Inspiration Hallucination

Femke living in Amsterdam. My inspiration sources in the cultural world.

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Martin Parr

Unseen images of Martin Parr’s everyday England The photographer shares never-before-seen snaps that offer a window onto the punks, mums and ‘normal people’ of Britain.

“I’ve always had criticism," says Martin Parr, staring confidently at me through a screen, surrounded by framed photographs and books. “I’ve never really understood why. All I do is photograph ordinary things”. His portfolio of around 33,000 images is filled with surreptitious photographs of human beings, shot often without them knowing he's even there. “You can go and photograph famine and war and everything and no one ever questions that.” For Dazed’s spring issue, he has unearthed never-before-seen images taken between 1970 and 1980: punks buying fish and chips in Salford; mums dragging children through litter-strewn streets outside jobcentres; middle-aged women blinking at floor-length negligees in what seems to be an Ann Summers party; three drunks sitting on the pavement waiting for a betting shop to open. It wasn't that long ago really, but it seems like a different world. “What we forget is that when you look back at those times and it feels quite dated, (that) it’s one of the things that documentary photography always does,” Parr says. “It becomes more valuable as it gets older.”

http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/30400/1/unseen-images-of-martin-parr-s-everyday-england

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Nobuhiro Nakanishi

Osaka-based artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi’s ‘Layer Drawings‘ capture the accumulation of time as a sculpture. Initiated in 2004, the series consists of photographs printed on transparent film and assembled in sequence that allows “viewers to experience the ephemerality of time and make their perception expand to the gap in between each moment.” In the words of the artist, the interplay between positive and negative space.” creates a certain kind of notion that reveals a thin boundary between this side and other side, and also expresses illusion and reality are endlessly turning around in this world.”

http://www.ignant.de/2016/03/21/layered-drawings-exploring-the-passing-of-time/

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The planet Earth serves as home to an immense variety of life. This celestial refuge has given nature the opportunity to explore many different avenues of evolution. One of the most fascinating and important, yet often disregarded life form is the mighty tree. With roots that dig down deep and branches that reach out toward the sky, its almost as if the trees of Earth serve as the limbs of the planet.

In order for a tree to flourish into existence, it undergoes one of the most drastic processes found in nature. Beginning their life as a small seed, trees can grow into unbelievable monuments that can range anywhere from a few feet to many stories tall. Some species are able to survive for hundreds, even thousands of years while bearing some of life’s sweetest fruits and precious flowers.

With over 23,000 different species on the world, trees can come in a staggering variety of appearances, each of which have been carefully sculpted by their regions for millions of years. Presented here is a collection of but a few of the most magnificent and breathtaking trees yet to be captured in photograph.

http://timewheel.net/Image-11-of-the-Most-Magnificent-Trees-on-the-Planet/

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Ángela Burón

Knowing that I have the potential To forget all of this: My aches and my loneliness, Makes it a little easier To wait all of this out. Knowing that I have the potential To forget the ball of ice Encapsulated in my chest Makes it a little easier To wait for summer to melt me. ― Melina Lowe

https://www.facebook.com/berlinartparasites/photos/a.241035489279718.52064.199504240099510/967627153287211/?type=3&theater

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Nobumichi Asai

New face projection mapping work using Real-Time Face Tracking “Connected Colors” is included within the Intel Corporation experience amazing campaign. “Connected Colors” which was planned and produced with the technical direction by media artist Nobumichi Asai (WOW), conceptualizes the coexistence of life. The motif is centered on the colors of nature, and is an expression of electric make-up in the form of various colors intermingling and harmonizing. Expressed from beyond the viewpoint of humanity, “Connected Colors” aims to convey the human desire for harmony and coexistence of life on Earth.

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Yayoi Kusama

"The soul’s of millions of light years away" 

light installation

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Phazed

Sex, cats and video games: these are a few of the Internet's favourite things. They're some of Phazed's all-time faves, too, and for those who've yet to see one of his rainbow-dipped images turn up in their Tumblr feed. 

"I try to combine a bit of everything that interests me," he says of his art. "It's a combination of philosophical ideas about psychedelic experiences I've had and just things that I find really fun to look at."

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/this-artist-s-gifs-are-too-hot-for-facebook-1.3444486

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Martin Pfister

It is no secret that mushrooms make excellent subjects for macro photography, but photographer and mushroom hunter Martin Pfister has devised a way to capture them in a new light. Using tiny LED bulbs, Pfister illuminates his mushroom subjects with a soft and subtle glow in order to enhance their already magical and fairytale-like appearance, and the results are spectacular.

http://timewheel.net/Image-15-Surreal-Photos-of-Illuminated-Mushrooms-by-Martin-Pfister/

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Frida

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Aaron Tilley & Kyle Bean

Titled ‘In Anxious Anticipation‘, the playful series of still lifes evokes a feeling of suspense, capturing everyday moments just before something is about to happen. The images accompany a story on the interconnection between mind and body during an adrenaline rush and writer Jordan Kushins describes the feeling as follows: “A telltale thump of the heart, the flush feeling that starts in your chest and spreads to your fingertips, the tightening of muscles and the quickening of breath: the effects of adrenaline are positively pulse-pounding, but the physical whoosh we feel in our bodies actually starts in our brains.”

http://www.ignant.de/2016/03/04/suspenseful-still-lifes-by-aaron-tilley-and-kyle-bean/

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Pacer

Pacer looked at the world in a way no film had before it. The geometry of the city and its construction, the artistry of Montreal's landscape seen the hyper-prism of a camera racing through time on different dimension. Compressed imagery and physical motion combine in a never-been-seen-before kind of way. Pacer can lay claim to being the first hyperlapse film, or at the very least, to being the precursor to it's development. It was shot on a Bolex 16mm camera in Montreal, Quebec in 1995. Shooting single frames, all the 'effects' are done in camera. The film's original negative was destroyed in it's one and only printing in 1995. That print was screened once and telecined for posterity, and the print was never projected again.

The film would've fallen into obscurity, except for the low rez video version that was included in a VHS video magazine called Channel Zero in 1996. Other visual artists like TopherZ of the Dandelion Collective who saw that Channel Zero and began to pick up the technique, and with Guy Roland's subsequent film, Spacer, in 2004 (later known as Kino Citius), the technique of hyperlapse took shape. The only print of the film was carefully transferred to 2K digital in 2014 and painstakingly remastered in early 2015, resulting in the version you see here.

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Paul Fuentes Design

https://www.instagram.com/paulfuentes_design/ 

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Ivar Wigan - The Gods

London-based photographer Ivar Wigan’s work is an evocative exploration into neglected sidelined communities all across the world. Wigan made an indelible mark with ‘The Gods’, a series in which he travelled to America’s Deep South to capture disenfranchised communities in the midst of their daily lives. Wigan illuminated his subjects in such a way as to denounce the media’s unjust portrayal of their humanity – appearing defiant and God-like in their resilience. His work is decidedly raw and honest – unveiling the artist’s personal relationship to the people he photographs. American audiences will have the chance to experience his work in the artist’s first U.S. exhibition to be held at the Little Big Man Gallery in Los Angeles later this month.

Fresh off ‘The Gods’, Wigan began work on a new untitled series, delving even deeper into exposing ignored realities. Reflecting his extensive travels across Jamaica, the new work reveals a more visceral approach. This time, Wigan intends to expose the repercussions of societal discrimination – revealing the scarring effects on its inhabitants. Using landscape in a way to tell a story of the times, Wigan employs a potent narrative in communicating his artistic intention to his audience. Here, Wigan tells us the story behind the previously unseen image of the exotic dancer he met as well as the accompanying images to his upcoming series.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/31127/1/ivar-wigan-shoots-the-fragility-of-life-in-jamaica-s-ghettos

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Menumortu - Analog Collages

Analog Collages by Menumortu: “All of it is a chaotic ritual – finding the books and magazines, flipping endlessly through them, cropping and gluing to make collages. I find them real, surreal and unreal, and have no feeling of ever finishing one. At times I’m my own most illiterate critic or consumer, but the ultimate story is the collages, there is no “beyond” and no “behind”. They’re a public display of parts of myself I’m not entirely aware of.”

http://www.ignant.de/submissions/analog-collages-menumortu/

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Hisashi Eguchi

"Having a pet is so weird: neither of you speak each other’s language and yet you form some strong bond by rubbing against each other and sleeping together and you might accidentally kick them in the face or step on their tail once in a while but at the end of the day you two are best buddies from entirely different species." —Unknown

https://www.facebook.com/the.artidote/photos/a.748110521972432.1073741827.742359879214163/945702615546554/?type=3&theater

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Dani Olivier - Corps en Ligne

Naked bodies are projected with hypnotising designs and patterns in French artist Dani Olivier's striking new photography series, Corps en Ligne, which translates roughly to Body of Lines.

Eight years ago, in search of a new artistic direction, Olivier stumbled upon the unique potential for using light projection to create beautiful new representations of the female body. He started playing with lines and as he continued this process, began adding color and morphing the shapes and contours of his projections.  

Olivier’s work is driven by experimentation. He doesn’t manipulate the light patterns during shoots and refuses to use Photoshop, so he is constantly testing out new designs in an attempt to capture something more interesting. “My work is really a research of harmony,” Olivier tells The Creators Project. “You can’t just project anything, you have to build your design around the shape of the individual’s body. Certain shapes really work better on certain women.”

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/female-nude-body-projections

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Pr9gressive

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." 

―Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

https://www.facebook.com/the.artidote/posts/885648291551987