“Make something every day and change your life!”
Well, I don’t know about all that, but it certainly has been interesting so far.
It is difficult to stick to, though. So maybe putting this up will hold me accountable? Yeah, right…
Restrictions I want to come back to that I missed or skipped
- 35 - Make instructions that someone else can follow to make something. Then have someone use them.
- 36 - Take something old and make it look new.
- 40 - Work with yarn. Gonna make mallets!
- 58 - Life size: Make something as big as you possibly can.
- 79 - Walk through an alley and make something out of discarded stuff you find.
All 365 posts
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Art
I fell off the every-single-day part of the 365 project. Will probably return to it in winter. Until then here are some of the random bits… -
Words
Restriction: Work with words. Make an image with just words and letters. Working on some flyer tests for a local show: And M has been busy as well: … -
Eraser moon
Restriction: Create something from erasers. Turns out you can make neat striations in a kneaded eraser by erasing wet ink and stretching/squishing it. -
Dying
Restriction: Try dyeing. Use fabric or food dye. -
Shredded spider
Restriction: Work with shredded paper. -
Compassfork
Restriction: Create a new utensil. For when you need to eat your food in perfect circles. -
Steven Suils
Restriction: Make up a name and write a back story for a stranger you see today. He trudges to work, not really hung over but in that fuzz of the... -
Walking in the Garden of Ma'at
Restriction: Use an ear as inspiration. I’m quite sleep-deprived today and I had this little hallucination of a story come to me while walking around listening to Lykathea Aflame -... -
GMF
Restriction: Be bold. Go to a store that you frequently shop at or a restaurant where you frequently eat and ask what they’ll let you make there. and Restriction: Get... -
Snowflex
Restriction: Work with the gravel, sand, or rocks available near your home. It was really muddy, so I worked with the next best thing to sand: tiny metallic beads. -
Bleeding feet
Restriction: Use all the shoes in your household to make something, or work on a single pair of shoes that were destined for the thrift store. I’m going to tell... -
Joy
Restriction: Time travel. Make something that seems like it came from another era in history. Joy.mp3 … I wasn’t going to transcribe this, because I like the mystery of the... -
Odd
Restriction: Work only with numbers. 1. Postcard Inspired by a song from Shining - Blackjazz. 2. Bonus poem one rotting heart two blistered feet in three blinks of an eye,... -
Puzzle Gateway
Restriction: Make a puzzle or make something with the pieces of a puzzle. … -
Heart
Restriction: Create something with papier-mache. This took several days of drying because I’m no paper expert. It also may have been a mistake to use the yellow pages. I was... -
Elders
Restriction: Write a ten word science fiction story. Ten is a rough limit, because it encourages you to dispense with articles. But when you do that, the flow of a... -
Almonds
Restriction: Go grocery shopping and pick up something specifically to work with. Extra credit for making it in the store? Yeah, not going to do that. Decided to do some... -
Tangrams
Restriction: Use only the classic tangram shapes. Well, there they are. Fast forward I don’t remember what this was supposed to be, just getting familiar with the shapes I guess... -
The Mountains of Fire
Restriction: Incorporate yourself into whatever you make. Little odd that this one came right after mask. I was, uhh… inspired (?) by these: (Thanks Jenifer, hah!) Insta-Muppet. So then there... -
Boxbot mask
Restriction: Create a unique mask using whatever materials you like. This took way longer than it looks to make (cardboard is annoying) and turned out pretty crap. Ahh well. It... -
Devoured
Restriction: Make something with your dinner before you eat it. When he said, ”I’m of two minds about staying,” that’s when her shadow started feasting. “I know how that goes,”... -
Knight
Restriction: Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom. Time to whittle soap - pretty old school. I used a... -
Shade the Embodied Angles
Restriction: Make something that casts a shadow and document only the shadow. -
Mixed media
Restriction: Mix and match. Work with two materials that generally don’t go together. I picked: Light switches and screws Paper and crayons Obvious but fun. BING. -
Kite
Restriction: Use a disposable bag to create something new. In between battles with electricity, I made a phone book bag kite: -
Mass
Restriction: Make something heavy seem light. Was going to add watercolor clouds and colors, but I got lazy. -
Dots and cells
Restriction: Connect the dots. Make something using only dots. 3x5 card and red ink. Another piece done huddling in bad light between bands at the Project Lodge. -
Try Apathy
Restriction: Create a jingle for some object in nature. Bonus points: make a commercial. I think my mom is one of the few people following this stuff, so I’m going... -
Unknown
Restriction: Make something in which the sense of smell is an essential component. 1. The dust from an inside rim of an old, disused harp as it slides up your... -
180 Degrees North
Restriction: Work upside down. Create something in such a way that you have to rotate it 180 degrees to display it when it is finished. I’m bending the rules on... -
Cuddly Gerald
Restriction: Make something that would not normally be considered cute and cuddly into something that is. “Well howdy, my name’s Gerald! Glad to make your acquaintance!” I summoned him a... -
The Way
Restriction: Be a minimalist. Work only in white materials today. Try working on white for a real challenge. The finished piece, almost unseeable. The way is often hard to spot.... -
QED
Restriction: Quantity over quality. Work with a lot of something. Rearranging kosher salt crystals in the shape of a diagram from Quantum Electrodynamics, which I just finished reading. Good nerdy... -
Tall
Restriction: How tall can you make something stand on its own? This Braco in America youtubes provided… uhh… inspiration today. It may be somewhat difficult to get at what this... -
Anger Flower
Restriction: Work with flowers; artificial or real, live or dried, picked or bought. Sorry Mr. Book, I’m not going to buy flowers in the dead of winter for an art... -
Portraits
Restriction: Face it. What can you do with a face? Well, I was in a writing mood. So I’m going to conjure up some faces with words instead. Portraits His... -
Tape stink flower
Restriction: Create an image with tape. Well, I’d already made an image with tape recently (gear on my bass drum head!) so I decided to try to sort of sculpt... -
Purple-o-scope
Restriction: Make something that lights up. More of the unending supply of purple construction paper must be sacrificed to the elder gods! YFAGHNETHYN CHTHON’YRIK! …yeah. -
Learnins
Restriction: Learn something new. Ask a friend to help you do something they’re good at. I picked my friend Dan’s brain about slide guitar and found out what sort of... -
Mind control mail
Restriction: Turn today’s junk mail into something more appealing. Of course today is the day I get no interesting catalogs to collage into anything, and just boring political placards: -
Photon
Restriction: Make something huge that is normally tiny. Macro photography is not enough, so I made a huge photon. This is a dumb physics joke &em; I’m reading Jeff’s copy... -
Steel
Restriction: Work with yarn. I don’t have any yarn, and I didn’t plan ahead on this one. Oops. And I even had a yarn idea: MALLETS for the drumset! That’s... -
Laundry
Restriction: Write a haiku. Errr, okay… laundromat exhausts snow, static crushes the source no will left to fold <GONG> -
Loop driven
Restriction: Work underwater. I was excited to find a MINT IN PACKAGE stack of construction paper on moving day this summer, but I had no idea what I was going... -
Bracketed
Restriction: Make something with staples or a stapler. Hmm. This happened to fall on a Sunday, so I can’t borrow a stapler from work. And I don’t own any staples.... -
Arduino assembly
Restriction: Work with wire. Didn’t plan it out this way, but I happened to spot a soldering class down at Sector 67 on this night, so my wire project was... -
101
Restriction: Use pens as your material or inspiration. I drew a giant 20x scale crow quill point. You can barely spot the reference point in this workspace shot: -
Temporary Hourglass
Restriction: Make something ephemeral. I tried to work with fire but it was too hard to get it to work right; I wanted to briefly set a specific portion of... -
Forge a path
Restriction: Make a path for people, and invite them to try it out. Camera failure on this one (some days the CCD is cranky, especially so outdoors in the cold.)... -
Light Lander
Restriction: Make a disguise for a person, pet, or object. combined with the next day Restriction: Work with toys. I made a lunar lander disguise. For a lightbulb. Apparently. I... -
School of Dendrites
Restriction: Back to school; use traditional school materials like number 2 penciles or lined paper notebooks to make something nontraditional. I took a pencil and used its point and eraser... -
Die Trying
Restriction: Use a recent dream as inspiration for something you do today. I wrote a song, based partly on a dream. Eventually if I finish the demo I’ll link it... -
Portability is hard.
Restriction: Make something portable that normally isn’t. I worked on a script to make it simple to shove the photos I take into the website. That’s kind of a portability... -
Melt
Restriction: Go to your yard or a nearby park to find materials to work with. Well, all I could find out there was a whole bunch of snow, so it... -
Not easy being green
Restriction: Work only with green materials. -
Waste not
Restriction: Dig in a recycling bin for today’s materials. Engage the PBR-powered inverted Lake Louie launch platform. Or something. -
Bridge
Restriction: Create a bridge between two things. (starring Jason) -
Ten words
Restriction: Write a ten word love story. Her song angelic, his harmonizing, spiralling joy. Forever entangled now. Oh, I’m a sap, I admit it. -
Sink
Restriction: Make something that floats. Well, you can hardly see from the terrible photos, but I failed at this one. -
Baker's Clay
Restriction: Buy or make some clay and use it like you never have before. I made baker’s clay and some bizarre things. Camera problems: Post baking colorization: -
In a car
Restriction: Make something with the items in your car. Since I don’t have no car, I worked on this site template. Oh so exciting… hooray for Jekyll! -
Thread or Die
Restriction: Make something inspired by an eye. Made a pendulum out of a leather repair needle and spattered ink by swinging it around a piece of paper. -
Print
Restriction: Make a print out of a potato or a sponge and use it to stamp something. -
Death Spiral
Restriction: Use a dollar bill as inspiration today. Of course I wouldn’t deface actual money, this is a simulacrum! -
OH NO
Restriction: Make something microscopic. Unfortunately from these photos it’s hard to make out just how tiny these are. (thanks to Jeff for the base idea from long ago) -
Tongues Cannot Reveal
Restriction: Camouflage. Hide something in the background. Not sure how obvious this one is… I was standing around by myself looking dopey at a random jazz show in the Project... -
Sinistral (Left Hand Horse)
Restriction: Work with your non-dominant hand in a medium you are familiar with. Well, I know how to use a pencil, right? How hard could it be to draw left-handed... -
Only water
Restriction: You can only use water as your medium today. It turns out that working with water’s surface tension is extremely interesting. I think this was my favorite so far... -
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Restriction: Work with an old book. I took a yellowed old book of Bach orchestral scores and did a multi-media experiment with india ink and collage on two canvases, intended... -
Get well soon, Steve
Restriction: Work with a stencil. My mailman is down for the count with some pretty nasty cancer for a young guy. The neighborhood folks put together a card and a... -
Fruit
Restriction: Walk into the kitchen and work with the first fruit or vegetable you see. -
Collection
Restriction: What do you collect? Work with a collection. Building or arranging with music, either vinyl or CDs, was too odd. So I stacked some jewel cases together. -
Walk
Restriction: Take a five minute walk, and make something when you get there. Unfortunately, my camera decided to barf, so unless you saw the temporary sculpture, you’ll never know what... -
Frank Lloyd Wrong
Restriction: Make something out of paper, but don’t use scissors or glue or draw on it. I took a card sent to me and wove it into a new shape.... -
Totem
Restriction: Use your favorite animal as an inspiration. Totem The migration grows longer every generation. The beaches of our time stretch further, pulled by forces we don’t understand. My mother... -
Moonlight Banjo Pteradactyl
Restriction: Make something from your immediate environment that fits in the palm of your hand. Well, I sort of broke the palm-size constraint, but: a sculpture from banjo string packets...