Process Mundane

If you aren't totally sick of getting crap in your inbox that you more than likely will never read, then the new project I'm working on is the one for you! Process Mundane is an ongoing series of emails and seminars designed to help those who face daily drudgery take a microscopic look at their drudge. Gleaning inspiration from self help evangelism, Allan Kaprow, and Alan Watts, Process Mundane takes a deeper look into the roots of monotonous tasks, evaluates each task, and offers people alternative ways of performing each task. The end goal for Process Mundane is to give a sense of play and creativity to the particularly lackluster moments most people tend to forget about.

I initially launched Process Mundane as part of the 2012's Open Engagement conference. The response to the seminar was splendid, so I have since decided to expand the project to the interweb and eventually other speaking venues.

Interested in getting a shiny Process Mundane email from your's truly? Please send me a note and I'll pop you on the mailing list.

Ideas for survival

Find candid snapshots of strangers and reenact their pose while wearing some sort of furry uniform.

Pack a suitcase for a very long trip then go absolutely nowhere. Stay there for a while.

Write Tony Robbins a letter using only your teeth. In the letter make sure and compliment him on his teeth.

Approach someone on the street and ask them to give you directions to the place they were last.

Sink your feet into the cracks of a sofa and stand there for at least an hour.

Convince yourself that the world is coming to an end. Build upper body strength so you can scale tall buildings and mountains with the ease of an Olympian, eat only the food you've grown or killed yourself, spend an hour a day rotating your eyeballs to improve your vision. Call it the apocalypse diet. No cookbook required.

We Think Alone

Miranda July's We Think Alone Project is a fun one indeedy. Human mammals can sign up to receive emails from a few famous folks including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Catherine Opie, Lee Smolin, and Danh Vo.

I've never been one to get too "oozie in the gine" over famous people, but there are a few out there that I'd love to get an email from. Yes, emails from Wallace Shawn, Tony Robbins, Khanh Ly, Patti Smith, Lucy Lippard, Hélène Cixous, N adine Njeim and Delroy Lindo would be divine.