365 Daily Creative Duel

Deb Trevan & Manny Sena in Montrose, Colorado are having a  365 Daily Creative Duel!  

They explain, "We tweaked the 365 book by putting all the prompts into a bucket. We take turns drawing from the bucket and Doing the prompt. We each picked an image for the year and daily we send each other pictures first. Then I post them to my Facebook page or once a week to my blog."

 

Why did you decide to do this project? I ordered the book for the daily creative prompt vs all the journaling ones that I participate in. One day he was looking at it and I tossed the idea to him about doing it with me and he was interested but we have different schedules and jobs etc. I put all the prompts from the book onto cards into the bucket with one exception.  I did trade the dream one for a trade images for the day. He balked at the thought of some "weird" dreaming thing....which made me laugh but gave me a chance to get a trade in. He hates reading I have read it so I think I have an advantage with some pondering of prompts before they come up. But, he is a very clever art mind and will make it a challenge no doubt.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? We have this creative competition going and creative union as well as different interpretations to the prompt. Its been fun. Of course we are only on day two as of October 2nd but its been good. We are both looking forward to the year of stuff we come up with. It has added a level of creativity and fun to our relationship.

I plan on the Unstuck book as well and if there are prompts in there I will probably get cards and toss them on and into the bucket. I bet he doesn't catch the more than a year part.

Follow the duel HERE.

Brother and Sister Projects

Helle & Vincente Göransson in Göteborg, Sweden are using my book to create Brother and Sister Projects...

Why did you decide to do this project? I found the book in a store where they sell funny and inspiring things. I thought that it could make my days less boring. And so it did! We've taken the tasks really serious and the outcome have been really funny and great :) me and my brother loves creativity and new thinking so this book is just perfect for us!




How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? This is not a daily project for us but we do it every time we meet. It has become a routine kind of. It's challenging and exciting. It makes the world such an interesting place. Life changes colour for a moment and you can stop thinking of any other problems you may have. I don't do things I don't love on my free time. I love this book. It really makes my life better! Thank you!

One experience was when we went out in the woods, in the middle of the night, to build things out of trees. We built them inside of course :) We sat for five hours creating that night/morning :)











p.s. You can find the Swedish language version of my book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal in many online bookstores.

pencil // paper // photo

Maša Kepic and Asia Werbel in Brighton, Stratford-Upon-Avon & London, England are creating a joint 365 project they call pencil // paper // photo...

Why did you decide to do this project? We decided to do it as a discipline alongside our creative practices, & to make it a joint project for support!

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? This project requires discipline, organisation & co-operation ( especially as we both have kids & work freelance! ). We're broadcasting it across social media, & using it as a platform for experimentation. It's early days yet, day 11 as I write this, but the feedback has been great so far. Asia is off to shoot London Fashion Week soon, so I'm looking forward to seeing her posts from there! As for myself, I'm enjoying the almost instant results of a daily drawing archive, compared with the slower process of painting.

We're looking forward to making a stop frame animation of all our posts for Vimeo in 2013!

See all of Maša's drawings & Asia's photos HERE.

Is It Worth Waiting For

Lou and Chris Taylor in Nottingham, UK have challenged themselves to cook a new meal every day for a year in  Is It Worth Waiting For?...

Why did you decide to do this project? in early 2011 we found ourselves in a culinary rut, often relying on a common list of recipes to make up our weekly meals. we decided to embark on a challenging social experiment, to not eat the same meal twice for a year.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? apart from an expanding waistline, we have learnt lots of new cooking methods, tried lots of new food and my husband has suddenly realised that he is not allergic to nuts or mushrooms, he was just fussy! the choosing of menus and cooking the food has been really fun and a lot easier than we thought it would be. on the other hand, keeping on top of the daily posts has probably been the biggest challenge; but without the writing we wouldn't have people letting us know when they have been inspired to get in the kitchen and cook.

Read about all of Lou & Chris's meals HERE.

Forest & Kerosene

Forest in Los Angeles and Kerosene in Montreal, Quebec are collaborating on the logically titled daily photo project forest & kerosene which they describe as, "Two childhood friends, thousands of miles apart, sharing their worlds with daily snapshots."...

Why did you decide to do this project? 

forest: I was reunited with a childhood friend via the internet, she proposed doing the project.  I thought sharing daily snap shots would be a fun and creative way to get acquainted again.  We get a peak into the 'world' the other is living in.

kerosene: We were friends in grade school, so to connect as adults seemed exciting to me, but I'm curious about the mundane. Living on different coasts, both being busy with contracts, family and life, the idea to compare daily snapshots on a blog seemed like an easy and interesting way to share. As they say: if you want something done ask a busy person.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life?

forest: I have had mixed feelings about the project.  Daily postings can be trying.  I don't take things lightly (especially creative things) and probably put way too much time and thought into my photos and comments.  So at times it feels like work.  It's also a challenge when your schedule changes or you're in a completely different time zone.  However, I have really enjoyed seeing how every once in a while, we seem to be on the same wavelength with our subject matter.  A connection on a different level. 

kerosene: A year long project has been a challenge with a lull after the first few months, but it's a really great feeling getting close to the end. And doing something daily has forced me to loosen up both in subject and execution. I had hoped doing this would help us get in touch with our individual creative likes and perhaps that will happen upon reflection of the year's work. Instead the project has taught me a lot about my friend: how easy it is to work with her, to create with her, and her great sense of humour. Checking the blog for her photo is so much fun! And it's inspired my other friends to do more mundane daily tasks, like flossing teeth.

See all of their photos HERE.

HaikuDawg

Danielle (Dani) A. Durkin and Maria Ayoob located in Pacific Palisades, CA and Albany, NY respectively are doing a project together called HaikuDawg.

Dani explains, "Each of us submits a haiku a day using the 5-7-5 line format. All topics are acceptable. D.D. is trying to juxtapose the constant yet ever-changing reality of pain and suffering in her/the body compared to seasons and celestial movement with a Buddhist-inspired philosophy. M.Y.A. wanted a break from observing herself and a reason to pay more attention to the urban, weather-afflicted, oddly beautiful landscape of Upstate New York—But finds herself reverting to observations of her inner landscape.

Suffering daily,

Body and mind churn, twisted;

Stillness invites peace.

—D.D. #62 5.7.11

In my dreams home is:

Vinyl records, clean linens

Open windows, dusk.

—M.Y.A. #62 5.7.11

Why did you decide to do this project? We started this project to both stimulate our creativity and engage in a sort of poetic conversation with one another. "Making something," or "being creative" is integral to both our lives, albeit in different forms. As longtime friends who currently live on opposite coasts, we welcome the opportunity to participate in one another's world despite the geographical distance. We both yearn to express our creative selves and feel that sharing this aspect of ourselves is fun, challenging, and pretty darn cool. And we are nothing if not cool.

Wracked with guilt. The crime:

Failure to delight in a  

Sunny Saturday.

—M.Y.A. #55 4.30.11

Friend close to my heart,
Our struggles are the same,
As is our deep joy.
—D.D. #54 4.29.11

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? D.D.: As a poet and writer suffering from a serious illness (recovering from  Cushing's Syndrome and Adrenal Insufficiency), having the energy and  optimism to write a poem a day has been healing beyond measure. Lacking the  cognition or "chi" to engage with the world for some time only deepened my  compassion for various life challenges. Making art, making poetry, and  connecting with someone I love are all things I cherish now more than ever. Working on HaikuDawg with M.Y.A. is a part of my continuing recovery; a tribute to our special friendship; and fun. Fun is healing! And so is the  expression of my creativity. It's especially satisfying to watch the poems  accumulate and connect to where we've been over time. M.Y.A.: I’ve often shied away from “creative pursuits,” although I would define creativity broadly and I create at work, in my relationships, in dancing, in looking for the absurd in the every day. But “making art” and having my voice and thoughts displayed and recorded is outside my comfort zone. At this particular time in my life, however, I want to stretch my comfort zones as much as I can. Engaging in this with D.D., my dear friend, makes this pursuit safe; engaging in it with D.D., writer and poet, makes it a little intimidating! It turns out that putting words to some aspect of my inner and outer daily life, and playing with language, is somehow calming to my busy brain. And having a daily “conversation” with D.D. in an unexpected and lovely turn in our relationship. We haven’t talked this much since college.

I didn’t know this:

The more love you give, the more

Easily love grows

—M.Y.A. #40 4.15.11

Crepuscular wind
The spreading, waxing moonlight
Love dawns as ever.
—D.D. #40 4.15.11

Read all of Danielle and Maria's haiku HERE.

Lucretia's Letters

Maaike Klarenbeek & Jo Tunderman aka Lucretia LaLune in Dordrecht, The Netherlands are working together on a project they call Lucretia's Letters (in Dutch, English version is HERE). They explain, "In Lucretia’s letters we follow the life of socially somewhat awkward Lucretia LaLune in words and pictures. Lucretia’s thoughts and behavior are recognizable in a funny, sometimes little embarrassing way, but also shows us that our personal idiosyncrasies are not that awful… Maaike writes Lucretia's love letters to Amadeu, who is the man Lucretia sees on metro rides and is in love with. Jo's illustrations complement the letters and bring them to life."
 

Why did you decide to do this project?  We both wanted to challenge our creativity in a 365 project. First we thought of doing our own projects separately, but it seemed so much more fun and inspiring to combine our strengths in this project. We wanted to create something (or someone) that is recognizable to a lot of people, but at the same time is such a caricature, that most people feel relieved that they're not THAT bad. Lucretia puts thoughts that every person might have, into word. It's fun to be able to say anything you want and hide behind an alter ego. ;-)

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? For now is hasn't really effected our lives yet. It might though. It's going to be a real challenge to commit to this every day, while jobs, social life and other activities also require a lot of time and energy... :-)

Follow Lucretia's correspondence HERE in Dutch and HERE in English.