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For this one I am interested in facial expressions based on what you are thinking about.

What you are going to do is think of the following things for exactly two minutes with your eyes closed. Think Really hard. Only think about the thing you are supposed to be thinking about. Then when the the two minutes is up open your eyes and take a photo. Maybe you won't want to open your eyes because of some of the subjects. If that is the case, you can take the photograph with your eyes closed. You might want to do them in order so you don't lose track of which ones you did. You might also want to use a timer with an alarm.

Here are the 10 things you will think about:

- The Ocean.
- Somebody you hate.
- Your mother as a small child.
- Osama Bin Laden.
- A giant chocolate cake.
- Imagine yourself crying.
- Three small puppy dogs that look the same.
- Miles of traffic ahead of you on a freeway.
- Your Uncle naked.
- Your face 40 years from now.

When you are done make a list with these things mixed up and make a row of all the faces. Give this to people and see if they can match the correct face with the correct thing you were thinking about.

Thanks!

- D

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Yo Patrick!

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Alright, here we go: You get two to choose from. One will be crazier, and one will be more mellow. You can decide.

Here is the "crazier" one. Because of your wheat grass incident you will do this:

- You are going to make Wheat Grass Cocktails (pick what alcohol you want - I'd suggest vodka or tequila, but do whatever)
- Keep drinking until you puke green vomit.
- get a piece of yellow paper and cut out a car shape (to represent your car - do this before you are drunk so you don't cut yourself)
- make ten photographs of "your car" driving through the green wheat grass grossness
- this is really sick and gross, and if you do it then you are sick and gross, but that's not a bad thing.
- print the photographs and make a youtube video of you explaining the photographs and about your yellow car and everything, etc..

this one is more mellow:

- watch Hitchock's Vertigo and pick 10 scenes in the bay area
- recreate stills from these scenes with you and your friends wearing pig masks
- give them to people working on the pig hunt movie as a nice little gift

cool?

thanks!

- D

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Here are your instructions (customized for you):

If you are able to watch the sunset at one of the ends of the island you live on, go there. If you aren't, just go to one of the ends at the time of sunset and face the direction of the sun.

Watch the sunset (or just take note of when the sun goes down if you can't actually see it).

Once it is down (at the beginning of dusk) turn around and walk to the other end of the island.

Take note of exactly how many minutes this takes.

Also take notice of how your surroundings change as the night slowly emerges.

When you get to Italy, if you can go to the beach to watch the sunset, go there. If you can't, go anywhere to watch it.

Once the sun goes down turn around and walk exactly the length of time you did on the island where you live.

Take notice of the emergence of night as well, and also reflect upon the idea that you are doing the exact same movement on another part of the world.

Take 5 photographs on the first walk (one in the direction of the sunset, three on the walk, one at the other end of the island looking at the water).
Take 5 photographs on the second one, following the basic same instructions.
Pin them to a wall in rows of 5, so that both walks are next to each other.

Wow, this one was long,

- D

p.s. I don't consciously base my ideas off of the Dharma. That's interesting that you've made a connection. I like that connection.

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Here are your instructions:

You will take 10 photographs of different animals.
You will print them.
You will take a normal size piece of paper and glue the photographs to them (one per paper).
You will take a marker and write a fake "Lost Pet" sign. You will have to make everything up. Be creative.

An example would be this:

"This is Sparky. Sparky is my best friend, I've had him since I was 3. He was a present from my Uncle who I haven't seen in 4 years. Sparky really likes rose petals in his dog food. He has a bad left food. Please contact me if you find him.

You will make up 10 of these. NOTE: maybe you should put these in a town faraway in case the owners of the animals you photographed comes across them...

thanks!

- david

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Here are your instructions:

You will take 10 photographs of the sun.
You will print all 10 of them.
You will take 9 of them and cut out the sun.
You will hold the 9 of them up to the sky so the real sun shines through.
You will admire the real sun coming through the photograph.
On a day that it is gloomy and there is no sun, you will take the 1 photograph that you did not cut, and hold that up to the grey sky and pretend it is the sun.

Thanks,

- David Horvitz