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5 December 2010

#339 Make art on your own body

This is how nice you could look

This is how nice you could look

Today’s tip comes from Hanna Norlin and she puts it like this: Surprises in the shape of nig motifs in lively colors make people smile and paves the way for compliments. Paint dramatically with felt pens and entertain yourself, your friends and everyone who sees the carriers of your sweet art.

Required time: 
1 hour or less
Cost: 
Less than €10
Cons: 
It can be difficult to wash off after a few days. It might smell, you might have bought cheap toxic markers instead of pricey non-toxic ones.
Pros: 
Stylish, cheap, and surprising.
Taggar: sweet nature, non-toxic, ink tattoo, 365 things you can do
3 December 2010

#337 Make street art with moss

Once you've done this, send your beautiful tags to us. Illustration: Richard Höök.

Once you've done this, send your beautiful tags to us. Illustration: Richard Höök.

Just because you want to do graffiti or street art does not mean you want to violate the law. There are legal ways to decorate your city, village or festival with colors and messages. Use post-it notes where the glue doesn’t damage the surface, draw with chalk on the asphalt or make moss graffiti. It doesn’t break the law, it spreads positive energy and it is Sweet Art.

Required time: 
1 hour or less
Cost: 
Less than €10
Cons: 
Mixing it together could get your kitchen dirty.
Pros: 
Moss green tags rain away.
Taggar: sweet nature, sugar, moss graffiti, legally, buttermilk, business, blender, 365 things you can do
12 August 2010

#224 Revive the slide projector

Pecha Kucha is only one use for a slide projector. Image: Pecha Kucha GBG

Pecha Kucha is only one use for a slide projector. Image: Pecha Kucha GBG

The concept is simple: a slide projector, 20 photos and 20 seconds for each image. The person talking chooses the pictures and what he or she wants to say.

This is what happens when Pecha Kucha, a worldwide network of creative people, invite people to one of their gigs. Designers, architects, journalists and artists have visited their meetings and spoken about themselves or their projects. Pecha Kucha doesn’t just sound cool, it also means something: It’s Japanese for the sound of conversation.

But Pecha Kucha isn’t the only way to use a slide projector.

You can take it out around town, projecting your pictures on any wall, then it becomes a form of sweet art. You can arrange a trip down memory lane on a white wall in the kitchen. You can terrorize your colleagues or classmates with a big graph of sales, homework or just generally unnecessary facts. You can alter an entire image by letting your hands shade out some sections.

The best thing about a slide projector is that it’s easy to repair mistakes: Click, and everything is gone and isn’t anymore. You put a new slide into the slot and that reality will be quite different.

Required time: 
1 day or less.
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
It's quite expensive to develop photographs into slides. Be selective.
Pros: 
You can change the city with light and simple means. You get to hear from a lot of interesting people in a short time.
Taggar: sweet nature, slide projector, school, Pecha Kucha, interesting people, city information, 365 things you can do