{"id":14034,"date":"2012-07-06T06:51:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=14034"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:37:39","slug":"creative-prompt-163-sparkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/creative-prompt-163-sparkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #164: Sparkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sparkle (movie)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dick Tracy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Tracy#Plenty_family\">Sparkle Plenty<\/a>, a character in the <em>Dick Tracy<\/em> comic strip<\/p>\n<p>sparkling water<\/p>\n<p>Sparkletts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/sparkle\" target=\"_blank\">Definition<\/a>: 1. To give off or reflect flashes of light; glitter. 2. To be brilliant in performance. 3. A small spark or gleaming particle. 4. A glittering quality. 5. Brilliant animation; vivacity. 4. Emission of gas bubbles; effervescence.<\/p>\n<p>sparkle in his eye<\/p>\n<p>sparkling conversation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohfransson.com\/oh_fransson\/2012\/02\/sparkle-punch-quilt-finished.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sparkle Punch<\/a> quilt by Elizabeth Hartman<\/p>\n<p>Sparkle game<\/p>\n<p>type of catamaran<\/p>\n<p>drink<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparkle, California\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sparkle,_California\">Sparkle, California<\/a>, in Contra Costa County<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/sparkles-from-the-wheel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sparkles From The Wheel<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>WHERE the city&#8217;s ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day,<br \/>\nWithdrawn, I join a group of children watching&#8211;I pause aside with<br \/>\nthem.By the curb, toward the edge of the flagging,<br \/>\nA knife-grinder works at his wheel, sharpening a great knife;<br \/>\nBending over, he carefully holds it to the stone&#8211;by foot and knee,<br \/>\nWith measur&#8217;d tread, he turns rapidly&#8211;As he presses with light but<br \/>\nfirm hand,<br \/>\nForth issue, then, in copious golden jets,<br \/>\nSparkles from the wheel.The scene, and all its belongings&#8211;how they seize and affect me!<br \/>\nThe sad, sharp-chinn&#8217;d old man, with worn clothes, and broad<br \/>\nshoulder-band of leather; 10<br \/>\nMyself, effusing and fluid&#8211;a phantom curiously floating&#8211;now here<br \/>\nabsorb&#8217;d and arrested;The group, (an unminded point, set in a vast surrounding;)<br \/>\nThe attentive, quiet children&#8211;the loud, proud, restive base of the<br \/>\nstreets;<br \/>\nThe low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone&#8211;the light-press&#8217;d blade,<br \/>\nDiffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,<br \/>\nSparkles from the wheel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Walt Whitman<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Make your response simple. It doesn\u2019t need to be a masterpiece. Take 5 minutes. Just respond and create a creative habit. Please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog, and how your work relates to the other responses.<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Prompt Project has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/aqcpp\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs or websites would have a place to post your responses. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparkle (movie) Sparkle Plenty, a character in the Dick Tracy comic strip sparkling water Sparkletts Definition: 1. To give off or reflect flashes of light; glitter. 2. To be brilliant in performance. 3. A small spark or gleaming particle. 4. A glittering quality. 5. Brilliant animation; vivacity. 4. Emission of gas bubbles; effervescence. sparkle in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/creative-prompt-163-sparkle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Prompt #164: Sparkle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-14034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}