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Monday, April 11, 2011
Word clouds
I stumbled across this neat little program called Wordle that creates word clouds from words that you type in, from a blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed or a del.icio.us user name.
You can tweak position, size, colour, and backgrounds to achieve the effect you want. I played with a few options, the black background contained words which I provided, the other cloud came automatically generated from my blog feed.
What crossed my mind is that you could almost use it as a unique artist statement, especially if you fine tuned it using words that relate to a body of work or direction you are taking artistically.
What words describe your art?


WOW....what fun.....maybe as a reward for finishing the grass and sand ladder next weekend, I'll try it out!
ReplyDeleteSo cool! Where do you find these things??
ReplyDeleteThanks for charing this , I've tried, great fun !
ReplyDeleteI often read your blog, and thought this was fun! I've posted a link to your blog in the sidebar of my blog with my bio piece in Word Cloud.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.....
wordle is a great little toy, it can be really interesting to see which words you use and how often :)
ReplyDeleteThis is fun to do, I agree and I've found another program since that works even better and I've created a fish shaped word cloud.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tagxedo.com/
a fish shape - perfect for you.
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