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You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.

Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.

It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.

Lean Into Art Quests

Mini-challenge exercises for fun and practice

  1. Quest with us on Twitter using the hashtag #liaquest and the quest number.
  2. Link to your work to complete the quest, link to other examples to share powerups.
  3. Jerzy and Rob report on the latest quest and announce a new quest on the Lean Into Art Cast!
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Friday
Mar012013

LIA Quest 4: Smell of Funny

DateFriday, March 1, 2013 at 1:02AM

Jokes are an amazing communication device built on the idea of a setup and punchline. The setup is a premise that gets the audience to assume one thing, the punchline delivers another. We laugh form the delight of discovering the surprise the punchline delivers.

To take on this quest, you will be seriously analyzing a joke. There's no way to lose this exercise unless you pick a knock-knock joke. Questers with knock knock jokes turn to page 53 and the dragon eats you.

Beginning the Quest

Choose a joke that made you laugh at least once such as a humorous quote (Mark Twain has many), a comic strip, a joke form a comedian’s act, a sit-com TV show, anywhere you encounter funny dialog.

Write it down or doodle it in your notebook (or your data capture method of choice). Give proper attribution mentioning the author, publication, and URL if available if you’ll be posting it both to give credit and for the fun of linking to great jokes.

Regular Quest

Create a subtitle, notes, or doodle about the joke that identifies the misdirection or assumption that leads to the surprise. Optionally - take note of how the joke’s author had to avoid giving away the surprise.

Heroic Quest

Make new surprises from this joke’s structure: Offer an alternate setup, an alternate punchline, or both via making notes or doodles.

Share Your Quest

Post a link to your image or blog post via Twitter, use the hashtag #liaquest4. Deadline to have your quest materials mentioned on the next LIA Cast: March 13!

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