Here’s a guy that brings my childhood crashing back to me when I hear him. When he starts singing I see myself on a hot summer day riding my bike through the neighborhood and hearing music blasting down the street as my mom calls us in for dinner. He sings a throwback to the Motown style and mixes it with some modern soul feel. This is the music style that my mom would put on when we took our road trips across the US so I almost feel the need to get in my car when I put him on. Plus he’s originally from right here in MI! Support the awesomeness that comes out of MI!
Since I’ve been remiss with my inspirational works on music here’s one to definitely add to the collection. A band I’ve been crushing on for quite a bit of time are the Civil Wars! I am in LOVE with their music, their voices are like oh so sweet honey that smoothly trickles down every nerve in your body and excites all your senses. If I could take my life and put a melody to it as of this moment the Civil Wars would be my soundtrack. Inspiration comes in so many forms but Music is the most transcendent way to move my heart and lull my soul. I hope you find as much inspiration and enjoyment in this band as I have!
Yes, the movie was about my life. I’ve been in about 27 weddings, I may admit to more but I might just sound pathetic or easy (take your pick)! Since the age of 11 I’ve played bridesmaid to about every aunt, cousin, friend, and sometimes even to unfamiliar family acquaintance! I think that’s how I got to love documenting such a day, by having been part of so many of them!
One thing I do wish, especially for those early 90′s weddings is that the dress selection would have been more me. I can count on 1 hand the dresses I’ve loved and kept rather than all the others that have been strictly a one day affair. Now on to the good news! BHLDN an Anthropologie special addition has just been released this Valentines Day, and it caters to the whimsical inclined bride and bridesmaid! I’m in love with some of their offerings and really wish to see some of these on my future brides and bridesmaids! I might just be stoping in to buy a few “work attire” dresses for myself! Check this out!
Saw this cool little video on my friend Damaris’ blog. It was so great I had to share. As a constant learner of PSD I love this.
Seriously this man is cool.
I love the thought project and how random people’s thoughts are, I thought I was the only one with random thoughts running though my head!
His new project ” We’re all going to die – 100 meters of existence” is so well portrayed.
Check him out and be inspired yourselves. Click on picture to go to his website.
Back to Inspiration Monday I come. Since I mostly do wedding photography I wanted this week to feature someone that caught my eye recently. The Christian Oth studios in New York just floored me. I saw an ad for them in a wedding magazine and was stunned to just look and be inspired. I have so many wedding photographers I love to follow and feel inspired by their art. This one in particular captures so many great wedding moments but my favorite image they have is one I hope to one day recreate somehow. Please feel free to visit their site and feel inspired yourselves.
I was reading a small devotional I have from my church and I realized I love this thing. I mean I’m highlighting like its nobodies business and look back to see half the page in a different color. Devotionals give me a good dose of wisdom and courage in about a half a page’s worth of reading. I’m consistently surprised to see what the message is and how much it relates to what I’m going through and what I’m debating and worrying about. Some of quotes I get from this devotional make me want to stand up and scream them to the world cuz they are so spot on. Instead, so I’m not labeled a lunatic I post them on facebook and be ever more surprised that others also find them as inspirational as I do. Some of the great wisdom I’ve found today has been:
” Be yourself; after all who’s more qualified?” How great is this when you’re struggling to fit and to make yourself as invisible as you can to not standout for who you are?
“Accepting that you’re a small link in a big chain can be humbling…” – “Its not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their hard work.” (1 Co 3:7-8 NLT) This speaks to the face of our impatience in this world and how we expect that work we start and finish be done all by ourselves, so that we may get the recognition. Its hard to let go and realize that you may not be the end all of everything but rather a small part of a greater thing and the recognition is God’s!
And because you should never be left without visual aid here’s a view of my paper heart:
Sooooo…. I like music. And I really love falling in love with new artist and their music. Some of the music I find is from across the pond and sometimes its from my own backyard. But I’ve decided to share with you every Wednesday, should I remember its song day, a new artist I’ve somehow ran across that caught my attention. Maybe you know them, maybe their new to you too, but sharing the love of music is never a bad thing! So here is the first of many Songs on Wednesday artist: Sondre Lerche!
There’s a new photography exhibit featured at the DIA from March 3-July 3 of Robert Frank. I am going to attend at least once. If anyone is intrested here is some info I got from the DIA newsletter. YAY i love exhibits at the DIA. Seriously, some of my fondest and earliest memories of realizing how important art is in life came from this Musem.
Exhibitions
Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955
Special Exhibition Galleries: Central
March 3-July 3
While traveling the country taking photographs for his groundbreaking book The Americans, artist Robert Frank stopped in Detroit, where he was inspired by autoworkers and the cars they made, local lunch counters, drive-in movies, and public parks such as Belle Isle (above). Through his images, he transformed the everyday experiences of city residents into an extraordinary visual statement about American life.
Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955, showcases more than sixty rare black-and-white photographs from the DIA’s collection, including eight images that were published in The Americans. In addition, an in-depth body of work representative of Frank’s view of Detroit’s working-class culture and automotive industry is exhibited together for the first time.
With funding from a Guggenheim grant, Frank set out in 1955 and 1956 to create a large visual record of America, which was to become The Americans. According to the photographer, the book documented “things that are there, anywhere, and everywhere…a town at night, a parking lot, the man who owns three cars and the man who owns none…the dream of grandeur, advertising, neon lights…gas tanks, post offices, and backyards.” Whether in the disorienting surroundings of a massive factory or during the solitary and alienating moments of individuals in parks and on city streets, the Swiss-born photographer looked beneath the surface of life in the United States and found a culture that challenged his perceptions and popular notions of the American Dream.
Frank developed an unconventional photographic style that was innovative and controversial in its time. Photographing quickly, Frank sometimes tilted and blurred compositions, presenting people and their surroundings in fleeting and fragmentary moments with an unsentimental eye. Beat poet Jack Kerouac expressed the complex nature of the artist and his work in a passage from the writer’s introduction to The Americans, stating, “Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.”
Robert Frank, American (born Switzerland); Belle Isle, 1955; gelatin silver print. Museum Purchase, Forum for Prints, Drawings and Photographs Purchase Fund
© Robert Frank, from The Americans
I still remember seeing a poster of this mans photography in my beginning photography classes and being drawn in completely. I still sit at my computer screen and stare at the genius behind his work. The lines, the idea, the creativity, the wanting to be at a circus with an amazing dress on and simply looking fabulous. His fashion photography work is phenomenal.
