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Documentary: The Power Of Art - Rothko

Today I watched a documentary about the artist Rothko. My 3D teacher mentioned him in class, when talking about the work I had made for that day. I already was familiar with his work, and I still love it very much.

The documentary I'm talking about is The Power Of Art episode 8 - Rothko.

Inspiration: Pipilotti Rist

Today in class we talked about Pipilotti Rist and our teacher showed us some video's by Pipilotti. I already knew about her and admire her work, so I thought I'd share some video's with you!

These are the two video's that we were shown:

Pipilotti Rist - I'm Not he girl Who Misses Much:


Pipilotti Rist - Aujourd'hui:

Photography: Seek The Odd One Out

It's a terrible photograph, I know. But I still wanted to post this. XP

Museum Trip: Anselm Kiefer in KMSK, Antwerp

Today I went to Antwerp with my parents and boyfriend. We went to the KMSK for an exhibition about Anselm Kiefer.

More information will follow soon!

Museum Trip: Kunsthal Rotterdam

Today I went to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. There was an exhibition about Edvard Munch, but also one about Tjé Chong King, a Dutch illustrator and one about pudding molds.

More information will follow soon.

Reblogged: "Security Company Tricks People Into Thinking Their Houses Were Burgled"

I wish I had a box like that :P

http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2010/10/security-compant-tricks-people-into.html

Inspiration & Video: Know Your Meme - Om Nom Nom Nom

Ever wondered where the words 'nom nom nom' came from? This is where/how/why.

And, seriously, check out the rest of the website, too! Know Your Meme is a website about how certain internet hypes have started, the when, the how and the why. Certainly a website to add to your bookmarks and go back to at times that you're bored and need a laugh! :)

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/om-nom-nom-nom

Blog: Lay-out

Well would you look at that! I've chosen a new lay-out, do you like it? It's unfortunately not my own picture used for the background but I hope to make/find one of my own that suits my blog :) Also, I realise the header doesn't fit anymore so I'm going to try and remember having to change that. Edit: I had blogger resize the header on it's own accord and now it's much too small, but at least you can read it!


I really need to sort out my labels, as well....

Stephin Merrit - The Man Of A Million Faces

Stephin Merrit, of the Magnetic Fields and the Gothic Archies, is really one of the best singers and songwriters and music makers ever. In my opinion anyway.


I just wanted to show you this video, it's a song that he thought up and made in one day for some project.

Painting: Heart

Done in coloured inks (ecoline).

Elf Fantasy Fair, Arcen, NL

Last Sunday was the Elf Fantasy Fair in Arcen. At Saturday I was trying to come up with some nice make-up and outfit, here's a few pictures of the result! (some taken on Saturday, some taken on Sunday :)) All photographs are unedited.

Inspiration: Kobi-Levi Footwear

These wearable sculptures by Kobi-Levi Footwear are nothing less than marvelous. How this makes me wish I could walk on heels this high and have money. That, or have the skills and tools to make my own shoes, haha.

Some favourites:

Inspiration: The 50 Most Stunning Wall Murals

I found this link somewhere, it's an article about the 50 most stunning wall murals all over the world. It's so good to know and to see again that not every graffiti is a stupid signature to show off to their friends how brave they were. I wish we had things like these in my town!!

Although it's very hard to choose, these are my favourites:)

Inspiring Bin Bags & Flower Grenades

Aren't these bin bags great? Or these Flower Grenades? Throw and grow!

School

Over at http://ingevandenbroek.blogspot.com/ I'm active again, blogging in dutch about what I do on/for school.I wish I had more time for other things, since I really would like to fill my portfolio/my website better and I need to post a lot of sketches, and my webshop could REALLY use some promoting. And more items of course. I wish I would just sell something.. I don't know what's wrong with it, except that no-one knows about it and that it's on DaWanda, and although there are a lot of people on the website, I think much less people know about it compared to other websites. I dunno. I need to promote my stuff, but that's something that's reall really hard for me to do... We'll see.

Breda

I had a great day in Breda today shopping with my mum :)

Here's the view from the place where we parked, isn't it lovely? The weather was very good, too!

Art By Inora Webshop Banner

Like the new banner?

The corners are far from perfect, but I really need to go to bed! Let's see what I can do maybe tomorrow!


Need to change:
- less high
- smaller, maybe longer
- better corners

Inspirational Blog: ArtMind

Look what I found! Great blog, and great tutorials. I'm certainly going to try some of these tuts out! :D
ArtMind

Inspiration: Deborah Van Der Schaaf (Illustrator)

Yesterday I came across this illustrator, Deborah Van Der Schaaf. The website is in Dutch, but you can see enough to understand why I like this artist so much! She's got some really clever pieces of illustration art. These are the kind of people that make me doubt if I should go study art or illustration. And it's a very serious doubt. Why can't I ever make up my mind and go for one thing?

What do I like so much about these illustrations?
Hard/bright colours, big contrasts, simple but with a clever idea behind it, cheerful, a bit strange.

Movie: Eclipse

Today I went to the cinema with two friends of mine. First we watched Twilight and New Moon, as a sort of marathon. It was a very nice day.

I'm not a big fangirl of the Twilight Saga, believe me, but I DO like the books, and the movies aren't THAT bad. I'm sick and tired, honestly, of having to hide liking the books (and the movies, though I do believe the books are way better) because I'll either get hateful looks thrown at me, and have to listen to people ranting about how stupid the story(book/movie) is or having people drool on my pants when they think of Edward, or Jacob. I'm kinda neutral on that subject, by the way. Well, maybe not. I'm quite biased I suppose, since I love vampires (books/movies). But still, I see flaws in both characters, but I really do not like Jacob at all. Which is probably just because he forces Bella into kissing him, when she doesn't want to.
Anyway, I'm starting a little rant here myself so I'll just quit that :P
About the movie, I actually quite liked it. Too bad they changed actors for Victoria, because I really liked the first actress, and the new one, well, she didn't look the part in my honest opinion (she's way too cute! Especially her nose just yells "cute and cheeky", not blood thirsty vampire). All in all, Edward and Bella did much better than the last two movies (I don't like the actors to be honest... Bella seems to use too much botox and usually only looks neutral or frightened).
Still. I shouldn't complain so much! I liked it. And I'm probably going to read the fourth book, Breaking Dawn, again so I'll know exactly what should be happening next movie. Something I should have done with Eclipse.
Which reminds me, I should go and read Harry Potter 6 & 7 again.

Header 07

Today I've been fiddling with some photographs from the 26th of June. I made another header, as you might have noticed.

This is the first version. I know it's a bit big, it should be broader and less high. But still, I like it.

Second version, already getting a bit better but still not broad enough.

Third and for now, the final version :) (might still be better if it was more broad?)

I also made a big banner, don't know if/how I'll use it, though. At the moment it's my wallpaper :P

DaWanda Webshop now officially open!

I listed my first item in my DaWanda webshop today! Go check my webshop out.
More items will be added soon!

Dawanda pt. 2

I've been working on the webshop again today. I added a header, like it? It's just a quickie, but it'll do for now :) I wish I could work with illustrator, but I've got no idea how to properly use the program. And at the moment I just don't have the time or patience for tutorials. We'll see.

Website back online, well, kinda. Pt. 2

You can again find my website under the link of www.artbyinora.com, but it will show as a different link. You will most probably experience some 404 errors, but please be patient and click on the tab you would like to view because the pages DO work. There's just some problems with the page you are directed to when you're first going to the website, and also the About Me page gives some problems, but just click again if you get an error, because it will work the second time.

I wish things would just work out.
And they will, eventually :)

DaWanda

Today I finally got round to do something about that webshop I've been talking about. Still, nothing really to show you. I did add a Dawanda widget to my blog (you can find it in the vertical menu on the right). And I've been reading a lot and editting my profile on DaWanda, etc. I'm so eager to put some items in my shop!



Well, would you look at that!  My DaWanda webshop!

Photography: Sunset & Bee

These photographs were actually made for an idea I had, this is the picture that came out perfectly for this idea:

Website back online, well, kinda.

My website it up again, but at the moment under the wrong link. So check out http://inge.just-kevin.com/ if you can't wait!

Website down

Something went wrong when changing hosts, so at the moment unfortunately my website redirects to a page of my boyfriends :( I hope this will be fixed soon, but it's nothing we can do much about, except wait until things are being solved by the hosting company.

Sadly I don't even know how long this has been -_-

Update & Header 06

I've been wanting to post more blog entries, but unfortunately things got in the way. At the moment I'm eager to post, but since my website is down for a little while (changing hosting sites, something went wrong, it's now redirecting wrongly) I can't put watermarks on my pictures for the blog, either. (my boyfriend built something for that, but it comes with the website). So, for now... A little more time of nothing. I'll see if I can think of things I don't need to watermark when posting here.

Oh, and I've been experimenting with a photograph for another banner, like it? I think I should try to make banner differently, though, since now I only use one picture that I edit a little, instead of putting more things in it (and I've only used my photography things and no other art forms so far). I'll be thinkin on it.

I tried to make the text more easy to read by adding a white background. Does it really work? Should I make it less transparent? Or do you think it's not that bad without one?

I'm not sure at all about the extra text, though. I could name more art forms, but it seems silly. Especially since my online portfolio is so very empty! 2D sounds... just not right, but I do a lot more than just paint and pencil work. The jewellery and photography seemed obvious so I put those two on their own.

I'll probably change this header again, soon.