i was really inspired when i went to zoe "how i learned to stop worrying and be the bomb" strauss' I-95.06 show today.
i've also been really inspired lately by korean director chan-wook park's vengeance trilogy.
so -- what's it mean to be inspired by things, visual or otherwise, and to take that inspiration into knitting?
as usual, i don't have the answer, but i am compiling a growing list of what isn't the answer. i'll give you a hint as to where it begins. think fast: are you sweet and stylish or are you fresh and edgy? and are you vomiting? because the vogue knitting conglomerate has a magazine JUST FOR YOU, as long as you're answer a or b.
and since i'm obviously more fresh and edgy than sweet or stylish, it's pretty clear to me which magazine i should be reading. and hey, knit.1 takes it's artistic inspirations just as seriously as i do. they're having, this may 2006, an ART ISSUE. they're "inspired" by frieda kahlo! so they've knit... some frieda kahlo costumes. and they've also been "inspired" by... it looks like andy warhol. i think. and so... they've made a model look like edie sedgwick! and knitted... some... thing to put on her! for the photo shoot!
please. tell. me. there. is. more. to. inspiration. than dressing up. like somebody else. or putting an intarsia motif. of somebody else's work. on a sweater.
there's only so much explaining here i feel tempted to do.
from "the simpsons" treehouse of horror X" original air date 10/31/99:
Milhouse: Check it out Lisa, I'm Radioactive Man.
Lisa: I don't think the real Radioactive Man wears a plastic smock with a picture of himself on it.
Milhouse: He would on Halloween.
that pretty much sums it up for me.
it's the thing i've been thinking about today whilst y'all are covered in sunblock, sheep grease and deep fried cadbury egg residue at MS&W.