This Week's Inspiration Board.

This is a collage-blog about... stuff. Stuff that inspires or motivates me. If I had a printer, these would just get pinned to my bulletin board, but, alas! I have no printer. Instead, what would usually happen is, I'd copy them to a file I've named "inspire me plz" and then promptly forget about them. This week, instead of relegating them to the oubliette that is my external hard drive, they will get pinned here. I will decide later if this was an efficient use of time...

These are things that

a.) get me excited about creating,
b.) help pull me out of the writers' block,
c.) make me want to be a better person,
d.) make me feel okay about not actually being a better person,
or e.) all of the above.

(Sorry for the crappy quality of the collages--my Photoshop license expired last weekend. As such, I've tried to include a link to everything. Also, this is not to be confused with the "Things That Are Rad" list... though they're basically the same thing.)

From top left: by Steven Meisel; La Morte Di Un'Immagine #9 and La Morte Di Un'Immagine #5 by Andrea Galvani; Untitled by Diane Arbus; "Give Us Money, We Are Pretty"; Viktoriya Sosonkina modeling for Steven Meisel's "Stardust" spread, Vogue Italia 2008; note to self by dejvicka; [details unknown]; and a couple of photos of Françoise Hardy.

Ashleigh Brilliant quote, via Hit-or-Miss; [details unknown]; from "Le Couture est Dans le Pré", by Patrick Demarchelier for French Vogue 2007; Untitled by Jonny Valiant; "Harper's Bazaar" by Jeanloup Sieff, 1963; sheep and lost by Jen Gotch; Alfonso Lopez from “Multiracial” by Dulce Pinzón; still from Breakfast at Tiffany's; [no idea where this even came from]; and Eva Mendes modeling for "Eva Mendes Takes on Hollywood", photos by Steven Meisel, Vogue Italia 2008.

Lechuguilla Caves; The Great Cormorant; Mercura NY Cigarette Holders via Bobbins and Bombshells; sock garters from Sock Dreams; "Better Mistakes" by Mike Monteiro; 3 AM Epiphany by Brian Kiteley; "Ok Don't Fuck This Up" via Superbaaarbs; another Steven Meisel shot (I'm too lazy to scrounge up the details....); Fortune Cookie; and Card 14 from Urania's Mirror.

[I don't know if this only happens on my computer, but clicking on the images (and thereby enlarging them) seems to actually improve their quality... Just a thought.]