The Perosn Who Doesn’t Make Mistakes is Unlikely to Make Anything.

vespa mistake · photo by jonshaft on flickr.com

Jon Shaft, one of my latest flickr favorite discoveries, writes as a citation for his “Happy Mistake”:

vespa mistake. this is what photographers call a “happy mistake”: I set up the xpan with the self timer set, and ran to sit next to erica, but forgot to change the timer from 2 seconds to 10 seconds. happy mistake.

If you want to be really inspirational and intend to motivate someone to get out of his/her daily grind, you always try to come up with a neat metaphor. Live your life. Get up and do cartwheels. Not so good metaphors, however, the one below…

The World Is Your Canvas, Paint Your Picture On It.

For instance, if you  have gotten advised that the world was your canvas and all that motivational crap, would you send a briefcase mounted with a GPS module around the world? Most people wouldn’t have done anything with that precious bit of wisdom. Erik himself didn’t even need someone to tell him to do a self-portrait of him on the biggest canvas I can come up with right now. He came up with that idea on his own. He says (in the red-letter disclaimer) that he didn’t do it in the end, but also says it’s possible. So maybe (and this in my motivational voice) you should go for it. Do the (im)possible.

With the little help of a briefcase Erik from biggestdrawingintheworld.com could (have -read the disclaimer in red) drawn a self-generated self-portrait on the biggest canvas. Earth.

Listing reason why to love New York City probably takes ages and why have words ruin the magnetic(ally) appealing atmosphere of a city that never sleeps. New York at sun set must be a thing of beauty and pictures can only give you the tiniest bit of an idea of what goes through your mind when your thoughts begin to get lost. Thanks to Barry. This time, I force you to click to enlarge the experience.

Phil hearts NYC