Wide-reaching Galway – Wednesday March 8th 2017
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Wide-reaching Galway. From NUIG to New Inn. Show us your Galway.

Take a photo and tag a buddy who lives in Galway. Get them to show us the beauty it holds

 

Credit:

Today’s challenge comes from Eibhlín Seoighthe: Photographer and Student at NUI Galway. Although more into the books these days, NUIG offers Eibhlín the perfect surroundings to take a break away from the world of academia and escape into the creative world.

Follow Eibhlín @feicphoto on twitter.

 

 

How to participate:

Share your interpretation of the Eibhlín’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post:

 

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‘Seeing Sound’ – Tuesday March 7th 2017
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Photograph or draw your favourite sound
(with bonus points for capturing audio of the sound)

Credit:

Today’s prompt comes from the Digital Cultures Initiative (DCI) at NUI Galway. This a forum intended to bring together all those interested in researching, supporting and creating forms of “digital culture” at NUI Galway. This includes digital arts, humanities and media researchers, information and data science specialists, experts in digital teaching and learning, creative practitioners, archivists, and interested stakeholders from creative, heritage and industrial communities beyond the University.
Follow @dci_nuig on Twitter.

Image credit: “The Scream” by Barney Moss is licensed under CC BY 2.0

How to participate:

Share your interpretation of the DCI’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post:

If you prefer, draw, photograph, paint, or write your interpretation (not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post) and share with us at:

‘Outta Place, Outta Time’ Monday March 6th 2017
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Take a photograph which plays with the notion of juxtaposition – “the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect”

Need more help?

Having problems visualising a juxtaposition? Try to mix and match two materials that generally don’t go together, like leaves and paper clips or contrast colour and texture. Photograph and share the result.

Credit

Today’s fantastic challenge comes from Jim Vaughan. Jim is a Documentary Photographer based in Galway. He lectures at the Centre for Creative Arts and Media at GMIT. CCAM is a hive of creative activity and specialises in courses in contemporary art, design, textiles and film and documentary. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimVaughanPhoto

How to participate:

Share your interpretation of Jim’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post.

If you prefer, draw, photograph, paint, or write your interpretation (not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post) and share with us at:

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Prompt 1-5 ‘I’ ‘Express your ‘self”
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My eye by orangeacid, on Flickr
“My eye” Image: Flickr (CC BY 2.0) by orangeacid

This week it’s all about Me, Myself, I.

We have a list of ideas for you below to help express your ‘self’. If you can, challenge yourself to try 3 of these throughout the week.

Share your inspiration with us during our final week of CampusCreate.

It’s been great getting to know you all, we hope you enjoyed participating and that you found inspiration in each other’s creativity.

So…..what are you waiting for?….Challenge yourself……..Go Create! 

 

Challenge:  Over the course of the week, take 3 of these ideas. Express your ‘self’

 

 

  Make a portrait of yourself in twenty years. Or in fifty years. Or both
  Write an autobiographical poem or write the chapter titles in your autobiography. Or illustrate your book cover
 Draw something you keep putting off, or something that causes you to procrastinate
  Explore what your space says about you
 Express yourself in art – Use a journal to record your stream of consciousness.  Record your thoughts, draw images that come to your mind
 Bullet your day – (Describe what you do exactly). Can you make art or write a poem from your objective descriptions?
 Take an engaging self portrait of yourself (Not exactly a selfie, show who you are without including yourself, or include only part of your face or body)
 Happy Memories. Can you turn them into something artistic, what were the colours, smells, can you create a colour palette inspired by where you were?
 Lose yourself in your imagination. If your favourite artist, musician, author, film maker, or photographer, commissioned you to create something based on their work, what would you make?
 Have fun with your personal style
 Take a photograph that captures an emotion at the moment of pressing the shutter button, what do you see that connects with that emotion?

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #ispark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 3 ‘Place’ Oh the places you’ll go!
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What’s your favourite line from Dr. Seuss’s book, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”?

Draw some inspiration, and share it with us

Resources:

Watch the vimeo video above or see an animated version of Dr. Seuss’s book on YouTube here

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #placespark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 3 ‘Teanga’- Lost in translation
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Galway by phalinn, on Flickr
“Galway” (CC BY 2.0) by  phalinn

 

TRANSLATING THE LIFE OUT OF IT
“Gleann na gCaorach
means something beautiful.
Glenageary means nothing at all.”
From ‘Half a Hug’ by Pat Ingoldsby, Willow Publications 1998. Gleann na gCaorach = glen/valley of the sheep

Your Challenge: Check out a place name in your locality and interpret your findings in a photo, six word poem, or in a drawing

 

Resources:

Check out http://www.logainm.ie/ga/ to find the origin of names in your locality

or search for a place names in Co. Galway here (Galway City Library), Co. Clare here (Clare County Library) or Co. Mayo here (Mayo County library)

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