Creativity Thread

[keisal]

I got this weird idea in my head a couple months ago to combine all the album covers for three days grace and this is what i came up with



I'm making a mix cd for my friends bday. Thinking about doing something similar for the cover of the cd, only with all the artists that will be on the cd

[TurboKill]

I'd post this in the poetry thread, but it's not a completely original concept. Anyways, I'm rewriting the intro to Dante Alighieri's The Inferno (In English, of course.) and setting it in the perspective of Virgil. I'm also using this as an extra credit opportunity for one of my literature classes. I'm about a page in, one or two more to go.

Spoiler!

"Abandon all hope, and only then
can someone dare to reach for their own goal.”
- That quote means little to this hopeless soul.

Hope belongs in the souls of living men.
I abandoned all hope when I entered,
for the despair would leave my soul tempered.

Trapped in Limbo, it’s calm and dreary.
There is nothing here with which I can write,
nor is there use for an artist’s insight.

Eternity’s power leaves me weary.
I never submitted to connivance,
yet I am forced to suffer and repent...

Beatrice showed, with her was redemption.
Not my own, but for a man named Dante.
Why our souls should care, I cannot say.

She requested for an intervention,
“I fear Dante may have strayed from his path.
Please help save him from God’s divine wrath!”

I thought to decline, but to help I should.
“Dear Beatrice, Dante is in good hands.
I shall act as his guide through the dark lands.”

I decided to venture to the woods.
Perhaps that’s where Dante would be,
though that leads to the infernal sea.

Chance to prove my virtue sparks an ember
within my soul. Dante still has much to
provide, with a poets life to pursue.

The day may come when we shall remember
these sufferings with joy. Let us go forth.
A man with hope is one with endless worth.

While I may be far from salvation,
there is still much that this soul can get done.
Yes, this pagan soul can, in fact, save one.

Midway in their life’s journey, he went astray
from the straight road and woke to find himself
alone in a dark wood, heart on a shelf...

Still doing a lot of editing, but thought I'd share it anyways.

EDIT: Did some editing.

[Panzadolphin56]

That's terrible Turbo, you didn't even mention his samurai sword or cool blue coat! JEEZ

(I liked it)

[TurboKill]

I'll admit, it took me a little bit to realize what you were doing there. (The samurai sword and cool blue coat are coming soon. Sorry!)

EDIT: Made some changes. A bunch of small ones. But yeah.

[ZombiePlatypus]

Been working on this (and some related stuff) off and one for a bit; A puppet made to look like a living bucket of popcorn. These pics show it through the various stage 'til now:






Wood for the eyes. Heavy duty paper plates and a bit of cardboard were used for the skeleton of the mouth, which are sitting on a plastic cup and some packing foam to hold everything up/add weight. I sewed and glued together some popcorn and spray painted it pink for the tongue, and used pieces of an old holey shirt for the lining of the mouth. I thought using unpopped kernels for the bottom of the mouth would be neat, so that's what I did. I took the handle of an old slingshot and attached it through the back of the bucket to have a handle to hold onto. The mouth is opened by a simple pullstring made up of a fishing line fed through metal rings down the back with a keyring at the end to put an index finger through.

I used a few different types of glue and velcro getting everything together. I found that regular white school glue shriveled the popcorn, but super glue and adhesive spray don't ruin the look at all. All of the popcorn pieces have been coated with an indoor lacquer to keep the popcorn from "going bad". I'll still do some touch up and add some popcorn here and there, like to hide that top metal loop between the eyes, but as of last night it's largely finished.

His name is Diogenes.

[Tarvu]

That's amazing. You have the coolest sidekicks.

[Panzadolphin56]

Now you need to find a movie to watch with it.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I like making stuff, and I have plans to do something with this in the not too distant future. Just have to follow through.

Now you need to find a movie to watch with it.

I got it covered, dude.

[TurboKill]

I finally finished the first Canto. Besides some editing here and there, it's all done.

Spoiler!

Abandon all hope, All who enter.
Hope, the defining feature of one’s whole,
no longer lies or belongs in this soul.

Hope belongs in the souls of living men.
I abandoned all hope when I entered,
for despair would leave my soul so tempered.

Trapped in Limbo, it’s calm and dreary.
There is nothing here with which I can write,
nor is there use for an artist’s insight.

Eternity’s power leaves me weary.
I never submitted to connivance,
yet I am forced to suffer and repent.

Beatrice showed, with her was redemption.
Not my own, but for a man named Dante.
Why our souls should care, I cannot say.

She requested for an intervention,
“I fear Dante may have strayed from his path.
Please help save him from God’s divine wrath!”

I thought to decline, but to help I should.
“Dear Beatrice, Dante is in good hands.
I shall act as his guide through the dark lands.”

I decided to venture to the woods.
Perhaps that is where this Dante would be,
though that would lead to the infernal sea.

Chance to prove my virtue sparks an ember
within my soul. Dante still has much to
provide, with a poets life to pursue.

The day may come when he shall remember
these sufferings with joy. Let us go forth.
A man with hope is one with endless worth.

While I may be far from salvation,
there is still much that this soul can get done.
Yes, this pagan soul can, in fact, save one.

Midway in their life’s journey, he went astray
from the straight road and woke to find himself
alone in a dark wood, heart on a shelf...

I ventured there to help him find his way.
There is perfection in imperfection,
What to make of that is ones selection.

I came across a frail looking shadow.
Dante, before me on the discolored air.
He gazed up at me with a dead man’s stare.

What he saw before him, he did not know.
Sight of me in that friendless waste he cried.
He had plead for pity and I replied:

“Not man, though man I once was, my kin
was Lombard, my parents Mantuan hewn.
I was born, though late, sub Julio, and been

in Rome under Augustus in the noon
of the false gods. I was a poems ploy
and sang of old Anchises’ noble son

who came to Rome after the burning of Troy.
But you-why do you return to these distresses
instead of climbing that shining Mount of Joy

which is the seat and first cause of man’s bliss?“
Dante and I continued discussing
his found place and why it has come to this.

Talking, Dante was all the more trusting.
He related to me as his master.
He asked for help for his soul lay rusting.

And behind, beasts stronger and faster
lay guard. Impassible, we go elsewhere
as the best way to guard Dante from her.

One, a she-wolf, was near for any who dare
to pass. Dante escaped and then we met.
But soon, his cries I found I could not bear.

But the task at hand I could not forget.
“We must take a new path around this
beast that waits to feast on all it can get.

Instead, I will take you through the abyss,
to which, if it is still your wish to climb,
a purer soul will guide you; one you miss.

With her shall I leave you for the King of Time,
ruler from high, forbidding me from there,
for I lived against his reason and rhyme.”

Salvation for I will be found nowhere.
Salvation for Dante though is not late.
And so I say: “Follow” and lead with care.

And though I accept that I have no fate,
I will guide him through this eternal gate.

I based it off of a prose translation, so it's a prose poem of sorts.

[grunchk1n]

my 3yr-old daughter made some awesome art today

[RobertoPlankton]

my 3yr-old daughter made some awesome art today

these are really cool - the red one especially! any help from the proud parents (besides the signature obviously)?

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I try to put my doodles online on a more or less regular basis. Somehow it always hurts when I trash them - now they have an afterlife online.

http://robertoplankton.tumblr.com/


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POPCORN CREATURE!

[Panzadolphin56]

Do you do the arts professionally Plankton? There's some damn fine stuff there.