Monday, April 20, 2009

Hypocrisy

I’m an avid follower of Austin Kleon’s newspaper blackout poems. I was amazed the first time I read them. I thought the idea was brilliant—extracting words in a news article, and forming what could otherwise be described as poetry.

Because April is the newspaper blackout poetry month, I tried making some poems myself. It’s hard at first, but pretty much like anything else, it takes practice.

This is how I did it:
  • Get a newspaper
  • Box the words
  • Shade the rest of the words (I use Pilot Broad Super Color Marker)
  • Scan the newspaper cutout
  • Edit in Photoshop: increase contrast to +45 and decrease brightness to –12.
Here, I used a news article from the Philippine Collegian, the official student publication in UP.

Hypocrisy

Try it out if you have nothing else to do.

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8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

happy birthday, Lance! God Bless!


p.v

p.s
parang necktie ung lay-out mo, ung sides. Why blue?

Wed Apr 22, 03:32:00 AM GMT+8  
Blogger PauT said...

Happy Birthday Kuya Lance and what a nice idea you have there. :}

May you enjoy the day and continue to glorify the Lord through your life. :)

Wed Apr 22, 09:10:00 AM GMT+8  
Blogger Lance said...

Salamat, Paul! Hmm... iniisp ko nga kung ano ang magandang color, eh. Any suggestions?

Wed Apr 22, 09:20:00 PM GMT+8  
Blogger Lance said...

Pao, salamat! Actually the idea's not original. Try mo ring gawin!

Wed Apr 22, 09:21:00 PM GMT+8  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Belated happy birthday Lance. 22 on 22. How could I forget....haha

And double congrats for the laude (magna), did i get that right?

jgg

P.S.
It's the first time i encountered this idea. Very nice!

Thu Apr 23, 01:20:00 AM GMT+8  
Blogger Lance said...

Thanks so much, Jeiel! Ikaw, gagraduate ka na rin soon!

Thu Apr 23, 06:02:00 AM GMT+8  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I should...it's been a year...

Fri Apr 24, 01:56:00 AM GMT+8  
Blogger Carlo B. Timbol said...

nyhaha twisted

Sat Apr 25, 03:25:00 AM GMT+8  

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