{"id":437,"date":"2012-07-14T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-07-14T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:03:18","slug":"steal-like-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/steal-like-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal Like an Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/\">Austin Kleon<\/a>&#8216;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0761169253\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0761169253&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=explthedataun-20\">Steal Like an Artist<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jltefqrccjzzlsgsjebu\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=explthedataun-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0761169253\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> is short but rich with ideas for anyone nurturing creative projects.<\/p>\n<p>All of the sections are thought-provoking, but I especially appreciated the suggestion to work offline more, with tangible, physical materials.? I&#8217;ve broken out of many mental blocks by turning away from the computer screen to scribble on a blank sheet of paper.? ?Kleon even suggests having separate analog and digital desks.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not against the Internet, though, pointing out that it&#8217;s the best place in the world to get inspiration: by following the people whose work most impresses you, you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594485380\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1594485380&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=explthedataun-20\">fertilize your own ideas<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jltefqrccjzzlsgsjebu\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=explthedataun-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1594485380\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.? And sharing your own work there starts a virtuous feedback loop.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/2011\/03\/30\/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me\/\">blog post<\/a>, but much more satisfying expanded as a physical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0761169253\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0761169253&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=explthedataun-20\">book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jltefqrccjzzlsgsjebu\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=explthedataun-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0761169253\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Kleon&#8216;s book Steal Like an Artist is short but rich with ideas for anyone nurturing creative projects. All of the sections are thought-provoking, but I especially appreciated the suggestion to work offline more, with tangible, physical materials.? I&#8217;ve broken out of many mental blocks by turning away from the computer screen to scribble on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}