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As you might know, I enjoy photography.

I don't take photos for fun, I consider it to be work, and while I may be having fun durring this "work", I feel I need to contribute something. Be it asthetic, or personal, I feel something with any meaning is important.

To have meaning, one must be inspired.

I want to know what inspires you to do anything with any kind of meaning. What do you live for? Do you live to inspire others? To help those with less than you? To educate?

I feel you need inspiration to have a goal.


What do you do, and why do you do it?


I try to express myself through expression. I don't like verbal exchanges. My inspiration comes from my mood, which I get from music, film, and other people's doings. I like to observe and try to relate to someone, or some thing.

Like, right as soon as I post this, I'm going to watch a certain NSer's film and see where it takes me. Be it an image I capture, or an idea I create, it would be inspired by that person.




Am I making any sense?

ooh this is a good question to answer, well im a guitarist in a band as well as a sort of amateur musician on my own, and i guess people inspire me. I love them, people are great lol, and i play music because i love the effect it has on me and on other people, and its such a social thing too. Relationships inspire me too, you know the whole songwriting thing, I have wirtten the occasional political song too but they are fewer, I much prefer things that are personal to me and personal to my audience i guess. I hope that answers the question anyway.

I mostly do things for the fun of doing them or to rub peoples noses in my success

*rubs*

edit: and I'm inspired by talking to people seeing how they tick and such

Anything and everything inspires me.
As a painter, absolutely everything is inspirational, from the way a drop of water runs down the inside of a bus window to a smile, a sound, a smell... anything.
Personally, I love playing with human perception. If you show the same image to two different people, they'll see two very different images, I think that's absolutely fascinating.

As most people, I get lots of inspiration from music and film as already mentioned.

On the topic of photography though, this is the most awe-inspiring photograph I've ever seen. Scratch that, it is the most awe-inspiring thing I've seen in my life period:

Tetons Snake River by Ansel Adams (http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/picturing-the-century-photos/images/tetons-snake-river.jpg) (warning: BIG picture, but so worth it)

I'm waaaayyy to easy to inspire. A touching speech, a friendly word, a beautiful piece of music, birds chirping on a sunny day, little kids playing... they inspire me in different ways. Like Cabra I'm an artistic, but I'm not a fine artist. Usually my venue is words or electronic drawings. My art is stories and jokes (usually really crumby one liners that make people giggle), and sometimes I try to draw but I get frustrated because I can't put the vision in my head on paper the way I wish I could.

Life is inspritation, and inspiration is the spice of life.

I've always wished I had that creative streak I see in other people. It amazes me how they can translate every day occurences into something beautiful they themselves create. Unfortunately i'm not that kind of person so I just enjoy the product of their abilities

Indulgence.

When I played music it was for the interaction with the other musicians, when I could hear them develop off what I was doing and I could develop off what they're doing. When it clicked it was something magical.

The playwrighting was a few things. To see words I wrote come to life was a thrill I hadn't expected. To watch an audience react to that was something special, too. I was a little spoiled too early (not unlike music) where I had everything I wrote put up on stage. So it's hard to write when I don't know if something will be performed or not.

With filmmaking it's just about being able to craft something.

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To have meaning, one must be inspired.

really?

why?

I make alot of my own songs, and I'm somewhat in a group of us, sort of like our own record label because we feature in eachothers songs and that.

My main inspiration is to educate. To get my views out there, seeing as theyre quite unconventional and usualy minority views I wanna get them some publicity.

I also wanna bring rap back to the days when it was lyrical art, masterpieces. Not the crap we have coming through the charts today.

i've yet to find anything i'm more than just momentarily inspired by. maybe it's my short attention span, or maybe it's my severe lack of motivation but i just don't seem to really feel this inspiration thing.

As most people, I get lots of inspiration from music and film as already mentioned.

On the topic of photography though, this is the most awe-inspiring photograph I've ever seen. Scratch that, it is the most awe-inspiring thing I've seen in my life period:

Tetons Snake River by Ansel Adams (http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/picturing-the-century-photos/images/tetons-snake-river.jpg) (warning: BIG picture, but so worth it)

Gorgeous!

I don't know, I used to be inspired a lot, I used to write poetry and humorous columns for a zine and I drew and painted sometimes. I guess I got over-critical of my work and stopped doing that stuff because it all just seemed like shit. And it probably was. I wrote my last poem when I was 19 and drew my last face portrait at 19 also, both about my ex boyfriend (you know, when he wasn't my ex). He was kind of a condescending guy, but he always encouraged my artistic side because he was an artist himself.

Since then I've been dating a computer programmer. 'Nuff said.

Actually, I've been getting more into photography lately. I took some okay pictures in Portland (http://www.flickr.com/photos/8545521@N05/sets/72157600282429951/), and I intend to do a lot more when we go to Philly for the NS Meetup in August.

I draw most of the time, but I also write. i guess i really get inspired by music and other works of art. of course, sometimes i get incredibly depressed and it takes about a fort-night to get out of my slump.