Create Against the Clock
This week, your challenge is to Create Against the Clock. Get out your supplies, set a timer and do your creative thing for 10 minutes. Scan or snap a photo of your work. Then, with the same supplies, set the timer for 1 hour and let the creative juju flow again. Snap another photo and share both with us. How do the two compare? Is there a contrast — unfinished and raw versus complete and finished? (Depending on your particular craft, you may wish to adjust the timer; just be true to yourself and pick a very short time followed by a longer period of time.)
O, great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. 
Even though it may only take one hour to produce a great work of art, there are years of nurtured vision and feeling in every stroke.
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Get creative by interpreting this topic through art, words, photography, however you feel moved to express yourself. Post it on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.
* To ensure it is easy for us to find your work, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page. Help! What’s a static page?
People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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1s 1min 1heure….
August 21st, 2008 at 2:55 pm2
LoVeD this challenge — it really got my creative juices flowing.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm3
Coming in late for last week’s “Opposites” prompt: two Birds of a feather
August 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm4
http://mouseonaleash.blogspot......clock.html
August 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm5
HERE is my piece … with minimal props, per usual.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm6
[...] timed project was inspired by Inspire Me Thursday. It is my first time trying it out and obviously, I am [...]
August 21st, 2008 at 9:49 pm7
One thing is certain….
10 minutes or one hour…neither is long enough for me to get very far.
http://nancylefko.blogspot.com.....ainst.html
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 am8
Something about working under pressure seems to be inspiring:
MAKING UP TIME, by Linda Ann Nickerson
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am9
my ten minute troll: http://namesconnie.blogspot.co.....nutes.html
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 pmmy one hour troll:
http://namesconnie.blogspot.co.....-hour.html
Thanks again for your creative ideas. I look forward to your inspiration each week.
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Against the clock with sufi music.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm11
This is my work:
http://papillon-de-nuit.myblog.....8849/#comm
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:59 pm12
this was a fantastically inspiring challenge this week. thanks so much.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:53 amhere’s mine:
http://soulbrush.blogspot.com/.....imt10.html
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btw my new blog is soulbrush
August 24th, 2008 at 7:05 amhttp://soulbrush.blogspot.com/.....imt10.html
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my fairies about 10 minutes and 1 hour: http://sketchpause.blogspot.co.....magic.html
August 24th, 2008 at 9:32 am15
A Beijing Cosmonaut in 10 mn and 1 hour here :
http://kazumiwannabe.blogspot......ontre.html
August 24th, 2008 at 11:17 amor
http://kazumiwannabe.blogspot.com/
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http://laurascarlett.blogspot......clock.html
A one hour portrait.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pmL x
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Love this one, so fun!
http://beelieve.typepad.com/my.....ainst.html
August 24th, 2008 at 7:13 pm18
oh, i just no way to do something for an hour!!
August 25th, 2008 at 3:53 ambut it would be a nice try :)
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This is a work that I think applies more to the opposites theme, but was also completed quite quickly after a long pause in its development. It is called the ‘angel of apollo’ -
http://languageofbirds.wordpre.....of-apollo/
Best wishes,
Jim
August 25th, 2008 at 6:49 am20
I wrote the poem in just under ten minutes - and drew the picture in just over an hour.
Wishing everyone a wonderful, creative week!
the small grey rock
August 25th, 2008 at 7:16 am21
Thanks for the idea! I enjoyed it a lot! And the results are sooo different to what I would normally do…
http://paquipalla.blogspot.com.....erdam.html
August 25th, 2008 at 9:40 am22
http://beecreative.typepad.com.....-th-3.html
August 25th, 2008 at 10:13 pm23
here is one I did back in the day…
August 26th, 2008 at 8:46 amhttp://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=15
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took this photo a while back at a friend’s wedding, converted it into black and white through photoshop (which took less than 5 minutes): http://blog.chocolatenostalgia.com/?p=21
and then I painted it using acrylics a few days ago (which took a little over an hour):
August 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pmhttp://loonybinart.wordpress.c.....come-home/
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[...] by the challenge “Create Against the Clock” at Inspire Me Thursday, Annabelle and I spent this past Sunday afternoon playing with tempera [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 5:13 am26
Create Against the Clock with tempera paints, a toddler, and a few repurposed items.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:37 am27
This was another great challenge ! I had a lot of fun working against the clock and discovered that I still find that deadlines come too quick !
August 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pmThanks for the inspiration !
Kim
http://queen-of-arts.blogspot......clock.html
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What craziness! I honestly thought I could make headway toward a hand-drawn kaleidoscope in 10 minutes and finish one in an hour. Madness!
Ten Minute Result (the coloring was done in the One Hour segment):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/p.....815943224/
One Hour Result:
August 31st, 2008 at 6:46 pmhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/p.....815945176/