I have decided to create an "88 in 888" list, which isn't the usual structure for this type of thing. The reason I chose this is simply because I wanted to choose a significant day to set as the deadline. The day...my 30th birthday! Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnn!!!! Anyway, "88 in 888" is much less depressing than "Things to do before I'm 30." Anyway, if you couldn't figure it out, this list is comprised of 88 things I want to do in the next 888 days (starting 9/14/2010).
I will update this list often, and include my experience of doing so in my blog. I may also be including pictures and video.
I will update this list often, and include my experience of doing so in my blog. I may also be including pictures and video.
September 14, 2010 - February 18, 2013
Not Started - 24 Partially Completed - 12 Completed - 52 ANIMATION 1. Create an original animated online series 2. Submit an animation to a festival 3. Create an animation for kickball 4. Animate three Lumkins cartoons (2/3) CREATIVITY 5. Make a stop-motion video 6. Finish a painting and hang it on a wall 7. Perform in something (Zissou Kickball Videos) 8. Submit at least 1 written article a month for a year to associatedcontent.com (0/12) 9. Submit something into a creative competition (writing/photograph/art/film/animation/etc.) - photo 10. Create personalized stickers and send/leave them in 25 places around the world (4/25) 11. Frame something done in Photoshop 12. Create an online portfolio for art and animation PICTURES & PHOTOGRAPHY 13. Take a random picture once a week for a year and make a photobook at the end (52/52) 14. Own a SLR camera 15. Own a specialized camera (fish eye, panoramic, polaroid, etc) - Fish Eye 16. Post an old picture of me online once a month for a year (12/12) 17. Scan pictures from at least 5 old family photo albums and put them on discs (3/5) 18. Get an object to take with me on travel to take pictures of - California Raisin OUTDOORS & TRAVEL 19. Visit Asia 20. Visit Africa 21. Visit Australia 22. Visit two of the "New 7 Wonders" that I haven't been to (Excludes Machu Picchu and the Colosseum). The Pyramids are included as being an honorary member of the New 7. (0/2) 23. Visit three of the runner-ups of the "New 7 Wonders" that I have not seen (Excludes the Eiffel Tower, Neuschwanstein, Statue of Liberty and Stonehenge) (0/3) 24. Visit three of the 28 finalists for "New 7 Wonders of Nature" I have not seen (Excludes Grand Canyon, Cliffs of Moher and Vesuvius) (0/3) 25. Use couchsurfing.com to either stay with someone or host someone 26. Stand at the highest point in three states (Excludes New Mexico and South Dakota) (0/3) 27. Camp in five states I've never camped in (2/5-New Hampshire, Arizona) 28. Ride the Railrunner to Sante Fe 29. Visit the Petroglyphs in Albuuquerque 30. Get a stamp in my National Parks Passport for each region that is currently empty (Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, D.C.) 31. Visit ten museums I've never been to (10/10) 32. Renew my passport SPORTS & LEISURE 33. Attend a bluegrass, blues, americana or folk music festival - Taos Mountain Music Festival 34. Read 5 books off the Time's Top 100 List (4/5 - Lord of the Flies, Slaughterhouse-Five, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Neuromancer, Catch 22) 35. Watch 20 films that I haven't seen from the "AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary)" list (20/20) 36. Watch 10 non-English language foreign films that I haven't seen (10/10) 37. Watch 10 films from IMDB's "Top Rated Horror Titles" that I haven't seen (10/10) 38. Watch 5 films from IMDB's "Bottom 100" list that I haven't seen (5/5) 39. Host a movie night at my place at least ten times (10/10) 40. Choose a TV show that I've never seen and is no longer on the air, then watch every episode (Stargate:Atlantis) 41. Attend a professional soccer match (San Jose Earthquakes @ Colorado Rapids) 42. Watch a Red Sox game in a stadium I've never been to 43. Compete in a tennis tournament PERSONAL WELLNESS 44. Complete a 5K 45. Complete a 10K 46. Start running at least once a week (must perform consistently for 10 weeks to complete) - mainly on a treadmill 47. Start biking at least once a week, out of town excluded (must perform consistently for 10 weeks to complete) 48. Bike to/from work at least once WELLNESS OF OTHERS 49. Inspire five people to make similar lists (3/5 - *61 Things to Do before my 30th; I Have Been Inspired; Age's To Do List) 50. Volunteer for something 51. Raise money for a charity (Kick It - $430) 52. Help someone accomplish a goal on their list 53. Pay for a stranger behind me in a drive thru 54. Donate 100,000 grains of rice on Freerice.com (100,100/100,000) FOOD & DRINK 55. Complete a food challenge featured on "Man vs Food" - Quaker Steak & Lube Atomic Wings 56. Be vegetarian for at least a month 57. Try 10 new recipes (2/10) 58. Buy an item of food once a month for a year that I've never bought at the grocery store and use it (5/12) 59. Have a beer I've never tried in each of ten different breweries/microbreweries I've never been to (9/10) TECHNOLOGY 60. Start and maintain a blog 61. Create a podcast 62. Figure out what's wrong with my laptop and try to get it repaired (if possible) - BOUGHT NEW ONE 63. Attempt to recover files on hard drive from old computer (mainly all my college pictures) FAMILY & FRIENDS 64. Write and send at least one hand-written letter a month for a year (5/12) 65. Visit another country with a family member (excluding Canada/Mexico) 66. Spend a day doing stuff with just my two brothers FINANCIAL 67. Pay off my school loan 68. Set up a Roth IRA 69. Do not eat out or go to the cafeteria during work for a month (Jan 10, 2011-Feb 10, 2011) 70. Do not gamble in a casino for a year (June 5, 2010 - June 5, 2011) 71. Put $10 aside for every goal completed and spend it on myself at the end (Potentially a trip or buying professional animation/computer/photography equipment) (52/88) JUMP! 72. Take jumping pictures in 5 places I've previously been to but didn't jump at (4/5 - downtown San Diego; White Mountains; Idaho Springs, CO; Eiffel Tower in Paris; Atomium in Brussels) 73. Take jumping pictures in 10 new places (10/10 - Beach on Gulf of Mexico in Texas; Georgetown, CO; Griffith Observatory in LA; Indiana Dunes NP; Mt. Guyot in NH; KY Stonehenge in Munfordville, KY; Parthenon in Nashville; Tennessee/Kentucky State Line; Gateway Arch in St. Louis; Colorado/Kansas State Line) 74. Get jumping pictures with five people who have never done a jumping picture (5/5 - Tuesday, Gar, Ashley, Ben, Age) 75. Get jumping pictures with at least five members of the Jumping Project group on Flickr (0/5) 76. Make a photobook of jumps EXPERIENCES 77. Participate in a flash mob - Bad Romance at Kickball Party at Flamingo Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas 78. Earn a new college degree - Associates in Computer Technology (Animation) 79. Live somewhere new 80. Ride in a hot air balloon 81. Learn how to swing dance 82. Go skydiving OTHER 83. Enlarge and frame 10 pictures I've taken (2/10) 84. Organize and figure out what to do with my stuff in parents' attic 85. Frame five of my pieces of art or posters (I have much of each lying around) and hang them up (0/5) 86. Send and receive at least one book each on Paperbackswap.com (2/2) - received Lord of the Flies - sent Out of Avalon: Tales of Old Magic and New Myths) 87. Complete a new list to start when this one ends 88. Write a letter to myself to open on the last day of the list (2/18/2013) |
Films Watched For ListFOREIGN - COMPLETE
1. A Town Called Panic (French) 2. The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish) 3. Waltz With Bashir (Hebrew) 4. Ringu (Japanese) 5. Wasabi (French) 6. Micmacs (French) 7. La Horde (French) 8. The City of Lost Children (French) 9. RoboGeisha (Japanese) 10. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Spanish) 11. Trollhunter (Norwegian) AFI 100 1. Chinatown 2. The French Connection 3. Raging Bull 4. The Godfather 5. Rear Window 6. Easy Rider 7. Taxi Driver 8. The Searchers 9. Vertigo 10. The Graduate 11. Network 12. Bonnie and Clyde 13. High Noon 14. The Wild Bunch 15. Cabaret 16. Some Like It Hot 17. American Graffiti 18. North By Northwest 19. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 20. On The Waterfront IMDB TOP HORROR FILMS 1. The Birds 2. Frankenstein 3. Bride of Frankenstein 4. Freaks 5. The Invisible Man 6. Rosemary's Baby 7. The Wicker Man 8. Nosferatu 9. I Saw the Devil 10. Peeping Tom IMDB Bottom 100 1. Disaster Movie 2. Epic Movie 3. Zombie Nation 4. Monster a Go-Go 5. Birdemic: Shock and Terror MOVIE NIGHT 1. Hausu 2. Grindhouse 3. The Godfather 4. Repo! The Genetic Opera 5. The Birds 6. Fido 7. Dead Snow / Slither 8. The Last Dragon 9. Machete 10. Toxic Avenger / Evil Dead 2 Microbreweries/Beer1. Heartland Brewery - New York, NY
- Red Rooster Ale 2. Carver Brewing Co. - Durango, CO 12 beer taster plate, including... - Colorado Trail Nut Brown Ale - Old Oak Amber Ale 3. Steamworks Brewing Co. - Durango, CO - Lizard Head Red - Steam Engine Lager 4. Rock Bottom Brewing Co. - Westminster, CO - Molly's Titanic Brown Ale - Red Rocks Red 5. Independence Brewing Co. - Austin, TX - Austin Amber - Bootlegger Brown - Stash IPA 6. Hallenbrick Brewery - Albuquerque, NM - Bosque Steam 7. Vermont Brewing Co. - Burlington, VT - Oktoberfest - Burly Irish Ale 8. Woodstock Inn Brewery - Woodstock, NH - Pig's Ear Brown Ale 9. Renegade Brewing Co. - Denver, CO 8 beer taster including... - Una Mas - Radiator - Sunday Morning - Hammer and Sickle 10. Breckenridge Brewery Ballpark Pub - Denver, CO - Ball Park Brown 11. Blackstone Brewery - Nashville, TN - Nut Brown Ale 12. Blind Tiger Brewery - Topeka, KS - Prairie Dog Brown 13. La Cumbre Brewing Co - Albuquerque, NM - South Peak Pilsner - Noche De Paz Museums Visited1. The Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
2. Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave - Golden, CO 3. Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA 4. Museum of Contemporary Art - Denver, CO 5. Museum of Westward Expansion - St. Louis, MO 6. Maritime Museum - Dubrovnik, Croatia 7. Natural History Museum - Dubrovnik, Croatia 8. Franciscan Monestary - Dubrovnik, Croatia 9. Dulcic Masle Pulitika Gallery - Dubrovnik, Croatia 10. Sex Machine Museum - Prague, Czech Republic Recipes1. Baked Dijon Salmon Filets (replaced Salmon with Finish Rockfish)
2. Easy, Cheesy Tortellini Bake |