The folks at City Lights recorded my recent interview with Peter Turchi and posted it to YouTube. I enjoyed it very much. (The last time we spoke was 2015!)
How I make a collage
People ask me all the time to share video of how I make my collages, so here’s a quick one:
Saturday morning collage #tapeandmagazines #showyourwork pic.twitter.com/YIRueiM3AN
— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) August 6, 2022
And here’s what it looks like in my diary, without any cleanup:
My interview with writer and artist Edward Carey
“It was dark, and I needed a little light. So every day I did a little drawing.”
Here is video of my interview with the excellent Edward Carey for Creative Mornings Austin. We talked about art, family, Pinocchio, and the challenges of making things during the past year:
When they asked me if there was a local Austin artist I’d like to interview for CM Austin’s 8th anniversary, I had a long list of folks in my mind, but when they said the topic was procrastination, I immediately thought of Ed, and, specifically, this clipping, which I cut out of a NYTimes years ago:
I’m shocked that his latest project still doesn’t have a US publisher. Editors, get on it!
I’ve written more about EC’s work here.
Nobody should have to hustle
I kind of love this animated video that Gergo Varga made from a conversation I had with Chris Do, talking about the “Make Gifts” chapter of Keep Going.
Like my friend Clayton Cubitt says: “The phrase ‘respect the hustle’ makes me sad. We deserve a world where nobody has to hustle.”
I could talk about Corita all day
I was delighted that the Corita Art Center asked me to talk about Corita Kent and the impact that her art has had on my work. (She was a kind of guardian spirit for Keep Going: I wrote about her in two separate chapters.) In this video I talk about her unique way of looking at the world, her terrific book with Jan Steward, Learning By Heart, her advice to borrow a kid, and the way she thought creativity has seasons:
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