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Everyday Matters Paperback – Illustrated, January 9, 2007
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Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn't been married long. Their baby, Jack, was ten months old; life was pretty swell. And then Patti fell under a subway train and was paralyzed from the waist down.
In a world where nothing seemed to have much meaning, Danny decided to teach himself to draw, and what he learned stunned him. Suddenly things had color again, and value. The result is Everyday Matters, his journal of discovery, recovery, and daily life in New York City. It is as funny, insightful, and surprising as life itself.
- Print length120 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHachette Books
- Publication dateJanuary 9, 2007
- Grade level8 and up
- Reading age13 years and up
- Dimensions6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101401307957
- ISBN-13978-1401307950
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"At times heartbreaking, but more often uplifting . . . a must for anyone searching to reconnect with a lost inner artist." -- Creative Loafing
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- Publisher : Hachette Books; Reprint edition (January 9, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 120 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1401307957
- ISBN-13 : 978-1401307950
- Reading age : 13 years and up
- Grade level : 8 and up
- Item Weight : 6.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #127,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #129 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Books)
- #437 in Creativity (Books)
- #2,623 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)
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About the author
I spent most of my life not believing I had the right to consider myself an artist in any way. But then I started drawing in my mid-thirties and it changed my life. It led me to travel, to meet people, to get books published, but most of all it transformed the way I see the world around me and how I experience every day.
I believe that everyone has the same opportunity. Not to become a Professional Artist but to make art into a regular part of your everyday life. It doesn't matter what your elementary school art teacher said, or your parents, or your boss. You have it in you to draw, to play an instrument, to write poetry, whatever you choose. You can and should express your self. Regardless of what you fear anyone else may thinks of the results, you can become a creative person and achieve a new view of the life you lead.
I often wonder what the world would be like if every adult was as creative and free as we all were as kids. I think it would be calmer, lovelier, more peaceful place. And I'd like to do something about it.
Several years ago, I started writing about my experience of creativity and sharing it on my website, dannygregory.com. Within a few months, the Everyday Matters group was formed and now thousands of people get together regularly to encourage each other in drawing and painting and making beautiful things. They chat on the Internet and they get together in cities and towns around the world to collaborate and share.
Many of my books — The Creative License, Everyday Matters, An Illustrated Life, An Illustrated Journey, Art Before Breakfast, and Shut Your Monkey —were written to help and celebrate the sorts of people I met in our group. Some are students, some were artists and designers. But most were just people like me who had suddenly decided, when they were well into adulthood, that they wanted to return to making creativity a regular part of their lives. Most of them don't want to make a living painting or have their drawings hung in galleries and museums. They just want to have the pleasure and satisfaction of creating things.
If you would like to incorporate more creativity into your life, check out my new book, visit my site and drop me a line. I'd love to be inspired by you.
Meanwhile, here's some more of my story:
I was born in London, which we left when I was three or four. We moved briefly to Pittsburgh, Pa. then to Canberra, Australia. When I was nine, I went to live with my grandparents in Lahore, Pakistan. Next we went to a kibbutz in Israel then moved to a small town called Kfar Saba. As the Yom Kippur War broke out, we relocated to Brooklyn where I went to a Quaker high school. I was editor of the school paper and organized a Marxist study circle. I graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, with a degree in Politics. It was my 21st school.
When I was eleven, I began my first job - assisting the vet at the local slaughterhouse. I've worked in a record store, in one of New York's finest restaurants, and my congressman's office. I was a White House intern (Jimmy Carter lusted for me only in his heart) and a McDonalds' fry cook. I have also worked in a half dozen advertising agencies, and illustrated books, newspapers, and magazines. I now am co-founder of sketchbook Skool an online art and creativity school with dozens of teachers and thousands of students worldwide..
I live in Greenwich Village in New York City. If you are in the area, come draw with me and my group.
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Read it in a few hours and it was a satisfying evening spent.
I take that last part back. It's not just that the author's experiences mirror my own life that makes this book notable. Rather, it's that Gregory manages to capture his own HUMANITY...without resorting to irony or the manufactured self-deprecation that seems to plague the modern memoir that makes this book so notable. I mean, finally!, someone has managed to write an HONEST memoir, one that does not require an attorney's Release of the Facts as a prologue.
"Everyday Matters" reads like a private journal, without the pretention that comes when the author knows other folks'll be reading it. Gregory's sketches are likewise uninhibited and imperfect; together, the text and illustrations create a personal, intimate environment for the reader that is inviting and judgment-free; none of the "You shouldn't have looked (though I knew you would, so I gave you my best side)" business that is the meta-text of so many memoirs, but instead offers a reassuring, "Well, that's me, hair and all...what do you think?"
A thoughtful, generous gift from Gregory to his readers.
On the other hand, this is the first sketchbook I ever bought (although I have bought graphic novels before). Perhaps the focus is on the sketches. In which case, I'm not sure I'd've bought it. The sketches were nice, just not sure it would draw me in enough to make a purchase.
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Danny Gregory cuenta una parte de su vida y el cambio dramático que tuvo como consecuencia de un accidente que sufrió su esposa. Relata cómo el ponerse a dibujar y de este modo apreciar la belleza de las cosas que lo rodeaban lo ayudó a superar la situación por demás complicada y prácticamente le salvó la vida.
El autor, profesionalmente es o fue un creativo de publicidad y se nota en el particular estilo de sus dibujos a tinta y acuarela que llenan el libro y son dignos de mirarse con detenimiento. Son dibujos tomados de sus sketchbooks, muy expresivos.
Es un libro recomendable para los interesados en temas humanos y de arte.