Rules

Here are the rules plain and simple, we can refine them later.

First, we choose a book.

Starting with the first page, one of us assigns the other a "weapon" with which to fight the nothing.  It may be a word from the page, it may be a theme, or character, or just something inspired by the page.

The person who has been assigned a weapon has until midnight to post a submission.  This submission can be any kind of original work, rough or polished, a piece of art or photograph by someone else that has been manipulated in some way, a photograph taken that day, etc.  It is intentionally very open ended.  This blog has the purpose of forced us to be creative and that's about all that is required.  As a general rule, the submission should have been created after the assignment was given, but some exceptions can be made.

Along with the submission, each post must include a new assignment from the next page for the other brother to complete during the next day.  Again, the deadline is midnight.

If a post is not made in time, for WHATEVER reason, the brother who failed to post on time must (in addition to that late post) submit a PENALTY post based on the new assignment.  Turns continue rotating as normal.

A new penalty is assigned for EVERY piece of art for EVERY day it is late.  These can accumulate quickly.

EDIT: As of March 10, 2012, the deadline and penalty rules have been entirely disbanded.  These rules were meant to force our submissions on a daily basis, which was fun because it made the blog an active part of our daily lives.  It was NOT fun because whenever our daily lives got in the way, the penalties began to stack against us.  This made us not only begin to associate pain with the blog, but also to compromise whatever artistic integrity came along with the process.  We found ways to escape our burden at the expense of a  purely "thematic" submission.  Since the nature of the process was to find inspiration from a single theme or word (=weapon to fight the nothing), it sometimes became a game of "how many themes can I incorporate into one piece easily and with the least amount of effort possible".  We hope to have fixed that.

Seeing as how it just turned into March 11th twenty-six minutes ago, the results have yet to be seen.  Perhaps in the future this will all be struck-through.  We shall see.