Whats inspiring you now?

[thebiz]

Physical places always tend to inspire me. I always get a great creative vibe in the morning walking up Broadway to work and seeing down about a mile or urban life and buildings both modern and old. Or looking out the window at work from 9 stories above in the SOHO area and seeing some rooftops and windows and no people. A great change of viewpoint. Urban settings are my favorite.

Or the mystery of places where I dont speak the language. I would love to make a movie set in Hanoi as that to me was one of the more inspirational places Ive been. Tight alleyways and markets, small divey bars, restaraunts, homes, stores with a plethora of smells and sounds, millions of bikes, people animals foods, sites and sounds. The freesound project has many files where people simply record a walking trip through a foreign land. Great listens for me.

Kid Millions. Reminds me of a time when I didnt know everything and the mysteries of life were just beginning and the world was chock full of them. Seeing things in a new way (often from a lower height), testing boundaries and sometimes failing only to try again.

Murakami is also doin the job for me lately. Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Kafka on the Beach and right now After Dark. So very sci-fi meets fairy tale. Good stuff.

You?

[rogerSIMIAN]

Murakami is also doin the job for me lately. Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Kafka on the Beach and right now After Dark. So very sci-fi meets fairy tale. Good stuff.

I watched a doc about Haruki Murakami recently. I've not read anything by him, but my aunt (who usually only reads science fiction) has lent me a book by him called "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". But right now I've just started to reread the Irish author Flann O'Brien's "At Swim-Two-Birds" (written in 1939). It's funny and experimental (I think he was one of James Joyce's drinking buddies). It starts like this (you really need to read it in an Irish accent):


HAVING placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

Examples of three separate openings - the first:

The Pooka MacPhellimey, a member of the devil class, sat in his hut in the middle of a firwood meditating on the nature of numerals and segregating in his mind the odd ones from the even. He was seated at his diptych or ancient two-leaved writing-table with inner sides waxed. His rough long-nailed fingers toyed with a snuff-box of perfect rotundity and through a gap in his teeth he whistled a civil cavatina. He was a courtly man and received honour by reason of the generous treatment he gave his wife, one of the Corrigans of Carlow.

The second opening:

There was nothing unusual in the appearance of Mr John Furriskey but actually he has one distinction that is rarely encountered - he was born at the age of twenty-five and entered the world with a memory but without personal experience to account for it. His teeth were well formed but stained by tobacco, with two molars filled and a cavity threatened in the left canine. His knowledge of physics was moderate and extended to Boyle's Law and the Parallelogram of Forces.

The third opening:

Finn Mac Cool was a legendary hero of old Ireland. Though not mentally robust, he was a man of superb physique and development. Each of his thighs was as thick as a horse's belly, narrowing to a calf as thick as the belly of a foal. Three fifties of fosterlings could engage with handball against the wideness of his backside, which was large enough to halt the march of men through a mountain-pass.

I've not been out over the last few days, so no inspiration from nature this week. :)

[Roger]

I find that I have a good memory for odd things, which I file away for later use. I might be something I hear on the radio or something I see happen in the street. Inspiration is everywhere!

For some strange reason I get very inspired when I sit on the toilet! :eek:

Walking down Broadway is indeed inspiring, so is sitting in Central Park and having a homeless guy come up and watch us playing chess for about 5 minutes, then he said "you guys are shit!" and then walked off. :p

[frosty_frost09]

Well, here lately i've been watching a few classic noir films to get inspiration for my film noir i'm working on.

Most of the time I get inspiration from listening to music, things I see on T.V, movies i've watched, books i've read, TMO movies i've seen, etc.

[Jase180]

Music is always a source for me. I can listen to a bit of music and it will inspire a whole story for me.

Right now Vangelis (The El Greco CD is my current one) and Phillip Glass'Pruit-Igoe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzEFRVoSoNo&feature=related are) are really turning the ol brain on

[Tarison]

Little experiences. Close your eyes and with a bit of imagination, something like catching a train becomes something else entirely.

Some of the music I listen to is also inspiring - especially the stuff that's either without vocals, or without vocals I understand (because they're in another language, not because I'm a moron :D )

[sgporsche48]

A lot of music inspires me, but sometimes it's a movie or even something I might see walking around outside.

Right now I'm currently searching for some inspiration...

[Roger]

A visit to a restaurant today has given me inspiration for a section in the BS hour on Sunday's show. It should raise a few smiles! ;)

[Kit06]

I usually get inspired when I am watching a comedy I see often like, Farther Ted or The IT Crowd. That gives me tips. Sometimes listening to BBC Radio 2's Sarah Kennady's show in the morning inspires me.

But what inspired a TMOer to make the Roger Thong idea? :eek:

[Roger]

I usually get inspired when I am watching a comedy I see often like, Farther Ted or The IT Crowd. That gives me tips. Sometimes listening to BBC Radio 2's Sarah Kennady's show in the morning inspires me.

But what inspired a TMOer to make the Roger Thong idea? :eek:
I blame Ken! :p

[kuroken]

I blame Ken! :p
I accept responsibility - and in answer to the question, I was inspired by the thought of "I'm Not Roger" mania sweeping the UK, and later the world, making me filthy rich....

And after that idle, happy thought passed, I thought "what would make people really want to enter a movie making contest?" Not yet understanding that an XBox360 was a powerful motivator, I thought...why, a Roger Thong.

And why not?

Ken

[Elbow]

Sometimes, just as I'm waking up, a phrase or a words will come into my head. Maybe a bit of a melody or an image. I'll quickly make my way to jot it or sketch it down before the coffee wipes it away.

Interacting with creative people really inspires me.

[Norrie]

Mods have inspired me would you believe?

I was struggling for a movie idea a while back, when I saw Mike DBoing's Indiana Jones costume: Kicked the whole thing off.

Same with Loss: No idea for a story until I saw the yacht and the 737.

And, if I can get Rysto's huge street working, that's the kick start for my next adventure :D

[thebiz]

Mods have inspired me would you believe?

I was struggling for a movie idea a while back, when I saw Mike DBoing's Indiana Jones costume: Kicked the whole thing off.

Same with Loss: No idea for a story until I saw the yacht and the 737.

And, if I can get Rysto's huge street working, that's the kick start for my next adventure :D

In a similar vein I enjoy cruising into my local comic book shop and looking at all the covers. I havent bought a comic in 20 years but all those ideas on the covers often get me thinking. Kinda like waking up on Sunday morning when I was a kid and getting the sunday paper, finding the Toys-r-Us catalog and dreaming away the afternoon while the smurfs were on tv. Good times. Ramble.

[Mustachio26]

What's inspiring me? Barack Obama! Yes We Can!

[thebiz]

Necropost - Hurray!!!

Iclone's ease of incorporating 3d models is providing some of the best inspiration Ive had in a while. Who wouldnt want to make a quick parody using something like the Hall of Justice (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=fe119f587b794a8d7c62c6420fd61efb&prevstart=0)or the old Batmobile (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=fe119f587b794a8d7c62c6420fd61efb&prevstart=0). What dystopian scifi doesnt need a Self Balancing two Wheeled Car (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a7e925ffad7ee9e2aa6b2af1909c936&prevstart=0)? Heres a looky at my favorite Sketchup Model yet; Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=beda9462040cef37cbd8a6bab27abef3&prevstart=0). Its worth installing sketchup and downloading the model just to revel in the painting comes alive vibe.

Learning sketchup is something of a breeze (comparitively, though Im not quite at a level of competency, I can sketch up something that will work for me) and really opens up the door for the nooby modder lurking deep within you.

[BiggsTrek]

Yep, I'd have to agree with that. With my current project, I'm having immense fun building the sets required. So much fun going through 3D Warehouse, picking out the right bookshelves, the right fireplace, etc.

Can be a trap, though. Overkill threatens... But still. :)