In the latest newsletter, I wrote about falling in love with my new bicycle. (Got some amazing comments on this one. A subject people are very passionate about!)
How to draw an exquisite corpse
One of my all-time favorite drawing games with my kids is called Exquisite Corpse.
Put simply: two or more people draw a head/torso/legs without looking at each other’s drawings.
We made a silly video to show you how its done:
It’s probably worth pointing out that Exquisite Corpse actually started out with the Surrealist writers, as a kind of proto-MadLib such as:
The [adjective] [noun] [adverb] [verb] the [adjective] [noun].
This is where the name “Exquisite Corpse” came from:
Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau. (The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.)
It’s fun because it’s a cooperative game, not a competitive one.
I’m now thinking it would be fairly easy to do an musical Exquisite Corpse in GarageBand: you’d pick a tempo and a key, one person could make a beat, then the next person could make a bassline without listening to the beat, and the next person could make a melody without listening to either. Then you could play it back and see what it sounds like. (I’m going to try this and I’ll let you know how it goes!)
SXSW 2022
On Friday, March 18th, I’ll be back at SXSW giving a talk to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Steal Like an Artist, followed by a book signing.
I did not know how my first in-person event in 2 years was going to go, but I have to say, I had a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came out — the signing was almost an hour long! Loved seeing y’all.
Thank you to everyone who came to my #SXSW talk and booksigning today! Made my whole week. ? pic.twitter.com/gOt39nSpVj
— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) March 18, 2022
Loved hearing @austinkleon’s ??? words on how we thrive as diverse creatives with many passions and facets.
He signed my copy of #StealLikeAnArtist: “One woman, in her time, plays many parts.” -Shakespeare
Keeping these words in ? and ??
Living it ?@sxsw #sxsw #SXSW22 pic.twitter.com/L2Dcqt4Tmx— Caitlin Krause: wellbeing through wonder & awe (@CaitlinKrause_) March 18, 2022
10th anniversary edition of Steal Like an Artist
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Steal Like an Artist, we’re releasing a limited gift edition on March 15th:
- first time in hardcover
- bigger trim size
- fancy ribbon bookmark & endpapers
- new afterword
If you’d like a signed and personalized copy, purchase from Bookpeople.
Otherwise, head to your local bookstore or buy it online.
Only the questions
Clive Thompson made an online tool that shows you only the questions in a piece of writing.
I love it because I love questions and also because it turns everything into Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood.
I fed it the complete text of each book in my trilogy. Here’s Show Your Work!:
And here’s Keep Going:
The results are not only funny, they sort of make great summaries for the books.
You can try the tool here.
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