{"id":4821,"date":"2020-04-01T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:33:44","slug":"cam-staying-creative-while-quarantined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2020\/04\/01\/cam-staying-creative-while-quarantined\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam: Staying Creative While Quarantined"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/b>I might be biased, but I think that COM students are some of the most creatively inclined individuals on the BU campus. Of course, we want to make sure that our inspiration doesn\u2019t fizzle out by the time we return to Commonwealth Avenue. Recently, I\u2019ve been thinking about how fed up I\u2019m feeling creatively, and I knew that I couldn\u2019t possibly be alone. So, I decided to make a list of some ways to exercise your right brain and still social distance in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. <\/b> Make <\/b>super<\/i><\/b> niche Spotify playlists<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Most of us have seen the Instagram accounts that create the \u201cniche\u201d posts with extremely detailed layouts of objects and outfits that align with a certain personality, book, movie, etc. Well, what if you did the same with your favorite songs? It can be anything \u2013 from \u201cUncut Gems Alternate Soundtrack\u201d to \u201cWhat the COM Lounge Would Listen to If It Were a Person.\u201d This is a great way to find new music, curate a cohesive product, and be as weirdly specific as your internal monologue wants you to be. Don\u2019t forget you can make the playlists collaborative, too!<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. <\/b> Create a smash book<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you\u2019re anything like me, you miss your display of posters, pictures, lights, and random little tchotchkes in your dorm room or apartment. One of the best \u2013 and portable! \u2013 ways to bring this home to your quarantine space is to make a smash book. Find an old, hardcover book, and decorate the pages however you choose. Pages can be painted, made into origami, ripped apart, used as a collage background, the choices are endless. If you fill out a page a day, you can have the coolest quarantine journal in history.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. <\/b> Make a short \u201cfilm\u201d<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Is anyone else super confused about how we ended up in this timeline? Yeah, me too. While it might feel like we don\u2019t get up to anything these days for the sake of flattening the curve, directing your own little movie might prove you wrong. Maybe you want to give an MTV Cribs-esque tour of your house. Maybe you\u2019ve been working on a new character in your head. Maybe you just want to document the weirdest possible weeks you\u2019ve experienced so you can look back on them later. Anything goes \u2013 maybe you\u2019ll discover you were meant for film and TV all along.<\/span><\/p>\n

        In any case, these are weird times. It\u2019s going to be difficult not to go a bit stir-crazy for the time being. When it feels like everyone is losing their cool, keeping your own can be as easy as finding a few minutes every day to have a creative outlet and make yourself laugh. As long as you keep those good vibes flowing, quarantine can only get more fun from here. Until we\u2019re all back in the fall, keep COM and carry on.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        I might be biased, but I think that COM students are some of the most creatively inclined individuals on the BU campus. Of course, we want to make sure that our inspiration doesn\u2019t fizzle out by the time we return to Commonwealth Avenue. Recently, I\u2019ve been thinking about how fed up I\u2019m feeling creatively, and … Continue reading Cam: Staying Creative While Quarantined<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44591],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}