sandcastle shovel: unfinished no.3

sam dug through days and nights and oceans and centuries of human life and the age of dinosaurs and reached the center of the earth with his sandcastle shovel after eighty-eight years.

this will show them, he said out loud as he smiled. this will show them that i can do it.

he gazed for a while at the hot, pulsating core, absorbed in the regular rhythm of the earth. after an hour, or a year, or a decade, he picked up his sand castle shovel, turned his back on the magma and the gold and the dinosaur bones, and began to climb back up through the hole to his backyard.

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i saw this awesome video on scott west's blog the other day. (scott west is an artist from minnesota, also one of the live painters for cloud cult.) it will make you a better person if you watch it. also, the music is great (by a band called gungor, actually based in denver). also, the story behind the video is great. and so is the cineatography and everything. just overall a great video. check it out --> here!


challenge to make the world better: learn to draw a sailboat. like this one:

and then draw sailboats all over the place. like on tax returns and credit applications and phone message pads and shopping lists and tests and everything. because seeing a sailboat makes being an adult with capital R responsibilities a lot easier. it'll definitely make your day, and it'll make all the accountants and police officers and landlords and electricians you give all your adult documents to happy, too. (human points: 13. because sailboats are the best.)

boxes of cheerios: five.