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Little things to tell you. 1) There’s a new short (8 min) film about my “Today” project, made by my friend, Scott Thrift.  Scott came to visit me last fall in Vermont, a few weeks after I ended the project, and we made the film then. 2) From June 27th – July 1st, I’ll be […]

“These aren’t as pretty as some of the pictures on your blog, but then, my studio ain’t as pretty as most of the other studios, either. You’ll see I have two desks: one’s digital, one’s analog.” Austin Kleon is a writer and artist. He’s best known for his Newspaper Blackout Poems–poetry made by redacting newspaper articles with […]

“My studio is on the fifth floor of an old industrial building that was once the Eberhard-Faber pencil factory in Greenpoint Brooklyn. I share the space with designer/art director (and girlfriend) Kim Bost, and there’s a slew of other super talented artists, illustrators and designers in the building, as well as a silk screening business, […]

“I try to keep my work area as clean and tidy as possible, as I need somewhere to be organized because my head is always racing ahead of what I want to do. I think keeping things simple is the best way to do this as it makes updating things, getting on with a new […]

Girls to the Front: A Story in Desks. “In February 2008, I was fortunate enough to go to the MacDowell Colony for the first time. Marooned in a one-room studio in the snow-heaped woods, I spread out my book-in-pieces across an enormous desk and the entire floor as well. I scissored chapters into shards and […]

Drawing Desk in Warwick, New York. “This is an aluminum table that is a throw-back to my mom’s catering business. I sometimes paint at this desk as well. The rotary phone in the photo still works.” Drawing Desk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. “This is actually a painting studio but sometimes I draw on this desk. The […]