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Daily Inspiration: William Kentridge

In preparation for his show at MoMA, we’re featuring a classic William Kentridge film, “History of the Main Complaint” completed in 1996.
His films are dark, dangerous and politically motivated.  His technique is to photograph successive charcoal drawings on the same sheet of paper.  Traces from previous drawings are usually still visible on the next frame, [...]

Daily Inspiration: Outer Space

There’s something really great about the vintage take on space and technology, especially as it manifested on album covers…

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Daily Inspiration: Kim Noorda for Cover Magazine

Loving the multiple…

Images via MODELS and but does it float

Daily Inspiration: Mark Bradford

“Maybe it’s about mapping or tracing the ghost of cities past. It’s the pulling off of a layer and finding another underneath. It’s the reference and the details that point to people saying, ‘We exist; we were here.’”

“I have a labor-intense practice- cutting and cutting, which is grunt work, almost mechanical. That’s foreground. But what’s [...]

Daily Inspiration: Cosmic Landscape

Daily Inspiration: Katrin Möller

“What I am trying to express in my work are moments of EVERYTHING. Landscapes, Formations, Light, Smell, Taste…
But they are not just a reflection of a current feeling or a sudden urge. My paintings are about particles, about the whole arrangements, they are related, disrupted or intractable, they are left and right, above and below [...]

Daily Inspiration: Jessica Stam in Numero Korea 15

Images via MODELS
See the full shoot after the jump

Daily Inspiration: Hedi Slimane

All images via Hedi Slimane Diary

Daily Inspiration: Robi Jõeleht

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Daily Inspiration: Antony Micallef

“The trouble with pop imagery is that it doesn’t really go deeper than the surface, you have to drag it down and challenge it to make it interesting.   The union of two opposites makes an intriguing and strange chemistry.” – Micallef
Images via antonymicallef.com