As a creative person I have a lot of influences. As an artist who works in a visual medium, shockingly few of these influences are visual artists. In mulling over how I would go about putting together the first of what should be a series of posts about the people who inspire me, I figured I needed a way to tie in what I do to my appreciation of what these people have done. As such I've decided that rather than gushing on and on about the works of these people, I would do a couple photo composites of these people using photos I found through a simple Google search.
The first of these segments is dedicated to my favorite author, Hunter S. Thompson, the creator of gonzo journalism.His Wikipedia entry has this description of his work:
"Thompson is often credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of writing that blurs distinctions between fiction and nonfiction. His work and style are considered to be a major part of the New Journalism literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which attempted to break free from the purely objective style of mainstream reportage of the time. Thompson almost always wrote in the first person, while extensively using his own experiences and emotions to color "the story" he was trying to follow. His writing aimed to be humorous, colorful and bizarre, and he often exaggerated events to be more entertaining."
For me, Thompson's work has helped shape a less rigid world view and a creative ethic based on challenging my own concepts of reality and what I see with my own two eyes.
"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
- Hunter S. Thompson
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