I like the idea of those “daily creative thingy” sites, where the author/artist creates an image, comic, or something every day. (It’s the idea I like, as I said — you’re not likely to catch me doing it!) It’s quite a commitment, and I think the trick is to stop doing it when (if) it becomes a chore.
A few examples (my hat’s off to them…or maybe it’s only off because the nice weather has finally come to Montréal):
- Boring 3D (click on Archive). Was creating a 3D image (with strange/funny caption) daily for a few years, now is less frequent.
- toothpaste for dinner. Simple drawings with simple text.
- Married to the sea. Done by the same person as “toothpaste”(?), but it’s a completely different (and very funny!) idea.
- Truly silly (in a fun way), the guy at Aural Times (temporary mirror site) sings a news story (or should I say a new news story?) every two or three days.
- DailyScribble Sketchblog from a collective of “sketchers”…
- …and of course on the commercial side, publishing a new “creative thing” every day is nothing new!
Then there’s a slew of similar things, where an image, word (or something) is highlighted each day.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day, or the more general NASA Image of the Day.
- Earth Science Picture of the Day.
- Even good old Wikipedia has its own Picture of the day.
- National Geographic POD.
- Foto del día from an artist’s collective (based in Chile).
- Or get “Interesting Photos” from the last seven days on Flickr — a seemingly endless supply (just keep hitting “reload”!).
- More of a verbal person than visual? How about the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day (of another from Dictionary.com)? Perhaps a Quotation of the Day?
- What happened on This Day in History? (por ejemplo: Pope John Paul II died a year ago today)
- Want some humour (that is, if you consider puns to be humour)?
- Prefer a poem?
Even if you yourself aren’t doing something “per day”, these things can provide plenty of inspiration for your own creative projects, whenever you do do them!
P.S. Of course, most people share their “daily creative thingies” using blogging software, you don’t need to. You can just author normal HTML pages and use something simple and cool like RSSPECT to syndicate your work!