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By: Anne Silver

Anne Silver — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:08:52 +0000

Aside from you, my biggest source of inspiration lately is also music. The band Iron and Wine, particularly the album Woman King, burns through my brain as I a out shooting photos and gives me ideas about future images to make. Haunting classical music, like Franz Liszt’s Liebestraum, has inspired me since I first heard it 25 years ago. And clothing/costumes also inspire me. I did an entire series of photographs based solely on a long black cape and the sunrise. Your book, Inspiration in Photography, is one I turn to every single day to help me home my vision. It has become a supportive friend as I take this journey embrace myself as an artist. Thank you, Brooke. This book completely knocked my socks off, and I look at everything differently now.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:45:06 +0000

Not so much a recent but a film I watch every so often is Big Fish! It reminds me to hold onto my imagination. Also it reminds how important it is not to become a day to day person never believing in the magical and the impossible

By: Thomas Oscar Miles

Thomas Oscar Miles — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:22:40 +0000

London Grammar are also a great haunting sounding band! Im trying to find inspiration in the possibilities of something, and some of the most basic things, like yesterday, i did a photoshoot in my bedroom with the only light coming from my tv box being turned off and only having a bright blue neon light coming from it! 🙂

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:26:13 +0000

What has inspired me lately is learning more and more about the curriculum that I am planning for this term of school for my daughter. So while I am going online and getting or trying to find all these amazing (some out of print and very very hard to find) books, I am getting inspired actually!
I also have been inspired by the new show called Dominion, its a spinoff and picks up after where the movie ‘Legion’ left off.
Also another I really enjoy is HBO’s new show ‘The Leftovers” so both really thinking about Angles, Demons, Rapture, Ect. all that fun stuff!
And of course, as always, Game of Thrones!

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:11:34 +0000

my biggest inspirations are Soap&Skin (like Agnes Obel is you in musical form, Soap&Skin is my musical form! 🙂 ) and you! 🙂 seeing your images has been a huge inspiration for me for several years now, and pushes me to keep creating, and push the boundaries of my creativity. Soap&Skin helps my mind flow with ideas each time i listen to any of her songs. her work is so beautiful and haunting, i can only hope my art does her music justice. 🙂

By: natascha van niekerk

natascha van niekerk — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:31:01 +0000

Brooke, thank you so much for sharing Agnes Obel! WOW!!! I don’t often buy music but she is just amazing, I love the piano and classical instruments combined with her dreamy voice and ethereal lyrics, am so enjoying listening to her! 😀

By: Gioncarla Lovato

Gioncarla Lovato — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:02:33 +0000

I am most inspired by working through my own life. I find in making art itself while working through past pain, joy, confusion- I work things out on canvas or in in a photo art piece. Music can often help the process. I find myself in deepest of creative therapy levels when listening to Florence + the Machine and CocoRosie. Sometimes its Edith Piaf or just a random song on the radio that send pictures of feelings to my brain. Its amazing these lives we are given, and yet take for granted. Feeling anything is a gift and should be commemorated in art. In my opinion anyway. 🙂 Thank you for this blog by the way, it is in fact one of the most inspiring places I visit!
I shall look for those movies and watch them…. See what happens.
xoxo
Gigi

By: Lia Luftikus

Lia Luftikus — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:55:35 +0000

I got inspired by YOU… of course, haha 🙂 and the world around me. I like soundtrack and instrumental music. I also prefer sad/mystic music for my pictures. Apart from that books and movies inspire me, also some videos.

Do you know KIN Fables? If not…please!! Check it out… it’s a 10 minutes shortfilm, fantasy, mystic and dark… and really really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8X3V-AHz8c

very inspirational, I think.
greetings from germany

By: lovelyn

lovelyn — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:14:46 +0000

The sky inspires me these days. I’m always looking up at it. Clouds are just amazing and it’s thunderstorm season where I live. There are always towering clouds lurking in the distance.

I’ve never heard of the movies Clone or Womb. I’ll have to check them out. I love movies.