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OH HI, here is our THIRTY DAYS OF CREATIVITY POST!!! We have been very Busy because of our Birthday and Houseguests and various Activities and spending all our time on the IRL and not the WWW. Thank you for all your lovely birthday wishes last week, we had a splendid time and did a lot of Frolicking, and ate a great quantity of delicious things, and went to see China Miéville read at WORD with our beloved Chérie l'Ecrivain! And if you were like "Dear Rejectionist, is China Miéville EVEN MORE charming, brilliant, and funny THAN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS, also is Embassytown facemelting, also does China Miéville have the best octopuses tattoo ever," the answer is "Yes, yes, and yes." Someday we will have cocktails with CM or something, and we will be all like "Dear China, you are so awesome, but don't you feel that, like a lot of leftist gentlemen, your politics privileges class over a more intersectional analysis that acknowledges race and gender as significant axes of oppression, which are complicated by but not incorporated within class" and China Miéville will be all like "OMG Rejectionist, you are so right, also will you marry me," and we will be like "Well, China, as you know marriage is a hegemonic apparatus of property exchange, so no, but probs we could get matching sleeves, let me check with Support Team, in the meantime here is some Angela Davis." Sure! That will happen. Anyway, did we let all this excitement stop us from OUR CREATIVE PROJECTS? No! We did not.

We have been ogling these Ksubi jeans for a while:

but DAY-UM, they are THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS! Kind of silly! So we decided to make our own, but as shorts. STEP ONE:

STEP TWO:

These are a Work in Progress, if we draw on them some more we shall display the results for you poor, patient, tolerant people. Chérie l'Ecrivain rather uncharitably refers to them as our denim underpants, but let us tell you, we have SEEN denim underpants, and these are not they. SO THERE.

Also we made some Motivational Postcards:

Also we worked on a Drawing, we will show you when it is done, and we took a bunch of pictures with our Holga camera, which we will show you if they come out.

NOW IT IS YOUR TURN. Did you make Projects for 30 Days of Creativity? WHY DON'T YOU LINK TO THEM IN THE COMMENTS. You are the best, Author-friends! For serious! The best! So dear to us. Now go color or something, AND DON'T FORGET TO WRITE YOUR BOOKS.

briandbuckley.com said...

I didn't attempt any denim work, but I wrote a righteous sonnet where I totally rhymed "spleen" with "mien." Enjoy!!

http://briandbuckley.com/2011/06/09/getting-my-sonnet-on/

June 10, 2011 9:11 AM
Bryan Russell (Ink) said...

I have this vague suspicion that those shorts will never be washable. I also, however, saw a study where jeans were no less unsanitary after a year without washing than after one week. Just sayin'.

Also, my 30 Days of Creativity link, for Week 1:

http://alchemyofwriting.blogspot.com/2011/06/four-short-walls-week-1.html

June 10, 2011 9:14 AM
Bonnie said...

Those shorts are fabulous even without the terrific artwork!

All I've done so far is rearrange my living room furniture and hang curtains, but it's made me happy and inspired me to keep going.

No retreat, baby, no surrender! Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!

June 10, 2011 9:22 AM
rachelslessonslearned said...

Those are short shorts! I love the idea of graffitizing them.

Ive been busy too, setting up my studio. On Wednesday I finally finished up and fuelled up my torch! I'm excited to be able to make jewelry again! I don't have any pics of anything yet. Hopefully at the end of the month.

June 10, 2011 9:25 AM
Laurel said...

Here is ours. It was a collective effort. And perhaps not what you had in mind.

June 10, 2011 9:26 AM
Bryan Russell (Ink) said...

Maybe I should make it a linky, for ease of viewing. I'm entering the world of online cartooning. Creative! And how the hell do people draw using a mouse? Anyway, Four Short Walls, a cartoon strip for writers and computer-bound folk.

June 10, 2011 9:53 AM
Ellen said...

I decided to apply for an advice columnist position at my local paper. It was a video application, and I've never edited film before...
But after much training from my friendly local apple store, I think I ended up with a decent project?

June 10, 2011 10:38 AM
Yat-Yee said...

I've been working on my choreography of a broad sword form. It is set to music, the opening of Holst's Jupiter from his Planet Suites. Nothing to show yet but I'll post the video when it's done. Bringing it to a tournament or two in the next months.

June 10, 2011 10:54 AM
M. Forsyth said...

Making the clay creatures. Pics at my blog + one video:

http://maforsyth.blogspot.com/

Sweet shorts.

June 10, 2011 3:34 PM
mapelba said...

I AM creative every day. I'm just not documentative every day.

And I'm writing my books.

Making art.

Preventing my child from breaking his neck--which takes the most creativity sometimes.

Teaching.

Skating.

And already planning my Halloween costume--I'm going as Rejection!

Keep creating.

June 10, 2011 4:22 PM
Candyland said...

Those are sweet. Alas, I have no jeans that fit me right now to draw on and cut up into pretty rags.

I did, however, create a masterpiece. I'm expecting a call from the Guggenheim.

http://themisadventuresincandyland.blogspot.com/2011/06/feel-me-up-friday-he-got-stuck-in-hole.html

June 10, 2011 7:19 PM
Lindsey Carmichael said...

I taught a writing course, which I think counts, due to the nurturing of other people's creativity. I also created so much joy I physically injured myself (runs off and calls chiropractor).

www.foxtalkcommunications.blogspot.com

June 10, 2011 7:33 PM
Lady Epsilon said...

I made my own episode of the beloved Canadian mini-documentary series Hinterland Who's Who!*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6D3YhY9_D0

*A somewhat obscure reference. Except for Canadians.

June 12, 2011 5:07 PM
Marjoram said...

...marriage is a hegemonic apparatus of property exchange...

June 12, 2011 9:08 PM
Trevor said...

Jeans with doodles over it for $300? WHAT?!

June 13, 2011 1:22 PM
C.A. Marshall said...

I made Harry Potter shadowboxes!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/75867057/the-boy-who-lived-shadowbox
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/51700512
http://www.etsy.com/listing/75868822/i-heart-hermione-shadowbox?ref=v1_other_1

(Sorry for the links to etsy, it's just that the photos are all, you know, there already. :P)

June 16, 2011 2:29 AM
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