Day 33′s assignment: “Use pen your materials/inspiration today. Draw with them, use them as construction material… or? ” I was at a friend’s apartment recently and saw this amazing tapestry they had hanging on their wall: I found out you can get it at Amazon which means I am totally going to buy it  one ...

Day 31′s assignment was “Make a path for people to follow and invite people to try it out”. This to me translated into make a scavenger hunt! I decided to make it for my dad to cheer him up since he was sick with a cold. I left the first clue on the kitchen table ...

Day 30: “Play time. Work with toys: If you don’t have any, borrow some from a friend with kids, and maybe even work with the kids!” For this assignment I was inspired by Colleen and her Visualassignment97: Using a Barbie, take a picture of a scene with 1 or more Barbies demonstrating one of the Seven ...

Day 40: “What can you do with yarn? You don’t have to know how to knit or crochet; you can try yarn painting or just experiment.” What can I do with yarn? Nothing! Ahh!!   These were my thought yesterday as I lay in a creative slump. I was behind on a few of my ...

Day 27′s assignment was: “Dreamland. Use a recent dream as inspiration for what you do today.” The night before, I went to bed wondering what crazy dreams I was going to have this night. The past few weeks I’d been having ridiculously vivid dreams and thus assumed that this night would be no different. I ...

Now Day 12 of 366 Creativity Journal has come and passed a looooong time ago, but I wanted to take a moment and highlight the art of Marieke. Marieke is one of my friends who is doing this project with me and she happens to live in Germany. This means that for the most part ...

Day 22′s assignment was: “Create a bridge. Connect two things in a creative way. It could be small enough for an amoeba or big enough for an elephant to cross.” Thinking of what to do for this assignment was really tricky for me. It wasn’t until late at night when I was talking with my ...

Last Monday I finished my yearlong Dailyshoot challenge! For my final dailyshoot I took Sibling1 along and headed out west. I took photos in two different locations (abandoned house & empty field) before deciding how I want my final shoot to end. The result: Let me tell you, it was really hard taking a (good) ...

My reactions after finding out my websites were hacked last week:   After getting everything up and running again: Two Weeks from now (reality)  

Day 21′s assignment:  ”Write a ten-word love story. Bonus: illustrate it!” After consultation with various people, I realized that I couldn’t do a sincere love story in 10 words. So instead I wrote this: “On the big screen: Will you marry me? HELL NO!” By this I mean that if someone asked me to marry them ...

Day 20′s assignment: “Buy or make some clay (see instructions on page 238) and then use it like you never have before.” I decided that it would be easier to buy clay in an assortment of colors rather than make it on my own. After work I made a trip out to Michael’s and bought ...

Day 19′s assignment: “Create something that float on water (It doesn’t have to be a boat.)” After deciding I couldn’t think of anything that floated on water beside a boat, I decided to once again brush up on my origami skills. Too bad I could only remember the kid version of the song where Barney ...

Day 18′s assignment:  ”Work with the things you find in your (or a friend’s car if you don’t have one).” Luckily today I ended up waiting in the car for a while before a doctor’s appointment. After rooting around for a bit I managed to find an unused dog bag.   I played around with various ...

Day 17′s assignment: “Make something inspired by and/or that goes over and eye (yours or someone else’s)” First thoughts: Clearly I am going to make an eyepatch today! Hmmm.. what materials should I use for this… Later that day: Or maybe I should do some crazy eye makeup on me or a friend…… Much, Much ...

Day 16 assignment was: “Make a unique print by cutting up a potato or sponge, and use it to stamp on a material of your choice. ” If I had ever done a potato print, it’s been eons ago. So I decided to carve up the potato in a few simple shapes: heart & smiley ...

Day 15′s assignment was:  ”What can you do with a just a dollar? Use a dollar bill as your medium or inspiration today. ” Since I had done origami for Day 3 I decided that today I would have to do something different. During my Chasing Summer trip a few months ago, I went to ...

Day 14′s Assignment was: “ Make something microscopic. How small can you work? Can you make something that requires a magnifying glass microscope to see?” What popped in my head almost instantly was the idea of changing my favicon. My favicon* for the past year had been a yellow crown, which I chose for several reasons ...

Day 11 assignment was: “Work on the other hand. Pick a medium you’re comfortable with, then work with your nondominant hand.” I am part of the lovely minority who uses my left hand to write, which meant that today I would have to use my right hand.  In the past for fun I’ve attempted using ...

Day 10′s assignment was : “Use only water as your medium or inspiration today.” Due to various events this day I waited until the last possible minute to create something for the assignment. Which, consequently meant that I wasn’t thinking clearly when I decided to balance my camera on top of a water glass to ...

Day 8 assignment was: “Transform an old book into something new by cutting, folding, gluing and so on.” Now at first I was slightly horrified. Destroy a book?  Impossible!! But then I thought about this book on Degas I had rescued from my grandma’s house in August when it was about to be donated.   ...

Day 7′s activity was “One week down! See how fast it goes? Today, make a stencil and use it in your work.” I started off with trying to make an elaborate stencil, but realized my paper cutting abilities leave much to be desired. Instead, I ended up making a stencil that said “Got Mail” with ...

365creativityjournal ‘s assignment for day 3 was: “Make something out of paper, but don’t use scissors or glue or draw on it. What now?” Of course, the first thing that sprung to my mind was origami. My friend KKY had given me a bunch of origami paper about a year earlier after I said I ...

2011 was a crazy year. I graduated from college and had many crazy adventures in the US with international friends!   Most importantly, I took DS106 in my final school semester. DS106 has changed my life. I say this not because all of the internet skills I learned through this class, but because of my ...

Today I decided to look at my Flickr stats and  see where people have used my flickr photos on the internet.  All my photos are Creative Commons which means that they are available for download/use  with the condition the user credits me as the photographer. The search results were surprising at times. My pictures have ...

Today as I was driving to pick up some friends so that we could go to Border’s Going Out of Business sale, I kept thinking about the underwater photos I blogged about yesterday. Then I thought: “When I get a book published one day, I wanna use a photo by Elena Kalis on the front ...