Past Events - 24-hour PENDURANCE Challenge
24-hour PENDURANCE Challenge: London
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2011
Illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen and creative-process blog Think-Work-Play.com have teamed up to develop an epic challenge of pens, endurance and psycho-geography.
The 24-hour PENDURANCE Challenge will see Lizzie attempt to illustrate 50 London locations in under 24-hours, including the London Transport Museum. She will spend a minimum of ten minutes on each drawing before making the sprint to the next site, using London’s transport infrastructure and the trusty “Boris bike”.
Starting in Charing Cross at 12 noon on Wednesday 1st June, Lizzie will be given instruction on specific locations to draw by Twitter users, through use of the hashtag #LizzieTWP. Location suggestions can be made to @LizzieMCullen and @Think_Work_Play.
Illustration requests will be uploaded to Flickr on-the-fly and Twitter followers will be updated through a dedicated stream of news and images via @Think_Work_Play.
The plan is to create a hand-drawn, psycho-geographic map of an alternative London – the assumption being that sites suggested will be of personalised, emotional significance to the Tweeter, rather than the traditional London landmarks – submissions are more likely to be chosen if there’s a good story that comes with the suggestion.
TWP will be on hand to record her progress and a short film will later be presented on Think-Work-Play.com. The final psycho-geographic map – if completed – will later be available to buy as a print.