Creative, Not Famous Activity Book: An Interactive Idea Generator for Small Potatoes & Others Who Want to Get Their Ayuss in Gear

by Ayun Halliday

Overview

Are you a small potato, pursuing your creative passions without expectations of fame or fortune? This playful workbook is designed to help adults with years of creative experience explore unconsidered art forms, amp up your creative approach, and wrangle your personal triumphs into a sustained and fulfilling practice. Interactive exercises and assignments will inspire you to write, draw, sing, rhyme, craft, improvise, observe, engage, document and express yourself in every medium imaginable. Get out of your rut, embrace your inner child, and see which seeds will bear the fruit of larger projects. Prepare to discover fun ways to increase your creative visibility, live by the Golden Rule, and expand your community. Ayun Halliday, inveterate multidisciplinary creatress and author of Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto, made this exuberant, hilarious, and fun guide for anyone ready to subvert creative business and branding advice and realize a deeper relationship with their own uniquely weird and wonderful creativity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781648411038
Publisher:	Microcosm Publishing LLC
Publication date:	01/24/2023
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ayun Halliday is the Chief Primatologist of the long running, award-winning zine, The East Village Inky, and co-founder of Theater of the Apes. She is the author of seven books, including No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late and the Zinester’s Guide to NYC. She created and hosts the ongoing Off-Off-Broadway variety show, Necromancers of the Public Domain. Ayun lives in New York City with her husband, playwright Greg Kotis. Find her online at ayunhalliday.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Interview 8

Mulch 16

Snake Oil 17

Sing It Wrong 20

Pippi Hole 22

Screen Saver Therapy 24

Thesaurus Expansion Pack 25

Childhood Gems 27

I Spy 30

Pollinating 31

Seeing with Your Mind's Eye 33

Homemade Porn 35

Magazine Dream 38

Fortune Cookie 38

Memory Palace Cartography 39

Hot Lips 42

Caveat Emptor 44

Objects Gone Wild 45

Word Association Solitaire 48

Call it Macaroni 50

Bubble Point 52

First Law of Thermodynamics 54

Bear Suit Cosplay 56

A Dicey Proposition 59

Harriet the Spy 61

The 100s 63

Scavenger Hunt 65

An Exercise in Advance of the Next Exercise 68

Pain Mountain (AKA Personal History Redo) 71

Check In 73

Seedlings 75

The Voyage of the Beagle 76

Continuing Education 80

Fucked Up Tattoo 86

Previously Owned 89

Harmless Smut 92

Tree of Influence 97

The Rashomon Effect 100

One a Day 102

Eleven Eleven 104

Consumer Joy 107

Sectional Sofa Approach 109

Roadside Attraction 112

Interview II 114

Found in Translation 120

Was My Face Red 130

Another Check In 136

Produce Stand 138

Brand Identity 139

Calling Card 141

Stickiness 144

Wearable Merch 146

Linguistics 148

Unconventional Venues 150

Little Freebie 153

Uplifting 156

Commemorative Tableaux 158

Bad Review Redo 162

Bad Review Redo II 165

Potato Patch 167

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year 168

Fan Mail Before Epitaph 172

Like a Vision She Dances 174

Bad Art Party 176

Nursery School 178

Picture Book Club 181

Everyone's a Critic 183

Reaping 186

Old Wine! New Bottles! 187

Acknowledgements 192

About the Author 192