D.I.Y. magic - Anthony Alvarado

D.I.Y Magic offers a set of mind
hacks that will help any creative artist to find new sources of inspiration -
encompassing self-help, psychology and philosophy. D.I.Y Magic will change
the way you think about yourself, about creativity, and about the world. Hack
into deeper levels of creativity, access the subconscious, and discover
techniques that have been used by artists from Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Beethoven and Richard Wagner, David Lynch and Leonardo da Vinci for
centuries. From vision quests and lucid dreaming to creating a memory palace
and Salvador Dali's spoon trick the deceptively simple exercises collected by
Anthony Alvarado are designed to help those born into the modern age of
reason to escape the rational web of what we already know and to see. Explore
creativity through the lens of actual magic and follow in the steps of the
Romantics, the Dadaists, the surrealists, the beatniks, anyone chasing the
muse, in learning how to pull the strings of everyday reality and unlock the
magic of the creative mind. Illustrated by a host of visionary artists,
including alternative comic artists such as Farel Dalrymple and Ron Rege Jr,
D.I.Y Magic is a radically original arsenal of ways to think, perceive and
experience the world.