Inspiration Fridays: Happy New Year!

I hope you have a beautiful one full of sunshine and happiness.

Maybe some unicorns and puppies too...

Or some rabbits.  It's the Chinese Year of the Rabbit this year.  But, that doesn't start til February.

 

Skymin

 

What the Saints Forgot

 

MastiTree

SmilingSadFace

Some Ecards

Uncustomary

LoveWiffy

Inspiration Fridays: Anime

 

Unknown

http://yoshimibattlesthepinkrobots.tumblr.com/

http://highschoolofthedead.tumblr.com/

 http://www.animegalleries.net

http://kamikaze-cupcake.tumblr.com

http://landofunicorn.tumblr.com/

http://www.fullmetal-alchemist.com

Inspiration Fridays: First One!

I'd like to introduce... another new little thing here on Travel and Toile!

And, it shall be called:
INSPIRATION FRIDAYS!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen  Inspiration Fridays!  I'd love to share with you what inspires me to take the photographs that I post here.  Often my inspiration happens in the moment, but it all comes from somewhere.  I like looking at art online- I sometimes sit down for hours and scroll through flickr, deviantart or tumblr looking for beautiful images and videos to inspire me.  As an actor, I also get very inspired by movies, and taped performances of plays. 

Maybe you'll see some parallels between my photographs and what you see in these posts, and maybe you won't.  But I hope you enjoy!

In general, I'm going to theme them... but for this first one, I thought I'd make it a bit of an intro.

So, here are just some spiffy things that I have found, that have made me really happy.

http://cherrims.tumblr.com/post/1231273122

http://neo-geek.tumblr.com/post/1210243027

 

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/fifilapin/

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeysmirnov/4043793010/in/photostream/

 Actress Josephine Dunn (1906-1993), in James Cruze’s film, “Excess Baggage,” 1928.

Les Bibelots D’une Garconniere, by Meunier

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gipsybazar 

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Child's Play

I was having lunch with a few friends of mine in Chinatown the other day, at a favourite restaurant of mine.  Before this time, I had only been there for dinner.  During the day, Chinatown is always full of people, and the stores spill onto the sidewalk with all of their neat merchandise.  The store next to the restaurant was no exception.  And, it was epic.  Hundreds of small stuffed animals hung on descending chains, crowding one another.  Very few of them were exactly the same, but they did seem to be at least someone organized by type and color. My inner child and outer geek flipped out, and I started cooing over the fun toys and snapping photographs of them.  This is one of my shots.

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Think this is fun?  Take a look at Pink Is Pretty.