Skull-A-Day

Photo of skulls made from Chinese food take out boxes The very cool and creative Skull-A-Day blog is a year long art project where the artist creates one piece of skull art every day for a year.

There’s already some very clever and creative skulls, and more to come for sure. This is a great exercise in developing creativity, as you are forced to constantly change your perspective, and will eventually start seeing the world around you differently — “meta-programming the supercomputer” as Robert Anton Wilson liked to call it.

Years ago I read a great creativity book that had the “hydrant experiment”. The idea is to constantly pay attention to fire hydrants. You think they all look the same, but when you start focusing your attention on them, you find that not only are they not all the same, but there are an amazing variety of them, even just in your own area.

I’ve set up an RSS feed for the Flickr tag “hydrant”, and even have a Mac OS X Dashboard Flickr random image widget set up with the same tag. It’s just a small reminder to constantly be aware of my surroundings and to remember to keep my perspective fresh. As a skeleton geek, I also have some Flickr tag search feeds set up for skulls, which are constantly depicted in all kinds of art, and you can be constantly amazed and inspired by all the variations.

Skull-A-Day is a much more active cousin of this concept. Must see.

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