Calling all On the Road fans! The following project is a work in progress by illustrator Paul Rogers we think you'll love. That's right, one day soon lucky Kerouac fans will be able to read the Beat writer's seminal work, accompanied by some very cool drawings--one for each of its 300+ pages, in fact. Rogers selects…
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Ten Books Recycled for Art
These artists give books a second life as beautiful works of art, converting everything from outdated computing books to children's classics into visual masterpieces, all using little more than a scalpel and some imagination. In no particular order (they're too awesome to rank) here are ten artworks created from old books: …
“Eight Million Stories”: Humans of New York Project
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.” - From The Naked City In 2010, Brandon Stanton lost his job as a trader in Chicago. Despite his mother's objections, Stanton moved to New York City to pursue the latest thing with which he had become "borderline-obsessed": photography. At…
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Feats of Greatness, Feet of Clay: Authors, Flaws, and the People Behind the Stories
(Orson Scott Card poses at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 2008. Wikimedia Commons/ Nihonjoe) "Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.” ~ Terry Pratchett, from Feet of Clay There is a reason I frequently shy away from reading biographies: people suck. Even the best people suck.…
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Guerrilla Poetry Projects
T.S. Eliot once observed that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." This is a sentiment that "guerrilla" poets embrace. Guerrilla tactics, whether in war or in art, often rely on hit-and-run assaults, leaving the subjects of their surprise attacks a bit dazed and hopefully more aware. This week, the website Flavorpill (by way of booooooom.com) published…
A Shakespearean Mash Up
This summer the Los Angeles based Troubadour Theater Company is reprising its role as masters of the Shakespearean mash up. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream. You may have guessed it, though you might not believe it: one theater company has poured all the funk, bellbottoms, and embarrassing dance…
Before I Die: Communities, Art, Purpose, Reflection
A few years ago, artist Candy Chang lost a good friend. The experience left her thinking a lot about death, what in her life was of value, what she wanted to do while she had time, and with whom she should spend those hours. While she knew she wanted to define these objectives, Chang says…
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The Daily Rituals of Ten of the World’s Most Creative People
Do you have a daily ritual when you write? I don't know of a single writer who does not. Maybe it's summoning the Muse...everything must be just so if there is any hope of words appearing on paper. Most of us are NOT like the writer, Muriel Spark who, Ann Lamott notes, "is said to have felt that she was taking…
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