Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Wreck this Journal...

So I've been on this kick... it's called Wreck This Journal - take a journal, spiral notebook, etc and literally wreck it in random imaginative ways... the goal is to have something that is not pristine, not perfect, something so unlike everything else you strive for in life...

Some of the rules I've just recently found that I'm just waiting to try out are:

  1. Write something really, really important–all of your deepest, darkest thoughts–then take an x-acto knife to the page and carve out half of the words.
  2. Do a really ugly drawing. (use ugly subject matter.)
  3. Ask everyone you see during the course of a day to add anything to one page. This includes the counter clerk at the quick stop. See how full you can get the page.
  4. Make a rainbow from cheap red, blue and yellow hairgel and splash it everywhere. 
  5. open it up and snap it under your windshield wiper (if it’s small enough to not obstruct your vision!) and drive around on a summer night “catching bugs” 
  6. Write “Dear (insert your name),” with your opposite hand. Look at it. See what strikes you. Then, continuing to use your opposite hand, write a very short letter to yourself. But be kind. 
  7. Bite your journal. chew up a corner. or 4.
  8. Draw and write whatever you feel like in your journal whilst very very angry/sad/annoyed
    then draw a pretty picture and paste it over the bad words :}
  9. With your morning “made up” face, take a page and wipe it all over your face! Allow time to dry- may want to spray it with a layer of hair spray to keep it from smearing, and, or disappearing,
    write, scribble, whatever- every negative thought or thing you say about your face. Then HAVE FUN CROSSNG THEM OUT,- PAINTING OVER THEM, -USE A HOLE PUNCHER AND PUNCH THEM OFF THE PAPER—-anything you can think of to get rid of them-do it!

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