Book-It 'o11! Book #6
The Fifty Books Challenge, year three! (Years one and two, just in case you're curious.) This was a Solstice gift from my little candy drop and spiritual little sibling punkishgrin .
Title: The Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith
Details: Copyright 2007, Princeton Architectural Press
Synopsis (By Way of Back Cover): "INCLUDED IN THIS KIT...
◘ HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN STICKERS
◘ HOW TO MAKE A SEED BOMB (GUERILLA GARDENING)
◘ HOW TO MAKE WHEAT PASTE
◘ THE PORTABLE IDEA DISPENSER
◘ KNIT TAGGING INSTRUCTIONS
◘ HOW TO MAKE STENCILS
◘ DOZENS OF GUERILLA ART ACTIVITES
◘ A NEW WAY TO TRAVEL BASED ON RANDOM MOVEMENT
LEAVE SECRET--
messages everywhere you go. Your ideas are interesting. Find yourself through recklessness and freedom. Revel in the idea of impermanence. Create your own world. Give back. Doodle. Listen. Plant. Stroll. Dance. Grow.
EXPERIMENT. Make connections.
"We cover the universe with the drawings we have lived." ~ Gaston Bachelard
WHAT DO YOU SEE? Be a tourist in your own life."
Why I Wanted to Read It: punkishgrin recommended it and she has good taste (except when it comes to friends-- har de har har).
How I Liked It: I have been enchanted with glamourbombing ever since I found out what it was. Is glamourbombing a form of guerrilla art? Is guerrilla art a form of glamourbombing? It doesn't matter. The two are clearly related if not one and the same.
The book offers relatively practical instruction (although I'm probably not alone in not wanting to cut up a book-- I'm sure the author would approve of making copies whether by hand or by scanner) and some flat-out revolutionary ideas.
She offers a caveat both in the beginning of the book and after each section of "questionable" legality (meaning "defacing" advertising for example). Otherwise this book would make a wonderful gift for an ambitious teen (perhaps I'm thinking too shades of Stargirl?) or anyone stuck in an age/period of his/her life of conformity.
Even if you have no intention of ever trying the exercises offered, the book still stands as an escape into a wonderful world of questioning everything and all being interactive.
Notable: The book has firmly one spelling of "guerrilla" featuring only one R. The dictionary, however, defines the correct spelling as having two Rs. Odd?
Examples of people that have taken the guerrilla art approach featured in this book appear frequently here.
Title: The Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith
Details: Copyright 2007, Princeton Architectural Press
Synopsis (By Way of Back Cover): "INCLUDED IN THIS KIT...
◘ HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN STICKERS
◘ HOW TO MAKE A SEED BOMB (GUERILLA GARDENING)
◘ HOW TO MAKE WHEAT PASTE
◘ THE PORTABLE IDEA DISPENSER
◘ KNIT TAGGING INSTRUCTIONS
◘ HOW TO MAKE STENCILS
◘ DOZENS OF GUERILLA ART ACTIVITES
◘ A NEW WAY TO TRAVEL BASED ON RANDOM MOVEMENT
LEAVE SECRET--
messages everywhere you go. Your ideas are interesting. Find yourself through recklessness and freedom. Revel in the idea of impermanence. Create your own world. Give back. Doodle. Listen. Plant. Stroll. Dance. Grow.
EXPERIMENT. Make connections.
"We cover the universe with the drawings we have lived." ~ Gaston Bachelard
WHAT DO YOU SEE? Be a tourist in your own life."
Why I Wanted to Read It: punkishgrin recommended it and she has good taste (except when it comes to friends-- har de har har).
How I Liked It: I have been enchanted with glamourbombing ever since I found out what it was. Is glamourbombing a form of guerrilla art? Is guerrilla art a form of glamourbombing? It doesn't matter. The two are clearly related if not one and the same.
The book offers relatively practical instruction (although I'm probably not alone in not wanting to cut up a book-- I'm sure the author would approve of making copies whether by hand or by scanner) and some flat-out revolutionary ideas.
She offers a caveat both in the beginning of the book and after each section of "questionable" legality (meaning "defacing" advertising for example). Otherwise this book would make a wonderful gift for an ambitious teen (perhaps I'm thinking too shades of Stargirl?) or anyone stuck in an age/period of his/her life of conformity.
Even if you have no intention of ever trying the exercises offered, the book still stands as an escape into a wonderful world of questioning everything and all being interactive.
Notable: The book has firmly one spelling of "guerrilla" featuring only one R. The dictionary, however, defines the correct spelling as having two Rs. Odd?
Examples of people that have taken the guerrilla art approach featured in this book appear frequently here.