How to Be an Artist

There's more wisdom in the newspaper than you might think -- especially if you ignore 99.9 percent of it and have a big, black magic marker handy.

Check out Austin Kleon's blackout poems: Part 1 and Part 2. Good advice?

He'll tell you how to be cool, too.

A collection of his newspaper blackout poems is forthcoming from HarperCollins in February 2010.