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Revisionary Art

Submitted by Cris Crissman

Inspired by The Adventures of Huck Finn, Robotic Edition

Challenge: Take any piece of art and revise it metaphorically to send a different message or a similar one contemporarized for our time.

Project Specs:

  • Choose a visual, audio, video, or literary piece to revise.  Stars earned are commensurate with the weight of the project, so a painting revised to a small degree would be one star while a more extensive revision would be two.  To earn five stars, the project should include at least five edited images in an audio slide show.  For more on “revising” or photo-editing images, see the Guide to Photo Editing to Tell Stories . . .  Also, see the Guide to Creating Audio Slide Shows . . . 
  • Plan how to either change or contemporarize the message.
  • Produce your revision and publish (remember to upload audio slide show first to YouTube) with an appropriate introduction identifying the original and the motivation for the revision.
  • Be sure to include a featured image for your blog post in addition to your video.
  • Tag your projectgallery, metaphor, metaphorrevisionary
  • RAP with this form or use the rubric in your Google Drive Portfolio.  Or use the form to familiarize yourself with the rubric.  Your choice.  Note that the form, once submitted, cannot be revised.

Watch the politically-correct Diani & Devine revision of The Adventures of Huck Finn.

And a little closer-to-home, Preference’s clever take on the Aesop’s Fable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” — “Primo and the Potty.”

Learn the backstory and something about Preference’s technique — Story Thoughts.

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Synetic Story

Submitted by Cris Crissman

Inspired by Karen Heid’s article on synetics and surrealism

Challenge:  Create a synetic image by combining the familiar to create the unfamiliar or vice versa.

Project Specs:

  • Create an image using the principle of synectics.   Stars earned are commensurate with the weight of the project, so one image created earns one star.  To earn five stars, the project should include at least five edited images in an audio slide show.  For more on “revising” or photo editing images, see the Guide to Photo Editing to Tell Stories . . .  Also, see the Guide to Creating Audio Slide Shows . . . 
  • Publish your images and/or audio slide show in your blog (after first uploading audio slide show to YouTube) and reflect on your process and product.
  • Be sure to include a featured image in your blog post as well as a video.
  • Tag your projectgallery, metaphor, metaphorsynectics
  • RAP with this form or use the rubric in your Google Drive Portfolio.  Or use the form to familiarize yourself with the rubric.  Your choice.  Note that the form, once submitted, cannot be revised.

For more synetics . . .

Tim BakerFX’s entry for the Neil Gaiman Story Illustration Contest

Chris Van Allsburg’s astounding 25 -year plus mystery of Harris Burdick . . .

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