1 of 365: In all things, there is a beginning

The first day of 2014 and I am making an attempt to start new habits. Old habits are difficult to break, but new habits are harder to start. And so I am barreling forth on the coattails of my friend Took Gallagher, artist extraordinaire, who writes a daily creative blog on her current project. I applaud her tenacity for keeping herself on-track and accountable as a full-time working artist both in public and on the interwebs. And all projects begin, though some with more framework than others, in earnest. It is funny for me to admit, as both a perfectionist in my own work and as someone who embraces the seat-of-the-pants kismet of every creative project to evolve as it sees fit anthropomorphically, that one of my heroes is Adam Savage. He is a perfectionist, granted, but one of the engineering breed. If he were on one side of a triangular architects scale, I would be on a different scale altogether! See below:

Yet he inspires me with his joy, his absolute enthusiasm, his sheer goofiness! And then I watched this. I imagined us taking completely different paths on the same project and ending in two extremely separate project premieres, but each with total and equal merit and, well obviously, sheer goofiness! I beg of you to take 15 minutes to watch this and revel in his scientific charisma and to celebrate with me what I dub The Year of the Dodo, 2014!
 Happy New Year! See you tomorrow, fingers crossed.