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Are you struggling to unlock your creativity? I personally don’t think you can stimulate creativity by following a number of rules, but there are lots of people who seem to think it works. Austin Kleon‘s new book, Steal Like an Artist, offers advice of this nature to people in search of creativity. The cheat sheet is below:
Kleon writes in the introduction:
These are things I’ve learned over almost a decade of trying to figure out how to make art, but a funny thing happened when I started sharing them with others — I realized that they aren’t just for artists. They’re for everyone.
These ideas are for everyone who’s trying to inject some creativity into their life and their work. (That should describe all of us.)
You can also watch the trailer of the book in the video below or visit the website and for what it’s worth the book looks really nice, check out the Flickr set of the book for more photos.
It was just in the last post where I told you about NYT photo archive being published gradually on Tumblr and here I am with another great visual vintage resource, AT&T’s official YouTube page includes a sizable number of educational videos, they are extremely interesting to watch (at least for me) and I can only imagine what a talented artist could with such a resource.
Without further ado, I invite you to learn dialing, which quite ironically could still be (historically) educative for kids.
For more, visit the At&T Youtube channel and their educational videos playlist.
There’s no doubt how prominent The New York Times photo archive is but any guess on how huge it is? No one knows for sure, but it’s at least 10 million frames and the great news is that they just started posting them on This Tumblr, it even allows you to look at the back of the images for editorial markings (by clicking on the photos). You can find a guide to understand the notations on the back of the images here, along with the mission of the page which is apparently to have the whole thing online until the year 3935!
Visit and follow “The Lively Morgue.”
Cape Kennedy wearing a paper dress. Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times
Art21 published a short video of artists Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard discussing their collaboration in 1992 on a large sculpture titled “Zygmunt” Commissioned by Exit Art founders Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo.
Artinfo takes a look at Milan’s fashion week to find art-inspired designs. Check out the slideshow to see more.
Left: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana picked lavish gold embroidery of the Baroque era for the main inspiration of their fall collection (Courtesy Getty Images)
Right: Artemisia Gentileschi’s 17th-century portrait “Dame assise de trois-quarts” (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
Peter Velleris created an interactive animation of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” (1889), the template (made by OpenFramework) responds to the movement of viewer’s fingers, creating a flow of oil lines on the painting accompanied by an ambient music which is coherent with the flow.
The work is at once a dialogue between the two artists through two very different mediums and acts as a bridge between the viewers and Van Gogh’s masterpiece, allowing them to interact freely with the artwork.
I imagine the experience to be very pleasant, fortunately the artist has promised to port the application to iPad and Android, making the experience accessible to a wide public audience.
For some technical details about the work check out this link, and to watch more animations inspired by classic works head to this article by The Atlantic.
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