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A review by disasterchick
The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker
4.0
Interesting activities to help you notice more in the world.
Buy, Burn, Steal - a game to play with objects that is like the Marry, Date, or Dump Game.
Taking pictures of numbers, letters, park benches, window boxes, markers, something that you will notice and appreciate when you see one that is a bit different.
Draw instead of take pictures.
Look at something for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. In an art gallery the average person looks at a piece of work for 17 seconds.
One that could be on the creepy side but interesting is to follow a person (like in NYC with lots of pedestrian traffic) and once they go into a private residence or office building then the game is up. The narrator went to a movie he probably would not have seen.
Pick an area that has local restaurants and try each of them out.
Make lists - inventory your stuff.
Connect with friends by meeting them half way.
Write a letter to a stranger.
Look for an object such as security cameras during a visit to a new city or for a day.
This is a book I will have to revisit. Lots of interesting ideas on looking at the world differently. You are what you notice.
How did I find this book: It was the September 2021 pick from Austin Kleon's Read Like an Artist book club sponsored through Literati.
Buy, Burn, Steal - a game to play with objects that is like the Marry, Date, or Dump Game.
Taking pictures of numbers, letters, park benches, window boxes, markers, something that you will notice and appreciate when you see one that is a bit different.
Draw instead of take pictures.
Look at something for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. In an art gallery the average person looks at a piece of work for 17 seconds.
One that could be on the creepy side but interesting is to follow a person (like in NYC with lots of pedestrian traffic) and once they go into a private residence or office building then the game is up. The narrator went to a movie he probably would not have seen.
Pick an area that has local restaurants and try each of them out.
Make lists - inventory your stuff.
Connect with friends by meeting them half way.
Write a letter to a stranger.
Look for an object such as security cameras during a visit to a new city or for a day.
This is a book I will have to revisit. Lots of interesting ideas on looking at the world differently. You are what you notice.
How did I find this book: It was the September 2021 pick from Austin Kleon's Read Like an Artist book club sponsored through Literati.