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Visual Assignment #3
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For my third assignment, I did the Newspaper Blackout Poetry, worth 3 stars. Here’s the image: The poem reads: “sacred representations” murders attempted murder confused, angry and fearful feel sacred figures ubiquity of sacred images t-shirts and bumper stickers deadly the path was settled the creation to be a violation scratched out marched on cross-examined feared, warned, compelled infallibility waged war burned and dismembered defecated avoided depicting Washington holy and sacred George Washington sacred duty become commonplace children resistance Hollywood nothing short of blasphemy constant source of conflict That’s a damned lie! violence painted uproars crucifix, submerged a crusade vaginas ...
We the Chickens
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My final assignment from the bank this week was Newspaper Blackout Poetry: “Grab a marker and today’s morning edition and start blacking out sections to create a new story. It could be a poem, a picture, or a novella, all drawn from the words of the latest news.” Fredericksburg chickens unanimously passed two ordinances that allow beehives to petition in support of bees in residential neighborhoods. This is just a little nonsensical story. The original text stuck out to me because the title was about chickens, a front page story about chickens? Did I move to the midwest over night? ...
Other people’s words
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For an assignment that I didn’t enjoy nearly as much as I thought I would, I certainly went a bit overboard with it. There’s another newsprint blackout poem under the cut, as well as my own spin on the art form. Weirdly, I think the reason I found this assignment less awesome than I initially anticipated was that I am a poet. It’s one of the titles I use to define myself, these days–poetry is part of me, just as much as breathing or seeing, speech or touch. It sounds a little ridiculous but it’s absolutely true. Trying to create ...
Visual Assignment: Newspaper Blackout Poetry
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Newspaper Blackout Poetry Grab a marker and today’s morning edition and start blacking out sections to create a new story. It could be a poem, a picture, or a novella, all drawn from the words of the latest news. This is a 3 star assignment. Instead of a national newspaper I decided to choose the UMW newspaper The Bullet. I walked into the academic building Combs and grabbed the first edition of The Bullet that I saw. It was from September 20, 2012, as shown in image above. I saw this article on the front page called Study Abroad Provides ...
More ds106 Visual Fun
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A ds106 assignment that intrigued me was Newspaper Blackout Poetry. It’s a three star assignment and that seemed excessive to me, at first. Turns out, it is pretty challenging. I looked at several articles and tried to plan out some possibilities. I actually wanted to avoid this one because it seemed to serious, too raw, too painful. But in the end it was the one that worked best for me. Here’s the original article: Here’s the poem once I blacked out a bunch of words. rape weeping seething harrowing not usual critical pain And with that emotional end, I wrap ...
Unscrambling Messages
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Wow, what a week it has been at Camp. Everything is going okay, but this stress of keeping everything upbeat is taking its toll. The campers are all engrossed in their creative activities, and Martha and i seem to have gotten a few of the lagging students up to speed. We are seeing the beginnings of a lot of creative output, some starting simply. A number of them are not getting the stuff about embedding media and a few others could be writing more stories. But everything is going to plan. Yet I worry. I hear whispering in groups of ...
life. a newspaper blackout poem
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The newspaper poetry blackout assignment is a project I’ve wanted to do for awhile. I’m a big fan of the fridge magnets that give you a limited set of words to work and create with and I see this kind of assignment along the same lines. I grabbed my free copy of the Free Lance-Star Weekly and started looking through the articles. I found a couple of good candidates that contained words that caught my eye. I started on one and decided I didn’t like it as I moved along. I was mostly eyeballing my way down the columns and ...
Altered Books and Blackout Poetry
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My middle school students have been working for the past month on their altered books. One of the parents donated a bunch of old science books from Time Life and we have been systematically ripping out pages, painting, gluing, and using Sharpies on them. Here are a few of their Blackout Poems. And a spare poem thrown in for fun. The assignment for this page was to find text that they liked and blackout the rest. They were trying to create a free form poem, without worrying too much about making sentences. I encouraged them to use images either by ...
Arthur C. Clarke Blackout Poetry
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Though it’s not a newspaper (as the original #Ds106 assignment prescribes), I had the idea this afternoon while my teaching parnter was teaching the Arthur C. Clarke short story, “I forget thee, Earth” to give the front page of our handout the blackout poetry treatment. The text of the new work, Art Clark’s “I forget Earth…” is below, should anyone want to give the piece a Tom Woodward “snowball” and turn the text into something else: song, dialogue, a rock opera… Ten years old, his father took up Administration and Power, the uppermost and swiftly growing Farmlands. Great, slender plants ...
Visual Assignment: Newspaper Blackout Poetry
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I loved this assignment.