Or as they say in a Merika "a spearmint" Awa Rich! To think of all those spearmints it took to land that washing machine - or was it a fridge? - on a comet. It boggles the brain Awa Rich.
I've started collaborating on a creative project with a friend from the Putney Illustration class.
This all sounds very sensible and serious Awa Rich
Not really, we're just playing a game.
That's not going to keep cake on the table or a roof over the cake is it Awa Rich?
Dunno, all the sensible, conventional ways I've tried in the past haven't worked so - if what you're doing isn't working then try something else.
The thing we're working on - though it feels more like play, and therein lies the cunning part - is a story, or a cartoon strip, or an illustrated book, or a blog, or a website, or a podcast, or a movie. It might end up being any, all or none of those things.
At the moment we're throwing words, photos, drawings, bedsteads, bicycles, old bathtubs and all sorts of things - anything we think of that's even vaguely related to the idea - into a big heap. Then we'll rummage through the heap and fit things together and see what we can create. We're shaking our headsheds to see what falls out and making some contraption from the bits.
Although we meet up once a week in the class, most of the time there is spent on class projects. So, we're using the internet. To begin with we're sending ideas back and forth via email and I'm collecting them - building the heap - in Evernote. Every week or so we'll review it and assemble all the good bits in a Google Docs folder.
That all sounds very organised to me Awa Rich
Yep, it's something I've wanted to play with for a while. I've only used these internet collaboration tools to instruct other people how to use them but now I have an actual project - which is a different experience.
For instance. Last week while checking the spelling of a name I discovered a treasure called Don Marquis. An American author, poet, playwright and newspaper columnist working in New York in those insane between the wars years.
I'm reading Hermione's Group of Thinkers, a satirical view of fashionable, overprivileged New York society - written from the point of view of Hermione, a young socialite. It's hilarious.
Also - the real diamond in the rough - Archy and Mehitabel. Archy is a cockroach who was a free verse poet in a previous life, and Mehitabel is an alley cat who was once Cleopatra, amongst other queens. They comment on life in a sometimes philosophical, sometimes satirical way. But always amusing and thought provoking.
The Archy and Mehitabel books are still in print and others can be found for free on the internet. This stuff is priceless, go get some now! May the Google be with you.
I've started collaborating on a creative project with a friend from the Putney Illustration class.
This all sounds very sensible and serious Awa Rich
Not really, we're just playing a game.
That's not going to keep cake on the table or a roof over the cake is it Awa Rich?
Dunno, all the sensible, conventional ways I've tried in the past haven't worked so - if what you're doing isn't working then try something else.
The thing we're working on - though it feels more like play, and therein lies the cunning part - is a story, or a cartoon strip, or an illustrated book, or a blog, or a website, or a podcast, or a movie. It might end up being any, all or none of those things.
At the moment we're throwing words, photos, drawings, bedsteads, bicycles, old bathtubs and all sorts of things - anything we think of that's even vaguely related to the idea - into a big heap. Then we'll rummage through the heap and fit things together and see what we can create. We're shaking our headsheds to see what falls out and making some contraption from the bits.
Although we meet up once a week in the class, most of the time there is spent on class projects. So, we're using the internet. To begin with we're sending ideas back and forth via email and I'm collecting them - building the heap - in Evernote. Every week or so we'll review it and assemble all the good bits in a Google Docs folder.
That all sounds very organised to me Awa Rich
Yep, it's something I've wanted to play with for a while. I've only used these internet collaboration tools to instruct other people how to use them but now I have an actual project - which is a different experience.
This is the process at the moment
- Use a familiar medium - email - to send thoughts and ideas between those involved.
- Bag 'em and tag 'em in Evernote.
- Eventually move all communication to a shared Evernote notebook when everyone involved is familiar with it.
- Review and select the good bits in Evernote.
- Transfer to Google Docs for review and proof reading.
- The content can and will change over time as we throw ideas into the pot.
- We can create many results - there's no particular goal other than to generate ideas, manifest them as words and pictures, and have fun.
- If nothing else I'll have a reproducible template procedure for doing this kind of work, but I expect there'll be a lot more than that.
For instance. Last week while checking the spelling of a name I discovered a treasure called Don Marquis. An American author, poet, playwright and newspaper columnist working in New York in those insane between the wars years.
I'm reading Hermione's Group of Thinkers, a satirical view of fashionable, overprivileged New York society - written from the point of view of Hermione, a young socialite. It's hilarious.
Also - the real diamond in the rough - Archy and Mehitabel. Archy is a cockroach who was a free verse poet in a previous life, and Mehitabel is an alley cat who was once Cleopatra, amongst other queens. They comment on life in a sometimes philosophical, sometimes satirical way. But always amusing and thought provoking.
The Archy and Mehitabel books are still in print and others can be found for free on the internet. This stuff is priceless, go get some now! May the Google be with you.
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