I told myself no more illustrations or cooking until I finish the last bit of my portfolio. Perhaps in a week I shall be completely finished with it. Until then here a couple random bits.
This past weekend was pretty quiet. Dog park overlooking San Fran, tacos, work..lolling. Weather has been absolutely perfect lately.
What else? I am in the process of organizing a little grassroots fundraising/awareness project with a couple of buddies. A couple of my friends offered to do a bike ride from San Fran to LA as a way to fundraise and raise awareness for my rare condition. This is nearly a 500 mile bike ride and all proceeds will benefit biomedical research for a cure towards HIBM.
This should be fun as bike riding is something they are passionate about. They plan to do the course over a 5 day period and I will document their daily happenings and route through a blog dedicated to the project. I was touched when they said they gladly offered to do this for me and even a couple of their friends, who know nothing about me, have volunteered to be a part of the ride.
It is these little moments that connect me to people, and when they go above and beyond I cherish their intentions and file it away in my memory. Often times it is the unlikely person that ends up surprising me with showered love and support; the person I met just one time or the person whom I've never met in my life. I guess this is what I mean by inspiration into action.
It is easy to talk about everything that is wrong in the world, and how things need to change, but it is something entirely different when you do less speaking and more doing. It is easy to complain, but harder to follow through with any real accountability. I guess, I'm attracted to these types of people, and I feel their inspiration is genuine.
I am excited to see how this project will progress. For now it is called, "Pedaling for Kam" and the tentative date is the last week of April of 2011. I will keep you posted on the details as they come to fruition. :)
With that, here is a fun little video. It would be cool to get around like this...on a shiny red floating ball. I have a friend that I sometimes text when I am having those really bad days. When those crazy moments happen I scream about how I hate HIBM to him through text and he usually replies with something funny or perspective oriented or sometimes says nothing at all. He is a toy designer that I used to work with so he says he wishes we could switch my head to a helicopter body so I could get around better. Soon after, I watched this video and it sparked a couple illustration ideas .I will have to do them later ;).