If you were to win the gold medal for “Grand Master Of The Organized Refrigerator” with your food somehow stacked, ordered or displayed using some type of beautiful, unique, or jaw-dropping organizational display or filing system, what would it look like? – Inspired by Tricia.
Use household items (books, boxes, kitchen utensils, anything…) to create one of the natural or man-made wonders of the world and take a selfie in front of it as if you’re a tourist. Feel free to use forced perspective to speak to its majestic grandeur.
Interview a child under the age of 10 about something that you would think is wildly beyond their grasp (management theory, the Battle of 1812, how pulsars work, what a black hole is, etc.). Take them very seriously and take notes. This may be a video call.
Record label marketing services are overrated. Everything you need to make a triple-platinum album cover is in your home. Using just the people and things in your house, re-create your favorite album cover.
Find a senior citizen (a relative or a stranger) living in a residential care facility for a child to interview via videoconference or telephone with at least 5 of the following questions, as well as any other questions the child wants to add. Then, the child must draw a picture based on the interview and share it with them. Send us a video showing the child interviewing the person and the drawing.
QUESTIONS:
- Where is your favorite place in the world that you have visited?
- What is your favorite color?
- What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
- What is your favorite game or sport?
- What are your kids’ names if you have any?
- If you had one food to bring to a desert island, what would it be?
- If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why?
- If you could be any age right now, what would it be and why?
- If you could tell the President one thing, what would it be?
- When you were a kid, what job or type of chores did you want to have?
- Tell me about a time someone did something kind for you: what was it? how did it make you feel?
- What was it like living through a war compared to living through this pandemic?
- Did you ever get in trouble as a kid, if so what did you do and what was the punishment?
- What was the happiest time period in your life?
- Who was your best friend when you were growing up? What would you do together?
- What were some of your favorite hobbies -when you were younger and now?
Have your kids explain or demonstrate their best strategy or argument for tricking your parents into letting you watch TV.
We LOVE our kids, but occasionally we all need a little break. Right now, however, that can be challenging. Let’s see your best quarantine technique for hiding from your children (camouflage, “mad-skills” hiding, appliance impersonation, invisibility… whatever it takes!)
Each morning and evening there are thousands of essential workers driving down streets like yours going to and from jobs that keep us fed and healthy. Let’s give them a show of support: thank essential workers with a message of art and appreciation towards them on your windows. Post your image to social media tagged #ThankYouEssentialWorkers and #GISH.
While so many of us are stuck at home, we might as well use our newfound time at home to work on ourselves and develop new skills to keep us marketable in an uncertain economy. With this in mind, learn to balance something on your chin for 20 seconds — a yardstick, a broom, a piece of a towel rack… or even something longer. Impress us! (Hint: Longer things are usually easier to balance. Don’t break any windows.)
I’m sure the marketing photography for frozen meals is totally accurate, but just to make sure it’s all on the up-and-up, microwave a frozen meal from your freezer and take a photo of it next to the photo shown on the box. I’m sure they will look exactly the same, just like mine did but this is just to double-check.