Wednesday, August 29, 2012

First Creative Batch is up

Below are all the inspirations we have for the upcoming month of September.  I hope they inspire you in whatever creative ideas you come up with.

and don't forget, we'd love for you to share!  If you just want to post anything you do and let me do it for you, please email me at

sewershark3022@gmail.com


If you want to be added as a contributor to post once the ideas are in place, please email me and let me know that too.  That way you can post when you want to.

Thanks for stopping by.  More inspiration in October!!!

~Jay

Five Random Pictures

Here are five random pictures, courtesy of Flickr's Last 7 Days feature.

How will these inspire you?






Five Random Overheard bits of conversation

I work in the tech support field and you'd be amazed at the crazy things you overhear from your co-workers.  I hope these crazy remarks taken out of context can inspire you for some art and writings or both.


“First I’ll get on the Master and then I’ll take the Slave.”

“I need my purple pills.”

“Dude . . . .I think something just laid it’s eggs in my head.”

“I didn’t have the heart to tell him it was no longer 1997.”

Ten Updated Classics

One of the trends is taking an old literature classic and changing it into something new and exciting . . . . or even crazy.  Here are some random updated classics, courtesy of the Seventh Sanctum.  Something to draw or something to write, your call


Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) with holograms!

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) with aliens!

Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) with mutants!

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) with Bollywood dance numbers and shootouts!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) with aliens!

The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allen Poe) with robots versus aliens!

Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) with virtual reality!

Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) with alien abduction!

Ulysses (James Joyce) with biotechnology!

Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) with epic natural disasters and genetic engineering!

Five Random Quotes

Here are the last few words from some random quotes off the Wikiquotes page.  Turn them into a drawing or a story.  Your call


Of Work and their duty

Of time before we’re found

The compass of good manners

Gentlemen, the chips are down

Menthols. Salems. Possibly . . . . . Newports

Five Random Words

Generated from a random word generator.  Do they all connect?  Go ahead and combine them into a picture or a story.  Or just use a few, your decision.


May
Recorder
Parliament
Inquiry
Farce

Monday, August 20, 2012

The Rules and Procedures

This site's sole purpose is to help funnel the dreams and inspirations of writers and artists alike.  So the rules are small but sometimes, it's necessary to point things out.

CREATE, CREATE, CREATE

Use whatever medium you are comfortable with.  If you like to paint, then paint.  If you like to draw, then draw.  If you want to use photographs, or photoshop, or all of the above, go right ahead.  The point is you are creating something.

THE TIME FRAME

At the beginning of every month, thirty items will be posted.  These pictures and words will be used for inspiration.  Use them however you see fit (that's kinda the point, right?)  They will be showcased in groups of five so hopefully they'll be plenty of things to choose from.  If more than thirty is requested, then I'll strive to post more.

PLEASE SHARE

It's my hope that we can build something from this.  When you are ready with your art, we'd like to see it posted.  If you want me to do it, please email me at

sewershark3022@gmail.com

If you want to be authorized to post on this blog, definitely let me know that and I'll add you.


MORE TO COME, SOONER THAN LATER

I'll be posting the thirty items soon.  Normally I would wait till September 1st but I'll actually be out of town at that time.  I'll even post up a link when I get back :)

Take care and thanks for stopping by


Jay

My Heart Cries Out to Create!!!

I wanted to share this with you.  Marvel Comics created an alternate tale of the Avengers called Avatars.  This dimension was actually crafted by the super being called the Shaper of Worlds.  These first few pages are from that series and they held a special soft spot in my heart for this art and dialogue.


Click on the images for higher resolution

I love the look on his face when he's about to create that world.  How many of us have felt that joy just before a painting or a sketch?

and I hope we'll all come together with each other to create more things.

What is the Fourth Kick?

With a little luck, the Fourth Kick will be an inspirational sight to artists and writers of the world.

The Fourth Kick gets it's name from the movie Inception.  It was the "kick" which the character Cobb used to ride the dreamscapes all the way back to reality.  And those points of inspiration come from this movie as two statements were very inspirational in the creation of this website.


"Yeah, but you know it's not YOUR idea, you know I gave it to you.  The mind can always trace the genesis of an idea, true inspiration is impossible to fake." ~ Arthur


There was an old saying that there are no new ideas.  Since man has been writing since the dawn of time, any "stories" that come up for an artist or writer, some where in a distance part of the planet, another artist or writer has come up with the same idea.  Personally, I've seen it three times in my life.  Either on movies or comic books, I was like, "Damn! I thought of that first!"  The difference between them and me is that they got their ideas published first.  But this sight is not about who's idea is what.  Our goal is to give YOU something to inspire you to create.

"It's just . . . .pure creation." ~Ariadne

For the artists who read this, you have to admit this to yourself.  If you were in the universe of Inception, and you had Ariadne's power, you'd be addicted too.  With my creativity, I often wonder if I would be an Architect or a Forger?  What would you be?

What will you be inspired to make?