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By Matthew Odam | Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 03:18 PM
We’ve all seen the myriad (mostly excellent) photos that come out of live shows in Austin. While they often capture the beauty, danger, charm, grace, wit, etc. of the moment, sometimes a change of pace is nice … a different perspective via a different medium. Enter writer/artist Austin Kleon, whose Web site I was sent today. Kleon attends shows and does Sharpie drawings of musicians on index cards. Last night, he was at the Spoon show at Scoot Inn.
The “writer who draws,” as he calls himself, has done work for SXSW and ACL, and uses his site to “post (his) creative work and explore the art of communicating with pictures and words, together.”
His ongoing project, Newspaper Blackout Poems, will be released as a book by HarperCollins in 2010.
Check out a few of his drawings from his site:
Spoon at Scoot Inn
Neko Case at Stubb’s
Shearwater at Stubb’s
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By starvingartist
April 22, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this
there are way better artists out there that should get more recognition than some chum that doodles with sharpie at concerts.