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Who knew dead flies were funny? Apparently Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr did because he has started to make cartoons using dead flies as the protagonists.

MUHR PHOTOGRAPHY

I’ve always been captivated by the sea and images of it are a source of constant joy. So I was delighted to discover the exhibition The Sea: LS Lowry & Maggi Hambling at the The Lowry.

As someone who only knows Lowry as a painter of “matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs” I was amazed by his peopleless seascapes. I was equally taken with the work of his 21st century successor Maggi Hambling, painter and creator of the controversial Scallop in Suffolk.

In this BBC slideshow you can see their work and hear Hambling talk about her work.

In this interview, Maggi talks about her processes for painting the sea, and the effect of Lowry’s work on her.

LS Lowry & Maggi Hambling: The Sea from Rob Martin on Vimeo.

I’ve mentioned Daniel Eatock’s creative manifesto before. His presentation at AIGA gives you the opportunity to see the man himself talk about his work and see how his manifesto plays out in his work.

Daniel Eatock — AIGA | the professional association for design

“No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing.”

Edgar Degas

Seems like a pretty good description of the creative elements in any field. Only after the hard work of studying and cogitating on the problem, will the blinding flash of inspiration come.

Quote via QI.com

I was trying to find out more about the artist (Ilana Yahav) behind the Twinings Lady Grey advert and I came across this video of artist Kseniya Simonova who won Ukraine’s Got Talent. Using just a light box covered with sand and awesome skills Kseniya manages to depict the Ukraine’s experiences during World War Two.

I don’t know what to admire more the artistry, the skill, the planning or the emotion conveyed using such a simple medium. In any case watch it and be amazed.

Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentation, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.

-  Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters To A Young Poet