What to do when the technology is down

The students in my Contemporary Art classes were working on a digital art project when Pixlr was doing an update rendering it unusable to the students.  No Problem, the majority of my students have a device which will take a photo.  We went outside and created assemblages of found objects in nature and photographed them like Andy Goldsworthy.  Not only did we get fabulous photos to display, but it was a great creativity exercise as students had to be flexible and work with the objects they are given.  I think they did a great job!