Lately I’ve been in a creative slump and it’s been bad. Once you fall behind on a bunch of assignments, it’s hard to catch up or want to catch up. You start to develop this sort of apathy about making anything.
There is no point. No one cares. I am Jack’s wasted life.
Yesterday I was 14 days behind on assignments and I knew this was the turning point. If I didn’t start doing assignments again, my work for the past few months would be worthless. Continue reading
Day 70’s assignment was: “Work only with numbers today. You could make an image using numbers, make something into number shapes, do something involving a calculator, or…?
Every time I get gas for my Honda Civic, I always write down how much money I spent, the # of gallons I got, price per gallons, and the mileage so that I can figure out my MPG. I tallied my results from 2011 and these are the results: Continue reading
Day 79’s assignment was: “Walk through an alley or along a small road and pick up discards materials to work with. Don’t be afraid of a little dirt–just be careful not to cute yourself.”
My friend Elena and I took a walk around a park instead of going to a sketchy alleyway (I need to be in Fredvegas to go to an alley). While there we found a little whiffle ball.
I decided to make a gif for today since I need to practice my gif-making skills!
Also, because this was so much fun to make, I decided to make Crazy Elena Gif #2 (see Gif #1 here).
It does make me sad that the quality of the gif isn’t the best in Gimp. But still, it’s practice for the day I get photoshop again.
Day 78’s assignment was: “Make up a name and write a backstory for a stranger you see today. Bonus: Create something based on what you’ve made up and give it to them.”
Sometimes I meet the most interesting people at my retail job. Such as Suzana from Croatia. This is her story.* Continue reading
Day 76’s assignment was “Make something inspired by and /or that fits on or around an ear (yours or someone else’s).
I try to avoid craft stores like Michael’s. Not because I don’t like getting crafty, but because I will go to Michael’s for a specific purpose and then spend another $30+ dollars on things I don’t really need.
Like last year: Sibling 1 needed to go to Michaels to get something and I accompanied her. I walked out the store with all these clearance jewelry pieces that I was convinced I would make into necklaces. Continue reading
Day 72’s assignment was “Use all of the shoes in your household to make something, or work on a single pair of shoes that were destined for the thrift store.”
The people who know me well know that I own a fraction of the number of shoes most girls own. Oh, I do have a lot of shoes, especially compared to most guys. But in general, I don’t care that much about the shoes I wear as long as they are comfortable.
Except for these. I love these shoes.
They don’t look like much after 4 years of wear and one year sitting in my closet. But again, I have to say I love these shoes. My feet are kind of big, but thin, which can make finding the right evening-out sandal difficult.
I had been looking for shoes like this for a while and it was fate that lead me to Target the day I found these perfect silver sandals in my size. Not to get sentimental or anything, but it was like God himself came down from heaven and decided that these were the ones destined for my feet.
I loved these so much that months later I scoured ebay looking for the gold twin of this very same sandal (Target stopped carrying the brand Isaac Mizrahi which made it quite difficult to find the gold version of this in my exact size.)
I’m obsessed. I’ll admit it. I wish you all the best finding your own perfect sandal.
But back to today’s assignment. My silver sandals were toast. They were falling apart, the color was fading, I lost my right heel and they had no traction. A year ago I ended up replacing these with an inferior silver sandal and put these in the closet. My perfect shoes were meant for the trash bin when I could finally get the heart to throw them out.
Today however, was a big day. With nothing to lose, I decided to see what would happen if I spray painted my shoes black. I am in need of black sandals and figured this would be an interesting experiment.
It actually turned out better than I expected.
The black look is a great improvement on the faded out silver. I still have the problem of the crappy soles, but I might go see how much it would cost to re-sole them. If it’s cheaper than buying a new a pair of black sandals I will probably do it just so I don’t have to retire these re-vamped shoes.
Once again I am indebted to this 366creativityjournal project which makes me do the things I have procrastinated on!
Day 69’s assignment was: “Make a puzzle or make something using pieces from a puzzle.”
After searching google for inspiration, I decided to make my own optical illusion using this tutorial. It was simple to do and once I had my images ready, I just looked for a wordpress plugin which can do image/mouse rollovers. This plugin was super easy to use, unlike a few others ones I tried.
DIRECTIONS:
Stare at the dot for 20-30 seconds. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image. The image will look like it’s in color until you move your eyes.
The original photo can be viewed on my flickr! The colors are more intense in the normal photo.
This is part 2 of Day 67’s assignment which was “Write a 10 word science fiction story. Bounus: Illustrate it.”
This story was inspired by a post on 9gag.com (original zombie picture taken from here):
Which prompted my friend Crystal to come up with:
I love when things like this go hand in hand. 🙂
And although this wasn’t the post that inspired this zombie apocalypse stories in the first place, I thought this was well done:
Day 60’s assignment was: ” Make something that casts a shadow and document only the shadow.”
After procrastinating on this assignment, I finally dragged my friend’s sister into posing with me for a shadow photo. Then, since all the photos were kinda terrible, I decided to do Visual Assignment 52 where you take a bad photo, add a vintage effect and then add a silly phrase in helvetica.
I edited the photo in Pixlr (amazing free photo editing website!) then asked my friend for suggestions for a phrase to use. One of them is slightly negative and the other one is more positive. I couldn’t decide which one I liked more so I ended up posting both:
caption by Aitak M
lyrics from the song: We are young
