Blackout poems created from The Matrix screenplay. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/entitled-to-copyright-erasure-a-fair-1710301/
31 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
The Gen Z protests in Kenya begun in June and, according to posters seen on social media, are set to continue on 8th August. Nane is the Swahili word for the number eight so the upcoming protests have been dubbed "Nane Nane". It has been a rollercoas...
24 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
I asked Google’s Bard to review my poem “Open The Shadow” with reference to the Matrix movie. I did not mention to Bard that “Open The Shadow” was a blackout poem created from page 3 of The Matrix screenplay (Numbered Shooting Script, March 29, 1998)...
14 Feb 2022 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
The artwork accompanying this blog post is the Artificial Intelligence interpretation of the first Matrix blackout poem I created, "boundaries". I was recently introduced to Nightcafe, a platform that allows people to create art with the help of Arti...
11 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
It’s been more than 40 days since I took a break, a sort of vow of silence, in regards to one famous app. I think one benefit of this is that I discovered Publish0x. Also, I had more time to work on content for my new Publish0x blogs. Michelle Thiele...
5 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
One of my favourite bands is U2 and one of my favourite U2 songs is "Where the Streets Have No Name". The music video was shot on a rooftop, a nod to The Beatles' last concert as portrayed in the "Let It Be" film. According to Bono, the song is about...
2 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
An alley can be looked at as a kind of roofless tunnel. In “The Symbolism of Tunnels in Literature”, Linda Emma informs us that tunnels serve as “symbolic representations of journeys and passages” such as “from a place of darkness and doubt to a plac...
30 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
According to the National Statistics Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: "1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as inju...
29 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
Ah the beauty of technology! So for my first two blackout poems, I used the Paint program and it took me approximately 1 hour to work on each poem. Today, I thought to myself, "Surely, there must be someone out there who has thought of an easier way...
27 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
Betsy Franco in “Conversations with a Poet: Inviting Poetry into K-12 Classrooms” outlines the characteristics of a list poem. It can be “a list or inventory of items, people, places or ideas.” Repetition is often used in this type of poem but rhyme...
27 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
It took me about an hour to create this blackout poem. I used the Paint program. Another name for blackout poetry is erasure. “Erasure is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and...
