Your Biggest Inspirations

[Sammy Skillz]

i think i made a thread along the same lines as this a long time ago but i can't find it.

anyways...who are your biggest inspirations in life?

mine:

Floria Sigismondi - her art never ceases to amaze me and always seems to breathe new life over me. she's so creative and innovative...and smart...and daring.

Maya Angelou - favorite poet. such a strong intelligent writer.

Sylvia Plath - a close second to angelou...kind of like the diane arbus of poetry and literature i supppose.

Diane Arbus - an american social landscape photographer that started off in fashion photography and then started photographing "freaks" and social outcasts such as drug addicts, the mentally ill, transexuals..etc etc. her photography was so strong and powerful that she used it as her own type of therapy..unfortunatly she ended up committing suicide.

my mom - strongest person i know and ever will know.

-s.

[ppcock]

goths-r-lame

and the two guys i get a ride to work from

They've all been able to take time out of their hands and teach me how to produce.

[sidekick]

Tim Burton: for directing such damn cool films with the most intense imagery ever. (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Big Fish)

Stanley Kubrick: for never holding back on any of his films, no matter what the public or studios thought. fight the power!

Stephen King: for taking a genre that is normally just known as 'trash' fiction and making it into something beautiful and literary.

Oscar Wilde: for exposing the era he was living in for how ridiculous it actually was and doing it in an incredibly witty and well written way.

[Crazy_Cat_Lady]

Good thread.

I would have to say...
First off, my mom - definitaly my biggest inspiration.
Then I'd have to say...
my best friend, who's in the states going to school on a 85k scholership. She's a freakin' genius.
Then I gotta say probably all of the composers of old...particularly Tchaikovsky, who wrote the music to the 3 most popular ballet's of all time. It's to bad that there arn't composers like that these days.
And finally (from what I can think of) probably R.A Salvator and J.R.R. Tolkien. Huge imaginations. It's all about the imagination. I hope to write like them one day.

[Sykonee]

My Great Grandfather, whom immigrated from Italy with only a few coins in his pocket, managed to get a job as a cook for the Grand Trunk Railroad construction to Rupert, and created a legacy in that town that still resonates to this day from his descendents.

Just a small example of what a human can achieve if they strive for something, no matter how insignificant their beginnings may seem.