Text and Art, combine!

Today we review a video, titled Steal Like An Artist: Austin Kleon at TEDxKC. This video revolves around Austin Kleon who reveals the fact that nothing is truly original, that everything we build in the now, the inspiration came from something in the past. A good example of this would be fairly early in the video when he talks about people drawing over the words of newspapers dating all the way back to the 1760's. However, he talks about "stealing" from other artists, using their unique patterns in a way that he could combine them. I believe this is genius. To blend artists together and make an art piece that others would enjoy and come to admire, those older artists are being passed down to other generations who may wish to take their hand at art as well.

Another video we will review today, is  Serendipidoodle with Amy Burvall. Serendipidoodle (what a mouthful!) is a project that was created by Amy Burvall, combining the words "Serendipity" and "Doodle". The project consists of a word randomizer that will always spit out one adjective and one noun. Amy will then upload these words together to her twitter and tumblr, and receive posts containing pictures of the object the words had made. Some such randomized words were "information corset" and "paranoid avacado".  I truly believe people would love to be a part of the serendipidoodle challenges, as there can be many different unique combinations each and every day.

Having said all this, I believe one of my favourite text+art artists is Jean Jullien because of how simplistic yet funny his art is. One such image is this one comparing Pilates to Pie and Lattes.

Ultimately I find that I enjoy light hearted imagery more than others, and text can really help bring that to life. Another artist that follows this is who we originally talked about at the beginning, Austin Kleon. His art can be humourous at times and it brings a smile to my face to read his pieces.