Since I haven’t posted a new blackout poem in a couple months or so since starting on the book, here’s a little treat: my first attempt at blacking out a whole broadsheet. This is the front page of the business section. I’d like to do a series of these, as a break from the regular book work.
FYI: if you’re in the Austin area, I’m planning on showing this and some of the new, never-before-seen poems at the next Austin VizThink gathering on September 9th.
[…] “merger”, etc. Not to say that I haven’t made a poems from the business section (link). But I do prefer the Life or Arts section, because those both have more concrete nouns and verbs. […]
[…] “merger”, etc. Not to say that I haven’t made a poems from the business section (link). But I do prefer the Life or Arts section, because those both have more concrete nouns and verbs. […]
[…] I blathered on about my work, and showed around some top-secret never-before-seen poems, including a few broadsheets. Somebody had the idea of doing a flipbook in the margins of the book to show a poem being […]
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Sounds like sane advice to me. Good one.
If you’re going to start doing more of these broadsheets, it might be interesting if you could incorporate some of the pictures as well. As it stands, you can still make out the photos through the black ink. Maybe there’s a way to only mask part of the photo in order to illustrate the poem?
My mom was visiting this weekend, and we were listening to old songs on YouTube, many of which were music videos. She said she hated music videos, because once she saw them, she couldn’t get the picture out of her head. Songs with videos she’d never seen, she had her own picture.
I kind of feel that way about the poems: I like it when you can get your own picture. Best is when the graphic has nothing to do with the poem, and it’s the juxtaposition that makes the meaning.
In the beginning, I only did articles that were accompanied by pictures, and I called them Newspaper Blackout Comics:
People seem to dig it when I get more graphical with the pieces:
Hopefully we’ll have a few of the more graphical ones in the mix for the book.
I like this image, my first thought was that it appears *RAUSCHENBERGesque* (He, fyi, is one of my favorites!) I liked how the color comes through the ink of the phot, horizontal blackout juxtaposed against the washed center are wthe wavey lines surrounding “a woman”
As always Austin Kleon, keep up the enlightening efforts!!!
Here’s another one:
Found a picture on my cameraphone of this poem in progress:
uxtaposed against the washed center are wthe wavey lines surrounding “a woman” http://www.menchuangshebei.com.cn