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10/28/11

STORE

1. Put all your change in to a big tube. Nail the tube in the corner of your room.

2.  Send your self to boarding school.

3.  Fill your backpack up with 30 books. Fly to a random place in the world. Dont come back until you read all the books.

4.  Build your house three stories underground

5. Put rain barrels in your yard to catch the rain, under the rain spouts. Use the water for watering your garden.


10/27/11

Puppies!


1. This movie is an idea:




2. Re-make the maps they have in tourist areas.  Make it mostly the same except add things like ''Alien Headquarters'' or ''shark pit.''  Replace their map with your map.

3.  Put ads on Craigslist in animal for sale area. Say your selling a made up creature like Pheonix, Unicorn, or Cagtorp

4. Create National Everybody Hums at 5:00 pm day.

5.  For a Halloween costume take a bath in lotion don't wash it off.




10/26/11

BANG

1.  Get your friends to give you assignments about what they know best.  Create your own school.

2.  Pour paint in to a super soaker.  Make art.

3.  Wrap someone's car in saran wrap so they cant open the doors.

4.  Put a little tube by your bed that goes out your window so you can pee in to the tube in the middle of the night with out getting out of bed.

5.  Make a alternative medicine hospital.  Natural pharmacy and all different types of alternative medicine specialists.  You have your main doctor run tests then recommend you go to one of many different alternative medical doctors in the building.


10/25/11

MOVIE BRAIN thunderSTORM

1.  Main character buys a lottery ticket.  They then do some sort of hallucinogen. Wins the lottery while on drugs but can't completely understand it.  Ends up lighting the ticket on fire.  Or at least trying

2.  Take all footage/ pictures of cute loving periods in all your past relationships compile and save them.  Then make a point to get more in all future relationships.  Compile it in to a documentary called "Finding the Right _____".

3.  People are camping in the woods.  One person checks their phone to find the news that the closest major cities has become all zombies.  They have to create safety in the woods.  Zombies start to attack.

4.  Guy looses his dog.  Goes looking for it and finds a girl.  They fall in love while look for the dog. They decide to get married.  Right as they do the dog comes up to them.

5.  Hobo teaches someone magic.


(I will film one of these. I will post the video as an idea on this site before dec. 23rd 2011 @ 10:00pm)

10/24/11

Remote Control Dog

1.  Construct a fishing pole to dangle in front of dogs face using a harness system (3 ft. out).  Create a remote control electrical device to move pole left to right just slightly. Hang a steak from the fishing line.

2.  Paint a pretty, colorful picture on the sidewalk way out in the middle of nowhere.

3.  Tattoo 'NO SMOKING' closest to your thumb on your pointer finger.

4.  Audition for as many plays as you possibly can, even if you know you wont get in.  Film yourself being rejected and/or scan all of the rejection letters that you receive.  If you don't ever get into a play, you would at least have a bunch of stuff to display.

5.  Break up a bar fight with a pool Que.



10/23/11

Doo Dads

1.  Tell everyone that you come in contact with that you are broke but don't ask for any money.  Keep a journal to see what comes your way.

2.  Knock on every door of every house in your neighborhood and ask them if there is anything that they need.  See if you can get it for them.

3.  Spend one week saying "Please","Thank You", and "You're Welcome."  Then spend the next week avoiding those words.  Then go back to using the words the next week.  Stop when someone comments on it.

4.  Go around and ask all of your friends what their top five foods they most commonly eat are.  Do this with over one hundred people.  Start making the top food out of your kitchen and then sell it to all of your friends.

5.  Whenever you feel like you need a break, make a physical note of it.  If you do not take a break at that moment, make sure to take the break later.  You may accumulate breaks.

10/21/11

DRUNK ZOMBIES

1.  When you find out the sex of your baby tell the doctor to write it on a piece of paper.  Do not read the note.  Bring it to a bakery and give it to them.  Tell them to see if your baby will be a boy or girl.  If it is a boy make the filling blue, and if it is a girl make the filling pink.

2.  Spend half of all the money you make on learning things.  Do this even if you generally learn things for free.

3.  Propose marriage in a bubble bath.  This way, when they come it you can pull the ring out from under the bubbles.

4.  Tattoo rings for marriage.

5.  If you ever find yourself making a zombie movie. Get the zombie actors dangerously drunk before all filming for ultimate acting.


10/20/11

NAKED ROBBERS

1.  While driving set your cruise control and start climbing out the car window.  Tell the passenger to steer.  Climb on the hood of the car.

2.  Listen to different parts of the music every time you hear the song.  First listen to the drums, then the singing. Try to listen to the song in as many different ways as possible.  If you like doing this, begin record all the different ways you can listen to the songs you like in a journal

3.  Have a protest about the dirty dishes in the kitchen.  Film it, and submit it as a news story.

4.  Film a tree growing for its whole life.  Buy a dedicated server and wirelessly upload all of the footage to that server.  Find a gallery that will display it in real time.  Or upload it in parts in youtube.com.

5.  Paint the ceiling in your room.




10/19/11

Magic IS REAL

1.  Go to somewhere small where there are no big cities.  Get a place to live and start convincing the people there that you can do magic.  Eventually you can become their king and start a cult!

2.  Make your own currency and trade it for US money.

3.  Put foot straps on the roof of your car and have friends ride it like a snowboard.

4.  Keep writing, you might be on a roll!

5.  Eat a worm.  Then try to tell the story about it to someone.  Try to not stop talking for fifteen minutes.

10/18/11

Pirate Car

1.  Attach a pirate flag to your car/ bike.

2.  Buy tickets to Hawaii one year in advance so when the time comes you have to go.

3.  Make foot print stencils then paint them in a circle around one big city block.

4.  Post a sign on your front door that says "Please Use Back Door" then on the back door post a sign that says "Please Use Front Door."

5.  Put on a red polo shirt with khaki pants and go pretend you work at target.  Give out really weird information and advice that employees would never do.

10/17/11

Books

1.  Save up enough money to rent an apartment for one year in a different city than you live in now. When you have the money, pack 170 books, two pairs of clothing, and enough mac and cheese and tuna to last the year.  Read all the books before you return home.

2. Hide stuff under your floor boards.

3. Do something every morning that you don't tell anyone about.

4. Call an old friend.  Ask them what they have done in the past week.

5. Search "Tall Glass Of Milk" on Google.

10/16/11

Make Pretend

1.  Submit every short film you have ever made into the same festival every year regardless of the rules.

2.  Every day before you eat breakfast, do five of one thing first.  I could be pages of a book read, dollars counted, drawings made, dishes done, or whatever you like doing most.

3.  Tell every person you meet about the thing you like the most.  Eventually when ever people see that thing apart from you in the world, they will think of you.  Then if there is an opportunity

4.  Eat at the same restaurant everyday for two months and see if it they start giving you free stuff.

5.  Pretend that everyone wants you around everyday.

10/14/11

Halloween 2

1.  Make a private Halloween neighborhood.  Get a small neighborhood.  Charge people to get in.  The houses would all have good candy and the whole neighborhood is spooky.

2.  Trick or treat with no costume and every-time you go to people's doors just text people on your phone.  If people ask you what you are say "occupied."

3.  Send a mass facebook message encouraging people to switch their profile picture to them wearing their costume on halloween.

4.  Paint your self green and wear a santa outfit.  Carry a christmas tree around.

5.  Instead of candy, give out zip lock bags full of straight sugar.




10/13/11

HALLOWEEN

1.  Paint race START lines at all the on-ramp stop lights to highways.

2.  Wear a pin or shirt that says "I love" or "i fu**ed." When people ask you who you are for halloween say that your their mom.

3.  Make a remote control robot with walky talky voice capabilities and send it as your halloween costume. This is not only a good costume, but also a good way to get candy even when your old.

4.  Dig a grave in your yard with a grave stone.  Fill the hole with candy for trick or treaters. Dress as a zombie and hide under the candy.

5.  Throw long lasting smoke bombs in all the street drains in your neighborhood on halloween night to make your neighborhood more scary.

10/12/11

SKIN POCKETS

1. Screen print a checkboard on a shirt, then get Velcro pieces for play.

2. Get a small kayak, and for a halloween costume put a baby in the seat.  Mom gets the front and dad gets the back. They carry the baby from door to door trick or treating.

3.  Make pockets in your body with plastic surgery.  They would be pants pockets except in your skin.

4. Try doing other people accent's.

5. Make a survey and give it to all your friends so you can know more about them.




10/11/11

ENTER THE UNKNOWN

1.  Travel around the planet looking for purpose, make a movie about it.  Challenge yourself to tell every single person you meet about what you are doing and what you have done so far to do it.

2.  Dump yellow paint off every bridge in the city at the same time on the same night.

3.  Marry a rich girl/guy.

4.  Drink sparkling water out of a champaign glass all the time. It can be your new thing.

5.  Instead of buying a nice desk from a big box store, get plastic fold out table.  Draw or paint on the surface of it.  Get a sized piece of glass and secure to surface of table with double sided 3M sticky squares a sized sheet of glass over the surface of the table.

10/10/11

WRITE A BOOK

1. Write a book about the best pet you ever had.

2.  Get a big tack board put it on your wall and over a year or so tack a bunch of cool things to it. When you feel like everything on the board looks good together place a sheet of glass over the board, turn it so it is parallel with the floor, then put legs on it so it turns in to a cool coffee table.

3. Take a picture of both of your eyes close up. Get them printed in color then frame them.

4. Nail a cool carpet to the floor in front of your desk instead of getting one of those plastic chair rollers.

5. Try to convince the owners/people in-charge of a theme park to let you ride the roller coaster all day long with out getting off.

10/9/11

Option F

1.  Spend one year finding the place you are most productive.  First determine what think would be the most productive state for you in whatever your line of work is.  Possibly just try out the difference between working at home and an office.  Narrow it down to the point where it is so specific you couldn't be any other way.

2.  Take every song you like right now and make a music video for it.  Spend one day showing all of them to your friends.

3.  If you don't like your situation in whatever city you are in, leave everything where it is and try to walk to the next major city in the next state.

4.  Open two bars right next to each other.  They should share a wall so if you were to cut a large window size hole in one wall it would expose the one bar to the next.  Then install one way glass along the entire wall.  Set the lights medium bright in one bar and very dark in the other.  Then mic the room that can see into the other one and play it really loud in the next bar.  Have a sign informing people of the situation on their way in.

5.  Have cute rabbits run loose on large planes to calm people down.

10/8/11

Bet The Farm

1.  Take the story of every break up you have gone through.  Write them all down and then publish it as a instruction manual.

2.  Every time someone is about to tell you something they don't like about someone else, insist that you don't want to here it.

3.  Go into every store in a ten block radius of your house and find out what the owner(s) name(s) is (are).

4.  During an election period in your area, starting making campaign signs.  Design them with beautiful patterns and different color arrangements.  Sell or rent them for the election period for $5.

5.  Screen print any design on to a t-shirt.  Figure out a way to get 100 people to wear the shirt every day for five days.  Then start going to consignment stores to see if they want to sell them.  Make a sticker with the design on it and give five stickers to 500 people ages 15-19.  You could hand them out by a high school.  Then paint the design on a van and sell the shirt out of the van in different spots around town.  Once you have enough money to rent a store, sell the van.  Paint the design so it covers the entire window of the front of your business.  Buy the store.

10/7/11

Wall Street.

1. Put drips of ink on a surface like a table. Mix the ink with a little bit of water. Take old fliers or small blank pieces of paper. Put the pages on the table and let them soak up the ink and dry. Frame the pages.

2. Predict the end of the world on a certain day.  Sell tickets.

3. Occupy Wall Street.  Leave now. Get on a plane go there and protest. 

4. Buy 30 blank note books. Number them one to 30 and put them on a book shelf and write on each page of each note book. When they are done publish them.

5. Sell your dirty underwear on ebay. Get paid to not do your laundry.


10/6/11

Hammer Time

1. Last nights bagels advertisment for a bagel company.

2. Go on a naked night bike ride with your girl / boy friend in the summer.

3. Give people free graphic design work so they owe you favors.

4. If you take a box and fill it up half way, there's always room for more stuff in the box, the box is not completely full.

5. Write 'Hammer Time' after STOP on stop signs.


10/5/11

WHEN QUITTING SMOKING


1. When quitting smoking, chug a glass of water when ever you want a cigarette. 

2. When quitting smoking, run 1 mile every day. Also bike to work.

3. When quitting smoking, blow up as many balloons as you can each day, record your progress.

4. When quitting smoking, find one person who supports what you are doing.  Then continually update them with your progress.  Make sure to tell them that telling them makes you feel good about yourself. After one year, you can quit updating them.

5. When quitting smoking, don't tell anyone who would doubt you or discourage you or question you or look at you like they don't believe you or act like it's not a big deal or just don't tell the majority of people you know.

10/4/11

Bath Tub Chess

1.  Glow in the dark car interior.

2.  Glow in the dark carpet.  Lines to help you get from room to room.

3.  Make genetically engineered dogs that always stay puppies.

4.  Get a garbage truck.  Bring your crop out to the trash, then pick it up in a garbage truck, drop the trash bag off at your distributors trash can.

5.  Chess board at the bottom of your bath tub. The pieces would be weighed down so they would stay under water.  White side would be little fishes and squids and sea creatures and black could be scuba divers and submarines.

10/3/11

Magic beans

1.  Make a contemporary teen romance movie.  Try to combine every Shakespeare storyline about love into one story about two people.

2.  Combine State ID's, drivers licences, credit cards and cell phones in to one thing.  Sell the prototype to the government.

3.  If you are a state senator and you're state is hurting for money you could start growing and selling weed.  Place a sales tax of 20% on each sale.

4.  Sleep on the floor one night a week.  Once you can do it all the time and get a good night sleep, you can get rid of your bed.  Then when you move, you won't have to move a bed and you'll be really tough.

5.  Make square pop cans.  "You don't have to be a square to drink our pop!"









10/2/11

So Close

1.  Start a catering business for huge house parties and basement shows.  Dumpster dive all of the food and turn it into easy to eat finger foods.  To promote the business just show up to parties with your food and give it away.  Then leave a bunch of business card offering really reasonable prices on catering prices.  You can call the business "100%" because you can make 100% profit.

2.  Start a business where people can call you when not enough people have shown up to your party.  You find 10+ reliable people you get to go to parties at a moments notice.  Charge people enough to get all of your friends drunk until you become reliable to be a business with an office.  If you do ever get an office, you would have people on call at your location like fire stations do.

3.  See if you can convince a person to give you $20.  Then one week later ask them out on a date and use the money you borrowed to show them a good time.

4.  Eat only at a farmers market, food co-op, supermarket, and discount wholesaler  for one month each with two weeks in between and see if you feel any different about anything.

5.  Create one hundred cool images for your favorite bands next album cover.  Submit them in high quality format to them months before the albums comes out.  See if they use one.

10/1/11

Cuppy Cake

1.  Start a subscription service where you deliver people in your neighborhood with a package.  People pay you $20 a month.  You just have to provide them with something in the box that you believe in $20 in value.

2.  Spend the time experimenting to see if there is one non-perishable food item that you can eat all the time and still be relatively healthy.  If you do find one you have two apparent options.  Buy a ton of this foodstuff for the apocalypse or buy this food in bulk and save a lot of money.

3.  Do the research to see what condiments people buy the most at your local grocery store.  Put all the condiments in squeeze bottles and package them together.  Sell the pack at your local store.

4.  If you like talking, film yourself talking about whatever you want.  Just put the videos up online with no description.  After long enough someone will hire you to come and talk to them.

5.  Sit down every night, at the end of your day, and make a list of all the things you didn't enjoying doing that day.  If there are recurring things on the list, try to stop doing them.  If you can convince your friends to do this project too, you could have a weekly meeting where you discuss your lists and think of clever ways to omit the things you don't like from your life.

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