I hope you enjoyed the first edition of my short Exploring series. From Frank Lloyd Wrights FallingWaters, let us now explore inspiration.
All of us get inspired. After all, it is the desire or trigger to get something done. Each of us have different triggers, and react differently to the same stimulus.
Artists, authors, researchers, leaders, composers, explorers, inventors, and problem solvers are a few of the people who use inspiration for achieving at a higher level.
As you watch this video, think of inspiration’s synonyms as creativity, inventiveness, imagination, originality, ingenuity, and innovation.
After watching it, please share your thoughts.
A Frank Angle 
Amazing. People can be so creative.
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Debra,
Creativity beyond imagination. For instance, how Escher came up with his ideas, let alone transform them into reality.
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WOW! Creativity is great… I can watch this again… so beautiful… human mind and a heart with full of love how great, and also music, video they all add something to this amazing creative project. Made me excited… Thank you dear Frank, you made my day this morning. I love this world. Love, nia
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Nia,
I’ve watched it several times, and each time noticing something new.
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Beautiful. Nature. Music. Math. Patterns & Shapes. Movement. All together great things emerge, but you have to be patient and let yourself really see, feel, create. Love this. Thanks for sharing.
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Patti,
It would be interesting to have several people watching it together in order to identify all the objects!
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love it–must share it
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LouAnn,
Cheers to this one!
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may I reblog it Frank?
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Absolutely
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It felt really good to watch this. So much invention and creativity that surrounds us and has been left as inspiration and motivation. Humans are amazing creatures when they use their skills and talents for good, not evil. The movie made me want to redo my studio, too!
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SDS,
I’m with u regarding human creativity. Personally, it really comes out in the arts!
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It would be an absolute fantasy….a round-table of artists, famous and the not-so, defining “inspiration”…
I once read a focus piece on photographer, Annie Liebovitz. Her father was a salesman and as a child she often went with him on his calls….sitting in the backseat of their car…looking out the window at the passing images. Her view of a transitory world, from the backseat, was framed within this small space of the car window. A passing tableau of images…frame by frame by frame….
How wonderful is that?
Top of the mornin’ to you, aFA…two on the drawing board…and you won’t believe this…I GOT FIGS FOR CHRISTMAS!!
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Raye,
Your mind is one to catch the my nuances in this video. I would like to have all the objects identified. Love your story!
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Oh, crap aFA…ask someone else to do the hard stuff. Give me easy…repeat…E.A.S.Y.
It’s Saturday tomorrow. We taking a walk around the neighbourhood?
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LOL … I wasn’t asking that of you, just wondering myself because so many got the “what’s that” from me.
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This was awesome. Graphic and video artists are just plain amazing to me. If you haven’t watched anything by Western Spaghetti, you gotta check out their videos. All of them are so cool. And funny!
Watch:
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Oops. Western Spaghetti is the name of one of their videos. PES is the name of the group. Dur.
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Adam,
Now that is awesome and a must reuse by me in the future!!!!
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THAT is definitely going in my YouTube favorites file. I had not seen it before, Frank! I loved the Escher lizards with the one breathing smoke! Wouldn’t you love to meet Vila sometime?
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Cathy,
Glad that this one is new to you. Escher’s work has always amazed me.
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I’m inspired to learn how to play chess better, to have a go at wood turning and find my book of escher drawings – probably make do with the latter though 😉
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Fasab,
Escher drawing r so cool …. very innovative!
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Wow! Another really cool one! (I watched it twice – no problem with it loading today!) I really liked the thing in the bottom corner that looked like a big guitar pick rotating in a wooden box! 🙂
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Hood,
I like that one too …but I know it represents a rotary engine … also called the Wankel engine … an alternative to the common piston engine. Glad u enjoyed this one.
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Reblogged this on On the Homefront and commented:
This truly is inspirational – thanks Frank…………
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Wow. That’s all I’ve got.
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Elyse,
That’s good enough.
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What a beautiful journey of Escher’s work and his influences: Hokusai, DaVinci, Goya, Klimt…
Another inspiring treat for us, my dear Frank! 🙂
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Marina,
Hooray for your extra information!
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I see math and physics at play, creative and beautiful. Very nice!
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Happiness,
Welcome first timer …. excellent perception … well, in my opinion.
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Ooo boy. Now ya got me worried. While the transitioning from 2D to 3D didn’t do much for me (lacking depth perception), the two things that stuck out were the polygons becoming polyhedrals – D&D dice and the triangle wobbling in the circle, a perfect representation of the rotary Wankel auto engine.
Old cars and old board games. God, it MUST be Friday night! 😉
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John,
I knew you would spot the Wankel!!!!
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The background music took me to somewhere I don’t think goes with the shared creativity in the video. In my mind – it felt like I was walking into a sad ending.
Let me go take a chill pill & watch it again…
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I think I am now an official fan of Cristobal Vila. Very interesting. I will look him up.
Words that come to mind: Universal. Klimt. Mind games (the chess board), Different Lives (again, the chess board), Evolution v. Creation (the lizards), Art is Subjective, and True Art always stands the test of time. D
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i want to look at this more than once to understand it better, but it is indeed mesmerizing. I feel like it celebrates the whole mind, both logical and fancy–left and right brain. Sometimes logical creativity isn’t celebrated with the same weight as the creative arts, and I think that misses the mark. That’s at least in part what hit me watching this fantastic video. Maybe on the a second go-round the message will change. 🙂
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That is a great take on this film – right and left brain. I think you’ve hit on the secret of its magic!
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I watched this three times. Fascinating, truly. All the combinations, some where we wouldn’t think to look.
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DaVinci
Fibonacci
Michelangelo
Keppler
Darwin
Escher
Einstein
Darwin
Dali
Einstein
And not least, the unknown inventor of soap.
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Outstanding list of scholars who pursued and shared their wonders.
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And he loves Einstein so much, he listed him twice! 😀
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Ha, John. A double Einstein was to see who was paying attention. You win. Your prize is an extra episode of Duck Dynasty – enjoy! 😀
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Wow! Cool gift, Jim, thanks! I NEVER get to see rednecks or hicks around here, in the middle of Bumf#@k, Ohio. 😉
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An incredibly creative mind using a myriad of mediums and famous artists as his inspiration.
Art does no have to be limited to canvas. I’ve always believed that and this video
verifies it. GREAT !!!!
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Frank, I love the Cristobal Vila films, always heart touching and mind stimulating. He often seems to combine art and math in creative ways in his short films. I loved seeing the references to Escher – my husband and I saw a show of his Italian sketches in Rome several years ago – amazing. Great contribution to a thoughtful season, Frank!
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Lynn,
My first exposure to his films was through the Fibonacci one, but I’m not sure I discovered the others. Cheers to your enjoyment of these!
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better inspired than asleep
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Shimon,
Well said … but you did cause me to laugh!
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Frank, this is one of the most amazing videos I have seen for a long time … just fabulous amazing. Watched it twice and second time I saw things I missed the first time. Excellent find, Frank.
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Viveka,
You have a good eye, so I am not surprised you enjoyed this one so much!
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Thanks, Frank! Maybe I have good eyes for details … beauty for sure.
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🙂
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I spotted the Wankel too, as well as a copy of the first brain puzzle I ever owned. It’s the cross of three rows of marbles(?) with the center hole left empty. I still can’t master it, which explains why I didn’t experience double Einstein vision. 😦
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Archon,
So much in this one for each to catch … so thanks for sharing what caught your eye. Meanwhile, get after that puzzle!
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i gotta pee like a knight on a chessboard.
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I hope you made it!
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a little escher never hurt anybody.
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Rich,
No question about that!
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