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Sand Man - The Sand Art of Peter

Art, Inspiration, Video

A 10 min Short Film on the iconic Christchurch artist Peter Donnelly who has etched and raked over 700 works into the New Brighton sands.

Can you say Peter is a bohemian?

Why did it take me 50 years to understand what it means to be a bohemian?

Why do so many artist types love to wear black?

Why cant “normal” people be infected with the sensitive love that infects most bohemian artists?

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Sound Sculptures from Zimoun

Art, Inspiration, Video

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations.

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Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate

Art, TED Lectures, Video

Who knew you could make art out of thread, sugar and chocolate….

Vik Muniz: Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate

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Raghava KK: Five lives of an artist

Art, Inspiration, TED Lectures, Video

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Class Act

Art, Creativity, Education, Inspiration, Music, Video

CLASS ACT is the funny, provocative and heart-felt personal story of drama teacher extraordinaire Jay W. Jensen who touched the lives of thousands set against today’s crisis in America’s classrooms.

Known as “Teacher to the Stars”, drama teacher, Jay W. Jensen, stars alongside his famous students in this humorous yet revealing look at America’s schools and how the arts are disappearing from the American classroom, giving us a report card on what lies ahead for America’s kids.

Featuring former students Andy Garcia, director Brett Ratner, music pioneer José Behar, songwriter Desmond Child, casting director Debra Zane, Broadway producer Adam Epstein, sportscaster Roy Firestone, and made by former students producer Heather Winters and director Sara Sackner.

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Tom Shannon’s anti-gravity sculpture

Art, Inspiration, Invention, TED Lectures, Video

Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture — made of simple, earthly materials — that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire.

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How to Find Your Passion #1

Art, Creativity, Inspiration

Notice what inspires you.
Be aware of your response to life.
Be present in the moment.
Listen to your small voice.
Write down things that inspire you. Keep a list.
Give yourself permission to revisit those things/experiences that inspire you.
You never know where that one action base on slowing down and paying attention will lead you.
I recently did this and found inspiration from watching documentaries/biographies of artists.
One of the most recent documentaries I saw was about the life and works of Keith Haring.
I love his style. Many elements of what he created are primitive/minimal.
They open my eyes to want to find more art of that style.
I look at web sites that featured Hawaiian petroglyphs.
I then read a wonderful book called “Color: The Natural History of Pallette”
This book has a chapter on the influence that Ocher had on Aborigines in Australia.
I then looked for examples of Aboriginal art on the web.
My jaw dropped when I found web sites that feature a wide variety of art by Aborigines.
It was an art form that spoke to me in a language I did not know I knew.

This is just one small example of a zig-zag journey, a step-by-step journey into the unknown.
A journey to find my passion.
A journey that started with listening to and noticing what inspires me and having the trust to follow that voice.

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The playful search for beauty

Art, Creativity, TED Lectures, Video

Eva Zeisel: The playful search for beauty in the world of ceramics.

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Naked States

Art, Creativity, Ideas, Inspiration, Video

Photographer Spencer Tunick travels the U.S. in search of volunteers to pose nude for his outlaw photo-shoots, all of them done out in public and often without legal permits.

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The Ballad of Juan Quezada - Mexico

Art, Inspiration, Video

The passion of one man led him to discover his origins, which motivated him to teach himself the art of pottery. This led to great success, which motivated him to teach others.

Click here to watch a video of his story.

Click here to read his story.

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