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Brainstormer: sketch topic generator

brainstormer

The Brainstormer is a fun little application designed by Andrew Bosley to generate random sketch topics by combining random words. Let’s give ‘er a spin:

Invention, Egyptian, fishing boat.
Remorse, colonional, zoo.
Conflict with a god, mechanized, attic.

This sort of thing is just as useful for writers, cartoonists, and anyone stuck in a rut who just needs that little seed of an idea to get going.

(via Finn Clark)

  • andybosley

    Thanks, guys, for posting this! I hope that it’s useful to other artists and authors. If interested, there’s a little more information about The Brainstormer on my blog: http://www.andrewbosley.blogspot.com

  • andybosley

    Thanks, guys, for posting this! I hope that it’s useful to other artists and authors. If interested, there’s a little more information about The Brainstormer on my blog: http://www.andrewbosley.blogspot.com

  • http://blog.otherskies.net/ Kim

    Awesome! I love these things. Here’re a couple of similar ones I’ve got bookmarked:

    http://amelines.com/ps/
    http://www.tdbspecialprojects.com/

    This, though, is probably the best one I’ve seen yet. Fab. =D

  • http://blog.otherskies.net Kim

    Awesome! I love these things. Here’re a couple of similar ones I’ve got bookmarked:

    http://amelines.com/ps/
    http://www.tdbspecialprojects.com/

    This, though, is probably the best one I’ve seen yet. Fab. =D

  • Mike C

    Nice one, been thinking of ways to brainstorm and this does all the work for me ;D

    Should be very useful for getting out of my creative slump !

  • Mike C

    Nice one, been thinking of ways to brainstorm and this does all the work for me ;D

    Should be very useful for getting out of my creative slump !

  • A Mess

    Back in the ancient days of magazine cartooning, there was a device like this (cardboard, of course, or maybe plastic): Three disks of different sizes secured by a small brass rivet in the middle so they would spin. A cartoonist named Lo Lenkert, I think, was the inventor. Nice to see web version, and with such a nice design. I’ve got to get to work now on that Invention, Egyptian, Fishing Boat combo. Look for the results in the next New Yorker.

    MS

  • A Mess

    Back in the ancient days of magazine cartooning, there was a device like this (cardboard, of course, or maybe plastic): Three disks of different sizes secured by a small brass rivet in the middle so they would spin. A cartoonist named Lo Lenkert, I think, was the inventor. Nice to see web version, and with such a nice design. I’ve got to get to work now on that Invention, Egyptian, Fishing Boat combo. Look for the results in the next New Yorker.

    MS