Staring blankly, fingers hovering over the home row on my keyboard, I put the computer to sleep and grabbed a mailer from a stack of things I’ve picked up over time — books, zines, cards, Kickstarter projects…
I don’t normally open packages right away, forming a totem of inspiration to relish when most needed.
I grabbed a mailer to open Scott Boms’ lovely zine featuring Sister Corita Kent’s 10 Rules for Teachers and Students. It turned out to be just the right burst of color, energy and notions for the moment. Inside the inside cover flap was a (view)finder — a piece of paper with a rectangle cut out in which to reframe the world.
I’d seen a clip about this very thing on Austin Kleon’s blog a while back.
And these windows swirl around the periphery. Local artist Jon Flannery has variations of finders as business cards. My friend Drew tucks one in his sketchbooks and draws a grid on each page to fill them up with zoomed in details.
I wandered the house to frame a few visual tidbits, felt refreshed and finished up work tasks to close out the week.
Unrelated: Today’s soundtrack is from a collaboration between Bruce Hornsby and yMusic. Some of the tracks are out there, but the lead song is a good amuse-bouche.