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I ♥ Legos in Space
A Word On Creative Collaboration: Ugly Prom is a community house party my friends put on each year. I wanted to setup a website in a night to help with promotions.
—Hey listen, if you live in Nashville come kick it with us at Ugly Prom on June 5.
So nothing had been designed at this point, and I didn’t have time to design from scratch, so I turned to flickr for inspiration.
I searched flickr for “retro space” images I could adopt or modify using the advanced search tool.
First I came across this sexy, trippy space scene from Drew Herron of Oregon. That I could use.
Then I came across a fella in Germany who had been taking pictures of lego space ships and astronauts. Thank you sir.
I wouldn’t have any way of knowing this before, but I wanted to see lego men fly to a trippy, magical planet claimed on behalf of Ugly Prom.
Sarah Mitchell created the sweet logo inside the flag.
The result.
I live for this random, high octane collaboration. I’m in love with the work of Creative Commons, which makes it easy for creatives to license works others can share, remix, or reuse.
Yes, I want protections in order to make money from my creative endeavors, but in some cases I’d rather give the world greater creative freedom to imagine what’s next.
I regularly publish poems and random things with a creative commons license, and each time I do, I’m thrilled that it may be a small spark of something bigger.
Eventually all the words and images we create will slip from our grasp. Our individual works will become history and the building blocks for the next wave of creatives giving it a go. You can pull the next wave closer if you’d like.
To the extent it doesn’t harm my livelihood, I want to support a spirit of creative collaboration. It’s a reminder my imagination and creativity isn’t limited to the sparks inside my brain alone.
Ugly Prom logo by Sarah Mitchell; Creative Commons Images: lanuiop’s “visitors from space” and pasukaru76’s “Lego MOCs” set; “I ♥ Legos in Space” by Nathan T. Baker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
