Austin Kleon at CreativeMornings/Austin from CreativeMornings/Austin on Vimeo.
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I feel like Oprah should bust out & be all, “SHOW YO WORRRRRRK!” That seems about right.
Really loved this. Thank you, Austin.
View Larger “You look kinda like Ernest Hemingway.”
“And we’re both from Key West.”
“You’re from Key West?”
“Well, I used to smuggle coke out of there.”
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, “My God, people are actually paying attention to this. Let’s pretend they aren’t because we don’t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what we’re saying.
— Greil Marcus (via austinkleon)
View Larger Y’all, Zack made this for me. It’s made out of our old stove. The base was the bottom of the oven & the flowers were the burners. Ruby helped paint the stems. I love it so much.
