Getting Creative During the Superstorm

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Friday, November 02, 2012

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A game created by Olivia Hiester, 10, during Hurricane Sandy (Olivia Hiester)

Many of us in the Northeast had our routines upended by Superstorm Sandy this week. Here at Studio 360, we've been scrambling around Brooklyn — using laptops, kitchen tables, and borrowed studios to record and assemble a show about the coming election.

That makeshift spirit made us wonder if any listeners shut in by Sandy were using their time creatively.

We heard from people making Halloween costumes, bulletin boards, and poetry. Olivia Hiester, 10, started drawing. "When I'm bored, I sometimes just take out a paper and pen and I just draw a bunch of random things,” she says. Waiting for schools to reopen in Philadelphia, Hiester drew three women missing the tops of their heads for a game she calls "Hurricane Hair." It’s a choose-your-own hairstyle adventure; if you want to play, you can download it and other hurricane-themed games.

New York musician Mark Berman sat down at the piano and improvised “Sandy.”

→ Have you been working on a creative project? Tell us about it in a comment below.

Produced by:

Jenny Lawton and Sean Rameswaram

Comments [5]

Claudia Harris from Chapel Hill

Correct link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH70u1-c24w

Nov. 12 2012 10:38 PM

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Claudia Harris from Chapel Hill, NC (listen on line)

My daughter, Jessica Harris, is a dancer with Shen Wei Dance Arts. Che lives in Brooklyn, but the group rehearses in Manhattan. Given days at home with electricity but being apartment-bound, she created this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZv3UxapJ0

Nov. 04 2012 07:07 PM

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Johnny E. from Livingston, NJ

Sandy was rough but we're fine.
Our house wasn't damaged this time.
There's no power or heat,
But we've got food to eat
...and a knack for spontaneous rhyme

The first four lines began as an unintentional rhyme to a friend who texted to see how we were doing. When he pointed out that it rhymed, I added the last line to complete the limerick.

Nov. 04 2012 04:28 PM

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Jen from East Village- NYC

While there was no flooding on my street, I was without power, heat, hot water, and cell service for 4 days. Once the power returned, I recorded myself reading a short personal essay I enjoyed writing in those peculiar days: Hurricane Hanukkah: Observations in the East Village after Sandy.

http://soundcloud.com/jennifer-connor/hurricane-hanukkah

Nov. 04 2012 11:16 AM

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Marie Bostwick from Connecticut

I'm a writer and quilter, living in Connecticut. My part of the state weather Sandy well but so many, just an hour or two distant, didn't. I've begun working on some quilts that I can donate to people who lost their household goods in the storm and have been trying to spread the word online to encourage some of my quilting friends to do the same. Before long, we should have a lot of beautiful quilts, lovingly sewn, to give to people who are trying to put their lives together.

Nov. 03 2012 05:58 PM

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