MOS DEF / K’NAAN AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING
Thursday night was a historic one for Austin City Limits: the studio was officially designated as a rock and roll landmark, and it put on it’s first hip-hop show.
My neighbor Dusty was kind enough to give me one of his space available tickets for the (somewhat grueling) 3-hour double taping—we stood on the floor for the full set, and I learned one thing: it’s near impossible to draw and raise the roof at the same time.
Really rough doodles below.
Mos Def
SAVING UP FOR WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER
Making art is a lonely business. Hell, being alive is a lonely business.
I have been swimming in tweets and nice e-mails from people discovering my work via the 20×200 prints. It’s pretty wonderful. And disorienting. And a major high.
But it will taper off. And next week I will have a dark day when I want to quit, when I wonder why the heck I even bother with this stuff.
That’s why I attach a Gmail label to every nice e-mail I get. (Trollish e-mails get deleted.) When those dark days roll around and I need a boost, I just click on that label and read through a couple.
Then I get back to work.
Try it: instead of keeping a rejection file, keep a praise file. For when you need the lift.
20×200 NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEM PRINTS: ON SALE NOW!
I am very happy to announce that my 20×200 Newspaper Blackout Poem prints are now on sale!
These two poems were hand-picked by Jen Bekman and Sara Distin. They dug deep into the archives to find them. (Read an e-mail from Sara introducing them.)
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“The Figure Skater” (2007) [ Buy now! ]
From my artist’s statement:
I made this poem during a vacation in South Carolina from an article about Paula Abdul’s reality show, Hey, Paula. Go figure.
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“How It Works” (2008) [ Buy now! ]
From my artist’s statement:
It’s rare that I find poetry in the business section, but this one came from an article about hedge fund investing. Like many of my poems, it’s about my wife.
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This is the first time (except for the book pre-order) I’ve had anything for sale online, so if you’ve ever enjoyed this site or my work, I hope you’ll order one or two.
Can’t afford the $20 right now? Do me a favor and blog or tweet ’em.
Thanks, y’all!
GUEST BLOGGING AT THE BOOK DESIGN REVIEW
In addition to staying up til 1AM getting these 20×200 prints going, I’m guest-blogging this week for one of my favorite blogs: Joe Sullivan’s The Book Design Review (@theBDR). I‘ve made two posts so far I made three posts:
- David Mazzuchelli’s Asterios Polyp and the need for 3-D views of book cover design
- How publishers and authors can use Flickr to set up a Blogger Kit for their books
- King-Cat Comics by John Porcellino
All of the posts got me thinking about how to best present books online and make it easy to spread them around the internet. It was really fun: Joe has some really smart readers, so be sure to check the comments.
I’ll update this post with links as I go along. Next up is the design of John Porcellino’s King-Cat mini-comics and its successful transition to the book collections.
PS. This is how my second post on the Blogger’s Kit began (with doodles, of course):
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