Matthew Vescovo: Instructoart Lesson 1: Informative Yet Aesthetically Pleasing

By: Matthew Vescovo

Book Overview

What is the most efficient way to get a pubic hair off a bar of soap? How much distance is required between two people when executing an air kiss? What body part follows the shoulder in the hokey... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974261505
• ISBN13: 9780974261508
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Instructoart Book Associates/Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Fresh idea, brilliant execution

Matthew Vescovo has the rare ability to find humor in life's details. Think Seinfeld, think Curb Your Enthusiasm, think The Simpsons. Add in laugh-out-loud airplane-style illustrations that bring his observations to life, and boom - the result is a hysterically funny book. This book would be a great gift for anyone. Except for that guy who likes unfunny, uncool stuff.

A Seinfeld for the Pop Art World

Matthew Vescovo does for the obvious what Seinfeld did for the mundane--made it clever and hilarious! This is a very enjoyable and smart book. It calls attention to common place things and occurances that we all experience everyday and gives it an irreverent twist. Kudos to Matt Vescovo! I look forward to future lessons!

extremely funny *and* edifying

A couple of years back, there was a best-selling book called Life's Little Instruction Book that contained all sorts of homespun wisdom about how best to live your life. Well, Instructoart is like a Life's Little Instruction Book for modern living, covering everything from the proper way to give an air kiss to how to remove pubic hair from soap, complete with detailed diagrams. Sprinkled in among these descriptive how-tos are hilarious observational nuggets about, say, the difference between cats and dogs, and how men turn everything, even urinating, into a competition. As a bonus, Vescovo's book contains a detailed appendix that shows the genesis and development of each piece, giving the reader a window into the author's sometimes-twisted-but-always-entertaining imagination. I often enjoyed these notes and sketches as much as I did the final pieces.I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for some good laughs and maybe even to learn a thing or two. After all, you never know when you're going to be called upon to do the hokey pokey or make a farting noise with your armpit...

10 thumbs up

It's times like this that I wish I had 10 thumbs, so that I could give this book 10 thumbs up. Even if having 10 thumbs meant a lifetime of ill-fitting gloves and awkward handshakes.