A Humane Turtle

Almost a month ago I posted about my white-board Advent calendar project, the Creepy Creature Calendar. Thanks to Claudio I know that this technique is called exquisite corpse (check out this exquisite book!).

24 days later the calendar is all filled out, thanks to my colleagues at work. It was a fun experience, and I think this has potential to become a tradition. The creature has lots of eyes, a bunch of heads and feet, and there is a bird. Also, the creature is (at least partly) female, and she is exploited for her milk.

Here is an animation of how she came into being:

I started taking a picture every day, but my phone got stolen, so I had to create this progress animation from the last photograph.

Here are pictures of some of the creepy creature’s features:

The cross-eyed siamese teddy bear.

Swinging udder.

Arms and legs and… the creature is reset to 0. Or something

The peaceful bird, scratching into the heart-adorned arm.

Mr. Floating Pumkin, and Mr. Angry Meat-Eating Plant.

“I’m in the middle but nobody likes me”-dude.

Eye-tongued trident-armed dragon head, aiming to kill that bug.

Thanks to the following people who participated in this fun little project:

1. Espen
2. Erle
3. Esteban
4. Tommy
5. Daniel
6. Øyvind H.
7. Axel
8. Arjan
9. Petter
10. Oleg
11. Thomas
12. Øyvind Ø.
13. Yenny
14. Anders
15. Karianne
16. Helge
17. ?? (a mystical person who participated over the weekend)
18. Stein Cato
19. Tony
20. Roar
21. Arne Martin
22. Alex
23. Eirik
24. Aleksei

If you have followed this blog the last few days, you might have noticed my modest excitement for Advent-y stuff. Now, I wanted to have a physical, potentially collaborative, Advent calendar at work (in addition to the other Advent stuff I set up). So I made one on the whiteboard this morning:

Each day until Christmas, someone can continue drawing parts of the creature(s). Today it got an additional set of eyes

Yes, just like Tim Minchin I quite like the songs, the Christmas songs with nice cords and dodgy lyrics. I made a collection of traditional Christmas songs and new interpretations thereof, and wrapped them in an online Advent calendar. 24 songs for you, one a day (more a day, actually, if you happen to check out the album that the song is on). I present the songs as Spotify URL’s, so unfortunately this calendar only really works if you have Spotify.

Now check out the calendar!