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MY NEW BOOK CLUB: READ LIKE AN ARTIST Tuesday, May 11, 2021. I’m starting a new book club called Read Like an Artist, hosted by the folks at Literati . Every month I’ll chose a book from an eclectic mix of creative nonfiction, novels, artist memoirs, comics, and more, all of which speak to living a morecreative life.
TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
30-DAY "PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS" CHALLENGE 30-day “Practice and Suck Less” challenge. Saturday, January 2, 2021. “Lower your standards for what counts as progress,” writes Adam Grant, “and you will be less paralyzed by perfectionism.”. To get good, you first have to be willing to be bad. Don’t practice to YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard. STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST, A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON WHEN THE MIND'S EYE IS BLIND I first discovered aphantasia when I wrote a post about having an imagination (“images in the head”) and a few people wrote to me and told me they literally can’t form pictures in their heads. This information blew my mind, and I’ve been fascinated by the condition ever since. In The New York Times this week, Carl Zimmer follows up his original article with a report on the ways SHOW YOUR WORK! A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON ISBN: 9780761178972 | Foreign translations A book for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion, Show Your Work! is the followup to my New York Times bestselling guide to creativity, Steal Like An Artist.If Steal was a book about stealing influence from others, Show is about influencing others by letting them steal from you.. In ten tight chapters, I lay out ways to think about your work NEW GROWTH - AUSTIN KLEON New growth. “Spring cannot be canceled.”. After the catastrophic ice storm we had in February, it is enormously heartening to walk around the neighborhood 3 months later and see all the new growth and life. One plant at the end of my street that was hacked down to the ground is so tall now that I have to look up to see the top: Theprickly
MY NEW BOOK CLUB: READ LIKE AN ARTIST Tuesday, May 11, 2021. I’m starting a new book club called Read Like an Artist, hosted by the folks at Literati . Every month I’ll chose a book from an eclectic mix of creative nonfiction, novels, artist memoirs, comics, and more, all of which speak to living a morecreative life.
TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
30-DAY "PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS" CHALLENGE 30-day “Practice and Suck Less” challenge. Saturday, January 2, 2021. “Lower your standards for what counts as progress,” writes Adam Grant, “and you will be less paralyzed by perfectionism.”. To get good, you first have to be willing to be bad. Don’t practice to YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you thatFART COLLAGES
When my oldest was five, he recited this poem: A FART by Owen Kleon. A fart! A fart! You can hear a fart! A fart! A fart! You can smell afart! A fart!
AUSTIN KLEON'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 11/27/2020 – My new audiobook is out now. 11/20/2020 – The comedy of survival. 11/13/2020 – The good, the bad, and the ugly. 11/06/2020 – Keep calm and make ugly art. 10/30/2020 – When I share, I learn. 10/23/2020 – Newsletters I love to read. 10/16/2020–
THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes. THE INSPIRATION FOR TOMI UNGERER'S THE THREE ROBBERS Tomi Ungerer’s The Three Robbers is one of my favorite picture books, so it was awesome to read about how he came up with it in his treasury:. I found one of those old German printings sheets called Münchener Bilderbogen — they were the equivalent of a comic strip in the 1890s. There was a a story in there with a picture of three robbers. They inspired my story, which developed as I THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
100-DAY PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS CHALLENGE 100-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge. Thursday, January 7, 2021. Download a PDF of the poster. After posting my 30-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge, I came across violinist Hilary Hahn’s 100 Days of Practice project: She posts a video of her practicing for 100 days on her Instagram with the hashtag #100daysofpractice and invites 30-DAY "PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS" CHALLENGE 30-day “Practice and Suck Less” challenge. Saturday, January 2, 2021. “Lower your standards for what counts as progress,” writes Adam Grant, “and you will be less paralyzed by perfectionism.”. To get good, you first have to be willing to be bad. Don’t practice toAUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
URSULA K. LE GUIN'S TRANSLATION OF THE TAO TE CHING Friday, February 19, 2021. In the introduction to her translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin writes: The first Tao Te Ching I ever saw was the Paul Carus edition of 1898, bound in yellow clothe stamped with blue and red Chinese designs and characters. It was a venerable object of mystery, which I soon investigated, andfound
AUSTIN KLEON
Austin Kleon. Every morning, therefore, at about 9.30 after breakfast each of us, as if moved by a law of unquestioned nature, went off and ‘worked’ until lunch at one. It is surprising how much one can produce in a year, whether of buns or books or pots or pictures, if one works hard and professonially for three and a half hours every day AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
NEW GROWTH - AUSTIN KLEON New growth. “Spring cannot be canceled.”. After the catastrophic ice storm we had in February, it is enormously heartening to walk around the neighborhood 3 months later and see all the new growth and life. One plant at the end of my street that was hacked down to the ground is so tall now that I have to look up to see the top: Theprickly
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
MASS OBSERVATION
In The Spendid and the Vile, his new book about Winston Churchill, London, and The Blitz, Erik Larson uses many diaries and accounts from the archives of Mass Observation, described by Larson as “organization launched in Britain two years before the war that recruited hundreds of volunteers to keep daily diaries with the goal of helping sociologists better understand ordinary British life.”BELIEF VS. PRACTICE
Belief vs. practice. Sunday, January 26, 2020. I was driving my rental car back to the airport from a gig yesterday and I caught an interesting interview with religion scholar Elaine Pagels (author of Why Religion?) on Fresh Air. “You know, Terry, I think that belief is overrated.” she said. Talking about religions as if they wereabout
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
URSULA K. LE GUIN'S TRANSLATION OF THE TAO TE CHING Friday, February 19, 2021. In the introduction to her translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin writes: The first Tao Te Ching I ever saw was the Paul Carus edition of 1898, bound in yellow clothe stamped with blue and red Chinese designs and characters. It was a venerable object of mystery, which I soon investigated, andfound
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
NEW GROWTH - AUSTIN KLEON New growth. “Spring cannot be canceled.”. After the catastrophic ice storm we had in February, it is enormously heartening to walk around the neighborhood 3 months later and see all the new growth and life. One plant at the end of my street that was hacked down to the ground is so tall now that I have to look up to see the top: Theprickly
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
MASS OBSERVATION
In The Spendid and the Vile, his new book about Winston Churchill, London, and The Blitz, Erik Larson uses many diaries and accounts from the archives of Mass Observation, described by Larson as “organization launched in Britain two years before the war that recruited hundreds of volunteers to keep daily diaries with the goal of helping sociologists better understand ordinary British life.”BELIEF VS. PRACTICE
Belief vs. practice. Sunday, January 26, 2020. I was driving my rental car back to the airport from a gig yesterday and I caught an interesting interview with religion scholar Elaine Pagels (author of Why Religion?) on Fresh Air. “You know, Terry, I think that belief is overrated.” she said. Talking about religions as if they wereabout
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
URSULA K. LE GUIN'S TRANSLATION OF THE TAO TE CHING Friday, February 19, 2021. In the introduction to her translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin writes: The first Tao Te Ching I ever saw was the Paul Carus edition of 1898, bound in yellow clothe stamped with blue and red Chinese designs and characters. It was a venerable object of mystery, which I soon investigated, andfound
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
AUSTIN KLEON'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 11/27/2020 – My new audiobook is out now. 11/20/2020 – The comedy of survival. 11/13/2020 – The good, the bad, and the ugly. 11/06/2020 – Keep calm and make ugly art. 10/30/2020 – When I share, I learn. 10/23/2020 – Newsletters I love to read. 10/16/2020–
THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes. MY NEW BOOK CLUB: READ LIKE AN ARTIST Tuesday, May 11, 2021. I’m starting a new book club called Read Like an Artist, hosted by the folks at Literati . Every month I’ll chose a book from an eclectic mix of creative nonfiction, novels, artist memoirs, comics, and more, all of which speak to living a morecreative life.
SOMETHING TO DO
In this video, John Green talks about drawing and productivity and thinking about time and why he’s attempting to draw 170,000 circles. My friend @craghead, one of my favorite drawers, had a great response:. I love that he talks about drawing as more than representing – as a process, as discovery, as a battery recharger. My wife says to me – “Go draw something” and then I draw a 100-DAY PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS CHALLENGE 100-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge. Thursday, January 7, 2021. Download a PDF of the poster. After posting my 30-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge, I came across violinist Hilary Hahn’s 100 Days of Practice project: She posts a video of her practicing for 100 days on her Instagram with the hashtag #100daysofpractice and invites 30-DAY "PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS" CHALLENGE 30-day “Practice and Suck Less” challenge. Saturday, January 2, 2021. “Lower your standards for what counts as progress,” writes Adam Grant, “and you will be less paralyzed by perfectionism.”. To get good, you first have to be willing to be bad. Don’t practice to COVERS FOR BOOKS I DON'T INTEND TO WRITE Covers for books I don’t intend to write. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. One thing I do to procrastinate on books I should be writing is make fake covers for books I don’t intend to write. The one above came from a typo: I tried to type “hell yeah” and typed “hell year” instead. The one below is a manipulation of a book on small business QUANTITY LEADS TO QUALITY (THE ORIGIN OF A PARABLE Quantity leads to quality (the origin of a parable) Thursday, December 10, 2020. One of my favorite parables about creative work comes from David Bayles and Ted Orland’s book, Art & Fear : ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, wouldbe
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRST It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
NEW GROWTH - AUSTIN KLEON New growth. “Spring cannot be canceled.”. After the catastrophic ice storm we had in February, it is enormously heartening to walk around the neighborhood 3 months later and see all the new growth and life. One plant at the end of my street that was hacked down to the ground is so tall now that I have to look up to see the top: Theprickly
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
MASS OBSERVATION
In The Spendid and the Vile, his new book about Winston Churchill, London, and The Blitz, Erik Larson uses many diaries and accounts from the archives of Mass Observation, described by Larson as “organization launched in Britain two years before the war that recruited hundreds of volunteers to keep daily diaries with the goal of helping sociologists better understand ordinary British life.”BELIEF VS. PRACTICE
Belief vs. practice. Sunday, January 26, 2020. I was driving my rental car back to the airport from a gig yesterday and I caught an interesting interview with religion scholar Elaine Pagels (author of Why Religion?) on Fresh Air. “You know, Terry, I think that belief is overrated.” she said. Talking about religions as if they wereabout
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
URSULA K. LE GUIN'S TRANSLATION OF THE TAO TE CHING Friday, February 19, 2021. In the introduction to her translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin writes: The first Tao Te Ching I ever saw was the Paul Carus edition of 1898, bound in yellow clothe stamped with blue and red Chinese designs and characters. It was a venerable object of mystery, which I soon investigated, andfound
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
NEW GROWTH - AUSTIN KLEON New growth. “Spring cannot be canceled.”. After the catastrophic ice storm we had in February, it is enormously heartening to walk around the neighborhood 3 months later and see all the new growth and life. One plant at the end of my street that was hacked down to the ground is so tall now that I have to look up to see the top: Theprickly
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
MASS OBSERVATION
In The Spendid and the Vile, his new book about Winston Churchill, London, and The Blitz, Erik Larson uses many diaries and accounts from the archives of Mass Observation, described by Larson as “organization launched in Britain two years before the war that recruited hundreds of volunteers to keep daily diaries with the goal of helping sociologists better understand ordinary British life.”BELIEF VS. PRACTICE
Belief vs. practice. Sunday, January 26, 2020. I was driving my rental car back to the airport from a gig yesterday and I caught an interesting interview with religion scholar Elaine Pagels (author of Why Religion?) on Fresh Air. “You know, Terry, I think that belief is overrated.” she said. Talking about religions as if they wereabout
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
URSULA K. LE GUIN'S TRANSLATION OF THE TAO TE CHING Friday, February 19, 2021. In the introduction to her translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin writes: The first Tao Te Ching I ever saw was the Paul Carus edition of 1898, bound in yellow clothe stamped with blue and red Chinese designs and characters. It was a venerable object of mystery, which I soon investigated, andfound
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
AUSTIN KLEON'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 11/27/2020 – My new audiobook is out now. 11/20/2020 – The comedy of survival. 11/13/2020 – The good, the bad, and the ugly. 11/06/2020 – Keep calm and make ugly art. 10/30/2020 – When I share, I learn. 10/23/2020 – Newsletters I love to read. 10/16/2020–
THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes. MY NEW BOOK CLUB: READ LIKE AN ARTIST Tuesday, May 11, 2021. I’m starting a new book club called Read Like an Artist, hosted by the folks at Literati . Every month I’ll chose a book from an eclectic mix of creative nonfiction, novels, artist memoirs, comics, and more, all of which speak to living a morecreative life.
SOMETHING TO DO
In this video, John Green talks about drawing and productivity and thinking about time and why he’s attempting to draw 170,000 circles. My friend @craghead, one of my favorite drawers, had a great response:. I love that he talks about drawing as more than representing – as a process, as discovery, as a battery recharger. My wife says to me – “Go draw something” and then I draw a 100-DAY PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS CHALLENGE 100-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge. Thursday, January 7, 2021. Download a PDF of the poster. After posting my 30-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge, I came across violinist Hilary Hahn’s 100 Days of Practice project: She posts a video of her practicing for 100 days on her Instagram with the hashtag #100daysofpractice and invites 30-DAY "PRACTICE AND SUCK LESS" CHALLENGE 30-day “Practice and Suck Less” challenge. Saturday, January 2, 2021. “Lower your standards for what counts as progress,” writes Adam Grant, “and you will be less paralyzed by perfectionism.”. To get good, you first have to be willing to be bad. Don’t practice to COVERS FOR BOOKS I DON'T INTEND TO WRITE Covers for books I don’t intend to write. Tuesday, March 23, 2021. One thing I do to procrastinate on books I should be writing is make fake covers for books I don’t intend to write. The one above came from a typo: I tried to type “hell yeah” and typed “hell year” instead. The one below is a manipulation of a book on small business QUANTITY LEADS TO QUALITY (THE ORIGIN OF A PARABLE Quantity leads to quality (the origin of a parable) Thursday, December 10, 2020. One of my favorite parables about creative work comes from David Bayles and Ted Orland’s book, Art & Fear : ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, wouldbe
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRST It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard. THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST, A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSEDDON T DO WHAT YOU LOVEWHAT DO YOU DON T LIKE William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRSTWORDS TO DESCRIBE A READERWHO AM I AS A READERSTORY READER ME READER BOOKSTYPESOF READER
It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard. THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST, A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSEDDON T DO WHAT YOU LOVEWHAT DO YOU DON T LIKE William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRSTWORDS TO DESCRIBE A READERWHO AM I AS A READERSTORY READER ME READER BOOKSTYPESOF READER
It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
BOOKS BY AUSTIN KLEON The Steal Like An Artist Audio Trilogy. An audio compilation of my bestselling books, Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work! and KeepGoing.
ABOUT AUSTIN KLEON
Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have been translated into THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
AUSTIN KLEON'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 11/27/2020 – My new audiobook is out now. 11/20/2020 – The comedy of survival. 11/13/2020 – The good, the bad, and the ugly. 11/06/2020 – Keep calm and make ugly art. 10/30/2020 – When I share, I learn. 10/23/2020 – Newsletters I love to read. 10/16/2020–
SHOW YOUR WORK! A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON ISBN: 9780761178972 | Foreign translations A book for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion, Show Your Work! is the followup to my New York Times bestselling guide to creativity, Steal Like An Artist.If Steal was a book about stealing influence from others, Show is about influencing others by letting them steal from you.. In ten tight chapters, I lay out ways to think about your work IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRST It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
WHAT WE ARE VS. WHAT WE WANT TO BE What we are vs. what we want to be. This afternoon my wife said, “February has 3 fewer days than January. Shouldn’t we attempt our New Year’s Resolutions now ?”. An excellent idea! Turn the 30-day challenge into the 28-day challenge: There are exactly four weeks in A VISIT TO JOHN T. UNGER'S STUDIO A visit to John T. Unger’s studio. Thursday, May 16, 2019. John T. Unger showing us the scraps from his fireb0wls. This week my family visited the studio of artist John T. Unger in Hudson, New York. John is an old friend of mine, and he makes an appearance in my past three books. (The acknowledgements in Steal, and quoted in Show and Keep TO BE A TEACHER AND REMAIN A STUDENT To be a teacher and remain a student. Sunday, June 14, 2015. C.S. Lewis wrote a great introduction to his Reflections on the Psalms that I used in the “Be An Amateur” section of my last book: I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. It often happens that two schoolboys can solve difficulties in their workSAINT-SAËNS' SWAN
Saint-Saëns’ Swan. Monday, May 13, 2019. This weekend we took the boys to Severance Hall to see Saint-Saëns’ “ The Carnival of the Animals. ” Even with the crying babies and restless children, Charles Bernard’s cello solo during “ The Swan ” was so beautiful one of the Labèque sisters even re-gifted her bouquet offlowers to
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard. THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST, A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSEDDON T DO WHAT YOU LOVEWHAT DO YOU DON T LIKE William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRSTWORDS TO DESCRIBE A READERWHO AM I AS A READERSTORY READER ME READER BOOKSTYPESOF READER
It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
AUSTIN KLEON IS A WRITER WHO DRAWS.BLOGBOOKSNEWSLETTERSPEAKINGABOUTCONTACT My favorite object in the box is the “dummy” I made for my editor, Bruce Tracy, by printing out a dust jacket for a book with the same trim size.(The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka.)The legend is that design had a few options in the cover meeting and the late Peter Workman pointed at my dummy and said “that one.”. In the old days, my publisher would send me reprint notices on a postcard. THE KLEON STUDIO GIFT GUIDE The Kleon studio gift guide. Here’s a big list of stuff I like that people who like my stuff might like. Copies of my books! Blackwings. My favorite pencil overall — great for sketching, perfect for making notes in books. Sometimes I like to just sharpen them and sit around and sniff ‘em. Aqua Notes.TAPE QUILTS
Tape quilts. Thursday, July 30, 2020. My latest bit of collage procrastination: I’ve been making miniature quilts out of tape and magazines. (Posting them as I go on Instagram .) It makes things more pleasant, being stuck at home, to make homemade, handmade things. Alan Jacobs quotes Ursula K. Le Guin in his piece, “ Handmind in Covitude”:
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST, A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
I'M NOT LANGUISHING, I'M DORMANT I’m not languishing, I’m dormant. Monday, April 26, 2021. “Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.”. —Oxford Dictionary of English. A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing .”. Inpsychology
AUSTIN KLEON
This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I’m stealing it: I’m writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around. Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones’ title, supposedly shook his head and said, “I’ll eat my hat if anyone buys a bookwith
YOU'LL BE MISERABLE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSEDDON T DO WHAT YOU LOVEWHAT DO YOU DON T LIKE William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”. He’s telling you that30-DAY CHALLENGE
30-day challenge. Wednesday, November 1, 2017. For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Downloadand print the PDF.
IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRSTWORDS TO DESCRIBE A READERWHO AM I AS A READERSTORY READER ME READER BOOKSTYPESOF READER
It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
BOOKS BY AUSTIN KLEON The Steal Like An Artist Audio Trilogy. An audio compilation of my bestselling books, Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work! and KeepGoing.
ABOUT AUSTIN KLEON
Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have been translated into THE STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST JOURNAL Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9780761185680. For years, people have asked me what kind of notebook I recommend, so I went ahead and made the notebook I always wished existed. Based on my New York Times best-selling book, The Steal Like An Artist Journal will help get your creative juices flowing and record new (and stolen) ideas, thoughts,and
AUSTIN KLEON'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 11/27/2020 – My new audiobook is out now. 11/20/2020 – The comedy of survival. 11/13/2020 – The good, the bad, and the ugly. 11/06/2020 – Keep calm and make ugly art. 10/30/2020 – When I share, I learn. 10/23/2020 – Newsletters I love to read. 10/16/2020–
SHOW YOUR WORK! A BOOK BY AUSTIN KLEON ISBN: 9780761178972 | Foreign translations A book for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion, Show Your Work! is the followup to my New York Times bestselling guide to creativity, Steal Like An Artist.If Steal was a book about stealing influence from others, Show is about influencing others by letting them steal from you.. In ten tight chapters, I lay out ways to think about your work IF YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO BE A READER FIRST It’s been said a million times — it’s one of the main points of my books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! — and yet, it still seems to be controversial or confusing to young people who are starting out: If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. “You can’t be a good writer without being a devotedreader.”
WHAT WE ARE VS. WHAT WE WANT TO BE What we are vs. what we want to be. This afternoon my wife said, “February has 3 fewer days than January. Shouldn’t we attempt our New Year’s Resolutions now ?”. An excellent idea! Turn the 30-day challenge into the 28-day challenge: There are exactly four weeks in A VISIT TO JOHN T. UNGER'S STUDIO A visit to John T. Unger’s studio. Thursday, May 16, 2019. John T. Unger showing us the scraps from his fireb0wls. This week my family visited the studio of artist John T. Unger in Hudson, New York. John is an old friend of mine, and he makes an appearance in my past three books. (The acknowledgements in Steal, and quoted in Show and Keep TO BE A TEACHER AND REMAIN A STUDENT To be a teacher and remain a student. Sunday, June 14, 2015. C.S. Lewis wrote a great introduction to his Reflections on the Psalms that I used in the “Be An Amateur” section of my last book: I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. It often happens that two schoolboys can solve difficulties in their workSAINT-SAËNS' SWAN
Saint-Saëns’ Swan. Monday, May 13, 2019. This weekend we took the boys to Severance Hall to see Saint-Saëns’ “ The Carnival of the Animals. ” Even with the crying babies and restless children, Charles Bernard’s cello solo during “ The Swan ” was so beautiful one of the Labèque sisters even re-gifted her bouquet offlowers to
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NOTHING THE MATTER HERE Friday, May 15, 2020 Years ago — I don’t remember where, unfortunately — I read an old Chinese Proverb: “Nobody’s family can hang out the sign, ‘NOTHING THE MATTER HERE.’” I immediately set Owen, who was only 3 at the time, to the task of hand-lettering us a sign that said just that. (I found it in a box and hung it up in my office yesterday.)Permalink
AMPLIFIED TO ROCK
Thursday, May 14, 2020 > “Are you amplified to rock? > Are you hoping for a contact?” > —Guided By Voices, “Hardcore UFOs> ”
I haven’t written a book in this office yet. Yesterday, my wife hung my guitars and my Guided By Voices poster and then she hung up a blank bulletin board with my father-in-law’s 3 Axioms: And it’s been nice and wet and cloudy in the mornings: And it’s starting to feel like it’s time to really get down to business around here. > Count the days that we have wasted from the start > Speak the words and build a playground> In your head
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IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE READING… Wednesday, May 13, 2020 The stack of books on my wife’s nightstand If you are having trouble reading right now, hereis what works
for me:
1. Keep a book at the breakfast table and read it in the morning instead of looking at the news on your phone.
2. Be promiscuous. Read more than one book at a time until one pulls you into monogamy. 3. Quit more books than you finish. Read lots of short booksuntil
you work up the concentration for longer ones.4. Read poetry
! First
thing in the morning! It’s perfect with a cup of coffee. 5. Read trash! No guilty pleasures! 6. Read old books!Read old
favorites! (Every time you re-read a book you’re reading a new book.)
7. Read to your kids!If you don’t have
kids, FaceTime someone else’s kids and read to them! (Optional: Steal books from your kids and read them.)
8. STOP READING BOOKS THAT AREN’T DOING IT FOR YOU. SERIOUSLY. STOP.
9. Try writing a book.
It’ll make you want to quit and read instead. (“Read more than you write, live more than you read.”)
10. If you can’t read a book right now give yourself a break andjust watch TV
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HOW TO TALK TO SOMEONE WITH A MISSING IMAGINATION Tuesday, May 12, 2020 _“Imagination is when you close your eyes and think of a door.”__—Dave Hickey_
_“This is about lack of imagination.”—Ali Khan
,
formerly of the C.D.C._ Imagination is simply the ability to make images in your head.
If you’re blessed with an imagination, it’s part of your job tobring better images
to the world.
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GIVE YOURSELF A LITTLE PRESENT Monday, May 11, 2020 Some wisdom from F.B.I Special Agent Dale Cooper in _Twin Peaks_ : > I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Everyday, once a day, > give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just > let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store. A > catnap in your office chair. Or two cups of good, hot black coffee. Filed under: routinePermalink
5 GREAT BOOKS ABOUT ART AND MOTHERHOOD Sunday, May 10, 2020 Happy Mother’s Day. Here are 5 of my favorite books about making artand being a mother:
1. SARAH RUHL, _100 ESSAYS I DON’T HAVE TIME TO WRITE_
Short essays about making art and raising children, and the interesting ways that one influences and provides insight into the other. Ruhl is a playwright and a mother of three and writes beautifully about art’s need for solitude and quiet vs. the constant interruption of mothering: > There were times when it felt as though my children were > annihilating me… and finally I came to the thought, All right, > then, annihilate me; that other self was a fiction anyhow. And then > I could breathe. I could investigate the pauses. 2. SALLY MANN, _HOLD STILL: A MEMOIR WITH PHOTOGRAPHS_
Mann is that rare master of both pictures and words, and her memoir shows off that mastery: the visual images are perfectly woven into the text to tell her story. The book covers her long, interesting life and career, but a portion of it reads as a cautionary tale about using your children in your art. > Not only was the distinction between the real children and the > images difficult for people, but so also was the distinction between > the images and their creator, whom some found immoral. 3. JENNY OFFILL, _DEPT. OF SPECULATION_
A wonderful short novel about art, marriage, and motherhood that you can read in one sitting. The way the text is fragmented replicates the way you think when you’re a new parent. About the book she has said:
> New parents, but especially new mothers like the , > have a set of alarms going off in their heads during the early, high > stakes period of trying to keep a baby alive, while dealing with the > pleasant lull of housebound boredom. The transcendence is undercut > by the tedium. I wanted to get that feeling on the page. The > solution I came up with was to describe her thoughts and actions in > fragments, so that one would always be dislocating the other. 4. MAGGIE NELSON, _THE ARGONAUTS_ While all these books are in some way about women coming to terms with being both an artist and a mother, there’s the added complexity of Nelson being a queer-mother-artist, and an older one at that: > I’m an old mom. I had nearly four decades to become myself before > experimenting with my obliteration. Another very good (and fragmented) short read with a really smart system of quotation, and an excellent ending. 5. SYLVIA FEIN, _HEIDI’S HORSE_ Fein, a surrealist painter who celebrated her 100th birthday last year with a 70-year retrospective exhibitionin
Berkeley, took a break in her painting career to write this book and its followup, _First Drawings_ . The book collects her daughter Heidi’s drawings of horses from the age of 2 to 17. (Fein raised her daughter on a horse ranch.) I don’t know of any other book like this. A weird, remarkable work showing the development of a child’s drawings with a single subject. (More about the book in my post: What pictures of horses can teach usabout art .)
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SCRAPS INTO POETRY
Friday, May 8, 2020
My desk.
While many writers are turning to the calm of collageas an escape
from needing words, Hanif Abdurraqib is turning to self-collage and assembling his leftover scraps into poetry:
> recycling my way toward a feeling of productivity. I copy and > paste email responses that work across multiple inquiries. If I > don’t feel up for making a morale-boosting lunch, I pile some > leftovers into a bowl and hope for the best. I’ve found myself > doing this with poems, as well. Piling leftovers onto the page and > seeing what makes sense. I don’t throw away drafts of my poems. I > keep them all in a folder on my computer. If I cared for something > enough to write it, I care for it enough to imagine that it might be> useful later.
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> About once a week, I’ve been digging through my folder of misfit > poems and constructing new ones out of them. It’s like a joyful > puzzle. The work of writing is already done. The work of arrangement > is where the excitement is. This is a fine method for artists of all kinds. A little hoarding goes a long way. You never know when a discarded scrap from something can be turned into something new. (_Keep Going_ contains a whole section that didn’t fit into _Show Your Work!_)
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COVID DREAMS
Thursday, May 7, 2020Like
many people
,
I’m having lots of classic anxiety dreams. The most common one is: I’ll be in a public place or at a party and all of the sudden I’ll realize, _I’m not supposed to be here_. I was channel surfing last night, and this shot from of _Magnum, P.I._ nailed it! (S04E04, “Distant Relative”)Permalink
NOT EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY (BUT SOME THINGS WILL) Wednesday, May 6, 2020 An image by Ryan Thacker at the end of Maira Kalman’s CreativeMornings talk
_“There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.” _ _—Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided _ You know you’re in a bad spot when passing sidewalk chalk platitudes on your daily walk makes you murderous. For me, yesterday, the breaking point was a hand-painted sign that read “EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY.” _What fucking planet are these people living on? _ My favorite cinematic misanthropes started conversing with each other. “Where do they teach you how to talk like this?” Melvin Udallasked.
“What _absolute_ twaddle,” Withnail agreed. I was reminded of the story of G.K. Chesterton’s book, _PlatitudesUndone
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> In 1911, author Holbrook Jackson published a small book of aphorisms > under the (mildly pretentious) title _Platitudes in the Making: > Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk_ and gave a copy to his friend > G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton, it seems, sat down with the book – > and a green pencil – and wrote a response to each saying in the > book. Presumably he then set the book down, and somehow, someway, it > turned up in a San Francisco book shop in 1955, where it was > purchased by a certain Dr. Alfred Kessler, an admirer of Chesterton. > Every book collector dreams of such a find. Rather than keep the > book to himself, however, Dr. Kessler and Ignatius Press have > produced a facsimile edition. Remove the dust jacket, and you have a > reproduction, in every particular, of that 1911 volume, together > with all of Chesterton’s remarks. It’s a remarkable project, and > a real treat for readers of Chesterton. People are dying. Our leaders are corrupt. Things are _not_ good. But there’s still sunshine and birds and Gene Kelly dancing_._
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SELF-PORTRAITS
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Here are four self-portraits I drew today, in the order I drew them. The first was a blind contourlike
I’ve been drawing every day since Valentine’s Day. The second was done completely blind — from memory, not looking at the paper _or_ a mirror. The third was done from memory while looking at my paper. The fourth was done while looking in the mirror _and_ lookingat the paper.
Taken together, they suggest to me that my latest blind drawings rely more on muscle memory than _actual looking_. Probably time to move on to another subject. Or draw myself upside down or _something_. A friend on Twitter said they reminded him of these self-portraits done after taking different drugs.
(Probably inspired by this famous series done during an LSD trip.)
The way my face shifts and morphs over timemakes me think
more of these terrifying and sad self portraits by William Utermohlen “as he slowly deteriorated under the effects of Alzheimer’sdisease
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A final thought: like with all images and words, the meaning of these drawings shifts based on the words I put underneath them. It’s worth pausing to think about what these images would or wouldn’t have said, if anything, without words underneath them…Permalink
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