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How to Write Blackout Poetry
Have you heard of blackout poetry? Anyone can be a blackout poet, or an artist at reduction. In yoga teacher training, one of our teachers brought in a book by Austin Kleon called “Steal Like an Artist”. It’s a great book if you need to be inspired. He’s all about leveraging appropriation to find your voice. One of the methods Austin Kleon has come to be known for is blackout poetry. To write blackout poetry, find an old newspaper or book. Take a big black marker and use it to black out all of the words on the page except a select few that form a sentence or fragment or…
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Outlander Floral Nail Art Tutorial
This floral nail tutorial originally started as a basic geometric minimal ombre manicure with squoval tips. But then I started watching Outlander while I did them. If you haven’t seen Outlander yet, you must. I couldn’t stop. I had heard from several friends that the Outlander book series is amazing, but the premise didn’t intrigue me much so I hadn’t picked it up. Outlander is a time-travel romance… See what I mean? They already lost me. In the 1940s, a woman named Claire and her husband are reunited following the end of World War II and go on their second honeymoon to a remote town in Scotland, where Claire is transported to the 1840s…
