What makes some of these local or global creatives tick? In this weekly column, Tovey Melody shares her many inspirations and obsessions.
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1. Her friends and the creative community: My friends and fellow creatives that I had the opportunity to work with on different projects.
I have been very blessed with supportive friends and a great community. Their energy to constantly push for new heights inspires me greatly and it is always such a joy working with like-minded people.
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2. FKA Twigs: FKA Twigs. Period. I love her music. I love her style. I love her music videos.
With her most recent album, MAGDALENE, she released a few music videos with insane visuals and direction. Twigs is an artist and I simply hope to be like her when I hit my big three too.
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3. Movies: I watch a lot of movies in my free time and there are many great films out there.
But a few of my personal favourites that I can rewatch forever would be Good Will Hunting, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Pan’s Labyrinth.
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4. Visual Artists: A few visual artists that I look up to are @victoriamisu, @lenneigh, @dennistejero. I love the style of their visuals — the colours, lighting and direction.
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5. Introspection and Reflection: Introspection and reflection play a huge part in my creative process.
Most of my shoot ideas come from my heart and are a visual expression of emotions at a certain point of time.
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6. Basheer Graphic Books: I have always loved reading and in recent years, I have been spending more time looking at graphic books.
Sometimes during my lunch break, I would head down to Basheer Graphic Books at Bras Basah just to browse and impulsively purchase a few magazines.
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7. Meeting New People: Meeting new people whenever I travel! These are some portraits I shot when I was in NYC two years ago.
Some of them are fellow creatives and it is so cool and inspiring to see them push boundaries.
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8. The Expressionism Movement: The expressionism movement in art — I love the way the painters of the movement evoke certain emotions or ideas and that I would like to be able to achieve that with my photography as well.
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