Sources: Mooney, Polchin, Bogart, Balanchine, Caine, Gorey, Allen, Jobs, Monteiro, Vonnegut, Updike, Garbus, Epstein, Faulkner, Sheridan, Billings, Gabriel, Kirby, Murphy, MacNaughton, Dylan, Guthrie, Gillespie, Coudal, Wilder
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST TO BE PUBLISHED BY WORKMAN IN MARCH 2012
I am very happy to (finally!) announce that Workman Publishing will be publishing my new book Steal Like An Artist in March 2012!
(This will be just in time for my recently-accepted SXSW panel with Kirby Ferguson, “Everything Is A Remix, So Steal Like An Artist.”)
Big thanks to my shark of an agent, Ted Weinstein; my rad editor, Bruce Tracy; and all the folks at Workman, who have been impressing the hell out of me—it’s a great house, and I’m so excited by the level of attention and care the book has received so far.
Thanks so much to everyone for your support. More very soon—in the meantime, there’s a new book page with pictures of the work-in-progress, and I’m posting deleted scenes and research on my Tumblr.
Now back to work!
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST AT THE ECONOMIST’S HUMAN POTENTIAL SUMMIT
A few weeks ago I gave a talk on Newspaper Blackout and Steal Like An Artist at The Economist’s Human Potential summit in New York City. They had an awesome tech staff, so we even managed to weave some of my live drawings from the conference into the talk. Enjoy!
Steal Like An Artist
This post is now a New York Times best-selling book.
Here’s what a few folks have said about it:
- “Brilliant and real and true.”
—Rosanne Cash - “Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.”
—Lifehacker.com - “Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.”
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A POEM IS DISCOVERED IN PLAY
Don’t wait until you know who you are and what you’re about to start making things.
Last December, there was a video of Rainn Wilson (the actor who plays Dwight on the office) going around of him talking about “creative block” and how to get over it. His advice:
If you don’t know who you are or what you’re about or what you believe in it’s really pretty impossible to be creative.
If I waited to know “who I was” or “what I was about” before I started “being creative”, well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things.
In my experience, it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are. And often, the best work comes when we have absolutely no idea what we’re doing.
So yeah, if you’re having trouble, go take a walk, or find some new materials, but don’t linger over what it all means. Start playing.
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