Newspaper Blackout

"Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn't need."
(NPR)







"Underlining. Highlighting. Circling. When we read interactively, when we 'alter' texts, we’re isolating little bits of writing that speak to us. Fire our imaginations. Illuminate something.

It’s the same thing when we hyperlink: we’re pointing to something that speaks to us.

When the CIA redacts a document:



It’s the same practice done in the opposite spirit: they’re isolating text that speaks to no one." ~ Austin Kleon

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