The Movie That Really Inspired Me

“Step up Revolution” is the movie that inspired me most. The flash mobs – in traffic, dancing on the roofs, hoods and trunks of low-rider vintage cars in Miami traffic, disrupting museum openings and a developer’s planning meetings – are brilliantly choreographed, well-shot, sharply edited treats.

Director Scott Speer from "The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers" knows where to point his camera and knows how to cut to the beat. Everything from parkour-style stunts and mime to salsa, crunking and interpretative dance is given its showcase here and tapping into flash mobs, those Internet-posted delights in which singers or dancers show up, en masse, and delight a mall, a train station or a city street? Inspiring.
The best part of the movie is when they are popping in the museum and dancing like jelly fishes under the blue light.

The freestyle dance inspired me to do everything in freestyle especially in my artwork. It indicates that there are many ways of solving things or doing things. Just like our daily schedule, we can change it everyday and not necessarily we have to live a dull and routine life all the time. The flash mobs, they give me the inspiration of everything can be done easily if we stayed together in groups. In other words, unity is power. In this movie itself, the dancers get together as one in order to let others know that they’re a force to be recon with. Same as in real life, goals and targets can be reached much easier when we do it in groups. Choreography of the movie such as the part where they’re dancing like jelly fishes in blue light tells me that a well planned project or work can turn out very well. In this case, planning is the key to a successful life. We must always make plans for ourselves’ in life.

Otherwise, we end up lost and oblivious of where we are heading to in life. I personally think that like choreography is important in movies, planning is also crucial especially to university students like me. This is because we are already steps away from going into the real world or society. This movie inspired me a lot and it was a very amazing movie.

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Step Up Revolution. (2012). Retrieved from http://moviereview.com

The Amazing Fashion Illustrator

The fashion illustrator that I admire the most is Sandra Suy, she creates many delightful illustrations. I’m attracted to her brilliant artwork. Her style of drawing is influenced by classic fashion illustration and she like to think it is elegant and reflects a timeless beauty. When asked Sandra Suy, what inspired her when she’s doing her fashion illustrations? She answered, “It depends… There are days I cannot find the inspiration anyway and other days I have no time to express all that I have in my mind. I use to search on the internet; I love to do that, for me it is a wonderful source of inspiration and never ending info report. I like visiting fashion and decoration blogs, there are so many and so interesting! I also consult fashion magazines. Walking down the street is also a great source of inspiration for me.”

One of the illustrations I like the most from her is the picture below:

Here are few nice illustrations from her too:

The illustrations that she creates inspired me a lot when I want to start my drawing or even coloring. Her fashion illustrations are amazing. Her technique that she used for these drawing inspired me while drawing and coloring. The perfect and right combination of both drawing and coloring is vital to create an amazing artwork. I too, wished I had such talents. Therefore, I am improving myself in drawing and coloring with a mindset thinking that one day I might paint out a picture as good as she is. 

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Sandra suy. (2012). Retrieved from http://sandrasuy.com/

The Colorful Typewriter

Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter. Callahan submitted the beautiful typewriter as part of the 2012 West Prize competition, an annual art prize that is determined by popular vote. I do not know how practical painting an image with a color typewriter is, but if Keira Rathbone can do it, so can I. I believe in creativity as this color typewriter inspires me that not all creativity must be of the same thing or of the same formula. 

There’s no fixed definition of creativity of a certain field. Therefore, I feel that we don’t have to just rely on pencils or color pencils to paint a picture. In other words, we have to think out of the box when we start thinking of creativity.

Aside from all that, we must neither fear of failures nor laughter of people who feels that our creation is inferior or of no use. Because we will never know that someday this idea of ours will work out as a piece of art like this typewriter. Who would have thought that a machine which initially is only meant for typing words could be change to be made for coloring. A brilliant idea of creativity will not always be the same for others. I would like to think that if our ideas are not different from others, then there’s not much creativity in it.

These colorful color really can make our life more colorful and happier.

References：

Images-Jobson (Ed.). (2011, December 4). The Chromatic Typewriter. Retrieved from Art and Design website:  http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/the-chromatic-typewriter/?src=footer?src=footer 

The Amazing Charcoal Dust Art Work With Finger-Painted

I have discovered the work of Judith Braun about a year ago and I started to admire her and her works, which uses her bare hand to finger-paint the spectacular landscape painting. Her painting inspire me when I wanted to draw something with a pencil, this had made me come to terms that we have a lot of alternative ways to draw out what we want, just as her, she draws with her fingers.

Can you believe Judith Braun used her bare hands to finger-paint this spectacular landscape painting?  Braun’s work recently exploded in both scale and complexity, shifting from the abstract to the literal in this new mural entitled Diamond Dust.

The piece was painted over several days in February in front of a live audience at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia using fingerprints created from the fine powder of ground charcoal. The whole piece is 12 feet by 48 feet and considering the fact that Braun incorporated her finger-drawing technique makes the piece all the more impressive.

Reference :

Images -Christopher (Ed.). (2012, March 22). A Finger-painted Mural Made with Charcoal Dust. Retrieved from COLOSSAL Art & Design website: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/ a-finger-painted-mural-made-with-charcoal-dust/ 

The most precious of all – the “WEDDING DRESS”

My favorite wedding dress designer is none other than Vera Wang .I think Vera Wang designs the most wonderful and special wedding dresses, she indicatively loves to play with many special colors. All these special colors really inspire me to be creative when I color or paint a picture. When I color every single picture or image, I will think of her design that encourage us to think out of the box especially when comes to color. 


I really wish to wear her designed wedding dress during my big day. Many of the brides will choose the traditional colors for their wedding dress such as white, pink, purple etc. White color will generally be chosen by most bride. Many will not consider any of the color that will break the tradition, such as dark color or either pale color. Actually, these unique colors will really brighten up your big day, as those people had never seen before such colors as a wedding dress.


“They came one after the other, first in deep, warm shades of nude and then in spellbinding noir. Pleated, distressed, layered fabrics winding mysteriously around the body culminating in a visual feast in deepest, darkest black,” This describes Vera Wang work her magic again on her wedding dress design. Pitch black. Pitch perfect.

Light, airy, concoctions of froth, inspired by black and nude undergarments, both mysterious and sexy, frivolous and fun, with transparent wisps of carefully organized tulle. These two colors have broken the tradition but it still really fabulous and mysterious.

Last season Vera Wang's wedding dresses wowed me all with her "Witchcraft" inspiration and black and nude color palette, and I must say I adore this season's rosy progression. Moving from the brightest red to the deepest chocolaty burgundy, Vera Wang's collection was named "Mei Meng" (Chinese for "beautiful dream") and described by the designer like this: "Beautiful dream. The symbolism of Red.  Boldly romantic, charming, protective, grand, seductive, and sexy. From dahlia to scarlet, crimson and vermilion. A celebration of love." Bold, seductive and romantic is right! These red wedding dresses are all wow factor. All of the bride should try all these special colors. Vera Wang really inspires me to be creative, either doing my assignment or doing everything in my life. We can’t be doing the same thing or using the same way to do things in our life. We should always change, implement to make our life more interesting and prefect.

Reference

Image-Wedding chicks (2012, April 20). Vera Wang bridal collection. Retrieved from http://www.weddingchicks.com/2012/04/20/vera-wang-spring-bridal-collection-2013/