Austin Kleon – Page 216

Sunday collage

Sunday, May 5, 2019

A collage from (last) Sunday. Collage is what I do when I don’t have any ideas.

Big wolf energy

Saturday, May 4, 2019

The 4-year-old is obsessed with The Three Little Pigs and his Big Bad Wolf drawings are so good that whenever things are going right my wife and I have started joking, “It’s that Big Wolf Energy!”

If you come see me on tour, each book of mine you buy gets its own drawing. Here’s @emilytheartteacher’s set, which I think looks particularly nice in blue Sharpie. (Matches the date stamp!) Gotta get a box of blue Sharpies for the rest of tour…

Art at the airport

Thursday, May 2, 2019

TSA madness aside, Atlanta might be my favorite airport in the country right now because of all the wonderful public art they have on display throughout the terminals.

Yesterday, I got off a flight and saw one of Brian Dettmer’s book autopsies. (Part of very cool “the book as art” exhibit in Terminal E.) This morning I saw their permanent display of Zimbabwean stone carvings in Terminal T. (Picture above.)

A few years ago as I was walking between Terminal A and B, a pilot stopped to show me the “Flight Paths” exhibit.

“A piece of art located in a prominent spot in the airport will be seen by as many people in a week as visit MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) over the course of a year.”

Imagine if airports across the country filled their walls with art, played Eno’s ambient music over the speakers, and tuned all their horrible airport TVs to Turner Classic Movies…

Diner diary

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

One of my favorite things ever is to sit in a diner with a cup of coffee and a notebook and record whatever comes into my head. (See my posts “The magic of diner booths” and “Community and creativity in mundane retail spaces.”)

Diners are especially comforting to me on the road. You spend so much time in motion, it’s nice to sit still and let the world move around you. To catch your breath and catch up with yourself.