Inspired by my growing spiritual practice, I was moved to draw my amazing orange lacquered buddha that is near and dear to my heart.
I am just learning how to edit my work in photoshop and clean up some edges as well as layer my drawings. Above you will see my finished buddha with line and color illustrations combined! Scroll down to see a visual timeline of my work. Hope this inspires you! Namaste!
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I came across this image a month or so ago and still it radiates the heat of the coolest summer get away. La Banane on St. Barts
Just had to share!!!
An exclusive, retro-chic hotel of nine distinctive bungalows. This hotel’s 50s vibe comes from a great storied past a based on real life, real events and real personalities.
To read more on this star studded glam retreat visit The Cool Hunter
Hope that inspires you! (yes you – who are now dreaming of a pina colada basking in the sun).
xo
This is so gorgeous and inspiring I had to share it with you…. JA DOR!!
Thanks www.Josephwalshstudio.com
Special Thanks to www.muuuz.com
Hope that inspired you xoxo
Emily
Hello all! And THANK YOU for sending me such sensational and appreciative comments! I apologize for not updating any posts lately and I realize, with my hectic life, and someone who, amidst searching for inspiration all the time gets a bit side tracked by my large, color coordinating and growing to do list, that I hadn’t had the time to sit and write a long and thoughtful inspired blog post.
So…. to this effect, I am sure you my fellow readers have had less time on occasion to read all of my rantings.
To the point, I will strive to add more and succinct thoughts, rantings and images so for those in-between times when I haven’t had a chance to sit and write for hours (which I love to do), I will just post short and sweetly.
and to that, I beg adieu and leave you with this my lovies!!!
xoxo
Hope that inspires you!
Yay!
Writing a blog about inspiration is, well, inspiring. That is exactly why I do it. I feel incomplete with out being inspired – for my art, for my dreams, for my goals, for my passion, for the relationships I have, for life etc. Sometimes, it takes a while to come up with something that is really jaw dropping and doesn’t just fascinate me, but INSPIRES ME!
It’s amazing that especially when you’re not looking – inspiration finds you. I was checking my profile on A Small World (aka. ASW www.asmallworld.net) that I had busily neglected and after taking the day to do some maintenance, organizing, spring cleaning, reading and just catching up on things (all the juicy pleasures that I had been putting to the side because “I had to get “”WORK”” done”) and it fell into my lap! An ASW message from the talented Inspirationalist Dodo Newman. I saw her tagline – The Inspirationalist- and obviously had to scour the web to find out more about her.
Dodo Newman is an artist, a fashion designer, a survivor, a philosopher and a spiritualist. She has an astounding circle of supporters, an awe-striking resume and list of experiences, a worldly pedigree and is soon to be the subject of a book and television show based on her life.
Dodo Newman – Siddharta
A few inspiring excerpts from her bio:
“Because Dodo has grown up in various continents, countries, among various nations and religions she has seen the real faces of the different cultures. She has seen poverty and richness, beauty and ugliness, happiness and sadness, Life and Death. Dodo through her projects and individual works, supports many foundations and initiations with her art.”
– I have come to find that Ms. Newman works only in natural daylight and paints through her emotions, she delivers masterful artwork done in fragments of gold, crystal, stones and pearls. She incorporates Swarovski elements into her art and not only paints something valid and worthwhile, but as an investment piece a collector can actually own art composed of precious stones and elements. Dodo muses that her collectors and admirers often express the same emotions whilst observing her art as she herself experienced while painting. What an astonishing example of a transfer of energy through art.-
Dodo contrives incredible emotion from her past experiences and is so inspired by her triumphs and tribulations. She says “Every step, falling, sadness, fight or victory forms a part to the final aim: praise your mistakes, (and) your struggle; you need them all for the final story.
Another of my favourite quotes from the insightful Ms. Newman: “Our soul knows more than what we think or believe…”
Dodo Newman – Forms of Life
Ms. Newman continues; “There were many periods of my life when I had nothing to eat, when I was hungry and most of these times the persons I most expected to stand by me were the ones who did not. It is usually very hard to achieve an objective without the background support of the family, especially if there is no one who appreciates the aim one is fighting for.” – “In life anything we create is a long process, taking time, it is impossible to expect from anyone to achieve them immediately. When I was a teenager once I have given up my dreams and I needed more than 15 years to find them again. Now that I have found them I will never let them go!”
“For me the process of marketing, (and) sales of my art represented always a difficulty, just as for all artists, but fortunately I had the best people around me who helped me in this, although I fought my life’s most serious battle in Berlin. I had to learn that there are walls that only I am capable of breaking down, that there are aims that only I can reach. On 13 August 2009, I was lying tired and anguished on the battlefield, which has been created by my own dreams, aims. I was bleeding from all my wounds and I knew that if I will not win today then it will be my end, I will bleed away and I will die. My Soul flew out from my body but the will to win was so strong that it did not let go, and so it was that I won my battle and I was reborn on 14 August at 04:15. My aim became a reality by dawn and my project became stabile. Now I am LIVING and I am very happy from my true heart!” – DN.
I would like to think of myself as an “Inspirationalist” as well, and for me – this heart-wrenching journey of a young woman pounding the pavement, beating her fears and turning out the victor, really establishes the notion that your dreams are only as far away as you deem them to be. In reality, your dreams have always been with you and are always with in reach, you just have to slowly take down the wall that you built around them, each brick, one by one, of all your perceived misconceptions.
Dodo Newman – Life Lines
Dodo has an extreme version of this story, she was born in Hungary where her dream began, grew up in India where her heart and creativity was nourished, attended High School in Iran, over coming adversity and oppression, fled to study Fashion Design in Italy where she accessed the freedom to create and experiment once more, attended University in England, summered in Monaco and now is a resident of Germany living her dreams.
She speaks Italian, French, English, Hungarian, Farsi and Hindu. Are you not yet inspired?
Ms. Newman’s artistic experiences include New experimented resin art (current, since 7 years), Oil and acrylic art, Japanese ink technique (early years) and Fashion design in Firenze.
Her biggest selling price in 2009 for one single artwork was 265.000 Euro (Year 2009 – Canvas artwork). I must say, that is an inspiration for anyone who things “Impossible is nothing”.
Dodo Newman – Gonaives
Dodo Newman – Itiah
Find out more about Ms. Newman at:
www.DodoNewman.com
@DodoNewman on twitter
Hope that inspires you!
Xo
Emily
I just thought I’d share theses with you – a few of my musings!!
I hope you enjoy and are inspired by their deeper meaning – check umm out!
xo
Emily
P.S. I like them so much I am going to make this my blog header!
I want to share with you such a cool concept that I as a creative, anyone who likes to change up the game, and any one who appreciates interior design can truly get inspired by. Supermachine Studio in Bangkok, Thailand is a group of talented and incredibly imaginative architects who recently designed the interior space of two floors of one of Bangkok University’s new buildings created by the 49 Group /. The Bangkok University Creative Center (BUCC) includes a workshop, library, exhibition space, viewing room and office. The truly remarkable thing about this project is that the BUCC was commissioned by the government as part of their goal to “transform the country’s economy from agricultural and industrial into the creative economy. To encourage creativity, communication and experimentation, the BUCC facility needed to be open, playful, expressive and flexible.” Said TheCoolhunter.net (one of my fav inspirational websites).
This space is not only those things, it is bright, inspiring and INTERACTIVE! Supermachine created a “Lo-Fi Pixel Wall” at the entrance of the building, covering 180 square meters and made with 10,000 custom revolving plastic quadra-fragments. The sides are covered in pink, blue, green and yellow; students can unite each to create color patterns, words, images or any kind of inspirational art, proving the concept of fluid thought translating into things.
The main space for students to work, on computers or just at desks an open “spaceship like pod” that students can further enact the concept of fluidity.
It is amazing that the Bangkok government had commissioned this to the point that they recognize the incredible importance of creative enterprises as a fuel to enhance their economy… Things have really changed since the “great recession” and now even governments have a whole new perspective on what is important. Cheers to YOU, the creatives, the brilliants, the daring and the new thinkers. You have changed our world, so fast, and it is only going to continue with the force of rocket power or as fast as a new generation of iThings will hit the market!
Hope that inspires you!
xo
Emily
And this is why we love Lady Gaga. I am a huge fan of hers, and having had the fortuitous pleasure of seeing her rock the stage live in concert around this time last year, I was even more enamored. Yes, her egg appearance was not my fav, however Gaga has “Again and Again” made my jaw drop. Being a fashion designer – her House Of Gaga Couturiers are incredibly talented, visionary and on and on. (I have even had the intense and secret pleasure of working with one of her pattern makers for a secret line that has gone into production that I have yet to unveil for a certain new enterprise that I am not yet at liberty to speak of, wink wink!) I cannot say enough of how inspirational her garments are, how amazing her stance on gay rights, human rights and artists rights are, how talented she is and what a comet she is truly in a sea of shiny rocks.
That being said…..
Gaga has taken on a whole new stratosphere with her new song “Born This Way.” The Lyrics are so incredibly inspirational, it makes me shiver and
reminds us ALL how we all have our inner “Fireworks” waiting to burst out. Ladies and Gents – If I can transpire any more drive in you to be who you are and do what you were meant to do on this planet we call Earth. Please – do it. And let this little girl who covered Gaga show you how to bring that feeling back! Perez Hilton, jest of all jesters had sent this video to the Lady Herself, in effect rendering her to tears. In the first video which you may have seen on YouTube, Maria belts it out with such a powerful effect. Watch the second video below of Gaga and the now famous Maria entertain a short duet, following a request by the Lady Herself for little Maria to appear onstage and sing the song with Gaga at her next performance.
“We are all born superstars”
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Thanks and I hope that Inspires you!
xoxo
Emily
Oh the chic and glamour of it all… all the craziness that goes on inside the new shrine to fashion, a.k.a. Lincoln Center.
Now I could be writing a review of all the fashion week shows by each luxurious and chic designer after designer – however you can find that on my go-to favourite websites like www.NYMag.com, www.Style.com, www.WWD.com as well as many more and countless glam bloggers – but like I said, my blog is not about that. I don’t want to become a “news” blog – I am a fashion designer who is writing about my inspiration so hopefully you get a different perspective that you cannot find anywhere else. And although the shows that I went to were amazing (Thanks Meital) and the Fall 2011 RTW looks were inspiring on their own, I decided to pick a different perspective from the fashion world – the one OUTSIDE the shrines, on the street…
After devouring an eloquent article in the Spring Fashion issue of New York Magazine (acquired in the main lobby of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week entrance), an Ode to one of my favorite bloggers The Sartorialist in “The Street Is Their Oyster” by Amy Larocca, the inspiration really is alive in the hearts of the people on the streets. Scott Schuman not only shoots the looks going down the runway – but also shoots the unassuming street promenadists all through out the fashion capitals. He shoots where inspiration takes him, when it moves him and how it moves him. No apologies. That is what I intend for my blog and hope to follow in his impeccably stylish footprints.
From the article — {“The world of who, exactly, makes the images that become our idea of “fashion” has, for a very long time, remained shockingly small. There are a few photographers who are on contract with several magazines, and they produce not only those magazines’ covers and editorials but also, more lucratively, the slick and shiny ads that appear between these pages. It’s been very close and very cozy for years.
But the Internet changed all of that, or some of it, and (Scott) Schuman, 43, and (Garnace) Doré, 35, [Of thesartorialist.blogspot.com and garancedore.fr respectively] were there at the right moment, lingering outside (and, as time progressed, inside) fashion shows with their cameras around their necks. It’s not that the concept of street style was invented by these two—Bill Cunningham’s been at it forever—but they introduced the world to its latest commercial possibilities. If once upon a time the idea of “street” fashion suggested looks that were somewhat off the fashion grid, either in opposition to or in advance of the runway, Doré and Schuman are the opposite of that. “The thing that is really different from street style that came before is that it always seemed like they were trying to find the really different thing, find the crazy people and take a picture,” says Schuman. “I’d take a picture of a guy in a suit, and people would say, ‘That’s not street style,’ and I say, ‘But he was on the street!’ There’s much more subtlety on my blog than on other blogs.”
What Schuman and Doré do, in effect, is to remove one layer of fantasy from a typical editorial shoot. Their subjects still radiate glamour, but they are very rarely models. They are on Sixth Avenue or the Rue de Rivoli rather than in a stark-white studio.”} —
In the NYMag.com article one of Scott’s favorite specimens Anna Dello Russo, Japanese Vogue editor remarks that Scott once said to her; “When I look at a fashion magazine, I don’t find anymore the look of fashion. I saw beautiful images but not how you can put on a coat for life’. And I would say, ‘This is very clever. In a magazine, the images are so high, they are so beautiful.’ They are talking about the dream, but they don’t have reference about how you do this for life. That’s why these blogs are a revolution.”
Revolution indeed, Schuman, Doré and all the other trending photobloggers capture elegance, beauty and chic in its natural form and habitat – on the people who LOVE fashion, and take pride in the art of dressing. Schuman has been famous for ignoring the celebrity that passes him on the street, if they are not so artfully dressed he doesn’t care that they are a celeb but only if their look is right. And IF he manages to catch a sumptuous ensemble on an actual celebrity he sometimes doesn’t even I.D. them in his blog – he takes the genuine approach to the photos and his blog, purely for the love of cool.
Photo courtesy of New York Magazine “The Street Is Their Oyster” by Amy Larocca
Photo by Graeme Mitchell
Hope that inspires you!
xoxo
Emily
The Grammy’s are a great source of anticipation, one that celebs, stylist and artists alike take mounds of preparation and seek to inspire us with their new forward thinking creations. This years Grammy’s were, um lets day, uninspiring. Amidst the sea of expected and been-done’s, the only thing I found inspiring were the fashions, and that to say the least, was not the most impressive. Pardon me as I must be comparing it to last years Grammy’s with the more memorable of displays; i.e Pink’s wet trapeze act, Lady Gaga and Elton John’s collabo, and the great tribute to MJ – any way I digress…
This year, although I lovvve love love Lady Gaga – she has underwhelmed me. Yes she came out in a Hussein Chalayan egg (one of my favorite designers – a visionary who famed “the Remote control dress” among other architectural wonders of fashion), the egg I must say was over the top but I don’t know, it just didn’t give me goosebumps. Her performance “Born this Way” to me sounds just like Madonna’s “Express Yourself” and the yolk Mugler by Nicola Formichetti I have seen been done in numerous ways in the past. Gaga’s acceptance speech garb was a regurgitated version of everything we’ve seen her in the last two years. Please, Evolve! We love you and only want you to continue wowing us with your fashion du jour. What I did love, however was her audience attire again a Mugler by Formichetti, yet this time she looked like a futuristic Parisian fashion plate, just perched in the right way as if to emit “Oh don’t look at me, I’m so terribly fabulous, well actually ok! One photo!” The hat, the half blazer and alien face and shoulder prosthetics were a wonderful touch to what I would like to see Gaga moving towards.
Lady Gaga at the 2011 Grammy awards Photos: Getty Images
The lovely Katy Perry worked with Armani Prive – who did it better in the 2010 Grammy’s with Lady Gaga’s galaxy dress, green swarvoskky crystal encrusted body suit for which she performed with Elton John, and her audience wardrobe, lets call it crystal formation hat – this year Armani did not hit the proverbial nail on the crystal encrusted head. See below how the sketches look 10 times better than the actual creation, red carpet look, performance Valentines day look and audience look.
Lady Gaga at the 2010 Grammy awards Photos: Getty Images
Katy Perry At the 2011 Grammy awards Photos: Getty Images /Giorgio Armani
Rihanna had some misses, and one hit – The sheer tulle Jean-Paul Gaultier gown, what was she thinking? The runway image offers a cream more complete look with gloves and matching black veil, yet still not a fashion hit in my book. During her performance, all of Rihanna’s grandeur was replenished with this fiery Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall 2010 ball gown, and it was stunning. Lastly it seems as though our songbird is having an identity crisis. Going from froufrou to glamour to Native American reservation in a fringed and beaded red cover up is kind of strange and offers no consistency what so ever. Of course you want to change it up with your three big Grammy looks, but really?
Rihanna at the 2011 Grammys Photos by: Getty Images / Wire Image
Rihanna at the 2011 Grammys Photos by: Getty Images / Imaxtree
Rihanna at the 2011 Grammys Photos by: Getty Images / Wire Image
And now for best and worst dressed!
Best:
Jennifer Lopez in a glitzy Pucci Mini and Louboutins, a tried and true flattering silhouette for her and the mirrored effect looks fresh and young.
Jennifer Lopez at the 2011 Grammys Photo: John Shearer /Wire Image
Kim Kardashian in a bronze Kaufman Franco gown drips sex appeal in this vintage-y goddess like number.
Kim Kardashian at the 2011 Grammys Photo: Larry Busacca / Getty Images
Jennifer Hudson looking slim and sultry in this navy Versace corseted dress. The right amount of dominatrix, sparkle and movement from the sheer “mullet” skirt looks fresh and powerful.
Jennifer Hudson at the 2011 Grammys Photo: Jason Merritt / Getty Images
Selena Gomez looks glistening hot in this mermaid flesh toned J. Mendel gown.
Selena Gomeze at the 2011 Grammys Photo: Larry Busacca / Getty Images
Worst:
Rihanna in the sheer tulle Jean-Paul Gaultier couture white striped dress. Do I have to say anything?
Rihanna at the 2011 Grammys Photo: AP Photo / Chris Pizzello
Nichole Kidman in a washed out floral print by Jean Paul Gaultier. the colors on this fair skinned beauty is just really old looking.
Nichole Kidman at the 2011 Grammys Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Nicki Minaj – not so fierce in this bold feline print by Givenchy. If I saw this animal in the wild, I would run.
Nicki Minaj at the 2011 Grammys Photo: Larry Busacca/ Getty Images
Miley Cyrus looks beautiful in this glistening animal print and sequin Roberto Cavalli gown but she lands on my worst dressed picks because it looks like the dress is two sizes too big and the sequins look heavy as if they are anchoring down her chest. The hair looks great but it does not work with this dress as it covers the detailing at the bust and looks too fussy.
Miley Cyrus at the 2011 Grammys Photo: John Shearer / Wire Image
Hope you enjoy my Grammy Critique,
xoxo
Emily
