identify 100 little ways to be creatively inspired

13. Form pretty pictures with M&M’s rather than just shoving them all in your mouth at once.
14. Draw on your skin with permanent markers to see how it would look as a tattoo.
15. Make plans with your friends to someday do something extraordinary.
16. Cook something unfamiliar, then make it your own.
17. Buy a hat, or make one, that will be your ‘thinking cap’ and put it on when you need to ponder about something.
18. Create a language. Teach it to someone and talk in pubic :)
19. Go for a lonely drive while you listen to good music and enjoy the scenery.
20. Daydream about happiness, falling in love, traveling the world, and meeting amazing people.
21. Randomly select someone from your phonebook and call them up for a nice chat.
22. Write a letter to a longtime friend.
23. Go on an adventure at least 50 miles away from your comfort zone. Bring a friend and have a nice chat.
24. Recreate the first time you met someone and share the memories with them.

21. meditate on a regular basis
22. watch the city from atop a double-decker bus
23. listen to people talk in public with my eyes closed and imagine what they look like
24. make sure all my lunches contain complimentary colors
25. keep talking out loud to my dog in her language
26. mouse with my left hand
27. keep writing down cool quotes I hear throughout the day
28. dance as often as possible
29. eat in complete darkness
30. keep a smelling diary

11. talking with little Z as often as I possibly can.
12. listening to her as often as I possibly can.
13. get away from the computer more often
14. go barefoot
15. chase my dog
16. play with the neighbor girls
17. be silly
18. walk backwards
19. sing made-up songs
20. be upside-down

1. listening to podcasts of interesting music (i.e. KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic)
2. playing music with other people
3. reading erotica
4. cooking for someone
5. making up stories about people in the cashier line
6. wearing fuzzy, colorful socks that make me laugh
7. updating my ideas wall by mixing images and words that weren’t originally together
8. clearing the clutter
9. creating anything with friends
10. speaking in a different language

...I’m headed to her house in a few minutes and I’m really excited. We’re both kinda wacky and creative and just a little bit unstructured, and definitely hampered by alot of the stuff that gets in the way of the creative juices (insecurity, unnecessary comparisons, harsh self-judgment, etc etc …)

So yay! We’re going to rally each other through this, fully aware of how we tend to self-sabotage our own creativity through seemingly innocuous little self-criticisms.

My inner 4-year old is ready to play!

other people’s entries are so much better than mine, but so far this is my list.

1- buy paint
2- look at the Smithsonian Institute website
3- look at other old bookmarked websites
4- burn incense
5- meditate for 5 minutes
6- play classical music
7- look at photos of things I plan to paint
8- look at other artists facebook/myspace pages
9- draw with glitter pens
10- stay up late

9. Drink coffee- I dunno. Something about the caffeine and hot water gets me in this outrageous mood of writing and awakening from monotony. It’s greatss.
10. Do something slightly scary, that you know you should do anyway. Like for me, it’s talking to interesting people. I feel so good afterward, that it just makes me wanna do it more.
11. Relive memories with pictures, music, movies. You’ll start to flood your mind with familiar feelings and you may even get inspired to write about it or something.
12. Talk through dolls, action figures. And plus, it’s just plain fun..

95. Rent and watch the movie Rivers And Tides about the artist Andy Goldsworthy. No one can help but be creatively inspired by this. Then go outdoors and make something.

96. Dance with your cat, your dog, or any young kid.

97. Lay down in the grass. Smell and feel what green is. Try closing your eyes and just being. Try opening your eyes and looking for shapes in the clouds.

98. Bring paints or drawing tools to an art museum. Try to copy an art work. Really look at the details of color, composition, and technique. Try painting or drawing some pieces of work you don’t like too.

99. Doodle.

100. Stretch. Make up your own yoga poses and name them.

I’m inspired just reading other entries.