So, about those new projects...

You may recall the distant past of last week, when I was updating you on how well I was doing at getting back into the groove of my old creative projects, and — to the surprise of absolutely no one — posited instead two new projects.**

To the additional surprise of absolutely no one, I am now announcing an entirely new project:

The BugVerse Experiment

I am conducting an extremely unscientific experiment about kids and their reaction to Bug, and I need probably 200 or so examples to test my hypothesis. Here’s how you can help:

If you have access to a child, let’s say ages 3–8, head over to the BugVerse page and download a Bug book. (At the time of this writing, only A Bug’s Lunch is available; the others are in progress and will be available soon-ish.) It’s free, and the book(s) are adorable.

Read the book to/with your reader and encourage your reader to draw on that last page to finish Bug’s adventure.

  • Take a photo or scan your reader’s artwork.

    • If your reader has signed it, you may place a piece of paper over the signature, or I can remove it electronically. Your reader will not be identified in any way.

  • Go to the submission form.

    • The submission is anonymous. Once you submit the form, there is no thread connecting the drawing to you.

That’s it. Other than a few generic, statistical questions, there’s nothing complicated about it.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me!


** Just so you understand that I remain an exemplar of the Lichtenbergian process, here are the TASK AVOIDANCE techniques that I have used on each one. For Project M, I have made great strides in designing what I want my Galton Board journal to look like. For Project N, I have scanned three pages to check the quality of said scans, and they are not good. I will have to seek professional assistance.