Sometimes, you spend too long consuming and forget how to produce. I cracked out my brain on too much easy-to-consume Internet culture. I'm more or less unable to focus and barely am able to bring myself to write coherently.
However, I still got creativity. Now, granted, a random hobo on the street can start coming up with ideas. "Hey! What if they filled a rocketship with cheese and made a porn movie about it! And then handed out the cheese to people on the street. And I could star, and it would be awesome, just AWESOME. All the women and the free cheese. Awesome."
And they sit there, thinking how awesome it would be. Welll, my little buddy Ze Frank (Sports Racer 4 life... cough... www.zefrank.com/theshow) likes to call this mentality 'Brain Crack.' Mmm, brain crack. You come up with a concept and enjoy the hell out of it, and that's as far as it goes. It stews in your mind, and you enjoy the HELL out of it.
Anyone can do that, and most of us do. We're all trapped in the confines of our daily lives. We come up with interesting ideas to convince ourselves that we COULD do that if we really wanted to. According to Ze, the reason we don't do it is we're afraid of failure. I think we don't do it because we're afraid of the consequences. We're giving up the sureties of daily life for something new and different. And we're often guilted out of expressing our creativity too.
I like to think of myself as a creative person. I am well aware posting on Blogger doesn't make me an awesome contributer to the Blogosphere, or an Important Person. But as I rant and post doodles and escape for a moment from the dull repetition that is life, I hope that I can make the first steps toward breaking free of the expectations of the people around me, and do things that are truly inventive, new, and sane.
Here's to recapturing sanity. Here's to abandoning life as we know it. Here's to 1:30 AM and God knows what else.
Brainstorm. Then Do.
There is no try.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
1) Roof Access
An idea we've been tossing around since the beginning the semester was to get us roof access to every building on campus. Although only odd feasible reasons for this existed...we decided to go through with it. Given the layout of our school...we decided to break it down into several parts. I'll give the ones we've accomplished thus far, then give a layout for those untouched.
1- To start this trial off we started with something very simple and went tot he top of the parking garage. They do have it blocked off so Cars can no longer park there...but people can, no problem. Its nice, usually windy... 8 Stories up.
2- Link Lee mansion, 2 Stories. Our school is Rather old, and the main office building is called Link Lee. On the outside of the building there is a ladder, most likely used for a fire escape, and has access to the very top of the roof. We've gone up several times as of now, and it has a fantastic view, but it is kinda creepy.
3- Our dorm building Guinan Hall. 3 stories tall, courtyard with exposed roof, and streets on every side. After hearing about access for a day or so, we looked around to see if such a point was even possible. We found it. An unlocked utility room granted us access to the only ladder capable of reaching the roof from the inside.
Left to go!
The entire academic Mall - consists of 9 buildings that are all interrelated through every level except basement levels. Counting this all as one will be adequate because if you CAN get tot he top of one...you can get to the rest of them no problem. We've located the entryways to the same utility rooms as the one in guinan, and we've seen from the top of the parking garage that every building in the Mall has roof access...now there is only time before we reach our next goal!
Jerebeck - Our gym, possibly the most difficult to reach the top of...it is tallest..has no visible or known entryway to the top...and would be impossible to scale...this one will require more time...
Crooker - the general area for students...where we eat...where we get our daily requests fulfilled...it has one very large peaked window that goes from side to side...and an interesting side building attached to it at a smaller level. Although only 2 stories, it has no known roof access...but an improvisional one is being made by us...and a ladder...
I think I've covered most of them...I know there are others...but I'll cover them in another post...and keep these updated with completion!
-Bill
1- To start this trial off we started with something very simple and went tot he top of the parking garage. They do have it blocked off so Cars can no longer park there...but people can, no problem. Its nice, usually windy... 8 Stories up.
2- Link Lee mansion, 2 Stories. Our school is Rather old, and the main office building is called Link Lee. On the outside of the building there is a ladder, most likely used for a fire escape, and has access to the very top of the roof. We've gone up several times as of now, and it has a fantastic view, but it is kinda creepy.
3- Our dorm building Guinan Hall. 3 stories tall, courtyard with exposed roof, and streets on every side. After hearing about access for a day or so, we looked around to see if such a point was even possible. We found it. An unlocked utility room granted us access to the only ladder capable of reaching the roof from the inside.
Left to go!
The entire academic Mall - consists of 9 buildings that are all interrelated through every level except basement levels. Counting this all as one will be adequate because if you CAN get tot he top of one...you can get to the rest of them no problem. We've located the entryways to the same utility rooms as the one in guinan, and we've seen from the top of the parking garage that every building in the Mall has roof access...now there is only time before we reach our next goal!
Jerebeck - Our gym, possibly the most difficult to reach the top of...it is tallest..has no visible or known entryway to the top...and would be impossible to scale...this one will require more time...
Crooker - the general area for students...where we eat...where we get our daily requests fulfilled...it has one very large peaked window that goes from side to side...and an interesting side building attached to it at a smaller level. Although only 2 stories, it has no known roof access...but an improvisional one is being made by us...and a ladder...
I think I've covered most of them...I know there are others...but I'll cover them in another post...and keep these updated with completion!
-Bill
An Idea A Week / Manifesto
Here's how this is going to work. Me and my Roommate Rob are bogged down with college life and life in general. To escape from this terrible place, called real life, we're going to successfully execute one new idea per week. These ideas range from well withing normal boundaries...to the unexpected... These ideas and events will be recorded on this blog and will come with as detailed a story as we deem permittable... This is for you...all of you...but mostly for us!
"An unlocked door is a resource, a locked door an invitation to greatness"
-Rob
You see, there are glass walls that bind us to our normal lives. We are surrounded by a traditions of concepts that limit and define our behaviour. We are surrounded by invisible wallas as it were. That trap us into the system of the same actions thoughts, living the same day over and over and over...the weakest of theses...is to keep us from doing anything new...the deepest ones keep us from doing the so called unthinkable... in our minds we temp escape...by thinking we can do the unthinkable...invent something...have superpowers...we are not truly free until we are free to pass through the most deeply ingrained...
Having these principles only redefines principles and barriers and thus creates a new principles to follow...
The real point Rob would like to get across is that...There are only two things that matter...destruction and creation. and they are truly the same thing...Aristotle would say that through destruction you are merely altering the formal cause...thus by destroying you are merely rearranging the components upon which are thus created into a new form...
"An unlocked door is a resource, a locked door an invitation to greatness"
-Rob
You see, there are glass walls that bind us to our normal lives. We are surrounded by a traditions of concepts that limit and define our behaviour. We are surrounded by invisible wallas as it were. That trap us into the system of the same actions thoughts, living the same day over and over and over...the weakest of theses...is to keep us from doing anything new...the deepest ones keep us from doing the so called unthinkable... in our minds we temp escape...by thinking we can do the unthinkable...invent something...have superpowers...we are not truly free until we are free to pass through the most deeply ingrained...
Having these principles only redefines principles and barriers and thus creates a new principles to follow...
The real point Rob would like to get across is that...There are only two things that matter...destruction and creation. and they are truly the same thing...Aristotle would say that through destruction you are merely altering the formal cause...thus by destroying you are merely rearranging the components upon which are thus created into a new form...
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