Creativity is a muscle

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Inspiration no99: My year in review continues with another design fetish - book covers. Check ‘em stunners: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrxLgs2FbbZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18ppwsjf87nc1

Inspiration no97: this striking image by @dashti.gohar, an Iranian photographer, has been following me for quite some time since seeing it in Rome - I could not forget it despite the daily Instaflood of pictures. The series Today’s Life and War might be about the memory & Sysyphian attempt of leading a regular life, which at anytime can be superimposed with reality of war, lurking like a horrible wallpaper. #gohardashti #inspiration #iranianphotographer #gallerianazionaledartemoderna #rome https://www.instagram.com/p/BriilmYl9Cv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b2v3fcw90xyk

Inspiration no96: I’m not sure there’s anything better than two cranky old men cracking ace jokes at each other. A washed-up actor (Michael Douglas) and his grumpy agent (Alan Arkin) fistfight for the whole of The Kominsky Method and it ends too fast. I pray for season two. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVohMNFpCw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x5gpmmxp33tf

Inspiration no95: I am obsessed with the work of a wonderful Adrian Piper, a multi-faceted artist, who seems to crack everything she wishes: performance art, installations, literature, sculpture, photography. I’m in awe of her finding the ways to be razor sharp in every medium. It is hard to pick out favorites, but start not far from today and read about The Probable Trust Registry participatory installation, where the visitors were proposed to sign lifetime contracts on either of these three statements: 1 I will always be too expensive to buy. 2 I will always mean what I say. 3 I will always do what I say I am going to do. They were promised to be able to see the names of those who’ve signed the contract as well, creating a sudden sect of a kind which cannot break their pact. Ever. Check Adrian Piper, she is a legend. And, yes, that is her with a towel in her mouth performing art while riding the subway. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQiLOAFYaS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nzu8jqm8adsc

Inspiration no94: dare to read something weirder & weirder-er? Boris Vian’s jazzy, druggy, surreal romance L’Écume des jours is waiting for you. I have breezed through this humbug tale and its metaphorical layers with gusto. You will, too! #inspiration #mustread #borisvian #lecumedesjours #frothonthedaydream #moonindigo https://www.instagram.com/p/BrI0uOBFRDw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15xv8jzdwlhe1

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Inspirado no94: Hipgnosis were a stunningly inventive studio making album covers, some of them are icons - like Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon”, but check out some lesser known micromasterpieces. #xtc #hipgnosis #yes #yesband #brandx #sydbarrett #rayharper #audienceband #10cc #prettythings #albumcovers #artwork #inspiration #montrose

Inspirado no94: Hipgnosis were a stunningly inventive studio making album covers, some of them are icons - like Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon”, but check out some lesser known micromasterpieces. #xtc #hipgnosis #yes #yesband #brandx #sydbarrett #rayharper #audienceband #10cc #prettythings #albumcovers #artwork #inspiration

Inspiration no93: I can only sleep in bed. Meanwhile, in Japan, there’s an art form of napping anywhere in any position, it is called inemuri ("sleeping while present”). Most importantly, it enhances your business reputation: it demonstrates that you’re working yourself to exhaustion. Oh, Japan. This beautiful photo is by Magnus Wennman / National Geographic. #sleep #goodmorning #salaryman #goodnight #sleepingwell #inspiration

Inspiration no92: Immediately, you are paralyzed by the look of Ferris' graphic novel: detailed, nuanced, rich in textures and what is most impressive, all done with a trivial Bic ballpoint pen. This alone is enough to turn Monsters into a worthwile flip. But then, when you are still paralyzed and impressed by the looks of this weighty diary of a 10 year old nosy girl detective, the author overwhelms you with twisted story, containing sibling love, nazi hate, murder mystery thread, political turmoil, traumas of a childhood, imagination, art, many other things and, yes, monsters. This one goes out to those who feel graphic novels are inferior books. Just see it. Just read it. #emilferris #myfavoritething #monsters #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #stunning #chrisware #charlesburns #sensational #mustread #inspiration #book #murdermystery #detective #bicballpointpen

Inspiration no92: when you are completely overwhelmed by the choice in a bookstore buy a surprise, have a blind date, offers La Feltrinelli in Rome. #bookstore #lafeltrinelli #rome #ideasforgifts

Inspiration no92: when you are completely overwhelmed by the choice in a bookstore buy a surprise, have a blind date, offers La Feltrinelli in Rome. #bookstore #lafeltrinelli #rome #ideasforgifts

Inspiraton no91: this was my first time at @artvilnius art fair. Loved it. Was surprised how humour is unpopular with this year’s fair. The guy who saved it all was Estonia’s own @markomaetamm with hid project “Sit back, relax, and enjoy the rest of your life”. His take on terorists in airplanes made me take out my phone. #artvilnius #artfair #artwork #humourinart #estonianart

Inspiration no90: as I continued browsing @worldpressphoto exhibit in Rome, another masterpiece from parallel universe hit me: @adamfergusonphoto shoots portraits of girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria and forced to become suicide bombers. 2000 girls were kidnapped in last five years. This one, luckily, managed to escape. Most - don’t. #masterpiece #nigeria #worldpressphoto

Inspiration no89: continuing with @worldpressphoto exhibition in Rome I’ve stumbled upon the photograph that’s locked my spine. This is Suzanne, she is 11 and the look on her face says it all — she ’s just underwent a horrible breast ironing procedure which seems to be impossible to vindicate, yet it’s seen as a sign of a caring mother in Cameroon. Breast ironing practices are meant to delay maturity in girls and help prevent rapes or sexual advances. Techniques differ from region to region: some people bind the breasts with a belt, others heat a grinding stone, spatula or pestle and use it to press or massage the breasts. If not for the deeply piercing pictures, taken by @heba__khamis, I would never know such practices existed in this world past 12th century. #worldpressphoto #bannedbeauty #cameroon