Why I prefer watching Movies to Podcasts /  by Mirena Rhee

Podcasts are just talk shows.

Very few podcasts are a place where you can learn something. Very few.

Watch podcasts instead of a movie they say.

Number one movies are storytelling. Storytelling beats everything else.

A movie has a production value of millions of dollars and usually is made by the collaboration of a number of very talented professionals often trained by Hollywood, to tell the story. So I'm going to take the millions of dollars story that I can consume for my spare hours rather than having to watch two people talk.

My eyeballs like to enjoy things, nice looking stuff. Good sets and good lighting. Good acting.

I will just go read the books quickly if I need to learn.

Oftentimes I need to unwind and need my brain in a soup of good feelings and movies provide that. I'm a movie superfan.

Movies take my mind off of things. Even a few of the good TV shows like Landman which I really liked. I rarely watch TV shows maybe once a year. If there's a good one.

I like my real mind to be on my stuff, not other people’s.

I really liked Landman because it was promising to be gritty but ended up a feeling good movie.

Feeling good movies for the win!

Yeah watch them consume them and rejoice.

I always make sure before I start watching that they will not sneak some horror movie on me. Sometimes they label them action movie with sci-fi but instead it's some sort of horror. Why the fuck would I need horror in my life? Especially in my unwind time? Fuck horror movies.

All hail the feel good movies.

Dream is one of my favorite words /  by Mirena Rhee

Little girls dream of dolls. I dreamed of spaceships and aliens. I was a natural fit. I became a Star Wars artist.

This is for all the underdogs, for all the weird kids and the misfits. The young and not so young adults who read strange books and ask odd questions. Who feel there is nothing going for them and that there is no hope. They feel stuck and they feel rejected. But they have dreams and imagination.

I am here to tell you there is not only hope, but even your wildest dreams will become true and a lot more.

This is meant to entertain and inspire. This is for dreamers and misfits who like to do great things, and who want to live 500 years. This is also for people who live in their heads, in science fiction, in comets and black holes and video games.

This will inspire you to do something in the world that not anyone else can do.

It is the anti 4 hours workweek. It is very popular these days, and there are people proud of it, that they work 4 hours a week. Every cow chews for more than 4 hours a week. A woodpecker probably works more than 4 hours a week. Are you a woodpecker. Grown men want to sit by the pool. Toads sit by the pool. We are not toads. I do not want to be a toad. I want to be the first performance artist on Mars. I have 50,000 years worth of projects in my notebooks.

By the time you finish reading this, start thinking of the next 50,000 years of projects of your own. The video games, the paintings, the drawings, the art, the illustrations, the rockets you are going to blow up in your backyard, the rovers on Jupiter that you want to build, the space time you are going to fold, who knows. Come up with your own job that you want to do in the world. Do not wait for someone.

I wrote this to inspire anti beach dreams. Why would someone dream of a beach. You just get a ticket. Burn on your passions instead, on dreams, to create, to do. To learn and to inspire others in turn.

This is also the anti-life-hacking and anti-hackpreneur lifestyle book - man that looks bad even as a word. All the preneurs out there want to be by a beach. I was getting sick of seeing grown men sitting by pools, and sandy shores. Sand dunes are by the beach. I don't want to be a sand dune. I wanted to give kids and young adults something else to aspire to rather than scheduling flights all over the place. Anyone can go anywhere these days - buying a plane ticket is not a profession. I want to inspire kids and young adults to come up with something of their own that they can do, and to dream of their life's work, of great and amazing things to do rather than a lounge chair.

Dip'n Wipe aka Finger Bath /  by Mirena Rhee

An installation where a small tall table is covered with white primed canvas, and lided cups with paint are placed on top.

It's kind of a stranged cocktail table.

The plastic lids are cut with two cross cuts right in the middle so you can dip your finger in paint and take it out but the acrylic paint in the cup doesn't dry up quickly. It's just like the plastic cups for drinks where you could put your straw in.

When you pull out your finger covered in paint you wipe it on the white skirt.

Welcome to the Mirena cocktail hour.

Not sure if this kind of installation could be liberally mixed with alcohol because some might try to lick their fingers.

Emails from Dad /  by Mirena Rhee

As I'm writing my book on my life in New York I'm currently at my travel as a census taker in Georgia. As I read through the emails from that time I encounter emails from Dad. He would ask how I am and tell me he loves me. I read the emails and cry a bit. I know he's dead but his love will never be extinguished, and maybe through this book it will live forever.