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Vintage Surf Graphics
I tried surfing for the very first time last week and completely fell in love. For whatever fantastic combination of water-skiing and yoga experience I have under my belt, I stood up on my first try! I've never really had this kind of immediate success before and let me tell you it's addictive. I'm really digging these vintage graphics of surf culture throughout the years, found in the book Vintage Surfing Graphics published by Taschen.
Pocket full of pixels
I've read my first "digital" book. Or should I say I read a book "digitally" for the first time...
It was fun (LAMB by Christopher Moore is hysterical > I highly recommend).
It was convienent (so awesome to not have to pack my book- it lived in my phone > Long line? No problem!).
It had a drawback (oh most things do!) (It stinks when you're "book" loses battery and is no longer available for your commute home).
So I'll be sure to be keeping my ipad fully charged as I follow this exciting new digital Magazine! Matchbook Magazine is looking super fresh and interesting. Check out the latest issue, here!
Book by it's cover
Book cover design: gotta be one of the coolest jobs ever. Read a novel. Let the imagery wash over you. Create a cover that communicates the and intices. Read another novel. Get paid. Sweet, right? Check out this archive of great cover design, I found it via A Cup of Jo. Also, if I were a best selling author I'd hire this guy to design my cover. Gregg Kulick's cover for Harper Collins pictured above.
Spread literacy
Next time you visit your local library or salvation army, bring a donation! Both will take your used books.
Words of wisdom: On freedom
"... I came to realize that because my purpose on this earth seems to be to write novels, I am actually freer when I'm chained to a project: freer from guilt, anxiety, boredom, anger, purposelessness."
A snipet of a quote from Jonathan Franzen in this week's TIME Magazine cover story on his latest book Freedom. I loved the whole article being that I'm a big fan of Franzen's work; and a fellow Chicago born, St. Louis raised, NYC transplant.
This modern world
I started the day hearing the phrase, "It's Papersheep season again". . . meaning it's scarf weather. This was furthermore marked by having the first scarf sale of the season in the works. It's a Walnut Heather, the first Papersheep scarf, the inspiration that came to me seemingly out of nowhere coupled with a compulsion to create it. That original scarf has thus spurred on many more and was somehow lost in the mix and eventually given away as a gift. I was surprising crushed at this news. Not because someone was hopefully wearing and enjoying it, but for sentimental reasons. It was an original to me, the first and therefore a one and only of sorts. It's this attachment to the objects I make that has captivated my thoughts these days.
Thankfully the same person uttering those merry words this morning has loaned me an extraordinary book; The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde. Mr Hyde, whom finished writing this classic query on gift exchange and creativity, the year I was born, discusses the conflicts posed to artists in a modern society whom have been given a creative gift and also have to do things like eat and sleep. He talks about gift exchange and it's difference from market exchange. Gift exchange being reciprocal usually and the market a one way transaction; goods for money.
What I found most interesting is how artists feed on sharing their gift and must reconcile how that is carried out. For instance in order to share that gift, it must first be made for oneself or the sake of making it, preventing market trends and factors from interfering and therefore spoiling the creation of it. Next, a living must be made (unless there is a grant) in order for it's creator to survive. The difference between and yet dependence of these two situations on each other is vital to the act of creation. Can you survive on the sale of your art or do you take a second job?
There are so many gems in this book. I highly recommend it to anyone wondering about making the things they love and surviving in the modern marketplace.
photograph by Gina Houseman
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