FIT portfolio is due in 3 days. Almost there!
On Money
I didn’t sleep a wink last night. The concept of money and owning substantial things really started freaking me out.
Rewind and context.
Working with my company I’ve been fortunate enough to get a little raise when I re-signed for 2012. This made me realize I may actually be able to do the impossible: save up while living in NYC. But of course I started pondering the possibilities to infinity and beyond.
What was I saving up for? What do I not have right now that I can drop big on in 5 or 10 years? I considered a vespa, a small consignment shop, and dare I say it, a condo…
But then I realized right now, this goes against everything I believe. I don’t want to own property unless I’m fulfilled in other ways. My thirst for spiritual, emotional, and creative satisfaction needs to be completely quenched before I even consider owning things.
So now what. Travel? Classes? Another degree? Man, they weren’t kidding about the lost twenties…
Never thought I’d say it but American Express has inspired me
to become a small business owner :)
goal in life now is to own a small consignment shop somewhere in NYC. I want it to be decently priced like LA but top brands like all the NYC shops around here. It’s insane how expensive thrift comes here.
Step 1: intern a few hours a week at a local boutique while maintaining my full time writing job….Anyone looking for free work?
My boyfriend thinks I look like a boy…
and likes it :)
New place, new hair, new york 2011. Now, if only I can learn how to freelance instead of amusing myself with photobooth and reddit.
Leave it to a New Jersey Flea Market Peddler
to tell me I’ve done wrong in life. And I quote-
Him: Ah UCSD! What did you major in?
C: Economics & Minor in Political Science
H: And what are you doing now?
C: I’m a Marketing Associalte and Content Deve -
H: I’m disappointed. Economics and now Marketing? You know that Angela Davis taught at UCSD….(aaaand his questionably factual but impassioned rant continued for 5 minutes)
But at least I got these awesome hand painted ukranian vases from it. Oh what I put up with for a decent accent piece.
Quote to remember c/o Rainer Maria Rilke
“… I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” –Rainer Maria Rilke
Oddities make the world a better place
An Italian Architect & designer named Luigi Serafini created a 300 page book called the Codex Seraphinianus a half a century ago. It’s an imaginary text about an entirely imaginary world. Thanks to the illicit internets this sought after ($300 on amazon) book is now only a click away. (screen capture your heart out. May not be up for long)
From sex transforming into alligators to the anatomy of an exclamation point, it’s as wonderfully weird as it gets.
“My costume isn’t ‘an Indian.’
It’s ‘Genocide.’
So, I guess what I’m saying is how dare you?”
LOL this is my culture, not a costume.
Farenheit 451, published in 1953
Then motion pictures in the early 20th century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass…And because they had mass, they became simpler…Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different…But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm, do you follow me?
…
Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the centrifuge flings off all uncessary time-wasting thought!
- Ray Bradbury, discussing 2011 in 1953.
Amazing Resource for Twitter Chats
So I’m thinking, this will be the future of twitter.
Somebody took the effort to create a google doc with over 530 weekly twitter chats and schedules. If the interest graph is the next phase in new media (i.e. connecting with strangers with similar interests) I think these chats are a huge start.
After my experience w/ pivot and social week I see the benefit of twitter not as catching up with people you already know, but reaching out to strangers who are on your same wavelength about certain topics. It’s really about enhancing the experience at events.
We had 1 girl during pivot who streamed both days and was even more active on Twitter than most people sitting in the seats. She made real knowledge-based connections with people without being there.
It’s like Adam Duritz said, don’t look at all of this social media as a technologically irrelevant afterthought but think of it like you would anthropology. We are seeing relationships form between people in interesting ways and now have the data to better understand this.
