Day 114: Inspiration

Fragment: The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Font: Georgia
Quoted: Albert Einstein

I've really taken to this this rather cynical theory that originality is a myth. I suppose I agree with it in a lot of senses, especially in art. Everything is based on an inspiration, but does that mean it can't be original?
But if you don't remember/know how you thought of it, does that make it original within the frame of reference? What better way to hide than to forget?

Day 113: The Rub

Fragment: But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.
Font: Galaxie Polaris
Quoted: The New Yorker


Oh well that's not so good is it.... but does me thinking that mean that I think I am an artist? Do I deserve to be an artist? Ah There's the rub.

Day 112: Suffer

Fragment: Do what we can, summer will have its flies
Font: Times New Roman
Quoted: Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.  ~Russel Baker

Day 111: Sing of Hope

Fragment: If there was a God, then why is my arse/ The perfect height for kicking
Font: Futura
Quoted: Bell X1 in Rocky Took a Lover

As far as the story goes, Rocky was a homeless man who lived across the street from the lead singer of Bell X1. One night he was with a girl, and the song is an imagined conversation between the two.
Listen to the music here.

Day 110: Together Apart

Fragment: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think

Quoted: Christopher Robin, from Winnie the Pooh

Font: Futura

Day 109: Learn to Love it

Fragment: If your dreams don't intimidate you, then they aren't big enough
Font: Gotham
Quoted: Ursula Burns

I went to see my brother graduate from MIT and Ursula Burns was th speaker. I do love this quote, but really, my favorite thing she said was, "Don't do anything that won't make your mom proud."

Day 108: Representative

Fragment: The future is yours... make it a good one.
Font: Futura (so clever....)
Quoted: Doc Brown, Back to the Future III

A few days ago I got a fortune cookie with a blank fortune. It still had lucky numbers on the back, thank goodness (What would I do without them). My mom thought it was a rip off, but hey, guess it means I get what I want.

In other news, I think my designs have continued on a steady trend of being representational. While this wasn't my original intention, some of my favorites are the most representational, like Day 30: Taste the Peaches, or Day 92: Inhale. Whatever it is, I'm still having fun designing, and that's really what it's all about.