#9

Make something

Do something with your hands. Create something from nothing. It could be knots, it could be whittling, Lego, cake or knitting. Take some time to get outside your head. Ideally, make something you have no idea how to do. Get something from Make and try it, assuming you’ll screw it up the first time. People love people who can make things. Making’s the new thinking. Share your things on the your blog, or, if you’re brilliant maybe you can share them on etsy.

here is my art, I have become a Lithographer. Click on the Jpegs to really see the litho detail, I am loving this stuff right now, it brings color and life from stone and aluminum through the powers of chemicals and a printing press.
Mechanica Naturalista

For Bean with Love and Cancer

65% Chance of Rain

#7

Once a week sit in a coffee-shop or cafe for an hour and listen to other people’s conversations. Take notes. Blog about it. (Carefully)

Take little dips in other people’s lives. Listen to their speech patterns and their concerns. Try and get them down on paper. (Don’t let them see. Try not to get beaten up.) Don’t force it, don’t hop from table to table in search of better eavesdropping, just bask in the conversations that come your way.


So I am failing pretty hard at this because I haven't found any interesting people yet. I was at Barry's on 12th and Alder for over an hour, and I ran into a friend and I think they our conversation was by far more interesting then the other patrons in the cafe. Roma seems to be study and less talk except for outside where the people discuss how to change the world while chain smoking. Milky way offer a glimpse into the Asian mafia. I have yet to go and dread to go to Starbucks/Quiznos I also think Pergino downtown might have a more intellectual ease dropping.

Update: Glenwood on Saturday was pretty priceless, I need to use my words carefully but a very afro-centric group was sitting in the booth next to us, and I could tell they were not in Kansas anymore. I can't really begin to describe their tones or topics of conversation but they sure complained a hell of a lot about the Glenwood not having french fries.

Also there was this couple who looked so unhappily married it hurt. The scrunched their faces at each other and didn't speak for the whole meal. It was a Saturday night and it was as if they didn't want to eat alone, or with each other for that matter. They sat in total silence reading the paper.

I was also at Sys pizza on Saturday night at around 12:45am. There were two largely jolly "ho-ish" looking Taylor going girls. They definitely were not on the same planet we were on. The kept bitching about AOL im's and couldn't believe they were getting an IM through their phone. They read the IMs out load, they were dirty. Someone pretty funny was playing a joke on them pretty well, because the content was nasty, especially read out loud in a pizza parlor.

#8

Every month write 50 words about one piece of visual art, one piece of writing, one piece of music and one piece of film or TV. Do other art forms if you can. Blog about it

If you want to work in a creative business (and before long most businesses will be creative businesses) you’ll have to get used to having a point of view on artistic stuff. Even if it’s not very artistic. You’ll have to be comfortable with expressing an opinion on things you don’t know how to make or do, like music or writing. You get better at that through practice. And through sharing what you’ve written.


So I wanted to talk about "Youth without Youth." A movie I recently saw at the Bijou on a rainy afternoon. I was going into with big hopes of the Coppola franchise. I have been getting into Sofia, champagne in a can made for Sofia Coppola by Frances Ford Coppola named after his daughter.



The movie was a total blur of reality. It started with a genius being hit by lightening that miraculously mutated his 70 year old self to 35 again. He also has super powers and is able to move metal and feel a book and comprehend everything in it. The whole time this epic film, all I kept thinking about was this is just a beautiful intellectual looking x-men. During his life he is searched out by Nazis to who want his power, and along the way meets another mutant girl which the same event happen to her, expect when the lightening hit her a ancient Indian god possessed her soul. As they fall in love she grows older, but apart she rejuvenates. Most of the movie was a lot of "lets see how this reverse black and white camera angle looks" or maybe some blurred vision. After 10 years Coppola came back with probably one of the most confusing and in ordain movies I have seen this year.

The reviews were hilarious because I really don't think anyone can grasp whats between the lines or what the symbols of immortality, time travel, lightening, and super powers all mean.

I picked this for a connection to the Coppola franchise that is throughout my blogs now I recently wrote about VLOGGED about Sophia's champagne in my food blog.

#6

Collect something

It could be anything. It could be pictures of things. But become an expert in something unexpected and unregarded. Develop a passion. Learn how to communicate that to other people without scaring them off. Find the other few people who share your interest. Learn how to be useful in that community.

I collect Hello Kitty everything, here is my collection, also to come my slip on shoe collection, similar to my chucks in my other blog.


I have also found fellow hello kitty liker's through flickr

My Vans: Pink ones, Checkered Ones, Pony ones...

#5

5. Once a month interview someone for 20 minutes, work out how to make them interesting. Podcast it.

Again, being interesting is about being interested. Interviewing is about making the other person the star; finding out what they know or think that’s interesting. Could be anyone, a friend, a colleague, a stranger, anyone. Find out what’s compelling about them. Interviewing stops you butting in too much and forces you to listen. Good thing to practice. (And it's worth noticing the people who are good at it.) Podcasting is sharing. Sharing is something you must get used to.


So I am not sure how savy I am being but my rough podcast was done in Imovie by recording just sound, I hope this works.

#4

Every week, read a magazine you’ve never read before

Interesting people are interested in all sorts of things. That means they explore all kinds of worlds, they go places they wouldn’t expect to like and work out what’s good and interesting there. An easy way to do this is with magazines. Specialist magazines let you explore the solar system of human activities from your armchair. Try it, it’s fantastic.

I read black book: it was all about LA which leads me to believe I was on to something with my personal story on LA in the latest issue of the Oregon Voice: OV this leads me to believe the interconnectivity of media and popular ideas through osmosis of trends coming from underground movements up into the public sphere eventually.