Monday, February 23, 2015

#6: Instructions

Teach us how to do something.

Examples:
How to tie a tie
How to break someone's heart (or not)
How to fry a fish - Devastation Diaries
How to pretend - Kat Stratford
Letter to a Young Poet - Harold Miner
Goodbai Utah - Charlotte Charles
How to write a blog post in 51 easy steps - Suzy E.

Due Sunday, 3/1 @ 11:59pm

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Monday, February 16, 2015

#5: Bricks

We've written about something abstract (love). Now let's write about something concrete (bricks).
  

Examples:
Throw Bricks on Me - Hazel Grace
Concrete - Suzy E.
Bricks I Stole - Jackie O
7 Games You Can Play With a Brick - Hyberbole and a Half 

Two posts due Sunday, 2/22 @ 11:59pm. 

Monday, February 9, 2015

#4: Love

Write about love.
Musicians and artists have tried to explain it, define it, understand it. Now it's your turn.

Examples:
Obama and Mustaches - Harold Miner
This is a love poem- The Devastation Diaries
About a boy- Esther Greenwood
Welcome to a day in my life- Eazy-E
My love songs to no one- Reginald Delicious
Love; noun- Ed Kennedy
A letter to that kid I used to love - Phyllis Dae Sloan
Looking for pleasefindmehere - Harold Miner
Of rattlesnakes and love - Dick Tidrow
2AM - Tara Johnson
These things are how you make me feel - Harold Miner
We all have two hearts - Suzy E.
Take a Picture - Malark Shattux
I don't know why that matters, but it does - Charlotte Charles
Will You Pour My Orange Juice? - Miss Carter
Valentine's Day - Jackie O
High School Love - Harold Miner

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Links:
paperman - Disney short about finding love
Love is a Mix-Tape
Love is Walking Hand in Hand - Peanuts
Love You Like a Love Song - Selena Gomez

Two posts due by Sunday, 2/15 @ 11:59pm

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"Because the songs that we play are about love and that makes people feel good." 
-Jack Johnson

Monday, February 2, 2015

#3: Robots


Write about being here. Being alive. Being human. Prove you're not a robot.

Examples:
For those who can still ride an airplane for the first time by Anis Mojgani
Letter to a young robot by Harold Miner
things i still hold grudges against: by Devastated Daisy
Summertime Sadness by Harold Miner
Screw Being Human by Priscilla Belle
Human: The Original Species by Feathers on Fish
god save the human race by Sam Durrant
bears and butterflies by Cornelia Boom
Victimize This by Nemo Green
fish tank by Jess Rhodes

Two blog posts (Robots + whatever you want) due Sunday, 2/8 @ 11:59 pm

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