Project 10 Part C: Brainstorming

For Part C we are going to brainstorm ideas for our composite images. You can use whatever tool you think would be useful or even simple pen and paper.


Techniques and Tools for Brainstorming

https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/effective-brainstorming-techniques

https://www.mindmeister.com/

https://miro.com/


Techniques and Tools for Creating Ideas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

    - Web version of Oblique Strategies: https://ob-strat.netlify.app/


Some Sentences That Might Inspire an Image

Playing with Time & Reality:
  • The clock hands started to write poetry in the air as time froze for everyone else except me.
  • My reflection smiled, but it was made of cobwebs and starlight instead of my own face.
  • Yesterday's rain dripped down the roof like tears from a forgotten moonbeam.

Imagining Bizarre Places:
  • The city hummed with silence, where each building whispered secrets in a language only birds understood.
  • A carousel was made entirely of giant pinecones, spinning slowly on a sea of swirling dreams and smoke.
  • Gravity had forgotten me; I floated through the air like a feather in a kaleidoscope storm.

Exploring the Human Condition:
  • My heart beat to the rhythm of the universe as it whispered secrets only stars could understand.
  • Loneliness was an island, where even waves couldn't reach its shore without being swallowed by silence and fear.
  • The world sang a silent lullaby, but my ears were deafened by a symphony of crickets inside my skull.

Abstract & Dreamlike:
  • Emotions wore vibrant coats made out of glitter and danced in the moonlight like fireflies trapped within glass spheres.
  • A single raindrop remembered to be afraid; it splashed against pavement, its fear dissolving into a quiet pool under a weeping willow tree.
  • A butterfly’s wings held galaxies' secrets, each flutter of their flight creating constellations across the sky at night.

Unusual & Unsettling:
  • The wind spoke in riddles on a windy day, and trees whispered apologies for all they couldn't say out loud.
  • A spider spun its web so intricately it resembled an ancient tapestry that held forgotten dreams and whispered prophecies of the future.
  • The moon was bleeding orange into the night sky like spilled wine after the last dance ended, a silent farewell to every love story ever told.

Using Wordplay & Metaphor:
  • The sun was melting over a frozen lake as if painting its canvas with tears of gold and silver.
  • The city's heartbeat pulsed in an old rusty clock, counting down moments before time ran out on the human race.
  • Memories floated like ghosts through the corridors of my mind, leaving trails of whispers and forgotten dreams in their wake.

Mysterious & Intriguing:
  • Dreams were tangible things with a soft texture; I touched them to feel the weight of an entire universe on my fingertips.
  • The river flowed backwards as if time itself was turning around, leaving me standing at the edge of something unknown and terrifyingly beautiful.
  • We all live under a sky painted in shades of uncertainty, where tomorrow never whispers a word but just explodes into being with the dawn's first light.

Unconventional & Thought-Provoking:
  • The world was a kaleidoscope, forever shifting and morphing through time itself; it was as if every moment was an adventure in its own right.
  • I woke up one morning to discover my bed had dissolved into a cloud of pink smoke, leaving me suspended inside a giant marshmallow tree with the moon for company.
  • A single tear fell from a star and landed on Earth; it became the starting point for everything that ever blossomed or died in this world's history.

Ending on a Whimsical Note:
  • If you close your eyes and dream, sometimes reality itself becomes something unreal – like playing hide-and-seek with gravity.