Austin Kleon – Page 591

AS LONG AS IT ISN’T BORING

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Last year was actually a pretty good year for short fiction: the Story Prize has recommendations. (See if you can match the recommendations with the advisory board.)

I like Maureen McHugh’s book a lot (and I liked her reading at Mac’s way back too) and her blog posts are very long and make me feel stalkerish.

STUCK IN A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT COMPUTERS

Saturday, February 18, 2006

And: one of my favorites, The Walkmen, talk up their new album.

Sometimes it takes me a long while to catch on. For me, the greatest thing about Flickr is the searching capability. Up until now, I’ve been using Google image search to pull up reference photos for drawing…

So much for that. Check out Retrievr. Using a simple sketchpad interface, you can draw the shapes/colors you want to search for in Flickr, and as you add to your drawing, photos from Flickr will appear…

A great idea would be to put your comics on Flickr, right? Wrong. Flickr discriminates between photography and drawing. Bummer.

HATE AND LAUGHTER

Friday, February 17, 2006

tried out on my writing group last night. hard as hell. [PDF] if you want it.

THE POINT AT WHICH SAFE WATER BECOMES DANGEROUS WATER

Thursday, February 16, 2006

My new hobby is drawing while watching TV. I drew these pages while watching Ken Burns’ documentary on Mark Twain.

Did you know that Mark Twain kept scrapbooks wherever he went? He even patented his own “self-pasting” scrapbook. It was the only invention of his that ever made any money.

After Mark Twain got married, he said, “I’m so happy I could scalp somebody.”