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Blog postIt rained all morning yesterday, so I took the 5-year-old into the garage with me, made him a blank booklet, gave him a stack of NYTimes magazines, and let him go. Here’s what he made (with a little glue help from papa):
A few hours later, we headed over to Staple. We bumped into Katia Lara, who praised I Hurt (she’d just seen it on my Instagram!) and let us check out her skull:
Then we checked out the screenprinting station:
And a lecture on zines by Mari -
Blog postI started posting to this blog 13 years ago today.
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Blog postThanks to @misszita for this lettering of the manifesto from chapter 3 of Steal Like An Artist. I like that if you put a comma after the word “done” it would be like a note to myself!
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Blog postThis morning we debated whether to walk out in the rain or stay in the house with the boys. We chose the rain and were rewarded.
It’s almost spooky how many days my daily reading of Thoreau’s journal syncs up perfectly with my mood. (As he wrote, we receive what we’re ready to receive.) September 7, 1851:
We are receiving our portion of the infinite… I do not so much wish to know how to economize time as how to spend it.
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Blog postI took this photo of our 3-year-old’s setup in our hotel room in Chicago. (I had to run to the local Target after two days to buy a new ream of paper.)
Here’s half a day’s worth of drawings on our kitchen floor. My wife sweeps them all up into a big pile at the end of the day.
As I’ve mentioned previously, the 3-year-old loves drawing skeletons, but refuses to watch Coco. He still refuses to watch it, but he’s now discovered the Coco coloring book, so many of his skeleton -
Blog postDuncan Hannah, diary
I’m devouring Duncan Hannah’s 20th Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies right now. My only gripe with the book is you don’t get a sense for how wonderfully visual his notebooks were.
Owen Kleon, diary
More inspiration came this morning, courtesy of my 5-year-old’s diary. (Everything on that page after the words “as usual” is invented.)
I keep a huge file of inspiring notebooks on my tumblr, which I relied on when maki -
Blog postIf you know me, you know how much I love libraries, and how I like to duck into libraries when I travel. Today I posted this picture of the 3rd floor of the Oak Park Public Library and added the hashtag #librarytourism on a whim. Turns out a ton of people use it — I lost quite a few minutes scrolling through…
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Blog postWe took a great walk beside Lake Michigan this morning and when I came back to shower Jonathan Richman’s “The Morning of Our Lives” came on my shuffle mix:
Our time is now,
we can do anything
we really believe in
Our time is now
here in the morning
of our lives
This song has been of great comfort to me lately. (A lot of Richman’s songs comfort me — “That Summer Feeling,” “City vs. Country,” “Dignified and Old,” etc.)
The Strokes used the -
Blog postFrom this morning’s diary. (Not totally sure it’s true.)
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Blog post“Summer gets to be an old story.”
—Henry David Thoreau
T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month, but in Austin, Texas, it’s September. Summer is winter here, and summer isn’t even officially over until September 22. The cursed sun pays no heed to anything official. You’re not out of the A/C until Halloween at the earliest. September here is just a cruel joke. When Northern Instagram fills with scarves and pumpkin spice lattes, your only solace is shorts in February. (Awful in
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