Name: TEDx】Steal Like An Artist.オースティン・クラオン＠TEDxKC (【TEDx】Steal Like An Artist: Austin Kleon at TEDxKC)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:36:38.000Z
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So there is a story about the composer Igor Stravinsky.

Stravinsky was about to start a new ballet.

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But instead of starting completely from scratch,

he pulled out some of his favorite classic manuscripts,

And he borrowed baselines and melodies from the famous works,

but he composed his own harmonies and rhythms underneath that work.

And when the ballet came out, critics were outraged.

They said, "How dare you do this to the classics?

Well, I love newspapers. I grew up with newspapers.

My parents subscribed to two different newspapers.

My father in law and my uncles are both reporters,

and I've been reading newspapers my whole life.

The trouble with newspapers is that they're ephemeral.

When we're done reading them, they stack up in the recycle bin.

Despite all that, I don't know anyone who hasn't clipped

Our impulse is to save the things that mean something to us from oblivion.

I think the human beings are collectors and artists especially.

Not hoarders, mind you, there's a difference.

Hoarders collect indiscriminately, and artists collect selectively.

They only collect the things that they really love.

and the best way I know to collect ideas is to read.

And what better thing to read than a daily dispatch of human experience

So, in 2005, I was right out of college, right out of undergrad,

and I had a horrible case of writer's block.

I would sit, I would stare at the Microsoft Word screen,

and that little cursor would blink at me as if it were taunting me.

And writing, which is once given me great joy, it was now --

with that stack full of papers, and I thought, "Here am I. Here I am,

And right next to me or thousands of them, and they've delivered

So I thought I might steal a few, and this is what I did:

I picked up my marker that I use for drawing,

and I started making boxes around words that popped out at me.

And I start connecting those words into little phrases and funny sayings.

And when I was done, I blacked out all the words I didn't need.

And this is what it looks like. It looks like as if the CIA did haiku.

And I really wasn't sure what I was doing.

All I knew was that it felt really good to watch some of those words

So what I did, was I started posting them to my blog

and I called them newspaper blackout poems.

And slowly over time, they spread around the Internet

and I collected them in my first book Newspaper Blackout.

Now, I thought I was ripping off the Government.

That's John Lennon's FBI file on the left and the blackout poem on the right.

But over time I started getting all kinds of emails and tweets

and other comments that my work was completely unoriginal.

And the artist that people pointed to the most was this brilliant

Back in the sixties Tom Phillips walked into a bookstore,

and he picked up the first Victorian novel he found.

And if you can see, he left words, much like  I do,

he left words floating in his art pieces. And he's done this for forty years.

His projects called "A Humument". And you could look it up --

What I discovered about Tom Phillips is that he actually got the idea

for his forty-year project by reading a Paris Review interview

when Burroughs was talking about his cut-up method of writing,

which is when you take a piece of writing, cut it up

and reconfigure the pieces to make a new piece of writing.

Funny enough, when I started researching Burroughs,

for the cut-out technique from his friend Brion Gysin.

Brion Gysin was a painter at the time. And he's preparing a canvas

and when he was cutting the canvas, he cut through a stack of newspapers

and the way the newspaper strips floated and the words worked together,

But then, you do a little bit more research

and you find out that thirty years before that

that thirty years before that, there was a poet named Tristan Tzara

who in Paris, went onstage, got a hat, got a newspaper,

put the pieces in the hat, pulled them out one by one

I traced things all the way back to the 1760s

where neighbor of Benjamin Franklin named Caleb Whitford --

in those old days, the newspaper was fairly new

so what Caleb did is he read across the columns

instead of reading them top to bottom. And he would get all these

funny combinations and he'd crack up his friends in the pub.

And eventually he published a broadsheet of them.

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