Catsup

Insight




This says it ^

Culinary: Bake 7 loaves of bread a week.




Dramatic Loaf:


Musical: Listen to new bands
Nice sound:
Phoenix: electronic up-beat,kind of kooks-y

A couple I really liked the lyrics:
Ghost Mice: A bit of an annoying voice but an amazing message

Andrew Jackson Jihad: Kind of Paul Baribeau-y


Physical: No shoes
Nothing really extensive with this

Structural: Workout before breakfast
Making sure that not following this doesn't stop me from working out.

Creative: Create one thing
Actually I've been working past while on creating just one thing, I hope to have it out and ready soon.

I've got a couple other creations that just need to be photographed.

Mental: Watch a TED talk
Watched quite a few ted talks that didn't do all that much for me, then today I stumbled on this one, absolutely amazing. Dan Barber talks about how he fell in love with a fish, but really, about how we can make a better world, people are doing it already!

Social: Random Act of Kindess
The note handed out has inspired further such action. Giving away a train ticket or a nice note is just a great way to tell someone that the world cares.

Catsup

Random Act of Kindness

Gave someone a note that said "you are beautiful, never forget it!"

Random Act of Kindness

Ketchup

Insight:
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

Here's to trying new things, and to doing things you don't want to because you don't want to.

I've fallen behind on most of these. I'm trying to better understand that we do have the time and energy for the things we care about and to better understand how to tap that to push forward into the unknown.

Culinary: Bake 7 loaves of bread a week.
Hectic schedule makes for hectic bread. The last loaf I made rose for too long both times and baked for the wrong amount of time, but it ended up delicious. As my mom says, bread is very forgiving, maybe we can learn something from that.

Musical: 5 new bands
Thanks to excellent response on my facebook post I've got a whole mess of bands to check out.

Physical: No shoes
Trying to see opportunities for not wearing them when I normally would. Took them off on the walk home.

Structural: Workout before breakfast
This has become more of a "if I've got the time" issue, and whether I plan on doing anything physical that day.

Creative: Create one thing
I'm going to have to catch up.

Mental: Watch a TED talk
I just haven't been keeping up with this, I'm going to try to remember to put one on while I'm doing other things. Bread time is usually good for this.

Social: random act of kindness
This keeps slipping my mind, I'm going to write on my hand to remember.

Ketchup

Wet Paint

Art is something that makes you think.

It's not about you liking it, especially if it isn't trying to sell you anything. If it makes you think, if it makes you feel something, that is what's beautiful about it. If it musters up disgust or dislike that proves it's worth, and what you can take from that is only up to you. There is a comfort in complacency, but in that we lose our adventurous spirit. We must be unafraid to take a step outside of the norm and to embrace those that are doing just that.




How much did that blank wall ever make you think?

Graffiti is amazing. It puts the power in the paint covered hands of every person in the world. You look on a wall and see ugly writing ruining good paint, I see someone not afraid to express themselves. You see a misled youth, I see someone who is visibly modifying the world. You see someone disrespecting property laws, I see someone challenging the concept of property.

I hear a lot of people say that they like the good stuff, "the stuff that's art". That's not how it works. The art is in the action, and whether you like it is not of their concern. Someone going outside the system to show that they have an impact on this world, unafraid to memorialize the places they've been, the nights they've had, the gas masks and the running. Every mark, from quickly scribbled scratch to elegantly mapped mural is a masterpiece of human potential, a tribute to truth and beauty, and a reminder to all of us that we can change the world.





Make Moves Not Excuses .


Think Different.


Love .

Wet Paint

3.13-15.2010

Culinary: Bake 7 loaves of bread a week.


This weekend has been a rough one with keeping up with the bread. I was on a morning rise and I decided to try and switch over to an evening. I ended up losing a day in the process and had to get up early. I'm not worried, 7 a week means I can make a couple loaves in a day, but altering my current schedule really knocked me off the baking flow.

This bread I bake is a buddhist loaf, that is to say, no knead.

Musical: Learn Guitar
I'm going to alter this permanently to "listen to 5 bands I haven't before". I'd really like to know how to play guitar, and what's more I'd like to learn from someone I know. I think that condition is one I would have to lift in order to make progress on it this month, so with no further justification, I'll be opening my ears to some unheard tunes.

Physical: No shoes
This one is a tough one for me to fully wrap my head around. No shoes is explicit but there are times when it's hard to make the call for whether it's necessary. For now if I'm walking somewhere outside I've taken to not wearing shoes, maybe carrying a pair of sandals to slip on, but if I've got to make it to a train or I'm going inside somewhere or I'm just trying not to be that guy I've taken to wearing them. I've pushed it a bit, and I've talked about it a bit too.

What I'm worried about here is the social aspect, putting up a barrier. I'd like to always to be approachable, I don't want my outward appearance to put anyone off or make anyone uncomfortable but at the same time I want to be able to encourage people to think different.

Structural: Workout before breakfast
This has encouraged me to make some good breakfasts to encourage me into working out. I've had some good workouts so far, the idea I'm using now is really just grease the groove for eating, it becomes a way to earn the meal, or in the words of the warrior diet, to 'simulate the hunt'.

Creative: Create one thing


Charlie suggested that I try and write some articles so I'm going to textually represent some of my opinions.

Mental: Watch a TED talk
Gary Vaynerchuk talks about doing what you love. This is an absolute must see.

Do what you love, no excuses.

Patience and Passion.

Social: Compliment 5 people
I really want to believe in this as a way I can grow but I think in it's current form it doesn't allow for much challenge. I keep thinking to myself that I say enough compliments, but I don't like the idea of not trying to better myself because I already believe myself adequate at it.

Rick suggested that I do one random act of kindness a day, and I think that's a beautiful idea, I didn't change to it because I had already chosen this as my challenge but as a further experiment in thinking different I'll be using that from now on.

3.13-15.2010

3.12.2010

Insight:
Not all who wander are lost
Not all who wonder are lost

Peace.

Culinary: Bake 7 loaves of bread a week.
Modified my recipe and technique to make a Challah Loaf today, so good! Will be making French toast with it for sure. I need to refine it a bit though so I can get a deeper brown and a smarter braid.


Musical: Learn Guitar
I had a little meditation session with the guitar, trying to make things that sounded nice. I think this is going to need a rededication

Physical: No shoes
No shoes, no shoe blues, rainy today.

Structural: Workout before breakfast
My new strategy is make a delicious breakfast and just set it there until I work out. Doesn't take long.

Creative: Create one thing
Just some late night spraying, camera needs to be charged though, will upload it tomorrow.

Mental: Watch a TED talk
Gary Lauder has a very short talk about one sign that could make a big change in our traffic patterns. He goes in to say some pretty startling numbers for how much needless stop signs cost us.

Social: Compliment 5 people
frustrated

3.12.2010

3.11.2010

Insight:
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” Thoreau

There is value to be found in all things in life, and anywhere you go you can find happiness.

Stay Positive. Be Proactive.

Love.

Culinary: Bake 7 loaves of bread a week.

Made a round loaf brushed with olive oil:


and a couple questionable rolls:


and Made some great toast:


Musical: Learn Guitar
Didn't do anything for this today.

Physical: No shoes
No shoes

Structural: Workout before breakfast
Another day of sporadic training and meals, I think I need to refocus.

Creative: Create one thing
This has been a long time in the making but finally saw it's fruition. I think I might still work a little on it, but I'm glad to have it done:


A poem I wrote:
The young cling to the old to find comfort in the unknown,
The old clutch to the young to find comfort in their energy.

Let me grasp you,
with all that I am,
for all that you are.

Let me get lost in the forest of your thoughts
to climb on every branch and hang on every word

Let us take solace in the shadows of our unanswerable questions

And for just this moment, let us be
without trying to be someone

Because everything that has passed is until now
and in this moment
we are as young as we will ever be.


Mental: Watch a TED talk
Eric Mead talks about the magic of the placebo. It's a short talk, but it was interesting to find out that a needle placebo is more effective than a capsuled placebo is more effective than a little blue placebo is more effective than a white placebo.

Placebo is real.

Social: Compliment 5 people
Haven't been giving out as many in person, not sure whether that should be the requirement.

3.11.2010