Newspaper Blackout Poems

Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Buy the book.

March Horoscopes (SXSW Edition)

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

If you dig these horoscopes, some from last year made their way into my new book, Steal Like An Artist.

If you’re going to be at SXSW this year, be sure to check out my panel on Saturday with Kirby Ferguson. I’ll be signing copies of Steal afterwards. (I might even be giving away some these horoscopes as stickers, like last year.)

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100 Microblackouts

Thursday, March 1, 2012

I made 100 “micro-blackouts” for people who retweeted a link to Steal Like An Artist a few days ago. You can see them all on the Newspaper Blackout tumblr, or click one of the thumbnails below to browse…

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New 20×200 print: “Creativity Is Subtraction”

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Very happy to announce my new print, “Creativity is Subtraction,” on sale now from 20×200.com. Buy it!

“Creativity is Subtraction” is actually the title of chapter ten of Steal Like An Artist. If you send in a receipt from a copy of Steal to Workman Publishing by midnight tonight (Feb. 28th), you have a chance to win one of these babies framed! Details here.

You can see all of my 20×200 prints on Pinterest.

February Horoscopes

Thursday, February 2, 2012

If you dig these horoscopes, some from last year made their way into my new book, Steal Like An Artist—coming out February 28th!

Pre-order link ?

TIME Magazine Names Newspaper Blackout a Must-See Tumblr Blog

Monday, January 30, 2012

30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs | NewsFeed | TIME.com

His redacted masterpieces have won him both a book deal and a line of art prints sold through online gallery 20×200. The focus of his Tumblr, however, is his fans. Anyone with a marker, a newspaper and a little creativity can submit to the site. The result is a kind of free-form word search, with people providing one-liners that range from funny to enigmatic to genuinely thought-provoking. Whether or not you consider it actual poetry, it’s definitely not a bad way to recycle your morning paper.

Thanks very much to TIME readers who recommended the site and to all who’ve submitted poems in the last couple of years. Strangely enough, the site is almost exactly 2 years old! I knew there should be a site where people could submit their own poems, but I was waiting around for the right platform to come along. Luckily, a few months before the book came out, Tumblr started allowing users to submit posts. And that was that. Today the site has over 25,000 readers.

I’m still accepting poems, so feel free to send me yours: NewspaperBlackout.com→

So Many Places: 20×200 Newspaper Blackout Print from West Elm

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

A new 20×200 print, “So Many Places,” is available through WestElm.com.

the world is so many places! — yet home is the word we’re encouraged to find

See the rest of my prints→

Here’s an excerpt of a mini-interview I did with the West Elm folks:

How do you live with art?

My wife and I work together in a home studio, so we like to surround ourselves with art by filling our walls with pieces from artists we love. Sometimes I’ll even frame and hang pictures of (mostly dead) artist heroes of mine — they’re like friendly ghosts, I can feel them pushing me on while I work. (It’s way less morbid than it sounds.)

What is a favorite gallery or museum that you particularly love or that inspires your work?

Here in Austin, Texas, I really like to stop by Yard Dog Art Gallery on South Congress and see the stuff they have up. Because I’m both a writer and an artist, my absolute favorite spot in town is the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas campus — their archive is massive and their exhibits are terrific. I’ve seen everything there from original Frida Kahlo paintings to James Joyce manuscripts.