Sunday, February 22, 2009
coke bottle1
I had a day alone yesterday so I got some pizza and was inspired to foto. I love abstract and I love using my razr as my camera - I'm somewhat addicted to taking razr pics and sending them to facebook and photobucket. Anyway, I am practicing taking shots with the razr to get things I wouldn't otherwise notice - and using the cameras capabilities as far as zoom, lighting settings, bw settings, etc. I'm no pro - just trying to expand my possibilities with what I have. Thinking of getting a mirrorlesss camera for a beginner like me.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Ideas:
From somewhere back in 1996 - just a random bunch of ridiculousness interspersed with some fairly decent ideas.
1. Get into volunteer work
2. Be sociable - goal: make 2 real friends each year
3. Read a book or magazine you like. You don't have to read the classics
4. Get over it, whatever it is.
5. Each hour counts. Don't be lazy.
6. Live your dreams. Don't wait for permission.
7. You never get back what you lost. You get back what you give away, love,
friendship or caring OR hate, bitterness, no concern. It all comes back
8. Do what makes life significant.
9. Question the ghosts in your head. Question everything. Change what you question.
10. Get out of the house. Get into life.
11. Wear monochromatic clothing only.
12. Find your local state park and track deer in that park. Sit by the nearest body of water and listen to it.
13. Read a book about solitude, in a solitary place.
14. Write at least one thing you like about yourself down. Look at it. Write down another thing.
Look at it. REALIZE you like some things about yourself.
15. Walk to the store instead of driving.
16. On saturday only go places that you can walk to. Sunday, only ride your bike.
17. Have your 2 best friends over for dinner. Make them cook, too.
18. Don't think about your family problems for one day; it's possible.
19. ----
20. Go to as many matinees as you can in one afternoon.
21. Drive to your nearest favorite city.
Go to the highest floor possible in the tallest building possible.
Look at your kingdom below.
22. Call a realtor and house hunt even if you can't afford it.
23. Get a haircut.
24. Buy a new shirt, wear it to your favorite club, bar or restaurant.
25. Buy a new CD.
26. Start saving money. Put your pocket change in a can.
27. Live life as you want, you make your own decisions, say no! don't explain why.
Cincinnati '96 - some sort of prosetic poem of mine
7 hill Cincinnati
living on Ravine
snow sliding
on the corner
a market
and this house
above it
silence
but music
cars accelerate
up the hill the city, I close the door and live big
in this apartment - compartment - my mine me to me.
"My world in the city"
on ravine
corner
a market
above it
this apartment
my world.
silence but music and acceleration up the hill.
Big nights to me are snow filled, and it [ the snow]
sticks to our street, a hill. It sticks and cars slide in
to parked cars. The cop parks and stepping out slips.
His car slides. "Hey buddy you stupid?
You wanna kill yourself?" he screams, pounding hoods.
it echoes snow flake to snowflake. I watch down below.
Cars slide. Black guy yells at the
yellow guy slipping up the hill yelling at the cop.
The radiator fills half the space
in front of the 3 windows I
open the middle window a crack and cold, cold air
dumps into the room.
I want to hear the traffic. I want to hear the snow fall
and how it talks to the
soles of shoes when they step on it. It talks to me, too.
The radiator is hot on my legs. The air is cold on my legs.
Its 9 pm and Cincinnati
is not ready for snow tonight.
Cars slide down the hill.
Parked cars parked on fresh snow slide down the hill.
I love this hill. No mercy hill.
the cop parks, gets out, slips on his backside.
His car slides toward him.
he gets up wiping snow off his clothes.
It's blue tonight.
The market sign reflects off the flakes more blue.
Cars slide into parked cars.
Hearing the traffic, hearing the snowfall.
It talks to shoe soles; it talks to me.
Hot radiator on my legs, cold cold air on my legs.
9 pm Cincinnati tonight is not ready for snow.
Slide down the hill mr. car.
living on Ravine
snow sliding
on the corner
a market
and this house
above it
silence
but music
cars accelerate
up the hill the city, I close the door and live big
in this apartment - compartment - my mine me to me.
"My world in the city"
on ravine
corner
a market
above it
this apartment
my world.
silence but music and acceleration up the hill.
Big nights to me are snow filled, and it [ the snow]
sticks to our street, a hill. It sticks and cars slide in
to parked cars. The cop parks and stepping out slips.
His car slides. "Hey buddy you stupid?
You wanna kill yourself?" he screams, pounding hoods.
it echoes snow flake to snowflake. I watch down below.
Cars slide. Black guy yells at the
yellow guy slipping up the hill yelling at the cop.
The radiator fills half the space
in front of the 3 windows I
open the middle window a crack and cold, cold air
dumps into the room.
I want to hear the traffic. I want to hear the snow fall
and how it talks to the
soles of shoes when they step on it. It talks to me, too.
The radiator is hot on my legs. The air is cold on my legs.
Its 9 pm and Cincinnati
is not ready for snow tonight.
Cars slide down the hill.
Parked cars parked on fresh snow slide down the hill.
I love this hill. No mercy hill.
the cop parks, gets out, slips on his backside.
His car slides toward him.
he gets up wiping snow off his clothes.
It's blue tonight.
The market sign reflects off the flakes more blue.
Cars slide into parked cars.
Hearing the traffic, hearing the snowfall.
It talks to shoe soles; it talks to me.
Hot radiator on my legs, cold cold air on my legs.
9 pm Cincinnati tonight is not ready for snow.
Slide down the hill mr. car.
The Girl Who Would Be Queen
She lived inside a box-
her eye poking up against
the box hole.
box hole
inside the box hole she lived
her eyes poking up against the glass
smearing the glass with eye juice
eye mucous
her green eye grabbing for a glimpse
of life, life, life live, life
oh in a box hole, box hole, box hole,
oh in a box hole -
thump, thump, thump.
her eye poking up against
the box hole.
box hole
inside the box hole she lived
her eyes poking up against the glass
smearing the glass with eye juice
eye mucous
her green eye grabbing for a glimpse
of life, life, life live, life
oh in a box hole, box hole, box hole,
oh in a box hole -
thump, thump, thump.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
I want to be famous!
so that i can make a lot of money, so that i have more cool photos of myself on the internet, so i can live in a pimp ass condo in manhattan... so i can get swank swag at awards shows, so i can get a drug habit, so i can have my relationships all fail.. ah, i'm full of it.. i just want to make more money, get out of debt, sell my artwork, own my own business, and take really nice vacations....
Organization takes organization - I have learned.
Having spent yesterday alone - and my typical alone day consists of doing nothing - I am now motivated to get organized so I can face myself in the mirror (and my gf) at the end of this weekend knowing I am an accomplished individual.
So I poured another cup of coffee, spent a few more minutes on the sofa, watched TV about the war in Gaza, Obama's day on the train, the uplifting of the US Airways plane intact from the dingy and disgusting Hudson River, NYC real estate, surfed the web looking for places to sell my art to get famous, and googled articles about getting organized!
I found and inspiring article of which I have gleaned the best of it to motivate me - now that I am motivated I have decided to spend another 15 to 30 minutes contemplating the best of the best in the hopes that it will inspire the next task to organizational success for the day, the week, the month, the year and the rest of my life which hinges on:
Making to do lists.
Make a to do list for your day. Your list should never be more than 5 items long, or else you're taking on too much and setting yourself up for failure. Mark one or two of those items as things you absolutely must get done that day, and pursue those tasks relentlessly until you get them done.
Make a to do list for the week. Appropriate items here would be: Grocery shopping, fix air conditioner, etc. Draw from this list to make your daily to-do list. A white board or board with erasable markers can help to remember all one has to do every day, or long term goals.
Make a to do list for the month. This list would have more general tasks like: Birthday gift to Jill, get car serviced, dentist appointment. Draw from this list to make your weekly to-do list.
Make a to do list for your life! Drastic, yes, but why not use this time to rethink your life and where it's going? Getting organized is all about priorities, and it never hurts to get your ducks in a row.
And above all else-
1. Know what "organized" looks and feels like. Organized spaces also feel calm, open, and welcoming.
2. Use timers. Set a timer for how long you think a cleaning organizing task should take then work like crazy to get it done in the allotted time.
3. Ziplock bags are your friends. Store away items in plastic zip lock bags. Place the bags in closets, desk drawers, cabinets, and other places. Zip lock bags are convenient, useful, and cheap, so use them!
4. Follow through. There's no point in making a to-do list if you don't discipline yourself to complete the tasks you've assigned yourself. There are many ways to stick to your to-do list. Stop procrastinating, remove or ignore distractions, and hop to it!
As I set out to scribble to-do lists, contemplate my ducks, and pack them tightly in my new found friends - zip lock bags which will be discretely placed like easter eggs throughout my apartment before the egg timer expires - I shall remember where I came from before the to-do lists and zip lock bags pushed me in the direction of my dreams- pressing ever onward and upward into the stratosphere of a lifetime of organizational success.
So I poured another cup of coffee, spent a few more minutes on the sofa, watched TV about the war in Gaza, Obama's day on the train, the uplifting of the US Airways plane intact from the dingy and disgusting Hudson River, NYC real estate, surfed the web looking for places to sell my art to get famous, and googled articles about getting organized!
I found and inspiring article of which I have gleaned the best of it to motivate me - now that I am motivated I have decided to spend another 15 to 30 minutes contemplating the best of the best in the hopes that it will inspire the next task to organizational success for the day, the week, the month, the year and the rest of my life which hinges on:
Making to do lists.
Make a to do list for your day. Your list should never be more than 5 items long, or else you're taking on too much and setting yourself up for failure. Mark one or two of those items as things you absolutely must get done that day, and pursue those tasks relentlessly until you get them done.
Make a to do list for the week. Appropriate items here would be: Grocery shopping, fix air conditioner, etc. Draw from this list to make your daily to-do list. A white board or board with erasable markers can help to remember all one has to do every day, or long term goals.
Make a to do list for the month. This list would have more general tasks like: Birthday gift to Jill, get car serviced, dentist appointment. Draw from this list to make your weekly to-do list.
Make a to do list for your life! Drastic, yes, but why not use this time to rethink your life and where it's going? Getting organized is all about priorities, and it never hurts to get your ducks in a row.
And above all else-
1. Know what "organized" looks and feels like. Organized spaces also feel calm, open, and welcoming.
2. Use timers. Set a timer for how long you think a cleaning organizing task should take then work like crazy to get it done in the allotted time.
3. Ziplock bags are your friends. Store away items in plastic zip lock bags. Place the bags in closets, desk drawers, cabinets, and other places. Zip lock bags are convenient, useful, and cheap, so use them!
4. Follow through. There's no point in making a to-do list if you don't discipline yourself to complete the tasks you've assigned yourself. There are many ways to stick to your to-do list. Stop procrastinating, remove or ignore distractions, and hop to it!
As I set out to scribble to-do lists, contemplate my ducks, and pack them tightly in my new found friends - zip lock bags which will be discretely placed like easter eggs throughout my apartment before the egg timer expires - I shall remember where I came from before the to-do lists and zip lock bags pushed me in the direction of my dreams- pressing ever onward and upward into the stratosphere of a lifetime of organizational success.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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