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Jan 27, 2012
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Know any creative couples?

Hey friends,

For an upcoming project1, I’m looking for creative2 couples — married or partnered, straight or gay — who make cool things.

Preferably: 1) they are delightful in conversation and 2) they make things together (as in, run a business together) or make things apart (separate careers).

Here are the cities in which I’m looking for recommendations:3

  • Atlanta, GA
  • Austin
  • Ann Arbor
  • Detroit
  • Boston
  • Chicago
  • Cleveland
  • Columbus
  • Denver/Boulder
  • Kansas City
  • LA
  • Madison
  • NYC
  • Philadelphia
  • Pittsburgh
  • Portland
  • Providence
  • San Francisco
  • Seattle
  • St. Louis
  • Washington, D.C.

I’d really appreciate your help!

You can also tweet your recommendations to me @austinkleon

Or shoot me an email.

  1. Hint: it’s related to this tag. ↩

  2. I’m sorry about that word, but it works. ↩

  3. There’s a specific, semi-secret reason I asked for these cities, but by all means, if you know couples in other cities/towns, include them too. And yes, I know a lot of couples in these cities, but I want to hear your recommendations! ↩

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@fchimero: Dream setup care of 101 Dalmatians’ Roger—brownstone in the city, pretty lady, upstairs studio to tinker, lots of dogs. The good life. Filed under: work spaces

@fchimero:

Dream setup care of 101 Dalmatians’ Roger—brownstone in the city, pretty lady, upstairs studio to tinker, lots of dogs.

The good life. Filed under: work spaces

(Source: revolvver)

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Jan 26, 2012
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“It’s amazing I’ve lived this long without destroying a person.
— Maurice Sendak to Stephen Colbert
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Jan 24, 2012
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“The gulp [:] that interlude where the book has quit belonging to you, but doesn’t belong to anyone else yet…
— Jonathan Lethem, “Stops,” collected in The Ecstasy of Influence
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Newspaper Articles Vandalized With Wite Out by Sascha Stanton-Craven (whiteoutnews) White Out + Pen + Newspaper Articles A new cousin of Newspaper Blackout…

Newspaper Articles Vandalized With Wite Out by Sascha Stanton-Craven (whiteoutnews)

White Out + Pen + Newspaper Articles

A new cousin of Newspaper Blackout…

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Business card for Ping’s Cafe (via)

Business card for Ping’s Cafe (via)

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theimpossiblecool: Monroe. photo by Sam Shaw Filed under: girls, Marilyn

theimpossiblecool:

Monroe.

photo by Sam Shaw

Filed under: girls, Marilyn

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“If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy. The next morning I get up early and edit the gush… I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor.
— David Ogilvy
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Jan 22, 2012
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Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years (1933-1941) The aesthetic persona of Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), who became one of America’s most beloved artists, began to take shape in Milan during the 1930s. Steinberg arrived there in 1933 to study architecture, having left his native Romania and its virulent anti-Semitism. In 1936, while still an architecture student, he started contributing gag cartoons to popular Italian humor newspapers and soon became renowned for his clever visual wit. These first years in Italy, which he would later remember as a “paradise,” turned rapidly into “hell” in 1938, with the institution of racial laws that deprived him of income, a profession, and a legal residence. Forced to live as an unwanted “foreign Jew” and unable to obtain the visas necessary to leave Italy, by late 1940 he was under threat of imminent arrest; a few months later, he spent several weeks in an internment camp before finally managing to flee the country. Above: a 1937 drawing of Steinberg’s room in Milan.

Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years (1933-1941)

The aesthetic persona of Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), who became one of America’s most beloved artists, began to take shape in Milan during the 1930s. Steinberg arrived there in 1933 to study architecture, having left his native Romania and its virulent anti-Semitism. In 1936, while still an architecture student, he started contributing gag cartoons to popular Italian humor newspapers and soon became renowned for his clever visual wit. These first years in Italy, which he would later remember as a “paradise,” turned rapidly into “hell” in 1938, with the institution of racial laws that deprived him of income, a profession, and a legal residence. Forced to live as an unwanted “foreign Jew” and unable to obtain the visas necessary to leave Italy, by late 1940 he was under threat of imminent arrest; a few months later, he spent several weeks in an internment camp before finally managing to flee the country.

Above: a 1937 drawing of Steinberg’s room in Milan.

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Minimalist business card by Boris Smus I couldn’t remember where I saw this so I just Googled “business card twitter email web” and there it was. Who needs a memory, eh?

Minimalist business card by Boris Smus

I couldn’t remember where I saw this so I just Googled “business card twitter email web” and there it was. Who needs a memory, eh?

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