Austin Kleon

“Sketching is fucking up. The subversion of your conscious mind.” -@theapparatus #seechng

.@masukomi Practice! (I kind of hate drawing on the iPad, but I can’t see to draw in a dark theater…)

Check out @josephherscher and his rad Rube Goldberg machines! #seechng http://t.co/40xMuWUq

An obvious point, but even if you don’t use @Kickstarter for your funding, there’s so much to steal from their model: http://t.co/3AfanT3h

I asked @happeness, “What happens when @Kickstarter becomes The Man?” She said they ask themselves that question every day. #seechng

Great presentation by @happeness on @Kickstarter at #seechng http://t.co/3AfanT3h

Fantastic stuff from the RAW magazine archives being posted over at the Blown Covers tumblr: http://t.co/t2wifJUX

The older I get, the lower my opinion of suffering.

I’ve jammed this Lee Fields record in pretty much every hotel room on the #StealAcrossAmerica tour: http://t.co/yScOUBGY

OH: “When I found out sports was sublimated war and dance was sublimated sex…I gave up sports.”

“A computer isn’t a brain, it’s a dumb brute.” -George Lois #seechng

“Entrepreneurs can read my book and find out they don’t know shit. That they have to go to a creative.” -George Lois #nocomment

“The more I think about Mad Men, the more I consider it a personal insult.” -George Lois @seechangemn

“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?” -Montaigne cc: @jndevereux

My career –> RT @jessicahagy: Permanent marker fumes. Awww, yeah.

Tonight: gonna hear George Lois talk @seechangemn and then crash the @confab2012 party.

Good news: the book is going into its fourth printing! Thanks y’all. #StealLikeAnArtist

Prince is playing in the banh mi joint!

“What would it take to get you to come to _____?” Hit it, George: http://t.co/kobF9uza

Don’t go. #stealacrossamerica http://t.co/oWL0KQtB

I’d google “Minneapolis Prince Tour” but the fact that I won’t have the time to go on it would just bum me out. #whendovescry

Headed to Minneapolis today. Synced Zen Arcade, Let It Be, and Dirty Mind to my @Rdio app.

EPIC! Tyrion Slaps Joffrey For 10 Minutes To Achilles Last Stand: http://t.co/U6SSLF7x #gameofthrones

“Congratulations on your marvelous performance, everyone hates you.” http://t.co/2jvD9alM

Dig the chalk talks of Dr. Chevalier Jackson — amazing artist/laryngologist I learned of at the @muttermuseum: http://t.co/cVz82A6b

“Creativity” is just like any other tool: it’s not good or bad, just depends on how you use it.

On baby naming: “Parents in more conservative areas come up with names that are more creative or androgynous.” http://t.co/t4yzw4QC

No, but he kept a lot of pocket notebooks! RT @johntunger: Kerouac didn’t write On the Road while he was on the road… http://t.co/HB2prQm0

Thought: blogging mightn’t have the one-to-one impact of an email/letter reply, but it allows me to be generous to a lot more young artists.

Winston’s letter (http://t.co/gBl9mvlG) had a big impact on my life, so it sucks that I can’t do the same for every kid who emails me now…