Photos from Japan, Part 4. As I said, these are by no means all of them, and I did my best to keep out any landscape, landmark, or tourist pictures. These are just for stories. See my PicasaWeb for the full set.
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Photos from Japan, Part 3. These are by no means all of them, and I did my best to keep out any landscape, landmark, or tourist pictures. These are just for stories. See my PicasaWeb for the full set.
Yes, one of me that I snuck in.
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Photos from Japan, Part 2. These are by no means all of them, and I did my best to keep out any landscape, landmark, or tourist pictures. These are just for stories. See my PicasaWeb for the full set.
And more to come.
Photos from Japan, Part 1.
Some photos from my recent month in Japan. Characters and settings aplenty. Use ‘em before I do. These are by no means all of them, and I did my best to keep out any landscape, landmark, or tourist pictures. These are just for stories. See my PicasaWeb for the full set.
More to come.
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One of a number of beautiful courtroom sketches which made me wonder what’s going on in the heads of these severly underappreciated artists. Sort of amazing that this is still a professional, really. Something worth looking into in a story, methinks.
Oh, for the curious, this sketch is of The Hurricane. Click the image for more.
0 Comments / Tags: inspiration, character / TrackbackThis is a nice little source of inspiration; chronicling the daily routines of other creatives. See, you’re not alone. You just need discipline dammit!
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And, for an easily related story, a man who makes sculptures out of bundles of chopsticks. A tale of love between him and a patron-less broom shop owner? Hell yeah.
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According to the Tokyo Times, this Tokyo broom store hasn’t had a customer since 9/2/72, and even that customer wanted a hand broom which they could not provide. Sad, in an awesome sort of way. What a great character/setting to frame a story…who owns this shop?
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What a great source of paranoia and fear for a character.
0 Comments / Tags: inspiration, science, fear / TrackbackThis is almost too fantastic for words. A banjo player helping guide neurosurgeons by playing the banjo while under the knife. Thank you BoingBoing.
0 Comments / Tags: science, music, mind, surgery, inspiration / TrackbackThis story appeared on Narrative Magazine’s story of the week. I like the way this story unfolds and flows – at least in the first half – and it’ll be a great reference for writing my story about Cephus Madrigonus.
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This was generated on Wordle.net, using the Book of CLAV text as input. Aside from being neat-looking, this would actually be an interesting visualizer for looking at your own writing habits and vocabulary crutches, or to specifically hone some subliminal messages into your text through subconscious repetition. From their site:
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
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This is really cool. Reminds me a bit of a Ted talk I saw with The Jansen who made these giant (wooden? plastic?) mechanical beach-walkers, which already is an interesting setup for a story. I can’t help but also think of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics here and wonder what type of story he would either tell of these creatures, or of their genesis. Or, of course, their impending war! Thank you BoingBoing.
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Cute, but I think it could be done better. As in, tied more directly with actual science. And then applied to a character who is given these "implants" and put in a taxing situation beyond his wherewithall to adapt to. Imagine if you had a new sense all of a sudden, that ilicited strong emotional reactions, yet you didn’t know yet what it was sensing. Interesting. Click the pic for more.
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The notion that open-sourcing ideas and freeing them from fear is crucial for human culture seems to be spreading. I’m seeing more and more instances popping up these days. This link is a nice bit of information backed by a fun little explanatory game. Learn how to fight the power – by making little green heads go pop.
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The article’s title is "An Arctic Sea "Foaming" with Methane: What Now?"
At this point you have to just start enjoying all these apocalyptic signs because one of things must be true: either every generation feels that it could be the last generation and thus secretely enjoys this social psychosis of end times, or we are the first and the end is truly drawing near. Either way, very interesting ramifications for the human condition. Pretty much exactly what my Molasses story is about.
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Courtesy of BoingBoing. This is a great depiction of why I avoid the news at all costs, and why I argue my pride in avoiding it with other creatives who rely on the news for inspiration. There is plenty of darkness within our minds and everyday lives to inspire me that I simply don’t need the constant inundation of worldly destruction that the news offers, and which is depicted so wonderfully and whimsically here. Same shit, different day. We humans love the end of the world.
0 Comments / Tags: inspiration, news / TrackbackReceived this link/video from Stefan Klocek, inspired by talks we’ve been having about how best to create a multimedia experience out of the written word. This has no words, but the generative artwork is beautiful. I can see this being powered by displayed words, or vice versa.
From the link:
0 Comments / Tags: inspiration, music, video, multimedia literature / TrackbackGlenn Marshall has released his finished version of Metamorphosis, a beautiful piece of computer generative art programmed in Processing. I wish I knew a bit more about what I was seeing, but I can only guess that the branches and butterflies follow certain laws of nature and rules defined by the music (I hope). Nevertheless, it’s beautiful. Here’s the video below, but go to Vimeo to watch the video in all it’s HD glory.
Cool shots of abandoned battlements. They look so lonely without someone to kill, don’t they? Would be an interesting setting for a story, or an angle for a war-themed story.
0 Comments / Tags: inspiration, war / TrackbackI would’ve loved to see the brainstorming ideas that this came from. Thanks buzzfeed.
Honda of America created a unique marketing event for the drivers who travel over a specific road in Lancaster, CA. Like a phonograph record, grooves in the road, when driven over by a car intones a passage from the William Tell Overture. Created as a promotion for the Honda Civic- there are only four in the world, and the only one in the USA- But alas- neighbors near the road have complained, and the City of Lancaster says they will repave the road on Tuesday Sept. 23.
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This article provides the details for a humorous story setting for the interaction amongst neighborhood peoples. Even through the article you can feel the tension of the shoppers, and specifically their anxiety over everything else going on in their lives and in the world coming out while doing their grocery shopping. Great metaphor/microcosm.
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Man, I love this broken harlequin shot of Tilda Swinton. A face that could launch 10,000 stories. Unfortunately I don’t remember where I found this so I can’t credit the photographer. Sorry.
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Love this post-Hurricane-Ike shot, photoshop accusations or not. Kinda reminds me of the house in Terry Gilliam‘s Tideland (a movie which I sadly didn’t love despite really wanting to). Courtesy of Buzzfeed.
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Courtesy of BoingBoing. Yet another inspiring character, event, or detail. The caption read "Amateur flaming-arrow archers kept the fires burning in Alberta’s gas towers in 1960. There are too many interesting characters in the world than time to write about them all. Would also make a great singular event to center a short story around – a tower going out, or getting re-lit.
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Courtesy of Buzzfeed. Yes, I find this completely inspiring. And yes, I can immediately imagine a story of two lovers meeting at a convention like this and wondering (satirically) where to go from there, and when to unmask and uncloak. If you wanna get heady about it, it could be a satire of the psychological masks we wear, and the subtle ways we let people beneath our coatings to glimpse our real selves. It’s just a lot funnier if the main character is a female Darth Vader.
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I am a creative professional who works within a diverse set of media. This archive of my creative process contains ideas and examples of all things creative, and is intended to demystify the process for others to use.
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