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A few weeks ago, I watched "The Swell Season," the black-and-white documentary featuring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the musicians who brought us "Once."
("Once" remains one of my very favorite movies of all time.)
I can't get the documentary out of my head, and so I share the trailer with you today, on this cloudy Labor Day Weekend Sunday.
I am completely obsessed with this song. If you follow me on twitter you must know this already. I apologize and will do my best to start tweeting about something else. ;o)
What does this song has to do with illustrating or writing you might ask?
The answer is: nothing and everything.
It's a song, a lovely song, but from the moment I heard it I haven't been able to get it off my mind. It lead me to enter a state of mind I was unaware of and that made me very sensitive to things around me. In the last couple of days I had two wonderful ideas for children stories and they both came to me while listening to this song.
For one of them, I had to stop working on the book I was sketching, to write the idea down before it left my mind. Because we all know those sparks of an idea just fly away even faster than they appear.
We all can find insipration in different things. Try to find the little things that inspire you and surround yourselves by them. :o)
Btw, this song is from the movie "Once". A little low budget film from the Sundance Film Festival that stole my heart. If you haven't seen it, you should. You won't regret it.
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I've never seen Once or this documentary....sounds like something I should watch
So I take it you recommend this? I didn't know Once was one of your favorite movies! :)