Sunday, November 4, 2012

Halloween


 So Halloween was AWESOME! spent it with my boyy JESSE!!! went to the ELECTRIC VISUAL party dressed as Sandy and Danny from GREASE!  It was on Friday night, and I had GOLD CAMP on Friday so I tramped with a hat on so I would get those bomb curls!  Looked ridiculous, but didn't stop me from tramping hard and landin my first dub 10!  Can't wait to bring dat on snow where shit counts!

 dub 10 time

 CHECK out dem photos of us lookin SEXY AS FU*KKKK


















Legendary



Legendary
What does it take to be legendary?  The mystic that surrounds legendary people, regardless of the venue they became a legend in, is vast.  Many people in this modern state have taken to studying those that are extremely successful, and many hypotheses have thus occurred.  There are three factors: the person, the society they are in, and their nourishing that dictate success.  One of the most interesting people to study these three factors in relation to success is Bob Dylan. To be specific we will discuss the three evolutions Dylan personally went through.  Every successful person goes through these personal evolutions.  The trick is to balance these evolutions in a way that leads to success, not getting stuck in ruts of mediocrity.

To begin with, Bob Dylan wasn’t born Bob Dylan, he was born Robert Allen Zimmerman to a Jewish couple in Duluth, Minnesota.  They moved to Hibbing Minnesota where Bob’s father worked at his family’s electronic store.  Bob wanted to be anything but normal.  That’s our first cue that Bob could become legendary.  There are three major evolutions a person goes through to become legendary.  First, they need to want to be different, to stand out in something, and not fit the norm.  Second, they must surround themselves with highly talented individuals.  Individuals they admire, and want to learn from.  While surrounded by these individuals they must copy from them.  They must take in all their strengths, absorb the strengths, and be able to mimic.  Finally they must evolve and go further in a slightly different direction then anyone else has ever gone.

Most people spend their entire childhood trying to fit in.  They want to be the norm.  Being an outlier is hard.  Bob wanted to be different from those surrounding him, but like everyone wanted to find a niche where he belonged.  That, as well as the music, led him into the folk community.  The folk community seemed to Bob to be a community of outliers.  A place where he could be vastly different from the everyday people he saw growing up, but where that kind of different was accepted and relished.  

During his time in the folk community Bob became Bob Dylan, and excelled.  He saw and absorbed everything that was going on around him.  Everything became a part of him, and a part of the music, his music.  He idolized a man named Woody Guithere.  He wanted to be like Woody more then anything else.  So, he learned.  He learned to mimic everything Woody did, from the music, to the complete lifestyle.  He submerged himself completely into being like Woody.  He did this successfully and people started to take notice.  What Woody did was great, so Dylan copied it, and those who liked Woody’s style, became a fan of Dylan as well.

Dylan even moved to New York, where Woody was sick in the hospital, to live like Woody.  While there, he met Woody, and sang for him.  After meeting his idol, he got Woody’s approval and his idol became somewhat of a friend.  At that point there is little to learn from Woody.  Dylan falls in love with this educated 17 year old, and is exposed to new styles of music. 
Dylan evolves, and decides to move beyond what Woody had done.  All the folk knowledge, all the Woody knowledge, everything he had absorbed up to that point was an integral part of him.  So, when he slightly switched styles, he came out with something that was different.  Something people liked because it had all the good he had absorbed, and something that fit the times so well it became legendary.  

This story of the evolution of Bob Dylan is actually more common then you might think.  Take an art form a little different then music.  Something I am very aware of: freeskiing.  Many people compare freeskiing as an art form, because there is no right or wrong way to enjoy it.  It is similar to music where there is an inherent good factor to it, but beyond that it is interpreted to the whim of the observer. 

If you take a look into the path of one of the most legendary skiers of all time: Tanner Hall, you will see how his path to legend follows that of Bob Dylan.  Tanner grew up a skier.  Right from the get go he wanted to stand out, he wanted to be different, and he wanted to be remembered.  Whether wanting that is arrogance or confidence, is hard to tell, but only with that surge inside of you, can you embark on the path toward difference. 

As a child Tanner was a mogul skier.  He learned and excelled skiing moguls.  He threw himself into learning the technique to perfection.  He ripped it.  He copied the best mogul skiers to the t.  After he had mastered moguls he became bored.  He could mimic his idols, and was winning, but there was no creative outlet left.  He looked around and saw a group of skiers called the Canadian Air Force.  They were doing tricks Tanner had never seen before.  Again, Tanner threw himself into learning those tricks.  He learned everything those skiers had to offer.  This time, the venue was open for creativity.  So, Tanner took everything he had learned, all his skills, and started combining them in a way no one had ever done before.  You could tell it was good.  He kept with him styles and techniques he had learned before which were obviously good, and morphed into something legendary.

No matter what the venue, you can observe these steps are taken from every single person who becomes legendary.  The trickiness is to balance copying someone enough to learn all they have to offer, but not become stuck in the rut of believing what is already being done is the only truth and all there is, but expanding beyond the horizons of possibility. To reach the level where you are excellent at something, and being brave enough to go beyond being an excellent learner, and become an innovator.   If you have the skills, nurturing, and a society that is receptive to the new possible you have created, then you become a legend.