by Bernard Doyle

Some of the best advice I have heard.

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“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

-Chuck Close

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by Bernard Doyle

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‘Trapeze LED Table Light’ by Peter Stathis for JOBY.

Reminds me the works of Karim Rashid. The so called ‘organic’ shape of the water drop evoking counterweights together with the otherwise straight arms: they can be likened to the symbols of Rashid. However, thanks to the straight form and the neutral color, this lamp is more serious than anything Rashid ever made.

by Bernard Doyle

Furniture made from Russian bombs.

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Furniture made from Russian bombs.

A company called Marinemine has been harvesting old Soviet Russian mine shells for reuse as fireplaces, fishtanks, tables, and toilets. The idea is as close to authentic steampunk as you can get in terms of house furniture and the results are pretty stunning to say the least. Check out all of the mine-shell furniture pieces from Marinemine at their website and also take a look at the mine fields they harvest from in these photos.

via DoobyBrain