Online imagery

Instagramin’

Some of my recent posts from Instagram — I’m focussed on selecting inspirational imagery rather than camera uploads…

Photographic mage of a hand

#BrunoMunari

 

Matta-Clark: Building cut-outs, NYC

#MattaClark

…philosophical instantiations probing a range of ideas—site-specificity, the ephemerality of art, presence and absence, life and death, being and nothingness and on and on and on—they also, in hindsight, seem to be about the texture of New York City as it was then. – STATION TO STATION

 

Android close-up from Metropolis
#FritzLang

 

Still from the film Solaris

#Solaris – BWV 639

 

Scene from Orson Welles' The Trial

The Trial (1962)
#OrsonWelles #Kafka

 

Portrait-Egon-Schiele

#EgonSchiele

 

Profiles of Scottish band, Josef K

#JosefK

 

Julie Christie, still from "Petulia"

#JulieChristie “Petulia”
‘…set against the mid-sixties San Francisco scene’

Intermedia meeting at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Ruins in Process

Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties is a research archive and educational resource that brings together still and moving images, ephemera, essays and interviews to explore the diverse artistic practices of Vancouver art in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The images on this website are amazing, it’s almost as if they’ve been invented or staged rather than actually dating from the era.

Inspiration from inspiration

The web is full of inspirational resources, they’re everywhere in fact. From the elite and esoteric to the banal and superficial these sites have the power to inspire and infuriate.

What elements make for the best and/or inherently original and exclusive of these repositories? Are these cultural apertures significant or just self-referential?

Here are a few I enjoy and (sometimes) get inspired by, in no particular order (if I think of more I’ll add to the list):

But does it float
It’s Nice That
24 ways
Designspiration
K-Hole
Ministry of Type
The Sixteenth Division