Make Something Manifesto

This is a rough cost breakdown of my dinner last night: Item Relative Cost Greek Yogurt $0.89 Chicken $2.80 Green Pepper $0.50 Zucchini $0.35 Onion $0.75 Ginger $0.10 Lemons $0.50 Total: $5.89 There are several items not included here. For this to be a full cost breakdown I’d need to compute the cost of spices I used: Herbes De Provence and Cheyenne Pepper; and the cost of the rice that I used to, but already head. The total meal actually cost me nearly double that, but I only ate half, so I have some left over for tomorrow. ...

Today is a happy Panda day. Here’s a simple drawing I made of a panda, made in sketch: Here is the Panda: and here is the sketch file used to make it: Panda.sketch

On an excursion to Death Valley a couple months ago, we decided to get up to take sunrise pictures at Zabriskie Point. This was my shot from that day. The weird looking rock formation the right we named “Zack’s Rock” because I took off to climb it after we were done taking pictures. I did not make it all the way out.

Two weeks ago I went to Fort Collins, CO to visit with family for my grandmother’s 80th birthday party. I didn’t bring stamps with me and by the time I got around to sending out post cards it would have been a hassle to procure them, so instead I made a Paper sketch of the mountains. Here you are: