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Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Julie Dillon: This really isn’t the sort of thing that’s easily summed up. I’ve always enjoyed creating things; I can’t think of a time when I didn’t. I don’t think there is anything special or unique about it, though, nor is it [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Amanda Wong: The funny thing is that although other people consider me to be a creative person, for whatever reason, I never think of myself as one. I think a creative person is someone who is always generating ideas that are new [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Zoetica Ebb: I tend to answer the same to this question, so I hope this isn’t too redundant: it’s just who I am. Drawing is something I’ve always done, it’s never been an option so much as part of me. In recent [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Dapperfish: I’m not sure what drives me exactly, I just can’t imagine my life without it. I am constantly thinking of things I want to do whenever something new inspires me. Those things come at random, it might be a song and [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sarah Ferrick: I think what drives me to make stuff is the fact that I get bored easily and quickly.
I get inspired by other artists but I also draw from other sources such as astronomy, music,
mythology, geology, optics and lots of things [...]

The cult-favorite, Canadian soda company Jones Soda doesn’t like to miss a chance to create a new themed soda. You can usually find them on the end caps of Big Box stores like Target or Wal-Mart around the holiday season with their seasonally flavored sodas. With flavors ranging from Turkey & Gravy to Christmas tree [...]

Lilypad, a floating ecopolis for climate refugees
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According to forecasts from the GEIC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). The international scientific scene determined [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Tanya Pshenychny: I just love to create and the drive comes from having little ideas floating around in my head, digging to get out. My inspiration comes from colors, faces, feelings, occurrences, and music.
CM: Were you formally trained in art or self [...]

Indie is the new Green by Jessica Gonacha - Greener Screenprinting
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Reading through my RSS feeds this morning I came across an article on Indie Fixx talking about doing screen printing in a greener way.
Here’s an excerpt and link to the full article:
One thing that is always on my list of things to do is [...]

The Creative Entrepreneur’s Toolkit: A How-to Guide for Young Artists
This panel is about the things that affect creative entrepreneurs of all stripes. Things like paying the bills without selling out, finding space to work in, staying motivated, beating procrastination, finding opportunities and dealing with the business side of your work.

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
JPerkins: Good music always makes me want to create. I am not a musician in any sense, but I can feel music like most of us. I am currently fond of hair-metal, corny, oldschool, hair-metal. … My work is inspired by my [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Laura Pelick: Everything drives me to create. Emotions, watching a movie, going for a walk outside, a dream, bored at work… As for inspirations, I am very visual (Words as well as seeing images). My childhood movies of Dark [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sarah Coyne: I find everything in the natural world utterly fascinating. The open ocean and outer space terrify me but all of the things in, around and under both are wonderful. Most of my work features animals, of which I’ve always been [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Nyela: I am driven by a need to create that I don’t even understand. It is a way to express everything for which I cannot find the words. I am inspired by stories and experiences, both my own and those of people [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sarah Deaton: Honestly, I have no idea. 9 times out of 10, it’s completely spontaneous. I’ll be coloring Easter eggs and say, “Hey, let’s smash them all and take photos!” or I’ll just decide out of the blue to start sewing [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Kayo Designs: My drive to create is driven by this inner fire. I get this idea in my head and I can’t sleep until I do it. It’s like an energy I need to get out! It almost becomes obsessive! I am [...]