On Wednesday, March 9th, poet/raygun-duelist/troubadour Justin Smith will ringlead, amaze, and unlock your creative potential with another edition of One-Hour Magazine: an hour (and a half) of epic art and writing proportions.  We're going to scheme up as many sketches, stories, flights of fancy, personal anecdotes, drawings and dreams as we can possibly generate in one hour's time- fueled by light food and drink, musical inspiration, and creative companionship.  Then, for the next half-hour, we'll edit, workshop, cut, paste, rewrite, recycle, and reunite the continents.  Sometime the next day, One-Hour Magazine will all appear in PDF form on the Parley blog at www.parley.co, for your perusal and enjoyment.

The first issue of One-Hour Magazine was a lot of things: boundary-busting, inspiring, fun- and over way too soon. We created while the sand ran through the hourglass and watched as art spontaneously emerged. We also learned a few important lessons- most importantly, that with time as the sole constraint, the results are wonderful and multivalent, but difficult to digitize. For the second issue of One-Hour Magazine we'll be imposing a few new formal creative constraints, to ensure that the results will be more readily digitizable, and thus sharable with the world at large.

There's a German word- funktionslust- that gets at what this edition will be all about. Funktionslust is the pleasure of making something happen. It's the intrinsically satisfying feeling you get when the joy of creating something becomes its own reward, when, like a whirling dervish you leave behind choreography- and just move to make something happen. Kids playing in the park know how to make something happen.  Egyptian protestors know how to make something happen. You know too, and- lest you risk forgetting- we hope you'll come to One-Hour Magazine and remember with us.

This is a collaborative art project, so we encourage everyone to bring their own pens/pencils/markers/laptops/notepads/paper/glue/crayons/scissors/tape/old magazines for cutting, pasting and remixing/starry eyes for seeing the world in new ways.