If you’ve followed any of my work for even a short period of time you probably know all too well how much I love to read.
Whenever I’m not working or spending time with my family, you can bet I’m probably reading.
I also love sharing the things that I’ve read almost as much as reading, itself. A good portion of what I post and share on my social media accounts are quotes from whatever books I’m enthralled with at the time. Sometimes its type, sometimes copy and paste, sometimes it’s screen shots taken from reading in Kindle.
Lately I’ve been on an unanticipated hiatus from recording and filming. The constraints of my current schedule aren’t particularly conducive to shooting YouTube videos or recording podcasts, at least not in the way that I have been doing it. I realize that’s a rather pathetic excuse but, its the truth, or part of the truth. I also have to admit I’ve not been in a great head-space.
Regardless, I’ve been looking for ways to be creative in new and different ways.
At the moment I’m enamored with Adam Savage‘s book Every Tool’s a Hammer. I almost feel like I should apologize for how much I’ve been sharing from this book. It’s like my tweeter feed is on a mission to overtake the internet with Adam Savage quotes.
One of the things I’ve been asking myself is “how can I can make sharing what I’m reading a creative act?” Here’ what I’ve come up with so far:
I’ve made a series of collages either on my phone or in Photoshop, or using a combination of the two.
And, recently, as a fast and dirty creative experiment, I’ve started adding some sketchy doodles to Kindle screen shots.
It’s not breath-taking or astounding work, but its fun, messy, and experimental. I like that, and more importantly, I need that.
As Adam Savage says:
Making is messy. It’s full of fits and starts, wrong turns, and good ideas gone bad. New Methods, new skills, new creations, they are all a product of experimentation; and what is an experiment but a process that may or may not yield expected results? WHO KNOWS?
Keep showing up, Keep doing the work, FAIL BOLDLY, and let’s make something meaningful.