Listener Challenge

Your Wonderful Holiday Shorts

We asked you to distill the holidays into a 30-second short film, and we've received some wonderful entries. 

Your Wonderful Holiday Shorts

Funny Ha Ha: B.J. Novak Wants Your Humor Writing

Funny Ha Ha: B.J. Novak Wants Your Humor Writing

1914 Blues Challenge: Marc Anthony Thompson Picks a Winner(s)

1914 Blues Challenge: Marc Anthony Thompson Picks a Winner(s)

Alison Bechdel's Doodle Dare Favorites

Alison Bechdel's Doodle Dare Favorites

Last Call for the Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare

Last Call for the Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare

Doodle Dare: The Struggle Is Real

For Studio 360's Doodle Dare, Alison Bechdel started an image — you must finish it. Several artists drew her girl fighting the enemy within. 

Doodle Dare: The Struggle Is Real

Taking on the Great Doodle Dare

Alison Bechdel started an incomplete doodle and challenged listeners to complete it. How have doodlers responded?

Taking on the Great Doodle Dare

Doodle Dare: Superheroes Among Us

For Studio 360's Doodle Dare, Alison Bechdel started an image — you must finish it. And several artists have turned her girl in distress into a dragon-wrestling, high-flying superhero.

Doodle Dare: Superheroes Among Us

Alison Bechdel Passes the Test

The cartoonist and author of the memoir Fun Home explains why she had to retire her beloved, long-running strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

Alison Bechdel Passes the Test

The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare

For our latest Extra Credit challenge, Alison Bechdel — noted cartoonist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. the "genius" grant) — started this doodle; the rest is up to you!

The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare

2014: Creative New Year's Resolutions

What’s the creative project you’ve been meaning to bite off for years? Finishing your novel? Learning how to play an instrument? Or maybe it’s more of a creative challenge: writing ...

2014: Creative New Year's Resolutions

Extra Credit: 3D Printing Challenge

Studio 360 is partnering with MakerBot, a company that makes 3D printers, to give you a new Extra Credit project: a holiday ornament challenge. Winners of the challenge will have ...

Extra Credit: 3D Printing Challenge

Playlist: Remixing Spring

A couple weeks ago, we gave you a challenge: we posted a dozen bird songs recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and asked you to use them to create an original musical compositio...

Playlist: Remixing Spring

Listener Challenge: Remixing Spring

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has just finished digitizing its entire collection of 150,000 animal sounds — including its especially vast collection of bird songs. We want you to us...

Listener Challenge: Remixing Spring

Listener Challenge: Are We Alone in the Universe?

For all of our scientific advances, there are still many questions that remain unanswered. In the new book The Where, the Why, and the How, artists take a stab at explaining those mys...

Listener Challenge: Are We Alone in the Universe?