Experiments

Experiment of the Week: The One Day Rewind

You might have seen the movie Groundhog Day, a great movie where the main character relives the same day over and over again. This experiment plays off this idea with the one obvious drawback that time isn’t actually suspended or altered. With your next big holiday, preferably when you have experienced an awesome day exploring great things, enjoy the day from start to finish. The next day, set out to live as closely as possible to the way you did the day before. As best as your memory allows, wake up the same way, go to the same places, eat the same food, see the same people and see how doing almost exactly the same thing twice in two days can have potentially very different meaning. Take this even further by extending the continuous loop. Do this for a week or a month and enjoy the interesting, curious, and very strange results.

Experiment of the Week: Travel Plot Twisters

fixP4293356Plot twisters is an experiment built for two.  When traveling with a companion, decide that at some point of the trip each one of you will take your travels a surprising direction. The timing will be uncertain and the surprise turn will be the secret of the plot twister (the person planning the trip’s next secret event). Start off in a base location–New York, Stockholm, Johannesburg, or wherever you chose. When the timing is right, the first assigned plot twister will disappear leaving only a note detailing the next destination or experience on the itinerary. The person could play the twist in the middle of the night, during a dinner, or at any time or place of interest. The plot twister leaves unexpectedly to get a head start and invite the person to chase them there. When you both arrive at the new destination you can enjoy the new place for a few days before the plot twister role switches and the other person decides the next surprising direction also in sneaky spur of the moment fashion. Take the journey and plot twisting rotation as long as you wish. Enjoy the surprising turns and direction. Keep your plans loose to begin with and let the whims of your companion take you to one surprising place after another. This is an awesome way to add the element of suspense to an otherwise ordinary vacation. Enjoy!

Experiment of the Week: The Dream Mural Project

My experiment of the week for Sept 7th 2018! The Dream Mural Project.

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The Dream Mural Project is one of my favorite experiments and can result in an awesome work of art. In a space close to where you sleep or in a safe place of your home drape a large sheet of canvas. With each new morning as you wake with images and characters from your dream paint an inspired image on the wall to carefully craft a dream mural. Add new images with each new day from the dream visions you have in your sleep. Create a beautiful collage of dream places, thoughts, images, bizarre or restrained. Complete the mural until every corner of the canvas has been used. If you haven’t had enough, recreate new murals as you complete old ones or combine your artistic abilities with others in a shared dream mural with friends. Have each person contribute their own personal dream images to the combined work. Keep a record of the images created as the painting evolves over time. To add another dimension, create a timelapse of the creative process and the life of its development. If you feel inspired share it with the world for others to enjoy.

For more experiments check out the Life Arts Experiments Portal !

The Life Arts Experiments Portal

Creativity in life adds tremendous color and meaning. Without it life would lack so much of its excitement and depth. My greatest pride of the Life Arts Lab is the many experiments that fill this website and my forthcoming book. There are many ways to make an average moment come to life with invention and a new perspective. I invite you to visit the experiments portal below to explore some of the many experiences life has to offer.

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Yours,

Billy