consider this a list of "general favorite things that inspire me, i'm interested in and/or influence me somehow"!

artists.

  • jules de bruycker
  • yuri norstein & francheska yarbusova
  • carlos nine
  • henry darger
  • andrew wyeth
  • joan miro
  • paul klee
  • isaac levitan
  • leon spilleart
  • maurice sendak

artifacts & antiquities.

  • paracas textiles
  • nasca lines in peru
  • jade congs
  • medevial beastiary
  • ukiyo-e woodblock prints

stories.

  • franz kafka - the trial
  • fyodor dostoevsky - crime and punishment
  • haruki murakami - hard-boiled wonderland
  • ursla k le guin - the ones who walk away from omelas
  • albert camus - the plague

anime, manga.

  • land of the lustrous
  • girls last tour
  • yokohama shopping trip
  • made in abyss
  • solanin
  • not simple

movies.

  • cat soup (2001)
  • mind game (2004)
  • angels egg (1965)
  • memories (1995)
  • perfect blue (1997)
  • millenium actress (2001)
  • close up (1990)
  • nosferatu (1922)
  • faust (1926)

musicians.

  • boards of canada
  • imogen heap
  • bulldog eyes
  • tonetta
  • r. stevie moore

videogames.

  • yume nikki
  • rainworld
  • machinarium
  • okami
  • pikmin
  • petscop