Austin Kleon Boeken

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books—Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined—Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Here is how to Build a Bliss Station—a place or fixed period where you can disconnect from the world. How to see that Every Day Is Groundhog Day—yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, so just do what you can do today. How to Forget the Noun, Do the Verb—stop worrying about being a “painter” and just paint. Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It’s exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.

The next step in your creative journey. How to use this journal 1. Carry it with you wherever you go. 2. Do at least one exercise every day. 3. Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full.From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!. and Keep Going, an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries.The Steal Like an Artist Journal includes page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. There are lists to fill in—Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. Challenges to take. Illustrated creative exercises—Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. Pro and con charts—What Excites You?/What Drains You? Includes an elastic band for place-marking and a special pocket in the back—a “swipe file” to store bits and pieces of inspiration. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot.

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

Poet and cartoonist Austin Kleon has discovered a new way to read between the lines. Armed with a daily newspaper and a permanent marker, he constructs through deconstruction—eliminating the words he doesn't need to create a new art form: Newspaper Blackout poetry. Highly original, Kleon's verse ranges from provocative to lighthearted, and from moving to hysterically funny, and undoubtedly entertaining. The latest creations in a long history of "found art," Newspaper Blackout will challenge you to find new meaning in the familiar and inspiration from the mundane. Newspaper Blackout contains original poems by Austin Kleon, as well as submissions from readers of Kleon's popular online blog and a handy appendix on how to create your own blackout poetry.

Immer wieder aufs Neue kreativ zu sein, ist ganz schön schwer. Wie macht man weiter, wenn man blockiert ist? Austin Kleon zeigt zehn Strategien auf, um nicht nur kreativ bei der Sache, sondern auch sich selbst treu zu bleiben – und das ein Leben lang. Ganz egal, ob du ausgebrannt bist, ganz neu anfangen willst oder schon irre erfolgreich bist: »Gib nicht auf!« hilft mit praktischen, zeitlosen und ehrlichen Regeln dabei, ein kreatives und ein sinnhaftes Leben zu führen. Ausstattung: s/w, ca. 40 s/w-Illustrationen, Softtouchfolie

Možná bychom sem už nemuseli nic psát, protože představovat Austina Kleona našim čtenářům je nejspíš zbytečné… Ale my se tak těšíme! Pojďme si to raději shrnout: novinka plná kreativního povzbuzení pro chvíle, kdy si myslíte, že už nikdy nic nevytvoříte, protože nápady došly, vyšla v originále letos v dubnu. Ve svých předchozích knihách – Kraď jako umělec a Ukaž, co děláš! (obě jsou mimochodem bestsellerem jak podle New York Times, tak i dle nás), nám Austin Kleon ukázal, jak objevit svou kreativitu a jak o sobě dát vědět světu. Nyní nabízí to nejdůležitější: deset pravidel, jak o kreativitu nepřijít, zůstat soustředěný a věrný sám sobě – a to celoživotně. Tvořivost není rovná cesta s jasným začátkem i koncem, ale spíše smyčka. Kniha je vtipným návodem na to, jak se v různých odbočkách naší práce a tvorby neztratit, jak nesejít z cesty a mít správně nastavený cíl. Austine, děkujeme, těšíme, jedeme dál!

Umělec Austin Kleon dospívá k moudrému závěru, že absolutní původnost v jakékoli oblasti tvorby je v digitální době nedosažitelný cíl. Vše, co vytvoříme, je produktem naší zkušenosti, a naše zkušenost je souhrn všeho, co prošlo našimi geny a smysly. Je nutné se s tím smířit. Tvorba už bude VŽDY krádež. Teď jde o to, jak krást (tvořit) se ctí: tedy tak, abychom navzdory všem výpůjčkám přinesli něco nového a měli z výsledků naší práce radost.