Steal Like An Artist: The Book

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July 2010

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  • foreclosure
    July 27th

    FORECLOSURE

    “9 a.m. they are at his door / with papers / there must be some misunderstanding / he has lived here for six years, peaceably and happily / he has a job / it’s not fair / the song and dance / leave town they say / go live in a train station / or peddle fruitcakes / because a house is not a home”


  • IMG_4502
    July 21st

    NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT AT THE AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART

    Photos and videos of a blackout poetry exhibit and workshop.


  • mangled-english
    July 20th

    FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT

    “mangled english is the only language i know”


  • statesman-mindmaps
    July 19th

    ON MIND-MAPPING IN THE STATESMAN

    The Austin American-Statesman quoted me on mind-mapping, and ran one of my maps.


  • seaton-smith
    July 19th

    TEDXPENNQUARTER NOTES + DRAWINGS

    TEDxPennQuarter not only had me out to give a talk of my own (which I’ll post soon), they asked if I’d take some visual notes for them as well.


  • share-art
    July 9th

    SHARE ART

    sign + iPhone camera + trickery = de-sign


  • flowchart
    July 8th

    WRITE SOMETHING GOOD

    Everything always comes back to the simplest beginning: write something good.


  • end-of-my-imagination
    July 8th

    THE END OF MY IMAGINATION

    “this is the end of my imagination / it is shaking on the floor / in a blonde wig / i got away this long / wearing scraps secondhand / instead of fresh from the store”


  • to-stay-put
    July 6th

    TO STAY PUT

    “to stay put / is to mire the eyes / to agree to stay on in a town / and not make a move / is to be a target of wolves”


  • school
    July 2nd

    SCHOOL

    “school haunts me / i have failed the formula for the test”


  • fodder-for-your-foes
    July 1st

    FODDER

    “your trouble is the fodder for yr foes / and what you see in it is the art”