Your home is more than your castle. It’s swiftly becoming a sovereign nation, and like every nation, it needs a tourism board. Create a one-page brochure or video advertising travel to your house as a coveted destination.
This submission was featured on the GISH Hall of Fame 2020 May Mini Hunt!
STOP-MOTION. In Japanese culture, there is the belief that after 100 years of service, objects receive a soul and become self-aware, a ‘tsukumogami.’ So after all that time, they deserve a vacation. Personify an object in your house and take it on an incredible virtual or real adventure (something like this, but you can’t do THIS exact thing now).
SIDE-BY-SIDE. Recreate a famous Renaissance painting on a concrete driveway or the side of a building using chalk. The ‘painting’ must be altered in some way to include something related to the pandemic: a portrait could be wearing a mask.
Blowing out candles on a birthday cake is unsanitary and so ‘2019.’ Luckily, you’ve designed an incredibly clever and ingenious device (Rube Goldberg or otherwise) that will blow out candles while you are standing at least 6 feet away. (No fans or hair dryers allowed). Let’s see it in action.
Quarantine birthday parties used to be a bummer, but thanks to the GISH Insta-Party Projectile Delivery SystemTM, staying far away is no problem! ‘Launch’ a virtual birthday party including a present and a decorated cake or cupcake to the Birthday Person (in person, at least 12 feet away).
Unleash your inner Karen on the pandemic. Leave a negative review for COVID-19 on Yelp! Upload an image of a screenshot of your review. This is a first come, first serve item. If Yelp! won’t let you review COVID anymore, don’t panic – there are plenty of other items to accomplish.
Despite our ingenious use of Amazon boxes in our first mini-Hunt, we know your homes are still stuffed with empty, useless boxes. Let’s repurpose them while giving a huge gift to your neighborhood: the gift of virtual travel. Using scissors, tape, coloring, and your ingenuity, create an internationally-recognized building, statue or monument and place it somewhere in your neighborhood (even if it’s simply in your yard or in front of your building) so people can enjoy beautiful tourist architecture without ever leaving the block. Take a picture with you sitting in front of it holding a sign saying ‘GISH VIRTUAL TRAVEL ENTERPRISES’.
Our homes and neighborhoods are our entire world right now, but that shouldn’t stop us from having adventures – and every adventure starts with an epic, Tolkein-style adventure map. Create an adventure map of your home (including your yard, if you have one) – including the light and the dark places. – Monica D.
Real heroes wear masks… face masks. Show us Batman, Superman, or another caped crusader helping out at home with daily or parental tasks or as a front-line worker while wearing a hospital-grade surgical or cotton face mask.
Eventually (maybe years from now) face masks won’t be needed as much as they are now, but it would be such a waste if they all went to landfills. USING AN OLD FACEMASK THAT IS NO LONGER USABLE, devise a fashion accessory for your pet. – Emily