Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the third Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, January 14-Sunday, January 15. The theme is "Disabled People (visibly and invisibly disabled)" and there's a previous post with resources on disabled characters. (See also the corresponding jam post on Livejournal.)
Fund ALL the Crowds!
This weekend has a bunch of other activities going on. Cross-traffic is encouraged. Make a tour, leave prompts, fill prompts, mix and match, whatever.
Giraffe Call on "In the City" byaldersprig
January Muse Fusion ontorn_world
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.
Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.
Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.
Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.
Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.
Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.
Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.
Fund ALL the Crowds!
This weekend has a bunch of other activities going on. Cross-traffic is encouraged. Make a tour, leave prompts, fill prompts, mix and match, whatever.
Giraffe Call on "In the City" by
aldersprig January Muse Fusion on
torn_worldCrowdfunding Creative Jam
Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.
Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.
Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.
Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.
Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.
Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.
Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.
Open Playground: "Schrodinger's Heroes"
Date: 2012-01-14 07:32 am (UTC)The background material and some sample stories, poems, and scripts are linked from the menu post. If you do play with this, I'd love to know; I'll link to other people's contributions if I know where they are.
Prompts
Date: 2012-01-14 07:34 am (UTC)The MV-1 is a vehicle designed -- not modified -- for wheelchair users. I think it would be awesome to have a picture of a cherry red MV-1 with a hot handicapped girl and guy in sexy swimwear draped over the hood, the way car ads so often imply that mobility is power and power is sex.
http://www.vpgautos.com/vpg-configure/build-your-mv-1
Talking food -- the Braille burger and other foods that incorporate messages for blind people.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/south-african-chain-reaches-out-to-visually-impaired-with-braille-burgers/article2302313/
I'm also interested in all forms of adaptive communication such as sign languages and touchboards.
Jobs for Disabled Veterans
http://www.dav.org/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=532
President Obama signed the Hire Heroes Act to encourage employers to hire disabled veterans. Doesn't that make you think of superheroes or soldiers of fortune?
From the Dark
http://www.jvarela.com/
Juan Varela does illusion for blind audiences in a magic show called "From the Dark."
Historic
These are some famous historic figures with a disability. I would love period-historic or alternate-history stuff featuring them.
Black Coyote (deaf; he was killed in the massacre at Wounded Knee)
http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/project/1999/sioux/wounded.htm
Franklin D. Roosevelt (poliomyelitis; he used a wheelchair)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt's_paralytic_illness
Harriet Tubman (brain damage from a head injury; effects variously described as narcolepsy or epilepsy)
http://danine.net/2010/03/08/womens-disability-history-month-harriet-tubman/
Hellen Keller (blind and deaf)
http://www.afb.org/section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=129
Kunta Kinte (lame, after slave hunters cut off half of his foot to discourage him from escaping)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunta_Kinte
Ludwig van Beethoven (deaf)
http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyDeafness.html
Wilma Mankiller (muscular dystrophy)
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people.html
Prompts
Date: 2012-01-14 08:35 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tgwuj3gzM - ballet performance by a one-armed woman and a one-legged man
Re: Prompts
Date: 2012-01-14 09:12 am (UTC)23 lines, Buy It Now = $10
Re: Prompts
Date: 2012-01-14 10:57 am (UTC)Prompts
Date: 2012-01-14 04:33 pm (UTC)These are some favorite fictional characters with a disability. I'd enjoy fanfic/fanart of them.
Charles Xavier / Professor X from X-Men (mobility injury; uses a wheelchair)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_X
Creb / Mog-ur from The Clan of the Cave Bear (missing one eye and part of one arm, with a crippled leg)
http://www.jeanauel.com/characters.php
John Watson from Sherlock Holmes (assorted combat damage; effects include erratic limping and tremors, probable PTSD; varies across retellings)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson
Kevin Girardi from Joan of Arcadia (mobility injury; uses a wheelchair)
http://www.squidoo.com/TV-disability
Rache from The Last of the Renshai (mobility injury; rides a specially trained warhorse)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Renshai-novel/dp/1857981529
Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance (generally frail, weak lungs prone to coughing blood)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raistlin_Majere
Taylor from Touched by an Angel (Down's Syndrome)
http://www.touched.com/episodeguide/seasonfour/
Tess Kaufman from Reasonable Doubts (deaf; also female, Jewish, and a lawyer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_Doubts
Vincent Freeman (congenital heart defect) and Jerome Eugene Morrow (mobility injury; uses a wheelchair) from Gattaca
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rbeach/teachingmedia/student_units/module5/disabilities_timmons.pdf
Torn World
Illustrations of my Torn World characters Rai (owned by me, blind) and Ularki (adoptable, mentally disabled) would be welcome. There's also the warsailor Brelig (missing a hand) from "Without Fail."
http://www.tornworld.net/members/cisdisplay.php?id=21
http://www.tornworld.net/storypageview.php?id=284
I think this photo would make a great model picture for a warsailor family. (Warsailors fight sea monsters, often getting injured or killed in the line of duty. Many warsailors are Duurludirj, some of whom are dwarfed in stature. Note that this form of dwarfism is not a handicap unto itself, whereas the Northern disease Amukiiron often is.)
http://www.disability-marketing.com/profiles/images/littlepeople/family.jpg
Prompts
Date: 2012-01-14 06:24 pm (UTC)Magic use inflames the nerves, so older mages tend to have a lot of pain, even as their magic keeps them looking young and healthy.
Diamonds and Toads: They don't just drop jewels and animals out of their mouths when they speak; they stop making sounds at all, and those around them must learn to decipher the jewels and animals.
Prompt
Date: 2012-01-14 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2012-01-15 07:57 am (UTC)128 lines, Buy It Now = $64
Prompt Fill
Date: 2012-01-15 11:58 pm (UTC)