....about a month ago. It was an evangelical Christian church with the band, etc. They gave out earplugs. I sat during the lesson and made a finger fortune teller out of the plastic wrapper the earplugs came in, and left it on the seat.
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How to create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find"This was more challenging for me than I expected."
How I did it: I had a pen that I had selected for this goal many months ago. I kept planning to leave the pen at my favorite coffee shop and they ended up closing before I managed to do this. Well, I found a new coffee shop with wonderful outside seating. (http://purplemooninc.com/ ) On Christmas eve I was sitting outside with my pen and I felt uneasy about just leaving it without knowing it had a chance of finding a home. I was trying to work up the courage to hand it to the woman at the next table without seeming creepy. When she got up to get some more food from inside the shop, I decided that was my chance to leave it for her. I stood pu and tossed it on the newspaper she was reading as I walked out the back. I tried waiting in my car to see her reaction but decided that a) that was not in the spirit of the goal and b) it would bring the creepy factor way up to be spying on someone. I had a small note on the pen wishing the finder a Merry Christmas. I hope she enjoyed the pen and if not, she left it for someone else.
Lessons & tips: This was harder than I expected. I have long felt that I never "sell" my leather artwork, I just have VERY long leases. Just abandoning a piece was scary for me. |
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dunhamcasey Is now a member of the Freshman Class of 2010!!
How I did it: I drew four pictures and taped them to the bottom of some random desks in four of my eight classrooms and then I wrote, "Smile, today's gonna be great!" and things like that on a bunch of sticky notes and posted them on lockers and on the whiteboard and under some more desks. Read how I did it…
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i draw picture, very strange/absract/random pictures, and i have been collecting them for a while now in this little booklet. I am going to re-draw them onto these yellow and green post-it notes i own and post one somewhere everyday. :)
SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez
I finally did this! At least, I did the first installment of it. Since it says “pieces of art” I can’t stop at just one.
I blogged about it at www.anygivensundry.com (The July 28th entry.)
drywhitewhine meh.
I have very little artistic talent, but ever since I learned how to fold paper cranes I try to leave small ones where people can find them.
itsnotperfefkt is writing. Finally.
Most likely I’ll put a quote I like and a cute doodle on a Post-It and stick some around my school before school starts so on the first day of school everyone would find them.
‘cept there’s the awkwardness of getting caught and the anxiety and everything.
Anyways I plan on getting my Post-It’s soon and I’m designing the doodles and finding the quotes. I’m so excited. I’ll scan my favorite Post-It if I actually end up doing this. - Love love love! <3
I stumbled across the tag here on 43Things and thought it was a lovely idea, but wasn’t sure it was something I wanted to add to my list just yet.
And then my friend sent me this link:
http://kindovermatter.blogspot.com/
And I remembered this link:
http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/
And so fate was sealed and I joined the club. :) “They make our hearts happy” as my friend would say. xo
Tammy is blooming where I'm planted!
Oh my, I’ve been so busy that I have neglected checking on my 43 goals list. I had totally forgotten about this goal. I’m setting out a plan …today!!!
Chelsea L. is trying to maintain a positive, forward momentum.
This is an ongoing project for me. I’ve created a myspace where I can track my progress, but haven’t sent anything out in a while… I hope to start creating again shortly and sending my creations out into the unknown… we shall see…
Kelso A nightmare straight from an Otto Dix.
I might make little inspirational cards and leave them around parks, in people’s mail boxes, wherever someone might want to find a pick-me-up. (:
Just finished up this one. It’s a quote by Andy Warhol translated into Portuguese, it reads: I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week…to remind me how fragile life is
I didn’t like it very much, I actually intended on adding a Pop Art effect to Warhol’s portrait and them adding many of this portraits, each in a different color, to the bookmark, but the result didn’t please me.
So what I did was write his last name multiple times in different shades of pink and purple and add a few blurring effects to them.
Anyway, I’m leaving it at a nearby restaurant later today.
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Grosse Pointe Public Library
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Fig asks,
“What is art?
This is a rather foolish question, but I do wonder. I hope, more so than the answer (if there even is one), that there would be an interesting discussion.”
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Dayton
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Mimzy asks,
“What's something that's easy to make but interesting enough to do this goal with? I'm having trouble coming up with anything...”
— 2 years ago |
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