Creative things in a week of sickness
This week the main thing I created was whinging noises due to HORRIFIC MAN FLU, the likes of which most people would shrug off, but that I, like the crying child I am, was brought low by. This gave me a chunk of time in which to be ‘creative’, but also little urge to do anything but lie down and place the back of my hand theatrically upon my fevered brow. So, this weekend I’ve tried to make up for my otherwise fairly inactive week and done Things:
Firstly I finished the first episode of Monkey Island Adventures – Launch of The Screaming Narwhal. It was good and I’ve now got the next two episodes, of five, downloaded and ready to play.
Secondly I made my niche art television debut while standing around looking gormless in Leicester Square watching MykReeve play around on the fourth plinth.
Michael was rather entertaining up on his podium, playing music, dancing around and putting on outfits from the various places he’s travelled around the world. His hour is up on the One and Other site for your perusal, if you wish to join in the fun of watching out for me looking cold.
Thirdly I recorded another episode of One More Go with Matt for the GeekPlanet website, which will hopefully be up next week. I apologise in advance for any coughing that Matt wasn’t able to edit out. I was ill and all that.
Fourthly I recorded some more potential podcastery, putting together a five minute segment as a test to see if I can make something that I think is suitable for James O’Malley’s “The Pod Delusion” – I wiffled about being followed by NLP practitioners on Twitter and how marvellous http://www.beatswineflunow.com is. I don’t know if it’ll get submitted or make it to the podcast if it is, but I rather like the sound of my own voice, so something of mine may one day appear on that lovely podcast.
Anyways, none of those really felt like a creative thing that I could really post on the internets, so I went for ‘emergency craft project #1′ and produced this:
Yes, it’s a Batman iPod case, made from scratch (including working out a template) by my own fair hand. It’s definitely a version 1, as it’s made of thinnish card, pritt stick, a page from the Superman strip in Wednesday Comics #2 (which I hope doesn’t magically become worth piles of cash sometime in the near future) and a sheet of lamination film. Yes, the ‘circle’ around the touch wheel is a bit crap, and the screen hole isn’t all that great, but for someone who wasn’t allowed to use scissors when at primary school due to the potential of danger for those around him, it’s not a bad attempt. Although I don’t think I will be turning the making of comic wrapped iPod cases into a business any time soon. Now for some more Monkey Islanding…
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Posted: October 4th, 2009 under One A Week, blog.
Comment from Mr M
Time 5th October 2009 at 2:32 am
Fascination. I wasn’t as active the last time I had man flue, and certainly wasn’t creative… Unless of course you consider rearranging your IT-related books in order of boringness while sipping some poor quality tea and thinking about your London Met new timetable creative…
lla eht tseb!