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Category: GISHWHES 2015
Submissions from GISHWHES 2015, when we officially dubbed our combined group “Team Apokaleypse”.
Item 196 – Carry On Wayward Son (Lost in Translation)
“VIDEO. Record yourself and friends singing a quartet rendition of “Carry On My Wayward Son” in an amphitheater after you Google-translate it into at least three other languages and then back to English.”
Item 195 – New Greek Currency
IMAGE. Design a new currency for Greece. Each bill and/or coin should carry a reassuring message.
Item 193 – Dinomite’s Fluffy Bites
IMAGE. Contribute the recipe for ‘Dinomite’s Fluffy Bites’ to Allrecipes.com and get at least 20, 5-star reviews from people who enjoyed the recipe. “
Item 191 – Clicker Leader
IMAGE. ASHLEY JOHNSON ITEM. Paint a stately, magnificent portrait of world or state leader after they’ve turned into a Clicker zombie.
Item 189 – Slow-Motion Green Tea
VIDEO. Shoot slow-motion footage of you drinking green tea on a high-speed train in Japan.
Item 188 – What Are You Fighting For?
IMAGE. JOHN GREEN ITEM. Write up to a 250 word personal manifesto that answers the question: “What are you fighting for?” or “What cause is the most important for you?” Then make your own uniform/costume that declares that cause. Two pictures side by side must be submitted (or one embedded in the other): you wearing your uniform/costume, and your manifesto. Share your manifesto and image with John Green (@johngreen) or The Art Assignment (@artassignment) on Facebook or Twitter.
Item 180 – Tongue-Twister Round
VIDEO. At least four people doing a harmonized round of tongue-twisters. – Kaitlin Losansky
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Item 179 – Stormtrooper Day Job
IMAGE. Work opportunities are scarce since the Death Star blew up. Let’s see a stormtrooper working at their job as a waiter, fast food line prep, car mechanic, postal worker, deli sandwich maker, road-repair worker, etc). – Katherine Parsons
Item 174 – Football Field Skateboard Traversal
VIDEO. (Time lapse this down to 20 seconds.) Travel across the narrow part of a level football field (or the equivalent of 150 feet on level grassed ground). You cannot touch the ground with any part of your body and you cannot have anyone push or pull you. You’re only allowed to use a skateboard, two pieces of string or rope no more than 5 feet long each and a clothespin. (NOTE: You can’t use the clothespin as an extension of your hand or foot to push you along the ground.)