Dizzojay's Dean Dreams

Well that was another GISH.

They come and go, and this time I took part in a different team alongside tifaching and blackrabbit42.  We've talked about collaborating for years, and finally got around to doing it this time!

We had a good productive week with a lot of fun and hard work by everyone on the team.  So, without further ado, here are my efforts (in no particular order):



You’ve heard of Dad Jokes. Tell a Dadaist joke.
(When I put my name down for tis one, Mr D jumped at the chance of being involved!)

(if anyone isn't familiar with the term 'dada' or 'dadaist', it's an early-20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.





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If I haven't been around much over the weekend, it's because I was busy, along with 8 equally masochistic team mates, humiliating myself in the name of Random Acts.

This was a great GISH, and our team manged to complete 58 items out of the 108 items available!

I personally managed to complete 8 items, three more than the last one-day GISH in April, so I'm rather happy abut that.

Anyway, just for jolly, here are my random and occasionally crazy efforts:


( That was the GISH that was... )

So that was GISH for another year.

It was a fun week, albeit with a smaller team than usual, and we never got the opportunity to get together at any stage to do any group challenges, but even so with a team of nine (of which two ended up not taking part - one because of real life and one because she disappeared from the face of the earth), we still managed to complete forty tasks!

So, for what it's worth ... here are my contributions to our GISH efforts this year: 


( More GISH here )

So,, that's it all done for another year, possibly forever (at least until we find out what else Misha has up his sleeve for next year). As always, GISHWHES was the usual maelstrom of madness and humiliation with a generous splodge of creativity, and a fair helping of philanthropy thrown in.

Our team, which included (apart from me), amberdreams, milly_gal, xlittleangx, dean_hugs_sammy, herminekurotowa and edina_clouds128 had time frustrations pretty much throughout the week with work and other commitments imposing on our GISHing time.  We weren't able to get together for our usual GISH foray into London, but even so, we still managed to complete 97 tasks which included ...

Nose painting, pretending to be bumblebees and satellite dishes, making pavement art, making up a comfort bag for a cancer patient, playing interdimensional hopscotch, tobogganing in the middle of summer, raising funds to realise a dying woman's dream, wearing cabbage on our head, undertaking a toothbrushing survey, spoofing pretentious fashion adverts, leaving anonymous messages of support and comfort, writing a sonnet to string, turnning a shopping trolley into a spaceship, making clothing out of bananas and photocopying paper, making portraits of Misha out of breadcrumbs, baking banana cake for residents of a care home, and playing drums ... differently. .

So, just for jolly, here's a run down of my efforts for GISHWHES 2017, Team SPN Family Business:





I'm putting this one first, because if you don't look at anything else on this post, you need to see this ...

The challenge was: Play a few bars of a well-known tune on a well-known musical instrument—but not in the well-known manner. Play a cello tucked under your chin, a saxophone with mallets, or piano as a string instrument with a bow, that sort of thing. The more unexpected the utilization, the more points.

Now, I have no musical talent whatsoever, but Mr D does, so I left this task in his capable hands, and, boy, did he deliver.  The video we submitted was only 14 seconds long, but this is Mr D's entire 3-minute masterpiece! 







( Here be Pictures: )

So, it's been a while ...

I haven't be in circulation much since the end of last week.  I spent the weekend on the Isle of Wight working my first big dapplegrey art show of the season.  It was an exhausting weekend, but a successful one, and I'm thrilled to say that this little guy went to a lovely new home ...

( Bunny )


I got back from the Isle of Wight late on Sunday and headed straight off to work Monday morning.  It was an uneventful day at work, but the evening after I left work was anything but uneventful.  Stopping off on the way home at my local supermarket, I parked up, got out of the car and was walking across the car park to the shop, when I somehow managed to get my feet tangled in some litter that had been left lying around, and the end result was a spectacular faceplant in the middle of the car park!  *sigh*


( Glamorous huh? )


So such is life - after flying high at the art show this weekend, I've started the new week with a grazed knee, squished hand and very bruised pride!

And on the subject of bruised pride, it's GISHWHES time, so utter humiliation is the theme for pretty much the rest of this week.  Therefore, if I seem a little elusive over coming days, fear not, I and my chums are merrily GISHing the week away, and will no doubt have a few tales to tell when it's all over!

Love you all!
*hugs*

Well, it came and it went and we all made prats of ourselves and did so gladly!

Due to not having any time of work, together with weekend commitments, I wasn't able to be as actively involved in GISHWHES this year as I was last year.

I was part of the team that travelled up to London and had a whale of a time at Comic-con completing several tasks; however, there were also a few tasks I managed to complete on my own.

And here, for your delectation ... or possibly, your amusement/disgust/disbelief (delete as applicable) are my indiivdual submissions ...







( Gruesome humiliation here! )

milly_gal came up with this awesome idea ...