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[LIFE'S BIG LISTS]

“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all; ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.” —Marquis de Sade 

“Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.” —Buddha

:: kate supreme by @plasticflora

List 5 things you LUST for.

1. Deep dish sausage and ricotta pizza with crushed tomato sauce and fresh marjoram.
2. A long desert highway and a 2010 Chevy Camaro with a 6.2 liter, 428 horsepower V8 engine.
3. Millions of people waiting in line to buy the book I haven’t written yet.
4. Pete Townshend’s black Les Paul autographed to me and proclaiming my superior guitar virtuosity.
5. That one night of endless Kate Moss possibilities.

:: @CSW

[LIFE'S BIG LISTS]

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else."—Alison Boulter

:: odd man out by Candy Critic

List 3 incredibly idiosyncratic ways in which you are NOT like everybody else.

1. I drink two pots of coffee a day and have zero issues falling asleep.
2. I toss my own pizza dough every Tuesday night and speak with a fake Italian accent the whole time I’m doing it.
3. I can recite every word of every line to the very first episode of Three’s Company.

:: @CSW

[CHALLENGE: QUICK, WRITE]

“There’s so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears…” —Dean Moriarty, On the Road

:: Kerouac snapped by Tom Palumbo

Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road largely in one six-week outburst on a single-spaced typewriter fed with one continuous roll of butcher paper. Talk about boundless creativity unlimited by rules! Why, then, is it so easy to become frustrated without direction? Like the writer’s block that comes from staring endlessly at a blank sheet of paper.

We think adhering to format might actually supercharge the creative process, forcing the artist to make decisions and commit to something. Think you have the mental muscle to take your creative karma in a different direction? Then throw caution to the wind, find something you’re passionate about, and take up the most demanding of all structures:

Write an impassioned sonnet. (Remember: 14 lines of 10 syllables written in iambic pentameter with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme.) Post your opus here.

[LIFE’S BIG LISTS]

“Make a beginning and all will come right.” —’Abdu’l-Baha

We all have a running list of things we plan to do “one day.” Daunting things. Like quitting smoking. Dealing with our baggage (not the Samsonite kind). Reading Sartre. It’s the matter of ‘doing it’ that’s often easier said than done.

List 3 things you have waited far too long to just do.

1. Resolve the angst-ridden relationship I have with my brother.
2. Create a financial game plan.
3. Take my artistic outlet (read: photography) seriously.

:: @golriz

[CHALLENGE: FRUGAL ARTIST]

[LIFE'S BIG LISTS]

Admit it: Whether you’re a man or woman, you've had a major crush on someone before. But have you ever had a crush on an entire group of people? A polyamorous crush goes beyond sexuality; it’s about being enthralled with either a couple, a team, a cast, even a mob of people working towards a common goal. You’re not quite sure, but something about them turns you on.

List five polyamorous crushes you’ve harbored in your life.

:: crush list by Todd Steinberg :: i-heart-shirt by CaptainCat, customized by @plasticflora

[CHALLENGE: QUICK, WRITE]

Step 1. Pull out your old junk drawer. The one full of pocketknives and cold medicine and concert ticket stubs and matches from places you’ve already forgotten about.
Step 2. Use your stash to inspire a decastich—a 10-line poem with no restrictions on meter or rhyme.
Step 3. Post your poem below. (Bonus points for rhyming anyway.)

[LIFE'S BIG LISTS]

The temperance movement’s coup de grâce was the failure of prohibition, but their mantra (an ancient Greek truism thanks to Xenophon)—”Temperance may be defined as: Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful,” might be beneficial if applied, well, moderately.

List 3 aspects of your world that you think could benefit from a dose of moderation.

1. Lost. Sorry, I just don’t find it interesting and yes, I know that makes me the world's biggest douche.
2. Holiday hype. The mall is already putting up Christmas decorations—while I’m still rotting my teeth with Halloween candy.
3. Abstaining due to supposed food allergies. Dear friends, hearing about all the nuances of your various gastronomical situations is just a bore.

:: signage stating the obvious spied by justpat

[CHALLENGE: FRUGAL ARTIST]

:: photographs and art by Mui-Ling Teh

Artist Mui-Ling Teh, at the ripe age of 23, hasn’t yet made 2,000 micro-origami cranes from just one piece of paper, but she estimates she’s about halfway there. Teh folds cranes from 5mm x 5mm squares clipped from a single sheet and uses the end origami as inspirational subject matter for her photography. It’s fantastically tedious but wonderfully original, making us wonder what else could emerge from a single sheet of paper, a pair of scissors, and the artistic mind.

1. Get a piece of paper and scissors. (Tweezers are OK, but no tape, glue, pens, or markers.)
2. Transform 2D into 3D and create art.
3. Take a photo, and link to it here. (Don't embed or YOU will get microfolded.)