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11:08pm
you in portal
in all seriousness, if i bought an old in-need-of-work house in portal , north
dakota,
and i gave keys out to people i trust...how many of you would REALLY go there
and help me fix the place up and paint murals on the walls and just do your
thing there and keep it alive?
like an art project. you could go up there alone or with friends and have
a peaceful place to just hang out and be still and do your art.
doodle on the walls, patch things up, put pink flamingos on the lawn, meditate,
lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling.
read a book, mow the lawn, paint the house pink, help me put up a fence...paint
a mural on the garage...collage a wall...
it would be like a time share except i would own it.
and i would give out keys to people (for free) who i know will treat the place
right and give it some love and turn it into art.
a place we can always go to to just be quiet. you can go there and stay for
free as long as you add something to it, even just a little bit, everytime
you stay.
think about it.
it could be a cool thing. really, would you actually make a trip there maybe
once a year and do your thing?
give the house some love? make sure it's ok?
because i don't drive and a train goes all the way to stanley from my place,
but then it's 66 more miles to portal.
less than 100 people probably live
there. it has a park with swings and rides but no children (basically)!
you can swing and look at the grasslands, take cool photos, write your memoir...fix
a broken window...go to canada...
each time we go there we could take photos of what we did and send it to the
other "members of the portal house"
i think it could be a fun collective project.
but i do not know ANYTHING about
the building codes there or zoning laws or what is involved in this kind of
thing.
i don't want my head in the clouds about this. i need the facts to do this
wisely.
but i do think this could work if
i could just get people to commit to going there to put a little tender loving
care into the place.
maybe i am not basing this in reality.
if i'm not, let me know (kindly).
i don't want to just be la-de-da about this...but i also want to keep the
wonder alive :)
so...give me your thoughts...ideas...
rain on my parade or hit me with the brick of reality or say heck ya, it COULD
work.
it could be like andy warhol's factory....north dakota style :)
it could be a lot of things...
thoughts?
i don't know....i'm just throwing this out there...
it's hard enough just to get a lj community to work.
but if we find the right combinations of people.
people who like a challenge and to do something different.
7:56pm
happyhouse1.mov
happyhouse2.mov
happyhouse3.mov
happyhouse4.mov
happyhouse5.mov
each one is about 35 MB
i'm going over to jason's now to watch the soprano's :)
3:46pm
the happy house
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on the way home, i was quite excited
to find this house :)
as you see, it needed to be photographed in colour :)
the last photo is an unretouched photo full sized.
the hand on the door was there as i found it.
i did take it back with my as a souvenier. it's porcelain.
it probably went to some religious statue at some point.
it was a really fantastic little house, i decided the perfect place to leave
my birthday cake.
so i left it on the stairs there for the mice or the birds or whoever or whatever
wants to eat it :)
i wish i could have stayed and do a time lapse film of the cake disappearing
from the stairs.
i can only imagine what will happen or has happened to it.
if anyone else walks into that house and finds the cake there, they will be
like WTF?
if i would have brought cardboard fred astiare with me i would have nailed
him to the wall there and left him to watch over the cake.
maybe somehow i can get back to that house and do a photoshoot all day there
as me as a broken doll laying around in the corners.
god, i can just think of a million ideas.
i carefully went up the very narrow stairs and was happy it was solid.
i made about 4 or 5 films of me walking through the house, so i will get those
up for you today.
it is on highway 52 just out of jamestown.
the sound track to this house is siouxsie and the banshees "happy house"
here are the lyrics to the song:
"This is the happy
house-we're happy here in the happy house oh it's such fun
We've come to play in the happy house
and waste a day in the happy house-it never rains
We've come to scream
in the happy house We're in a dream in the happy house
We're all quite sane
This is the happy house-we're
happy here There's room for you if you say "I do"
but don't say no or you'll have to go
we've done no wrong with our blinkers on It's safe and calm if you sing along
This is the happy house-we're happy here in the happy house. To forget ourselves-and pretend all's well There is no hell. "
3:00pm
back from a walk with jason.
it was hot! dandelions are everywhere :)
the leaves are all almost all out.
i found a cicada dying on the sidewalk upside down.
i thought it was dead but it wasn't so i flipped it over but it still wasn't
able to move very well.
i picked it up and carried it to the grass and the dandelions and put it in
the shade by a tree.
it finally got it's wings shut. it was missing a part of it's leg.
when i got back from my walk i checked up to see if it was still there but
it wasn't.
so i hope that was a good sign that he was getting better. poor little cicada.
1:19pm
just got back from a breakfast buffet
thing for jason's antie's 95th birthday.
it's gorgeous outside, so i am going to go for a walk in just a sec here.
my neck still hurts but i think i can finally go for a walk and it won't make
it worse *fingers crossed*
then when i get back i will put up more photos for you :)
9:44am
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today is the 2nd anniversary of sonia5's
death/rebirth into a new life.
http://www.hairpolice.com/sonia.shtml
that summer, she was going to teach
me how to do extensions.
but it was not to be.
but finally, because of some birthday money from my dad,
i am going to learn to do the things she did THIS summer.
i will carry on her art/craft.
i am going to learn it from a wonderful woman who learned fom her.
i think this is a fitting way to spend my birthday money for my 40th.
sonia would be proud and happy, i know :)
i am very excited to learn this new skill/idea that she created.
she was 37 when she decided to create her art-hair empire...so i am a few
years behind :)
she was always a person ahead of her time. and we concocted many secret plans
:)
i look forward to expanding and building upon her ideas, mixing her style
of extensions with crochet and other things, although i will always do things
in my way and i do not plan to make hair my one and only career, but just
as a way to add to my every expanding repetoire...i owe so much to her existence
and loving generosity :)
i wish i could tell her and let her know.
she lives forever in all she touched.
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