How to Spin a Pencil Around Your Thumb

http://www.wikihow.com/Spin-a-Pencil-Around-Your-Thumb

The aim was to teach myself to do something

The activity was pointless

Use of instruction and repetition

Personal endeavour to a ridiculous point

Unfortunately my performance of this got cut short before I could master the activity. I don’t really know how I feel about this mainly because of the events that followed; however, I know I do not wish to continue to learn how to do this. The point was to continually attempt the activity until I could do it but being stopped when I hadn’t mastered it put an end to it. I will never master this. O well new activity …..

Notes from a chapter/ A collective whole/ An external debate/ New rules.

The transformative power of performance

Its funny how when you’re reading something you automatically relate everything you possibly can to your own practice. This is what I did with the first few pages of the first chapter of this book. So must in fact the notes shown here no longer make any sense to me. It is an endless linking of concepts and ideas that slowly spiral out of control. I WANT EVERYTHING TO LINK UP, MAKE A COLLECTIVE WHOLE AND STILL MAKE SENSE.

This is a board of endless possibilities with need for resolve. It is small nuggets of concepts that attempt to form a whole through there linkage. This does not work.

Pick ONE Lauren! Pick one and play. Do not attempt to form a whole. There is too much for you to do everything all at once. Look for relevance where necessary. Do not find it in everything.

On the other hand are you doing what you suggested above? In a loose way are you indeed ‘following the rules to and excess so they no longer make sense?’ following your own subconscious set of rules? Following them to such an access so they no longer make sense to you? THERE YOU GO AGAIN LINKING EVERYTHING.

Make new rules Lauren. Make them you manifesto then exhaust theses rules as much as you have the others. FOLLOW THEM SO THEY NO LONGER HAVE RELEVANCE.

Amy Sedaris – I Like You.

http://www.amysedarisrocks.com/ilikeyoucd.htm (Audio Book)

An instruction devise that doesn’t take its self too seriously

Particularly pleasing is the audio book complete with music

I guess what’s interesting to me about it is the idea of personal endeavour without the effort. ‘I can do this and so can you’

Direct but in direct ‘[insert name here]’

Disregard of rules – makes up her own yet expects to follow her instructions