austinkleon: How To Make A Newspaper Blackout Poem Filed under: how-to Reblogged 1 week ago from austinkleon 115 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, howto, austin kleon. Source: youtube.com austinkleon: An oldie, for Ireland Reblogged 4 months ago from austinkleon 580 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout, blackout poetry. Recent newspaper blackouts by austinkleon Posted 4 months ago 2,227 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, austin kleon. austinkleon: Clear history #newspaperblackout #blackoutpoetry Reblogged 5 months ago from austinkleon 654 notes Tagged: Austin Kleon, newspaper blackout, blackout poetry. Making blackout poems on Periscope austinkleon: This is like a lot of my blackout poems, with one difference: it was made live, with the help of an audience using Twitter’s new livestreaming app, Periscope. (Here’s another one, and here’s something I wrote about how my friend Wendy is using the app.) My rig if anybody’s interested old gooseneck desktop mic stand gorillapod glif old iphone 4 First we selected a section from today’s paper: Then I selected an article and a window of text, and people messaged me snippets of text to circle: Then we found a little story that read “later, after successfully defending her robot”: But then, because I’m sort of a control freak, I saw the text “what it’s like” and decided to connect it to the word robot, and came up with a new sequence: Until finally, it turned into this: It was pretty fun, but it took a whopping 28 minutes. (If you have the Periscope app, you can watch it all here for the next 23 hours or so.) Or, I shortened it to a 15 second timelapse: A video posted by Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) on Apr 2, 2015 at 2:03pm PDT I’ll probably make another one tomorrow afternoon, so follow me on Twitter to get notified when it’s time to join in: @austinkleon And if you have any ideas of fun stuff to do on Periscope, let me know! Maybe we’ll do office hours on there? Reblogged 6 months ago from austinkleon 183 notes Tagged: howto, newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, austin kleon. Clever crossword blackout by Susan Borri Posted 6 months ago 160 notes Tagged: submission, susan borri, newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, crossword. A blackout by @alena.shen Posted 6 months ago 275 notes Tagged: blackout poetry. A newspaper blackout by @scrabbbb Posted 7 months ago 585 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, scrabbbb. austinkleon: Newspaper Blackout is 99 cents on Kindle right now! Reblogged 8 months ago from austinkleon 102 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, austin kleon. Source: austinkleon.com Happy new year! Thanks for reading. xoxo, Austin Posted 9 months ago 873 notes Tagged: Austin Kleon, newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, happy new year. cherrybomb: My day just took a sharp turn toward brilliant. Thank you austinkleon Reblogged 9 months ago from cherrybomb 71 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout. Newspaper Blackouts by Austin Kleon Get a signed copy of the book, or follow me on Twitter (@austinkleon) or Instagram for daily poems. Posted 10 months ago 2,955 notes Tagged: newspaper blackout, blackout poetry, austin kleon. next page → Read the book About the project Share your poem Ask a question Twitter Instagram Facebook My blog All of Tumblr Follow on Tumblr RSS Feed Random Archive Mobile © 2010–2015 Powered by Tumblr