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For this week, November 24th through the 30th (wow! I can’t believe it’s almost December already!), I challenge you to create small pieces of art and leave them somewhere anonymously. In a cafe, bookstore, or your neighbors’ doorsteps.

Here are some ideas to get you going:

  • A recipe for a delicious bread, cupcakes, or bath bombs gives someone a gift and a teaches them a new skill too!
  • Origami cranes are pretty and super easy to make from a napkin, receipt, or any other little papers lying around. I like to make them as tiny as possible, but maybe that’s just my weird obsession with miniatures.

    Here’s a tutorial if you’ve never origami-ed before:

  • Post-its are cheap and easy to write love notes, inspirational quotes, or just a “you are beautiful” on. Check out this thread on 43Things if you need ideas.
  • Making a mixtape or cd of the songs that make you happy and leaving it in a grocery store or a park is another idea, just make sure you put it in a case to protect it from the elements if it’s outside. For mixtape rules, High Fidelity still says it best:

    “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter. There’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with “Got to Get You Off My Mind,” but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.”

  • A painting on a normal sized canvas or paper and cut into three or four inch squares can be freeing. Write the number of pieces on the back and feel good knowing that there is a whole community that owns your one painting, all in little pieces. There’s a Found Art Tuesday pool on flickr for inspiration, and maybe your art will show up there too!

    Whatever you want to do, take a photo, video, or record some audio of it before you leave it. Sneakily and anonymously please (it’s more fun that way). And then send me an email with a link to your project. The deadline is Sunday, November 30th, by midnight.

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