{"id":23956,"date":"2015-04-08T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T00:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=23956"},"modified":"2015-04-08T21:52:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T04:52:35","slug":"artist-and-author-douglas-coupland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/artist-and-author-douglas-coupland\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist and Author Douglas Coupland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/199924923&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our guest this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/coupland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Coupland<\/a>. Since 1991, Douglas has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England&#8217;s Royal Shakespeare Company and is a regular columnist with the Financial Times. He began a visual art practice in 2000, and his first museum retrospective opened in summer 2014 at the Vancouver Art Gallery and travels to Munich this summer.  In this week&#8217;s episode of the Cool Tools Show, Douglas introduces us to some new tools as well as new ways to think about old ones.<\/p>\n<p>Show Notes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Podcast on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|<a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lRj2ZFvW58zaPSSvGbI5LllEd16LUGs2vsJo0AyBhJI\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/741491\/199924923-cool-tools-27-douglas-coupland-author-artist-inventor.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/archives\/tag\/cool-tools-show\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/static.feedpress.it\/js\/button.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\" class=\"urilv-button\" name=\"feed-7810\">Subscribe to Cool Tools Show<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN\/0399173862\/cooltools-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2015\/03\/quakes.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present<\/a>\u00a0By Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulbricht, and Shumon Basar<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.jetpens.com\/images\/a\/000\/046\/46688.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/Akashiya-Sai-ThinLine-Brush-Pen-Extra-Fine-Chitosemidori-Pine-Tree-Green\/pd\/10308?gclid=Cj0KEQjwlYqoBRDajuaTvsyq1PQBEiQAEhSjnLuQ_ukupt0I9UqClCH8EcF9v7GkCbBEwt5P6KQJDgwaAjel8P8HAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese brush pens<\/a>\u00a0$5<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I discovered them first in Japan, where they&#8217;re more or less perfected. I\u00a0guess you would call them the Japanese Sharpie. You open them up. They\u00a0come in a variety of colors&#8230;They&#8217;ve got these\u00a0long pointy nibs which are super flexible. They&#8217;re very good mimics for\u00a0hair or whatever material you might use for a brush. They have a line\u00a0quality that is&#8230;so unlike\u00a0say, a Bic pen or a Sharpie&#8230;with these pens it&#8217;s a genuine calligraphical\u00a0experience, and wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71q1mOCQnBL._SL1300_.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000PS8JPU\/cooltools-20\" target=\"_blank\">Little spiral notebooks<\/a>\u00a0$1.40<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think back when I was at <em>Wired<\/em> in &#8217;93, I don&#8217;t know if you\u00a0remember <em>[Douglas spent a few weeks with us at the Wired offices in San Francisco when Kevin and I were editors there. &#8211; Mark]<\/em>, I used to have these little spiral ones in my pocket. Every time\u00a0I saw something new or&#8230;had an idea,\u00a0I&#8217;d just jot it down. Then the people in my life started mutinying around\u00a01997, saying, &#8216;You just can&#8217;t bring that thing out anymore. Douglas, you&#8217;re\u00a0spooking us. Every time we say something you pull it out.&#8217; Then five years\u00a0later comes the smartphone revolution and now everyone&#8217;s doing the\u00a0exact same thing, albeit electronically. I just like having the paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stopnailbitingtips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/iStock_000008224011XSmall1.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fingernails<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think fingernails are really\u00a0important and they never get talked about&#8230;There&#8217;s nothing like them. They&#8217;re the most underrated tool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/images\/products\/alex-drawer-unit-on-casters-white__63414_PE170984_S4.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/40196241\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drawers from Ikea<\/a>\u00a0$120<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;[T]here&#8217;s this wonderful set of drawers that IKEA makes that really is a\u00a0storage dream, actually. They&#8217;re not like Billy bookcases, they&#8217;re just\u00a0these white drawers you pull out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Coupland &#8211; Cool Tools Show #27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1559],"tags":[1555],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23956"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24132,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956\/revisions\/24132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}