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so cool...

This is the coolest thing. Maybe I'm slow but I just discovered Wordle. You paste in some text and then it generates a "word cloud". You can change fonts and colors and redo the design over and over 'til you get something you like. It will make words (that are repeated more than others in the text) bigger than others so you can force it to emphasize some words more than others. So cool. And they say you can use the "clouds" that you create in any way you want to -- you can even make money with them by printing on t-shirts or using in designs you sell in different ways.

Here's another one using the text from my blog post about my dog Duke a few weeks ago.

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marianne said…
how fun is this? i see many mixed media/ transfer applications too.....
October 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Laurie said…
Exactly what I thought too Marianne! Be sure and let me know about it if you use "word clouds" somehow in a piece. I think they are so fun!
October 3, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Paula Scott Molokai Girl Studio said…
Thanks for the link and tip and visuals!! It does make my head spin...but how cool is this? Wow.
October 3, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks! Just spent an hour messing with this!! FUN...
February 21, 2009 at 8:12 PM
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