training day

A man tries to take a picture of himself that will adequately explain him in form and it doesn’t work out so well until he realizes he is indeed blurry. Caught in that blur that all the adults talked about in bewildered tones when he was that thing before a man. 

He takes the trash out after this picture is taken and hears a couple of boys singing along in the apartment below his to Sponge Bob Square Pants while a toddler shrieks after them- a meaningful shriek- this toddler trying to explain himself in a meaningful shriek, all to identifiable to the blurry man. 

What a day. What a set of tired legs. What a way to live a life on a street made famous in crime movies documented from time to time on his ole iphone 6. 

I hope you’re all out there grasping at straws with a big ole smile on your faces

one thing i learned

I’d like to share a trick I taught myself years ago. It’s inevitable that if I am out hiking with my phone or a pen and pad, I will think of nothing important creatively and need them little - however if out on the trails in only my clothes and nothing else, I will be ignited with creative solutions to the project I am working on. Such is the nature of things, an abandon of tools to the solution yields of course to the solution. The worry is that halfway across a trail with a drifting mind, I will forget the very profound breakthrough I had out there. Ask any creative, any human, It’s so easy to forget the very thing that we think we’ll never forget. Today it happened again, I was walking up through Griffith Park in the fog practicing an upcoming television pitch when a perfect phrasing for a section of it arrived. So here is my trick:

I will pick up a tiny rock on the ground whose shape and size, distinctions, appeal to me, and I will anchor the idea into the rock. I will repeat the idea a few times and store the wording into the rock as though its a hard drive. I will then put the rock in my pocket, think of its meaning a few more times and carry on my nature trek. When I arrive to my car, home, etc I will take the rock out and like magic the idea will still be stored into it, anchored. 

I’ve done this successfully with multiple rocks at a time. It rocks.

I wanted to share this trick