Daily Create: Ghost Signs

via GIPHY

The Daily Create had us looking at an archive of British advertising and the Ghost Signs archives caught my eye. These are advertising signs on old buildings, where the words are faded but remain visible, and tell the story of a neighborhood’s past.

Ink faded
by years, so
that only
the remnants
remain

Ghost signs
on facades
of brick and
wood and
stone

Past words
now left
alone

Peace (fading),
Kevin

Book Review: Don’t Call It Art

Austin Kleon has long been on my list of folks to follow for advice and inspiration. I, too, am a creative person myself who likes to tinker across mediums (music, writing, art). His new book — Don’t Call It Art — is a collection of ideas of how adults can remember how to play and make art and other things with the energy and imagination of children, who ignore rules when making what they want to make. I loved the collections of blackout poems and artwork in Kleon’s most recent book (his most famous is probably Steal Like An Artist).

The subtitle? 10 Ways To Create Like A Kid Again. Yep. That tracks.

He advises us to ignore rules and instructions, to give ourselves permission to make art that is bad or unrecognizable, to remember that the inputs (reading, museums) are ways to spark more interesting outputs, and that nothing is wasted — even ideas we give up today might spark something tomorrow. And more.

Time to make something …

Peace (on the page),
Kevin