on that high!!:

I like to think that I take most opportunities to have a bit of a peep outside of the box, to stick my head through the top and have a quick look. Sometimes I need to just clamber on out and jump away from the box altogether.

I love this image. I have seen a few like this, and I just love how it inspires me - when I am in India, I really want to make a scrap-book or just some way of collecting different photographs/items/notes etc. You can see more here.

I so want to see this movie! It is called 'Hanna', and it has the lovely actress Saoirse Ronan (also in The Lovely Bones  and Atonement).

I love these collages by Ashlie Chavez. It makes me want to pick up an old magazine and hack away!

When I one day have my own space, I really want to have just that. Space. I want to live in a large, open studio area, and have awesome clothes hangers like above, with inspirational quotes on the walls in large type.
Image found here.

And this image is just too awesome to ignore! I so want to do this with some of the old encyclopedias I have at home some day.
Image found here.

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Screen-printing inspriration

Some more images that are inspiring me with my screen-printing assignment:

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Mary Katrantzou + Peter Pilotto

Adding two more designers to my inspiration for digital print:

Mary Katrantzou

Peter Pilotto

I really love the abstract elements to each designers textiles, as well as a hint of geometry. These are super inspiring, and I have managed to come up with a design of my own, inspired by these two:

This is the original photograph...

...and the end product:

This design is probably more similar in composition to Mary Katrantzou.

It feels good to actually feel confident about something I am creating for once.

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Wooo.. inspiration!

Monika Traikov's flickr.

Just so beautiful - I am going to use these as major inspiration for my digital design paper!

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Geometriiiic!

Feeling super excited and inspired right now for my screen-printing assignment again, this time it is a more developed and matured inspiration - I have managed to whittle down my ideas and where I am getting them from for my baby eyesight-development prints: Architecture, and paper-folding.

Check out these images :) They all include very geometrical designs and make me all fidgety, just because I can't wait to come up with some concepts soon!

This first image is taken in our flat's bathroom (it is the detailing on one of the windows):

Super pumped that I now have my buzz back!

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That awkward moment when...

I am currently facing the awkward position of utter inspiration, yet my mind is buzzing, so I am unable to coherently apply what I want to do, to what I need to do!

Anyone understand??

Ugh, I am going to use this post to purge all of my ideas for my digital print class... the brief is to come up with a collection of Spring/Summer '12 fabrics that will be presented to Charles Parsons, and then they will select some designs to purchase (for a whopping 400 dollars each!).

So... no pressure...

This is exactly what I scribbled down in my journal to describe what kind of thing I am going for: "I want to create highly-saturated, altered-hue photographs with graphic design/vector elements, and buildings, crossing into nature." If anyone can decipher this for me, let me know?

This resort collection by Carven features large-scale, no-repeat digital designs, that are almost abstract. I really love this (mostly because I can't really be bothered using cliche 'double-reflections' etc to create repeats), and from here my ideas have come forth.

This image above is a perfect example of changing the hues to create less-than natural images.

The above image is taken from the International Space Station, and depicts a series of crops. I just love the geometry in this, and how the colours already seem unnatural, without the need to saturate or alter the hues.

This is an example of the graphics/vectors elements I want to add to images of nature, or where it just seems completely juxtaposed.

The above images are further examples of nature-meets-man in a visual point of view. I want to also take the direction of having man-made structures like buildings/statues etc and chuck some nature into them! I just love this mix of elements - it makes me all excited and really want to start designing!! Might have to borrow my flat-mate's DSLR to get some images worthy of manipulation.

This is the type of extreme saturation I would seriously love to experiment with!

And again - I just love this, it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland, just another dimension, a separate universe almost.

I really want to also tie in a few 3D-looking elements if I have the time to experiment and mess around with these ideas a bit more!

Just another exciting example of things that are inspiring me right now! I love this screen-print. It just makes me stop and stare.

Last image: This one is something that I would like to bring in from the nature perspective - lichen and mosses etc, these create such amazing patterns and details that I would love to incorporate into my work. (Although at the point, my ideas are everywhere, and I really need to cut them down and be a bit more realistic with where I am at!).

So this is what my mind would look like if you could see it. It is also mixed with a further array of emotions, questions and ideas.

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