As Nick talked about different types of sources and influences in our lecture I thought maybe it would be interesting to see where my influences lie.
As we could see before with the Coen brothers the film ‘No Country For Old Men’ has a number of external refences for example the name is taken from the W B Yeats poem called Sailing to Byzantium.
Now for my own sources, throughout this module and for other projects I have worked on I have tried to use sources that aren’t so well known and tend not to be very mainstream. I am a follower of a number of art blogs and personally like to visit art galleries and keep up to date with innovative works that are being created.
I found Johnathan Lee’s lecture particularly interesting where we were shown a number of experimental works, some of which I didn’t find that engaging for my own taste however I found it particularly useful to see other types of work that are being created.
I found the website tank.tv useful and have found a number of pieces on there which I feel could influence future works of mine.
What do you find you’re influenced by the most; TV, Photography, Film? Is there anything that really gets your creative juices flowing?
Obviously my main area of interest is photography but I love watching films for inspiration and for example I watched Transformers the other day and paused it to take a picture of the screen whenever I saw a shot that I liked…pretty sad I know, but it’s great to have an “inspiration” folder on your computer or in a scrap book where you can refer back to things that you like when generating new work.
It’s also pretty cool to see how your taste changes over the years, because some of the things in my scrap book from a few years ago wouldn’t even catch my attention any more.
Pingback: Community Spirit « Mediadamuk's Blog