The Muse's Idea Jar

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:06 am

Did your muse go on vacation without so much as a "see you later, I'll send a post card"?

Or maybe you're working on a project and are so excited about it that you want to share it with everyone.

Are you stuck on a project and can't seem to push it forward?

Or maybe your muse is working double time and you have so many ideas your brain might explode.

Wanna share with the rest of us? Here's the place to do it.

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:30 am

<walks in, drops a defibrillator>

Just in case anyone's muse needs to be revived... Batteries are brand new and everything.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:51 am

Actually, I had an idea. I asked Rob the Wop to call me because I trust his judgement but he never did. I dont want to post it "in the clear" since it is kindof a cacp sort of stunt ... pm me if you want to be my sounding board/partner in crime.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:52 am

s/cacp/caco/

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:38 am

Ok, since I started this topic I thought maybe I should say a few things.

I know there has been talk about inspiration and the muse on other threads and I invite those people to continue to talk about that stuff here.

I find a lot of times that talking to other artists about there latest projects gets my creative juices flowing. It's rarely something similar to what they're working on, but it's like I can pick up and borrow some of that creative energy.

I don't mind sharing a few things I'm working on at the moment. Oh, and feel free to borrow and build off of these ideas.

I've been leaning towards crafty things lately. I'm sewing a messenger bag out of four different colors of corduroy (that all used to be pants, but I don't mind recycling cause they were all in pretty good shape). I cut out rectangles and squares and put them together in kind of a Mondrian un-pattern.

I've also worked on some wire beaded ornament things (see avatar). Kind of little ornaments that I might hang in a window to catch light. But, I got bored with that and have moved on to a tree thingie. (see bar for more details)

Hmmm, think that's it for now. Anyone who wants to bounce ideas off of me, I'm more than willing to listen. But please specify what type of feedback you're looking for. Thanks for reading.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:58 am

<walks in, drops a defibrillator>

Just in case anyone's muse needs to be revived... Batteries are brand new and everything.

Tony, maybe you should PM me. There's talk about a 'Defibrillator Camp' that needs to be investigated.

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:55 am

A fine idea for a thread, methinks. Now if the muse would strike, I'd have something meaningful to post. Perhaps after another cup of coffee.

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:57 am

I love your great idea for this thread. I have a great habit of starting projects. I only wish I had half the time to finish them. Last year on the playa I gifted out pendants/necklaces made from Fimo. Lots of folks loved them.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:17 am

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cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:36 am

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tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:48 pm

You know what you ought to make Blue... some of those pendents (like the star) in the shape of the man... now that would be cool.

=) I want one I want one!!!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:50 pm

Hmmm, I'll have to think on that ... Thanks tony.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:10 am

My muse has been missing for a long time now.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:50 am

you know, I've always wanted to be someone's muse....

I think I've come close... I had a boyfriend in college who would write amazing songs for me...

There's something that's very attractive to having something--that ONE THING--that inspires creativity in others. I've always harboured this desire... to be someone's muse... but tend to put it really far back in myelf, because somehow, it seems vain. Don't know why I'm spilling it here, actually... maybe it's because I haven't had enough coffee this morning yet, and my defenses are down.

Maybe it's the hopeless romatic in me: to be someone that inspires art... wow... not romantic in a relationship sort of way, but those romantic ideals...

for me, personally, it's not so much about finding a muse--I've got her--but about having someone to prod me along a bit... raise my expectations of myself... give me a bit of courage to take the plunge...

oof. babbling.

off to get more coffee...

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:18 am

*big sigh*

oh, the muse.

So I had been bitching for months about hating my stupid boring job, and then I quit, not knowing what in the world I was going to do to take care of myself and my family. Then the universe conspired to take care of all those pesky details (like bills) in the form of a fat income tax return. Now I have, all of a sudden an opportunity to realize a dream of mine...... to write, complete with a venue for my work!

I'm scared silly. What if I find out I don't have *it* in me??? I think this is the reason alot of what I most want to do has not heretofore come to fruition: big fat fear of failure.

ooof, rambling. more coffee......

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:45 am

Sounds like a potential for self-fulfilling prophecy (fear of failure). Nothing to fear but fear itself, m'dear.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:53 am

One of several pieces of advice given to me by my first welding instructor:

"If it was easy, everybody'd do it."

giggles (and anyone else for that matter), the things I've accomplished so far have mostly been because I was too crazy to know I couldn't do it, and so believing that I could, I did.

If another human is doing it, so can you.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:59 am

It is very good to have friends to cheerlead and say the words I need to hear. Love to you all!

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:05 am

GO GIGGLES, GO!!

Just DO it!!

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:09 am

The movie "The Muse" was pretty funny, too. (AMUSING, I mean....)

I'm stuck trying to come up with EL wire creations to populate the top level of the triple-dome structure that I'm bringing....In what may be my only concession to this year's theme, I was going to make the top dome (an almost-sphere, six feet across) the "brain" sphere and have sparky, blinky little neuronlike widgets zipping and popping around inside....

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:29 am

I think I have found my muse, judging from my recent work in a variety of forms. Fucking amazing feeling, to begin to reach what I have always imagined was the potential. Wow. Just wow.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:52 am

GE, I hear ya. On the few occasions that I've had a song or poem or whatnot written for me, it's been flooring, and, mostly, humbling.

On the my-creative-juices-flowed topic, I wrote two new songs yesterday. I'm really pleased with one in particular. I think i found a way to communicate, simply, an experience that i've been trying to put into that format for a year.

Spending time with other musicians does this to me. I guess Saturday's show, loopy as it was, was good on a lot of fronts.

Looks like I'm playing a benefit on the 28th, so i can try them out on an unsuspecting audience.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:40 pm

blueniteowl wrote: I've also worked on some wire beaded ornament things (see avatar). Kind of little ornaments that I might hang in a window to catch light. But, I got bored with that and have moved on to a tree thingie. (see bar for more details)

Msky. I have lots of glass pendants that are maybe 1/4 to 3/4 inches long with little wire loops coming out of them. I was originally going to try and make earrings with them. Does this sound like something you'd like to work with?

Also, the tree you were talking about may come from a similier idea as the Give a Gift/Take a Gift tree I'd like to make for e-playa camp. And then there was the little bedside table tree that would have little clips to hold condoms.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:57 pm

I am not having trouble with the muse angle. But feel free to sit in my lap at Xara GE. What I need are minions and a venue.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:08 pm

Hey can I have your minions when you're not using them?

Please?

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:23 pm

your minions

that's just it, I don't have any at the moment. As soon as I get a line on some I will let you know though.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:32 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
blueniteowl wrote: I've also worked on some wire beaded ornament things (see avatar). Kind of little ornaments that I might hang in a window to catch light. But, I got bored with that and have moved on to a tree thingie. (see bar for more details)
Msky. I have lots of glass pendants that are maybe 1/4 to 3/4 inches long with little wire loops coming out of them. I was originally going to try and make earrings with them. Does this sound like something you'd like to work with?

Also, the tree you were talking about may come from a similier idea as the Give a Gift/Take a Gift tree I'd like to make for e-playa camp. And then there was the little bedside table tree that would have little clips to hold condoms.

I'd be interested in the pendants if you are willing to share. I'm experimenting a lot lately with beads and pendants.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:35 pm

Pm your address. I take forever to get round to things, so it may be awhile. But I'm really looking forward to clearing out the space. Are you at all interested in seed beeds? I've got some that I don't want to donate to the virgin art project--too small to find and therefore very proto-MOOP. And I have some larger pendants as well.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:30 pm

stuart wrote:
your minions
that's just it, I don't have any at the moment. As soon as I get a line on some I will let you know though.

You guys need this place http://minions.keenspace.com/

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:20 pm

Yes, the prod, GE, I need one of those too! So many ideas that never make it out of the brain...

Right now I want to get one of those latch hooking tools and make a big latch hooked area rug out of fluffly, fluffy wool so I can roll around on it and be all snuggly. And pillows too, in pretty colours. I used to do latch hooking for hours and hours when I was young, it was one of my favourite crafts.

At this moment my muse would have to be the big windows at my new home and the amount of light I get. My old home is in the trees, up against a hillside and rather dark. Now I'm wanting more and more colours and brightness and textures because they are so much more visible.