Austin Kleon

@austinkleon

NYTimes bestselling author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other books. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter & log off this hellsite:

Austin, TX
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    Mar 3

    The 10th anniversary gift edition of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST. 📚 first time in hardcover 🔎 bigger trim size 💅 fancy ribbon bookmark & endpapers 🔭 new afterword Get it now:

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    18 hours ago

    Tomorrow's newsletter is the first in a series on....HOUSEPLANTS. History, design, type, place, all of it's fascinating. If you don't want to be beholden to the Twitter algorithm to find it, sign up here & enjoy this cover of New York Mag from 1975

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  3. 31 minutes ago

    Swim upstream from Bobby Parker’s “Watch Your Step” and you get to Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Manteca”

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  4. 40 minutes ago

    If there’s anything redeeming about humans it’s our music

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  5. 44 minutes ago

    Sunday reality

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  6. 47 minutes ago

    Bobby Parker’s “Watch Your Step” (1961) One of John Lennon’s favorite records — he stole it for “I Feel Fine”

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  7. 1 hour ago

    “Magic Carpet Ride” is hilarious because they basically had the track down and sent singer John Kay home with a tape so he could come up with lyrics. He’d just bought a new stereo with his royalties from the first record, so the song’s just about how killer his stereo sounded 😂

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  8. 2 hours ago

    “I like to dream / yes, yes, right between the sound machine”

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Recorded music is still so weird and interesting and mysterious to me. You can hear a song 1000 times on the radio they can put it in a cheesy movie they can play it in a viagra commercial and if yet, if you hear it in the right context, it totally kicks your ass

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  10. 14 hours ago

    Ron Padgett

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  11. 14 hours ago

    About to sit on my ass and mainline several hours of television

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  12. 15 hours ago

    “Four-fifths of London mud was shit.” 💩

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  13. 15 hours ago

    “A horse produces forty-odd pounds of manure a day.”

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  14. 16 hours ago

    📖 =

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  15. 16 hours ago

    Commonplace diary

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  16. 17 hours ago

    Wish I was in NYC tonight

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  17. 19 hours ago

    “I’m sorry son, this game was too fast and dumb for me 30 years ago”

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  18. 19 hours ago

    My kids want me to play Sonic the Hedgehog and I hate it 😂

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  19. 20 hours ago

    Kids love car crashes, and unfortunately, the busy intersection near our house delivers on a monthly basis. Today their rubbernecking got them stickers from the heroes 😂

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  20. 22 hours ago

    Friend sent me photos from the … and gift shop😊

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  21. 24 hours ago

    Glad I documented so much of that first tour — everything was such a blur, I met so many of my good friends! Here’s what my sketchbook looked like back then

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