For some reason during the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is desperate for toilet paper. Even to the extent that people have been fighting over packs and bulk panic buying. But how many toilet rolls would you need to see you through a pandemic?
Well, look no further and have fun in the process with this Paper Please game by Hands, a Paris based agency. Try your hand at collecting as many rolls of paper as possible and watch the days of toilet roll survival clock up.
Nothing like a bit of procrastination during the lockdown, and practice your toilet roll grabbing skills ready for your trip to the shops.
Brendan Barry is a UK-based photographer who has a talent for creating cameras out of anything and everything, including watermelons, bread, shipping containers and more. Brandan has been making the most of the current lockdown situation and has made his bedroom into a Camera Obscura, and even created a YouTube tutorial so we can all get creative and set up our own bedroom camera too.
âIâm hoping that people stuck at home looking for a project to undertake, students wanting to develop their skills or parents homeschooling their kids might take it on and be of some useâ.
Brendan has attempted to make the Camera Obscura with things many people have lying around the house, to make it as easy as possible for everyone to join in. He went as far as to make his own simple darkroom, but if you donât have the equipment needed, you can just use a digital camera.
So the list of things you can use are:
Inspiration is everywhere if we look for it, even in the new socially distant world weâre currently experiencing. Paco Conde and Beto Fernandez, Creative Directors of Activista in Los Angeles, have created the â6 Feet Coversâ project, reimagining iconic album covers to reflect social distancing rules of today, reinforcing the important message to keep 6 feet apart to stop the spread of coronavirus and save lives.
Some of the albums they have reimagined are the Beatles âAbbey Roadâ from 1969, Queenâs 1979 album âQueen II.â and Kissâ 1974 album âDestroyerâ.
We can only imagine how long it took to edit all of those albums so beautifully in Photoshop, bravo!
A beautifully simple and effective website by ED. an Australia based agency for Rouser, a new activist organisation. Rouser is led by experts from the creative, entertainment and environmental sectors who worry about the future a lot. The organisation is new, and looking for support in the form of sign-ups, as their offer is still being formed but wow, it really makes you want to be part of this exciting new activist organisation.
The bubble animation (we love!), which grows as you scroll down the page is a really effective way to pull the messaging together when it finally bursts at the bottom of the page. It showcases their creativity as an organisation and adds a playful element. The brand is very bold with a bright green contrasting with the black, communicating action and boldness. Something youâd want from a new exciting activist organisation.
ED. bagged Site of the Day on Awwwards for this website, and it is well deserved.
This is an oldie, but we had to retrieve it from the archives because never has there been a better time to make use of all of those toilet roll tubes everyoneâs bins will be overflowing with.
Junior Fritz Jacquet is a French paper artist, who created these expressive and fantastic toilet paper rolls. His work is influenced by humans and nature, which are a continuous theme through his creations. Taking inspiration from origami, he folds and squishes the rolls into various faces, finishing them with different pigments and a coat of shellac.
This week he posted the toilet paper roll challenge, encouraging others to make their own expressive masks for the chance to win an original mask by Jacquet. In his Facebook post, he says…
Conditions of participation:
If you would like to join the competition, here is a link to his post.
A very topical bit of creativity from the super talented The Flippist. If you havenât seen the Flippistâs works of art before, youâre missing out. There is something about flipbooks are so pleasing.
This particular flipbook is a gem because it not only highlights a very important message of social distancing, but also uses Kirsten Leporeâs âHi Strangerâ animation as a reference, which has to be one of the best, and weirdest animations of all time.
Stay distant and stay safe everybody.
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Thereâs a rustle in the Welsh woods that has been whispered about for generations. They believe it to be Blue. They say itâs not sasquatch, but Stag. All thatâs been spotted is the odd antler in the overgrowth or hoofprint on the forest floor.
Weâve taken matters into our own hands and set up a series of cameras to try and locate Seb the Stag for ourselves. Brave visitor, can you help us in our quest to unravel the mystery and marvel at the myth?
Launch forest cam