Below is a list of ideas1 for creative one week projects that span some broad categories.

This is just a rough way for me to keep track of ideas of things that I would like to do and the strike out the ones that I have already completed. Items are numbers just to keep track of them but the numbering does not note any type of importance.

* notes projects that I really would like to see myself complete.2

Video

  1. Time lapse video
  2. Short independent video (10-30 minutes)
  3. Video of my morning commute *
  4. 12 second haircut
  5. Try out Anamoto.com
  6. Use online video making software with supplying the text
  7. Make a stop motion video. Ie. claymation, rocks, etc.
  8. Video of a Bus Ride, the complete route *
  9. Make up a mashup video
  10. Make a commercial for something (althouse theatre production)
  11. Write and perform a Rives style poem *
  12. Short Video (under 5 minutes) *
  13. Photograph series of people’s lips – make a video of this *
  14. Make 7, 30 second videos independent of each other and splice together *
  15. Make a video of me dancing uncontrollably in various public places

Audio

  1. Make music using garageband *
  2. Make a remix of my favourite songs. *
  3. Sing the song which I wrote lyrics for
  4. Record a 7 part podcast on a specific topic, possibly with interviews. *
  5. Make a sound effects reel
  6. Record the sounds of my daily life.  Make an audio clip *

Photo

  1. Week of Family Portraits *
  2. Picture from around the house
  3. HDR series – realistic – Mainstreet London??
  4. Week of nothing but iPhone pictures
  5. Photography is not a crime t-shirt and mechandise
  6. Black and White photo Series *
  7. Portrait photo project
  8. Full body section photo project and possible mix and match *
  9. Build a pinhole camera or shoot with a pinhole camera
  10. Make a mosaic out of images with white borders *
  11. “Poor Mans” Panorama
  12. Photoshoot in storage unit
  13. The alphabet in photos
  14. A flip book of photos – set up tripod and take the same series of photos in different locations and different clothing. Splice together later *
  15. Polaroid Photo Project
  16. A now/then photo project of London **
  17. Recreate a famous/non-famous photo
  18. Couples Photoshoot
  19. A Series of Shadows

Text

  1. Seven haikus *
  2. Week long poem *
  3. Short story *
  4. Write song lyrics *
  5. Three Letters to Three Me(s) *
  6. Write my own manifesto *
  7. Write 4 personal letters to 4 important people *
  8. Write and illustrate a Childrens book
  9. Write my declaration of human rights
  10. My family – words about each person
  11. Letters to famous people *
  12. Mental health report on myself
  13. Story Archive – Stories from my life or stories from someone close to me *
  14. Rewrite the happenings of 5 major events from history
  15. Write a Play
  16. Record me reading a children’s story
  17. Write a letter to someone I admire
  18. Create instructions for  a simple every day task
  19. Write a letter using an unconventional medium – make sure the letter serves a purpose *
  20. Write my definition of the following: Sitting, Waiting, Eating, Sleeping
  21. Write an erotic story (?)
  22. Write letters and then place them in appropriate books at the library or bookstore for others to find
  23. Transcript of a Week of Conversations
  24. Find a Photo of a Person You Do not know – write their bio*
  25. Write a series of Mini Sagas
  26. Write About My Relationship with my Washing Machine

Art

  1. Large painting project (24×36)
  2. Small painting project – 3 piece series *
  3. Draw a comic strip
  4. Make a clear tape doll family, install it someplace and photograph people’s responses *
  5. Full body tape suit for myself
  6. Hang words and photographs from trees in the forest, photograph *
  7. Google Sketchup Model of Dream Home *
  8. Create a poster for something
  9. Sharpie on Canvass Drawing project (Man decorates basement) *
  10. Design logo, letterhead and business card for a business
  11. Make something with lego
  12. Art attack style project – rice, beans. Photo from above with tripod on table *
  13. Build something out of Can food and donate it
  14. Build something out of an old school big textbook
  15. Design a new London Downtown: hand drawn, then imported into Sketchup for a conceptual model.
  16. Mixed media, drawing on printed photo
  17. Collage out of old books and maps
  18. Chalk Street Art  – first week of August*
  19. Make a windchime and hang it in a parking lot
  20. Make a paper replica of : my bed, my head *
  21. Public art and community involvement through poster use
  22. Illustrate the concept of “Simplicity” *

Performance

  1. Participate in the London Poetry Slam *
  2. Sing at a concert

Community Involved

  1. PARK(ing) Day – (reference link)
  2. Set out public cameras in key places and see what people come up with
  3. Make Protest Signs: Protest
  4. Make homeless people signs and pay them to use them *
  5. Guerrilla Gardening
  6. Contact other Kevin’s and do something with their responses *
  7. Community Time Capsule
  8. Public Poster Art
  9. Build a Online Portfolio for someone I know. *

Other

  1. Learning/Teaching myself CSS by developing a Theme for a Tumblr blog

Suggestions From People and New Ideas I Am Too Lazy To Sort

  1. Re-purpose something, make it work in a different day (reference link)
  2. Design Something (reference link) (Kevin’s note: perhaps a Tattoo & get it actually inked)
  3. Knit something (reference link)
  4. Graffiti – Maybe even something done on a 4×8 sheet of plywood. Or go Banksy style with stencils (from Jason Fredin)
  5. Draw a Street Scene
  6. Find a piece of poetry to respond to – rewrite it in my own words and respond to it
  7. Collect Items For A Week and Make a Collage From Them
  8. Spend a week drawing only red things
  9. Make a map of MY London – Graphical *
  10. Mosaic of Paint Chips
  11. Hang Found Objects in Trees
  12. Draw the same subject everyday for a week in different mediums *
  13. Do  temporary art installation with post it notes and a pen *
  14. Experiment with simple print making
  15. Create an Image using dots
  16. Track down images of any placed I have called home and an image of me from that period. Put together in some creative way *
  17. Send out postcards to people I don’t know.  Write on each one of them. Use collected Post Cards from the community (addresses from the community as well) *
  18. Pick 5-7 paint chips and write about them
  19. Make art, put into a frame (Goodwill style) and hand in some location where it shouldn’t be *
  20. Take close up body part pictures of people (clothed) I meet in a week and construct a human being from them *
  21. Write notes and place them in a bottle – seal the bottle
  22. Write 100 small notes and fill 100 small balloons with them, let go outside and wait for responses **
  23. Find old letters and do something with them
  24. Make a child’s outfit in an adult size
  25. Record a song using sound bites from various people *
  26. Make a documentary film of a small child *
  27. Lecture Series – Record It *
  28. Make a poster of shadows *
  29. Interview someone I find interesting – audio/video/written
  30. Curate an artist retrospective in a public place – Christopher Pratt *
  31. Curate my own retrospective in a public place *
  32. Distribute 100 flyers describing my typical day or perhaps describing something else *
  33. Recreate a crime from a historic newspaper with pieces of evidence, chalk outlines etc.
  34. Write my life’s story *
  35. Take two different family portraits and mix and match them
  36. Take pictures of strangers holding hands
  37. Put my artwork up in some type of mobile exhibit *
  38. Write a series of phone calls I wish I had
  39. Draw one news story each day in the week *
  40. Write the mandate for a fictional organization/city
  41. Help someone develop their creativity *******
  42. Make a field guide for something that isn’t important
  43. Picture series taken from different heights
  44. Write fortune cookies
  45. Rasterbate someones face and hang it from somewhere *
  46. Learn Photoshop
  47. Large, Human Sized Puzzle in a public space (perhaps made from some odd medium)
  48. 7Day Magazine (Inspired by 48hrmag)

Reference Sources and Places of Inspiration

  1. 100 Ideas
  2. Learning to Love You More
  3. 100 Colours, 100 Writings, 100 Days
  4. 52 Projects
  5. Man Decorates Basement with $10 Worth of Sharpies
  6. Ode
  7. the 52 project (my initial inspiration)
  8. 48 Hours Till Friday
  9. Top 33 lego Creations
  10. The Delvin Wears Prada
  11. Creative Habit
  12. www.kerismith.com
  1. continually being added to [↩]
  2. This does not mean that they will be complete or that they are more important than others that I might take on, all it means are things that I think are interesting and worth exploring [↩]