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August 2009

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  • August 26th

    SIDE PROJECTS

    Why it’s important to take time to fart around.


  • August 26th

    CREATIVE WRITING 101

    newspaper blackout poem: “a story begins / when a bomb / meets the hero / and he sees death / and something left to live for”


  • August 24th

    SEPPUKU

    newspaper blackout poem: “and came the crash of the sword he fell on”


  • August 17th

    PLEASE VOTE FOR MY VISUAL NOTE-TAKING 101 SXSW PANEL!

    Please vote for my SXSW 2010 Visual Note-Taking 101 panel!


  • August 13th

    I COMPOSED THE HOLES

    The above snippet came from a Texas Monthly article on Texas songwriters I read on the plane this morning. It reminded me of Ronald Johnson, in his introduction to radi os, a long poem made by erasing words from Milton’s Paradise Lost: “I composed the holes.” (Johnson was quoting a composer whose name I forget [...]


  • August 12th

    MORE ON THE TEA BAG DRAWINGS

    A nice gal from the American Botanical Council interviewed me about the tea bag doodles.


  • August 10th

    SUMMER IN TEXAS

    newspaper blackout poem: “even a tough cookie / will start to wear down in this heat / it ain’t a mystery”


  • August 8th

    M. WARD ON AUSTIN CITY LIMITS

    Drawings done during M Ward’s 2009 Austin City Limits taping.


  • August 8th

    THE OPERA ENDS

    newspaper blackout poem: “the opera ends / with cries of ah! / in her sleep / and / me conducting her to the night and wind / to embrace and be restless / is a hard offer”


  • August 8th

    RIP! A REMIX MANIFESTO

    Mind map of the documentary about Girl Talk, fair use, and remix culture.


  • August 6th

    45365

    On the Ross Brothers’ documentary depicting their small hometown of Sidney, Ohio.


  • August 2nd

    HOME DEPOT

    Newspaper Blackout Poem: “you are screaming at me in the garden center / the paperwhites stink / i try not to yell / because i love you”