1.
IMAGE: Beautifully recreate one of these painting optical illusions or another one you find on the Internet using real bodies and/or props: http://www.thedesignwork.com/65-amazing-optical-illusion-pictures/
(54 points)
2.
IMAGE or VIDEO: Do the one thing that you think, if everyone did it, would change the world for the better overnight. Caption the image or video with what you're doing.
(29 points)
3.
IMAGE: Kick back in a hammock that's suspended from trees on opposite banks of a river. (Make sure it's a safe section of a river to be suspended over.)
(71 points)
4.
VIDEO: Get 10 of your friends to stand on a field or lawn. Strap inflated balloons to 5 of your friends' stomachs. The other 5 friends must pop these balloons using only the impact and weight of their bellies or their bums (they can't use hands, feet, mouths, or anything sharp).
(71 points)
5.
VIDEO: FELICIA DAY ITEM. Do a dramatic reading of your grade-school report card.
(22 points)
Special guest: Felicia Day
6.
VIDEO: Design and operate electric or gas-powered "knee and elbow scooters." When you wear them, they must glide you down the street on your knees and elbows only. The device must be at least four separate pieces - not one or two platforms that you're lying on. You must wear a helmet or your item won't be accepted.
(118 points)
7.
VIDEO: (Time lapse this down to 20 seconds.) Go to the top of a building and communicate with 4 other people on the rooftops of 4 other buildings using flags and the Flag Semaphore system as a mode of communication. The first person must spell out "GISHWHES". The second must spell out "MAKES" and the next must spell out "ME" and then the fourth must finish the sentence with whatever they wish. Subtitle each one on the video.
(63 points)
9.
IMAGE: A drawing, painting or digital image (no photoshopping of existing images) of Misha and the Queen as 1950 pin-up BFF girls.
(72 points)
10.
VIDEO: Find someone you love and butter them up; literally, cover them in butter and then give them a big hug. - Carianne Steinman
(56 points)
12.
IMAGE or VIDEO: Show us what Supernatural will look like at the start of Season 50.
(63 points)
13.
VIDEO: (Video may be up to 20 seconds) Design and build a voice recognition device or robot stationed next to a toilet that flushes it when prompted by the voice command, "Crowley." We must see you speak for 10 seconds prior to saying "Crowley" (you can say whatever you wish for this 10 seconds) but only see the flushing when "Crowley" is uttered. We must see the speaker's face, the flushing mechanism and the toilet bowl in the video framing the entire time.
(84 points)
15.
VIDEO: (Video may be up to 45 seconds.) Have an elderly relative take you back to an important location from their childhood and have them recount a memory of that spot. For example, they could take you back to the street corner where they learned to ride a bike and tell you about that day.
(68 points)
17.
IMAGE: The 2015 gishwhes mascot Dinomite asks you to pick a number between 1 and 1000, asks you 10 questions with yes/no answers, and then guesses the number. What were the 10 questions?
(19 points)
19.
IMAGE: Have a tea party with a special needs child or pediatric cancer patient dressed as a character from "Alice in Wonderland."
(46 points)
20.
IMAGE: Here's your hint: T11fJ-bSWI0. (Don't submit anything unless you solve the puzzle or you will be docked points.)
(43 points)
21.
VIDEO: Get your local weatherhuman to do their weather report dressed as a superhero in drag.
(112 points)
22.
IMAGE: Schools, hospitals, and prisons are notoriously dismal places that are in desperate need of art to brighten them up. Get permission from one of these places to create a giant Gishwhes-themed (mascots, items from the past, kindness, etc.) wall mural.
(83 points)