Day 3 Of Delusional Optimist's 48 Day I'mPossible Mission

I accomplished all of my goals for yesterday in six 90 minute work blocks. Woo! After looking into the Vice IGTV Contest, I realized that once again, using MF DOOM’s likeness is holding me back from pulling the trigger on too many things. I’ve been waiting to email the Gas Drawls team again until I finished my Adult Swim series proposal (add it to my daily goals maybe?) to ask if it is okay to sell @TheRingOfDOOM art. I am fully aware that many others profit from the use his likeness, even most likely the artist who created the ring itself, but since my end goal is to help artists make a living with their craft, I would feel douchey profiting from his likeness without permission. I’ve been procrastinating the launch of my newest character because it doesn’t fit in my pocket. After reading all the rules, I decided to make IGTV @TheRingOfDOOM movies anyway but not enter the contest. 

Went to see the D*Face show at Treason Gallery, Shohei Otomo at Statix, and a few other galleries last night before coming back here to work on my own art. No photos taken because unless there’s room to put @TheRingOfDOOM on the ground and back away, I prefer to photograph art outside. I would really love to learn exactly how D*Face reached the point of five digit art prices because selling one piece of art at that price would fund my Europe trip, pay all my bills until I get back, and buy me some much needed dental work in Spain. Just throwing this out there… when I do get into the six-seven digit art sales, these pieces I’m making now will be $$$. Invest in living artists pretty please; we don’t have health insurance. Feel free to contact me to make an offer. 

First layer of 3D aquarium collage under curing resin. 

I finished the first layer of waves on the water collage AND poured a layer of resin on it as well as a few others shown above. Due to my limited space, I wasn’t able to get a good video of the resin pour itself but I decided to unearth an un-uploaded video I had fermenting on my iPhone and share that instead. The newly uploaded YouTube video includes the resin pour of @TheRingOfDOOM belt buckle I’ve been wearing every day. While museum crashing at the Hirshhorn in Washington DC with @TheRingOfDOOM, the security guard told me he liked my belt buckle more than most of the art in the museum; 🙌.

Today’s Goals

1.     Drink 64 oz. water

2.     Go for a walk

3.     Stretch at least 10 minutes

4.     One post on website

5.     2-3 Instagram posts per account; @206liz @TheRingOfDOOM @MyDefOfCool

6.     Add new water to resin projects (At least one 90 minute work block)

7.     Go to Untitled; the art show of @acodd03 @leo.shallat @claude206 at @PhotonFactory and the Pirahna Shop Vice & Virtue Opening

8.     90 Minute Etsy Belt Buckle Work Block (haven’t done one since I started keeping track)

Art Show poster that is better than yours.

Song Of The Day...

Day 2 Of Delusional Optimist's 48 Day Mission To Europe

Day 2… 47 Days To Go

Yesterday I mostly completed all six of my goals but only posted one post on each Instagram account. It’s so easy to tell yourself that it isn’t necessary but every single thing we do to work towards our goals will get us closer… even if it’s just an Instagram post. I’ll do better today! I had not been drinking enough water lately so that surprisingly felt like the biggest win. I accomplished this productive day using the 90 minute work block system I borrowed from Chase Jarvis. The Instagramming and my blog post were completed within two 90 minute work blocks and the other four work blocks all were spent gluing tiny pieces of water to my 3D aquarium collage. When you wake up and make your own schedule every day, structure is key. See below for my crude system that works… I started this board to keep track of all my personal projects on January 21 and currently am in the 224th 90 minute work block. I do not factor in the many, many hours of walking and taking photos or any of the social media stuff I do on tour. Like the FREE Duolingo app for learning new languages, it's truly on some Mary Poppins ish because it made my "work" into a game. 

Today is already looking to be even more productive because I woke up earlier and Art Walk days inspire me more than most to get my shit together. This week, the London Street Artist D*Face has been in Seattle painting murals and prepping Treason Gallery for his art show that starts today. Since I once made a video for @TheRingOfDOOM in Las Vegas that invents the sad love story of the characters in his murals, I could not have been happier to see the lovers reunited on the streets of my very own city. Curious to know if he has seen my ridiculous YouTube video (very unlikely at 57 views) but I do feel a Part Deux coming on. Looking forward to checking out D*Face’s show at Treason Gallery tonight as well as Shohei Otomo’s show at Statix and then coming right back here to make stuff so I can be in their shoes someday.

D*Face's New Mural On 1st & Lenora In Seattle

Today’s Goals

1.     Finish first layer of water on 3D Aquarium Collage

2.     One Post On Website

3.     2-3 Instagram Posts On Each Account @206liz @TheRingOfDOOM @MyDefOfCool

4.     Drink 64 oz. water

5.     Go For A Walk

6.     Stretch For 10 Minutes Plus

7.     Research And Storyboard Vice IGTV Contest for August 6 Deadline

3D Aquarium Collage Under Construction

The Delusional Optimists Guide To Achieving The Impossible... Day 1

48 Days To Departure...

Close proximity to greatness has shown me that hard work, blind faith, a contact list, and the courage to use it will get you everywhere.

In 2009, I started a music blog to show off to the world what good taste I have. By the end of 2015, I had worked with a third of the artists I blogged about and found myself in some jaw-droppingly star studded situations on a daily basis. I worked in as many positions in the music industry possible to learn as much as I could about how I could best help the musicians that inspired me. The experience I had acquired working for independent and corporate music venues, hip hop promoters, and record labels taught me that what I really want to build would look more like a media company with lots of merch and an amazing soundtrack. Since the realization that the corporate music industry must be overthrown and I will help make it happen, I vowed to never work for corporations again and to only work on teams whose missions align with my own. For the last year and a half, I’ve been unsuccessfully scraping together a living as part of a catering team and a freelance Merch Manager for touring underground hip hop artists while also declaring myself to be a Traveling Street Art Photographer.

As an unemployed, over-achieving, workaholic, 40 year old single divorcee, my situation could go many ways. Due to my delusional optimism and saturation of entrepreneurial podcasts, I am currently in the eat shit for a few years so I can have caviar for the rest of my life phase(Gary Vaynerchuk metaphor…I prefer sushi/tacos). I couldn’t be more confident that the ROI on investing in myself will be priceless and that all of the knowledge I’ve acquired over the last 40 years will lead me somewhere totally amazing… like Europe for two months starting this September 17.  It is this quickly approaching deadline that inspired me to take extra steps to make sure I succeed via the potential of public humiliation for quitting before I’ve even tried. My mission is to figure out how to go from negative $0 to two months in Europe photographing Street Art and filming my fictional character having epic adventures. I’m leaving for London in 48 days.

I have many, many lists of ways to reach my goal but all of them require the courage to reach out I have yet to find within myself. My greatest fears include looking like a moron in front of people who don’t care about me and actually creating the world I’ve envisioned for myself. When all of my To Do’s are checked off, will I even be able to handle the light being shined in my direction? All I know for sure is that if I don’t reach for this seemingly impossible future, I will ALWAYS wonder what could have been.

Fueled by the determination to art my way out of this tiny box I stay in and to create opportunities for the artists that inspire me, I’ve decided to share my progress toward creating the Intergalactic Art Bridge I believe is possible. Instead of over-analyzing how much of my story to tell and procrastinating, I will stop looking backwards (ha) and just get to work. At this time, I feel that going all in with my own art will take me everywhere I want to go so I’ve been making the art I will display when I finally get the courage to ask for an art show and succeed. I’ve yet to sell any of my own art so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. 

Today’s To Do List… (I’ll let you know tomorrow if I did it)

1.     More work on the first layer of my 3D aquarium collage.

2.     One post on my website… shared on social media accounts

3.     2-3 Instagram posts per account; @TheRingOfDOOM @206liz @MyDefOfCool

4.     Drink 64 oz. of water

5.     Go For A Walk

6.     Stretch 10 Minutes Plus

Today’s Art... 2’ x 3’ paper collage of water