THE LIST

October 22, 2009 3:57 pm | Comments

Ahhhh! The List…it’s sounds big and important I know….but really it is here to remind me to do the stuff I love and try new things. It is by no means  a static list (and right now it is a brief – off the top of my head kinda list) …things will be added and crossed out. At least this list will be tidy…you know usually a typical ‘to do list’ is messy, things crossed out and added. But whether scribbled on scrap paper or compiled neatly on my blog, lists definitely work! Viva la LIST!!

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  1. Move to another city.
  2. Visit Tokyo
  3. Visit New York
  4. Visit Paris
  5. Eat some macarons at Ladurée
  6. Visit Berlin
  7. Master my new camera.
  8. Learn French (in progress)
  9. Read Le Petit Prince in French
  10. Visit Rheinfelden (my mum’s birthplace)
  11. Travel OS solo
  12. Get a second tattoo in the first city I visit (Paris, Tokyo, NY, Berlin)
  13. Learn to Knit
  14. Make a pair of shoes
  15. Re-open a clothing/homewares store
  16. Make croissants from scratch
  17. Make a beinenstich cake from scratch
  18. Make a stopstart animation including the soundtrack
  19. Buy V-Drums
  20. Learn to play the drums
  21. Form a band
  22. Start a new label
  23. Kill an animal (ok yes this sounds totally weird, but I believe if you are going to eat meat you should be prepared to kill an animal at least once, and cook and eat it of course)
  24. Dress as Tank girl
  25. Make a catwoman outfit and wear it well
  26. Read Brave New World and a possible growing list of all the literature classics I have not read
  27. Make a huge batch of jam
  28. Make an impact! sif I haven’t
  29. Visit Sweet Melissa Patisserrie in NY
  30. Learn about Madeleine Vionnet Queen of the bias cut.
  31. Collaborate with awesome creatives with success! Part of Spencer Tunick Sydney Opera House installation
  32. Get my drivers license back.
  33. Read Perfume
  34. Aim to have an exhibition in 2010.
  35. Visit Carcasonne and Perpignan (finish reading about them and The Albigensian Crusade first…nearly there :) )
  36. Get lost in the maze at Cordes-sur-Ciel.
  37. Learn to scratch (thanks Shaughn for the battle record, the journey begins)
  38. Go see a roller derby match
  39. Join a roller derby team
  40. Sign up for burlesque dancing lessons
  41. Do some french classes at The French Centre or Alliance  Française
  42. Get a bike
  43. Attempt to make macarons
  44. Add stuff to this list, just for the soul purpose of crossing it out
  45. Make  a time – lapse photography movie
  46. Drink coffee without sugar from now on.  (So not ready for this, but I have stopped drinking coffee in the morning)
  47. Read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and see if it makes me revert back to veganism
  48. Stop drinking alcohol for 1 month, with the intention of completely giving it up if I feel amazing by the end of it.
  49. Make sure this does not become some kind of lame ass BUCKET LIST!
  50. Learn to graff
  51. Conjure up a 365 photo project here it is
  52. Become proficient at Illustrator

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about imageDesigner, Melissa King, is based in Sydney, Australia. She designs, paints, sews, crafts, djs, clicks, pixelates, builds, cuts, collects, reuses, hoards, creates, rips, destroys, draws, samples, hangs, styles, decorates, remixes, folds, moulds, bakes, cooks, recycles and has probably used too many commas. !