Challenges

Here you're gonna find any ideas for "challenges" that I have from my metal wonderings. Most of it will be art related pieces, different forms of expression that I find interesting and haven't seen much of, though it could end up being much more miscellaneous than what's first intended, philosophical questions, mathematical theorems, physical challenges, etc!

Photo montage story challenge

Can you make a story, a message, something with just images? A primordial slideshow, no transitions, all your tools would be images, and if you'd like, an order to them. Could be original images or not actually I find it specially enticing the idea of making a story with images which that were made withouth this purpose in mind and recontextualized to fit a story.

Probabilty challenge

Did you expect this to show up here? Me neither, but well, my challenge for you is finding out, what are the odds that when throwing 5 6-sided die, at least 3 will land the same number? I tried doing the math a few times but I'm not that deep in probability to be able to do this one, it's for the card game I'm making, if you haven't seen the little picture on the projects page. If you're able to give me a function with the number if die using that's great! I have no idea if anyone will see this or even attempt to calculate that, but on the super odd chance that that's you, please let me know either by email or commenting on my profile!
[uptade] Okay so vm70 found out the answer! He left a comment on my profile with this formula he said it"'s the general equation to find the probability that at least x out of y n-sided dice have the same face". Go check out his page! it's the link on his username duh

J

You know those things, usually poems or phrases that goes the whole length without using one letter? Like not using the letter a, or e, well... What if you did the opposite? Could you do a poem, a song, an art piece, anything, using only 1 letter? How would you do that? How can you get a around that?
I thoguht about the letter J cuz to me it feels like one of the least used letters of the alphabet, but you could use some other one.
So whatever you make, if you use any letter, use only 1, and try to make it a part of your piece, try to integrate it with whatever it is you will come up with. I wonder how would people solve this problem.

Make a zine!

Ever heard of a zine? I heard about them last month but only gave them a try a couple weeks ago. I've heard a couple different definitions for it, but in its soul, a zine is a piece of writing/art made independently, usually of a small size and a makeshift nature! To the point you can make one using nothing but a sheet of paper and a pencil! But having a pair of scissors does help

Tutorial

I'm gonna leave here an image of a tutorial I found online and here its source, but basically you just have to fold the sheet of paper in half 3 times, making it a grid of 2 by 4 rectangles. Once you do that, with the sheet open, fold it in half again and cut the part that's "closed", so that there is a slit in the middle of your sheet. After that you fold it in half, this time by the small side and push the edge rectangles together, making a sort of a cross, then you fold it like a little book!
I know you can't understand shit from what I said that's why I'm leaving the image for the tutorial.

Here I left the first zine I made! It's hard to really read the images so there are subtitles and you can click the images to see better resolution ones

"Huh, I guess it is kinda easy to make one of these
Just sucks that I ripped a couple of pages while cutting"

"Didn't really wanna use scissors
I have some around, just wanted to be able to do this with just paper and a pencil
Depending on as little as possible felt more like the spirit"

"It's funny how it is ordered. I thought it would follow in a streight forward way
But it is a little different. I think it's better if I draw after folding then"

"Though now that I think of it.
You only use half of the space, The other side of the paper is left empty...
Anything could be hiding there. As well as nothing at all"

Well, either way, I just finished making my first
Just gotta figure out what to put on it

Whatever that's on my mind should work

What's cool about them is that you can pretty much do whatever you want with them. You like drawing? Fill them with drawings. Writing? Put ideas in them. Oh you do digital art? You can easily set up and print a sheet and turn it into a zine! And its nature of being so quick easy to make makes them really good for throwing a quick idea together or even making something to give away!

Go ahead, make one of these, put your art into a single sheet of paper and gift it to someone! If you think it might not be good enough, that's not really the point, it's just a zine, something nice and quick, it can have as much or as little value you put into it.

And if you do end up making one and feel like it, you can email it to me and I might put it on the submissions section!
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