Inspiration

I‘m always on the search for sources of inspiration, but I have to say that it’s not happening a lot lately. They seem to drift away from finding me, and, heck, maybe there are no good sources any more.Last year I was intrigued by Nexus London (and especially Jonas Odell), but soon fed up with it and its style . Then I realized that I’m not the only one it inspires, and not for the better. I guess, one of the main aspects of being inspired is to find something original.

Today I received a link to Pleix Films from my brother. First, after getting to that page, I thought that it’s going to be another collection of some new advertising campaigns, and I chose to start with ‘Beauty Kit’.
True, it was an advertising campaign, but not in the normal sense. it’s a film made to criticise the idea of beauty in eyes of little girls, and how the media is trying to sell it to them.

After that I couldn’t stop and I had to watch all of them.
‘Futureshock: Pride’s Paranoia’, for instance, is a frightening look at the power of consumerism (with hints from King Kong, Transformers and John Carpenter’s They Live); ‘Birds’ (pictured) is a beautyfully shot and obscure film about flying (jumping?) dogs; and after watching ‘E-Baby’ I almost cried for the sad possibilities of virtual worlds. On the other hand, ‘Netlag’ made me reproach myself for not thinking about that idea myslef: loads of small video streams from different places of the world.

Now I feel like creating some artwork, and this feeling is, for sure, the best proof for a good source of inspiration.

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