Creativity Exchange 2 @ MindSay

Oh my. A dream of mine has come true. Sound the wind chimes; the sounds of angels. Allow me to share: AllAroundPsycho and Byzantium have decided to pair up and create their own set of Creativity Exchanges. Neat, huh? I thought so. Here is the half showcased at AAP's place and here is the half Byzantium is hosting.

 

In case you're worried that TheRacket and I have not posted this Friday, to let the spotlight shine down upon AAP and Byzantium, no worries. We didn't all of a sudden grow noble or anything. Well, at least I didn't.

 

Check out TheRacket's half over here. Dangit. He's talented. Below, you'll see my hosted half. The words are TheRacket's and the image is mine.

[the passing of dusk]

far edge of the world
tired sun tucks 'neath mountain quilts
open sky sighs stars

About Creativity Exchange

TheRacket had a brilliant (and fun) idea. He asked me if I would be interesting in a Creativity Exchange (those are my capitalization, hence, I'm naming it. So, there). It's almost like a short game of tag; he will write or I will draw and we would exchange what we created to the other. There are no hard and fast rules; one person creates something and the other collaborates. He could sketch and I could write, I could take a picture and he write a haiku, he could write a ballad and I illustrate a passage... we're making it up as we go along. The best kind of game, really.

 

Creativity Exchange Timeline

1. Monday &/or Tuesday we work on creating something for the other.
2. Wednesday we exchange the pieces secretly.
3. Thursday we work on our responding pieces.
4. Friday we display them.

Layer Cake Exchange Timeline

Similar to the above exchange, this one adds one more step.

1. Monday we secretly exchange our first pieces (Part I) so that only the other can see.
2. Wednesday we secretly reveal our responses (Part II), which are responding to the other's Part I.
3. We each prepare a response that ties in with the respective Part II, trying to forget about our own original piece that inspired it.
4. Friday we publicly reveal our responses to Part II thereby creating a Part III.
5. The end product is two separate exchanges, using an original work to inspire a response. Then that response inspires a following response. Techinically, this type of creativity exchange could go on for a long time.

Creativity Exchange Archives

(issue by weeks)  

Season 1: [harvest] & [reach] (that week we each did two) [irie] & [crumble] and [circus] & [oh yeah? oh no!] [pizza day] and (two different versions of the same writing) [wilderness 1] & [wilderness 2] (sexually suggestive content) [last wave] & [swallow] [a view from the top] & [a spill of stars] [starfish dreaming] & [blindfold] [what do you think?] & [transit] [tanglefingers] & [go d food] [young crush, or eyes got it bad] & [scarbundles] [razorback butterfly] & [vacancy, or full of empty] [ragdoll physics] & [bad shirt day] [bumblebee artistry] & [the muse the witch] [ghosts of yourselves] & [super stitchin'] [hell is] & [sputters of din] [suction] & [starlight lucidity], [starlight lucidity] Update   [slingshot] & [without a snout] [before the fist of sunrise] & [mostly sunny] [beyond the frame] & [rockface] [guides of when] & [puppy tricks] [the cruel fisherman], [venom jellybeans] & [the cruel fisherman], [attacks of whimsy] (this week we swapped our pieces on Monday, swapped our responses on Wednesday and responded to that on Friday.) [you think you scare me but you don't] & [mosaic] [leaps and bounds] & [scissorholes for peekaboos] [certain victory] & [the public pool] [the noisome trials of young burro burrito] & [gasp of danger] [ladybug sunrise] & [plainview] [the roar] & [waft] [teddybears for voodoodolls] and its second, but actually first image & [that night the skeletons got out of the closet] [drinks around a fire] (A) and [drinks around a fire] (B) & [popaganda] and [king of trash mountain] [mount ice crystal mountain] & [lunatic genius] [vantage] & [fowl thoughts] [boa] & [the passing of the sun]  [core fracture] & [mannequin in mittens] [1000 Tracks] & [the impending deaths of ants in puddle anthills] [to tell the truth] & [wonderwear] [what he thought, or the stalemate] & [quicktease] season one finales: [real bad luck] & [in the spirit of collaboration]

Season 2: [the mystery of the wintry shivers] & [outshine] (espial thaumaturgy) & [unmade] [faster slow] & [grey leaves black grass] [the untidy baker] & Ordinarily [ruin] & [pov] [reflect/shun] & [the passing of dusk] [the six year old witch] & [true view] [approaching despair] & [sunfire passion] [caliginosity] Update: CE Halted The eventual is a mystery....

 

Season 1 of Spin-off Creativity Exchanges:  purpose & The Hunt (AAP & Byzantium) -- not a morning person -- & - The Crash - It slices through the air... & -- Job -- -- the fight -- & Consciousness dun... Dun... DUN! (...to be continued.)

(If you've tried your hand at a Spin-off, please let us know. We'd love to see it.)

The Creativity Exchange button, push it to go to our wikipage:

 

 

 

 

Feedback is always appreciated.

Creativity Exchange, Season 2, Week 7: The words are property of the smart and agile Mr. TheRacket. The image is by yours truly.  Be sure to see the other half over at TheRacket's place-o-business. And I'm certainly hoping to see more Creativity Exchanges from AAP (oh, yeah!) and Byzantium (double-yeah!).

No time for unnecessary chatter, (of late, it feels like everything I've been saying is unnecessary.) Please, please enjoy.

[the six year old witch]

and for my next trick
i shall summon evil from
my black magic hat

and with one wand flick
she plucked a coal-toned rabbit
doll from the dark place

and dangled it by one
ear before a crowd of gasps
haha! now they're mine

(Already, I'm not pleased with my response to TheRacket's work. I know that by saying this I'm going against advice from professional artists with years of experience who advise to never say anything negative about your own work- there are plenty of people out there willing to do that for you. One portrait painter told me that after she finished a portrait she would have to say that it looked amazingly like the sitter, because whether it did or not she, frequently enough, wouldn't get paid. Apparently, most people are reluctant to tell an artist something different than what the artist says, as the artist knows the most about their own work, right?

 

I don't know if my displeasure is based on the fact that I originally had something else planned and it didn't pan out like I thought, or if it's because I'm in a state of general ennui. Still, I like the image. I wish I had more time, but there's the beautiful conflict of Creativity Exchange. Limited time, unlimited possibilities... and go!)

 

To see Mr.Racket's half, visit [here]. (Link will be made available.)

 

The words are TheRacket's. Image and blue words are mine:

 

[the mystery of the wintry shivers]  


i find myself haunted by fresh-fallen snowflakes

if ever there was a reason to shiver
or was it the chill of the ice in the air
or a time to forget warmer times worth
that caused me to shiver like poltergeists passing
would be when I'm frightened by winter times' presence
right through me would cause me to do were they there?

as if inside and out of forever be here.