bonus: my animal crackers are frosted!
I just re-realized how much I love my life and decided to write this. I’m typing this out 30,000 feet in the air on my sexy 13-inch Macbook Pro on our Jetblue flight to NYC Fashion Week.
I just had an idea – why not do a post or create a website on “mile high cocktails” – creative cocktails consisting of whatever ingredients are available a particular airline. Ashley just ordered an Orange Fusion + Bacardi Rum and I got a Jack & Ginger. Heck, why not create a contest around it and let people submit their own favorite mile high cocktails?
cheers!
A few minutes ago I read a few stories in Wired magazine about open source car manufacturing (& how the manufacturing process is becoming accessible to anyone) and about the growth of I Can Has Cheeseburger.
All of a sudden a lot of fun possibilites are opening up. Hey, why not 3D print something and have it manufactured in China (just for shits and giggles). Why not create a tshirt brand for Alice in Stilettos or Abroadening? Why not record a music video – and have the music crowdsourced?
Why not, why not, why not?
I mean I’m already doing it – last week I got a Canon 5D mark II and have decided to become a filmmaker.
What do I know about filming? Not a damn thing. But if Robert Rodriguez can film El Mariachi on $5,000, why can’t I? If the 5D is good enough for Lucas and Tarantino, it’s good enough for me. I recently watched and have been inspired by Cinnamon Chasers and Timescapes – so now all there is to do is to play with short films and see what I can come up with.
Yes, the camera was expensive – but “expense” is just the pessimist’s version of the word “investment”. Investment in my life, in a fun future.
updated: I'm super duper official
And my first assignment? (Even though I don’t know how to even work my camera) NYC Fashion Week. I registered for media credentials so I have a badge. We’re just gonna go and see what happens. I get to play and pretend I know how to work the settings on my camera while being surrounded by “important” people, models, and professional photographers.
All is ever takes is creativity, inspiration, and courage. And following your creative impulses. I hope to just keep will be doing impossible stuff – just so I can inspire someone else. I hope to become someone else’s Robert Rodriguez. It’s a lot easier to do what you have seen someone else do before you. I’ll finish with this: Do what your heart tells you. Always.
P.S. I keep getting this happy feeling every time I remember that it’s Thursday afternoon and I’m having a cocktail on an airplane on the way to fashion week / new york city / photographic / video adventure. I love my life. Life’s too short to not to be crazy.
I read those same articles in Wired on a flight home from Vegas. Open Source car = awesome!
“Why not, why not, why not?….What do I know about filming? Not a damn thing. But if Robert Rodriguez can film El Mariachi on $5,000, why can’t I?”
-you could, but you won’t because you won’t want to. it’s easy to want to do anything and even start to do anything your heart desires, but for it to manifest into something significant (as defined by social society), it take’s an amount of effort that usually proves to be beyond the point of heart desires.
Please prove me otherwise.
If the idea “I can make a film like Robert Rodriguez” is just a fun thought to fancy your brain for a few moments, and that’s all you want it to be, then great!
Inspiration does feel good. Is that all there is to it?
Then of course there is the issue of making a living.
The open source car thing is such an awesome idea. I like where things are moving with all these innovative ways of doing things.
Who knows what will come of the film making thing? It doesn’t even really matter for me. I’m not super concerned with what society considers “significant” – I’ve learned to stop gauging my self worth from what others think I should base it on.
There’s fun to be had with this here life. Whatever that comes out of is a personal choice. I’m just getting clearer on what that is for me.
Thanks for linking to Cinnamon Chasers
That was a ridiculously awesome movie.
I do have that question of the above commenter. But by talking to you, I’m figuring you make your living from writing, freelancing, and possibly information products. Is that right?
currently my income comes from some affiliate sites I have setup with my business partners. future [other] sources of income? that’s the mystery of the future that I’m looking forward to living into!