Sparkapolooza

2014-01-18T15:49:00.001+11:00

By Dan Coman

2013-11-10T22:15:00.000+11:00

By Z

2013-11-10T22:14:00.000+11:00

By Laura

2013-11-10T22:13:00.001+11:00

Amy Winehouse

By Alice

2013-11-10T21:21:00.004+11:00

Dami Im

By Jessica Sundojo

2013-11-10T21:04:00.000+11:00

Domo arigato mr roboto

By Lee Sargent

Brief 60: Let's Get Musical // Giveaway

2013-09-30T22:45:00.000+10:00

Brief 60: Let's Get Musical
Deadline: Sunday, 20th October 2013
Music: Wishery by Nick Bertke (Pogo)

Whether you're playing a musical instrument or decks are more your thing, if you're awesome at karaoke or just in the shower- or none of the above at all and just think the above is pretty damn inspiring - it's time to get musical!

NEWS: Sparkapolooza is holding a giveaway! This time around, when you submit your creative response, you will get a chance to win Play: The NYLON Book of Music to add to your coffee table. You will automatically enter the draw as soon as we have receive your submission. A winner will be announced at the end of this brief.

Email your work to sparkapolooza [at] gmail [dot] com, upload to our Facebook page or tag #sparkapolooza on Twitter or Instagram.

What else are you waiting for?

2013-09-28T09:11:00.000+10:00

The secret club that all my friends are in. No disco allowed.

By Joanne Chan

2013-09-24T11:24:00.000+10:00

By Alice

2013-09-23T22:16:00.001+10:00

This is my attempt of lettering art - and yes I do notice the embarrassing typo on the word 'drinking'. It was a late night work to catch up the deadline, oh well. Artwork theme: what I do with my friends.

By Laura

BRIEF 59: ALL MY FRIENDS

2013-08-28T17:35:00.000+10:00

Brief 59: All My Friends
Deadline: Sunday 22nd September 2013
Image: Elisabeth Dunker

Best friends. Potential friends. Facebook friends. Friends of friends. This brief is about all of them, real or not.

We accept all mediums so get out your pencils, camera, scissors or tablet.

Email your work to sparkapolooza [at] gmail [dot] com, upload to our Facebook page or tag #sparkapolooza on Twitter or Instagram.

Less procrastination, more doing yeah!

2013-08-08T20:29:00.001+10:00

By Joanne Chan

There once was a man named George,

with 10 tall daughters and a son,

They drove him crazy with their nonsense,

but mostly, he reflected, life was fun.

The house they lived in was grand,

and people would come gather round to see.

They'd have parties and music and ponies,

and every so often a tee pee.

But one by one they grew older,

and slowly ventured out its door.

Til one George realised

that his play house had become

no more.

2013-08-08T20:23:00.001+10:00

By Laura

2013-08-08T20:21:00.000+10:00

By Pusparina Wijayati

Brief 58: Playhouse

2013-07-04T22:57:00.000+10:00

Brief 58: Playhouse
Deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Image: Dalston House by Leandro Erlich (via Huh Magazine)

This month we are very inspired by Leandro's most recent amazing art installation Dalston House. Playhouse is open for all kinds of interpretation. Switch on your imagination and get your own version of a play house built, painted, photographed, designed, written...surprise us.

Don't forget to email your work to sparkapolooza [at] gmail [dot] com, upload to our Facebook page or tag #sparkapolooza on Twitter or Instagram.

2013-06-18T21:56:00.001+10:00

A coffee haiku for this month's brief. Inspired by that feeling of desolation when you finish your coffee each morning.
By Kate Toon

2013-06-17T21:59:00.001+10:00

By Alice

2013-06-17T21:12:00.000+10:00

By Piers

2013-06-17T21:10:00.000+10:00

By Joanne Chan

2013-06-17T20:54:00.002+10:00

Digital social sketches
By Laura Tj

2013-06-17T20:47:00.000+10:00

Paper Ghost
By Stephanie Lee

2013-06-17T20:40:00.000+10:00

By Jess Fong
Sound effects by Portia Hilton

2013-06-17T20:37:00.002+10:00

By Galit Shachaf

Brief 57: 10 Minutes Coffee Break

2013-06-02T09:37:00.001+10:00

Brief 57: 10 Minutes Coffee Break
Deadline: 17 June 2013
Image: By Lily X

Everyone needs coffee (or tea) break in their everyday life. Now what if, within that little cosy time, you could also train your right brain to do something creative?

This is a fun and OPEN brief for you! You can pick any subject or theme, do whatever you like, in any medium you want, but you have to complete your work within 10 minutes time. Go out, start creating and have some fun. We guarantee you'll feel good and be more productive when you go back to your routine.

E-mail your works to sparkapolooza at gmail dot com or upload to Facebook / Twitter / Instagram and tag us #sparkapolooza

2013-05-19T09:03:00.001+10:00

Between night’s dusk at sunrise
By Sean Bidd

Her active days, they rush on by so damn fucking fast,

Far out beyond the nightmares, keeping company the estuarines,

Where the snakes, the vipers sweat each their long days away,

Passing through every deep dark hole between east and west.

“Girl born with a wild heart,

Came the daughter of the untamed lands,

Grant freedom to the brave whom help,

With love in earth and verse, love to all her kind.”

Her time in some of the darkest places, darker than torn souls,

JK walked in out of each nightmare, her world a war torn zone,

For many years have passed, since the doctor she became,

The days the war rages on, her skills she bent a smugglers run.

“Girl born with a wild heart,

Came the daughter of the untamed lands,

Grant freedom to the brave whom help,

With love in earth and verse, love to all her kind.”

Always laid within the thick of it, JK rescued thousands from such wrongs,

Through the chaos day and night, the medicines she brought new friends,

To stem the constant flow of blood, to help revive so many broken lives,

How can such a once quiet place, turn to become a war zone in our time.

“Girl born with a wild heart,

Came the daughter of the untamed lands,

Grant freedom to the brave whom help,

With love in earth and verse, love to all her kind.”

We met so many years ago, JK like the daughter one could love,

Born her wild ways, she walked in tall with a big wide open heart,

Her stance a vantage to good sense in living, her love for others’ ways,

She does not need to think to hard, about when, n’where to lend a hand.

“Girl born with a wild heart,

Came the daughter of the untamed lands,

Grant freedom to the brave whom help,

With love in earth and verse, love to all her kind.”

Brave in her trepidation, many peoples’ in she trusts along the ways,

The places where her life has traveled, the dreams she’s learned to breathe,

While JK walks to greet me, walking slow now in a new found peaceful land,

A daughter’s love to welcome fresh, will always set free this tired old open mind.

“Girl born with a wild heart,

Came the daughter of the untamed lands,

Grant freedom to the brave whom help,

With love in earth and verse, love to all her kind.”

“Where the storms of night’s dusk wave their curtain,

Each one calling brave aloud to her name at sunrise.”