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How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum Paperback - 2008
by Keri Smith
From the author of "Wreck This Journal" comes an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Smith encourages people to observe the world around them as if they've never seen it before, take notes, and focus on one thing at a time.
Summary
From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.
Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.
The mission Smith proposes? ?To document and observe the world around you. As if you?ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.?
With a series of interactive prompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeous book.
Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.
The mission Smith proposes? ?To document and observe the world around you. As if you?ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.?
With a series of interactive prompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeous book.
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- Title How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
- Author Keri Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, NY
- Date 2008-10-07
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780399534607 / 0399534601
- Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 7 x 0.61 in (23.11 x 17.78 x 1.55 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Active learning, Experiential learning
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008015966
- Dewey Decimal Code 153.35
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“Both daring and meditative, How to Be an Explorer of the World is part Maira Kalman, part Wendy MacNaughton, part its very own kind of whimsy, delivering — beautifully — exactly what it says on the tin, with an invitation to be just a little bit more alive each day.”
—Brain Pickings
—Brain Pickings
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