First Thursday! Art Show. Please Join me.

Posted on July 3, 2008
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ON Gallery opens in the Everett Station Lofts with “Departure”:
illustration, large format videography and video conference by artist
Drew Anderson.

About “Departure”

Oregon artist Drew Anderson shows a vast body of his work in his
Departure show. A long time resident, Drew has shown throughout
Portland for the past decade. Here we showcase a variety of his recent
work, from intricate weaves of ink on both paper and antique cabinet
cards, to original block cuts.

A new series entitled Buy My Sketchbook
(http://www.buymysketchbook.com), which has recently been on display
in London and Tokyo, will be viewed as a large-scale projection.

Despite his recent move to Brooklyn NY, the artist will be present
virtually via video conference, and ready to answer any questions.

This show will be an exciting exploration of imagination and whimsy,
and may be the last we see of this artist for some time.

About Drew Anderson

Find out more about Drew and his ongoing online project: Millions of
Hundred Dollar Ideas at http://www.Mohdi.com

About ON Gallery

ON Gallery is a new addition to the Everett Station Galleries.

ON Gallery is a project focussed on exploring the relationship between
art and technology by displaying technology and interactive media in a
gallery setting.

ON Gallery is now seeking artists and collaborators to show 2d, 3d,
installation, videography, interaction, kinetic sculpture and other
artistic practices which are supported or informed by technology.
Please send proposals in pdf or plain text format to
callforartists (a t ) ongallery.org

ON Gallery
321 NW 6th Avenue #101
Portland, OR 97209
971-925-1254
http://ongallery.org
curator ( a t ) ongallery.org

Goodbye Portland!

Posted on June 9, 2008
Filed Under Announcements | 5 Comments

It’s been over 10 years in Portland. It’s time to follow the path that is before me.
This is a unique and good direction for MoHDI and myself. It’s certainly not going to be easy but, this is what’s happening now. The best ideas are yet to come.

For now, the staff at MoHDI is going to need to get settled a little bit before the next blast of hundred dollar ideas emerge.

So long for now……

East coast is calling.

Yard Sale! Sunday June 1st!

Posted on June 1, 2008
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Yard Sale
Time to get rid of stuff. If I don’t sell it I’ll be giving it away.
10:30 AM till Late on Sunday!
4235 SE Main St. Portland OR 97215

Did I mention I’m moving to NY on June 9th? I should probably say something about that…

Community Book Exchange

Posted on May 20, 2008
Filed Under Art, Ideas, Portland | 1 Comment

Great idea! This one is in front of Zupans (Zoo Pants) on Belmont.

VOTE and eat a Popsicle.

Posted on May 20, 2008
Filed Under Business, Marketing, Portland | 1 Comment

Sunday, Portland was fortunate to have some decent weather although some would say it might be a little hot others would say it was much needed and a great day to join about 75,000 other people to listen to Barack Obama speak on the waterfront.
My plan initially was to go down there wait in line and see him speak. After a bit of reality kicked in I decided that it would be best to stay home mainly for 2 reasons. First, I hate waiting in line and second I don’t particularly like large crowds either. Rebecca changed my mind with a phone call at about 2:00 telling me about some massive lines and about the people selling all sorts of stuff from Obama shirts to frozen goods.
I didn’t really want to miss out on this opportunity and I wanted a good excuse to leave the house. The first step was to borrow a cooler. My roommate who was out of town over the weekend just so happened to leave one out for me, I took the liberty of using it. The next step was a trip to my favorite store Fred Meyer. The 2 for $3 sale on popsicles was pretty good and I was fortunate this day there were still about 5 bags of those left and a handful of other cheap frozen treats. I spent about $13 on frozen goods to sell and $1.29 on a bag of ice for the cooler. I had 114 popsicles in my cooler and my plan was to try to get a buck a piece for them.
I suppose part of the cost was the $1.75 for the bus there and the $1.75 for the bus back so all together I spent $17.79 on this venture.

So packed with a backpack cooler, I hit the waterfront. After a scope of the crowds and area, I found a nice bench in the shade where I sat and said the word “popsicles” to passers by. I didn’t want to be too exposed as I’m not totally sure what the laws are on selling stuff out of a cooler backpack. I was asking $1 each for them although if people didn’t have the money or if it was someone that was less fortunate or seemed nice or was some cute kid or just looked like they needed a frozen goody, I would just give them one. I came home and had a grand total of $28.50 from sales. $28.50 - $17.79 = $10.71. That’s not too bad for 3 hours worth of work. I probably gave away about as many popsicles as I sold and I probably ate about 7 or 8 myself.

It was great to be that close to the Obama energy, I even caught a brief glimpse of him as he left the stage.

I learned a lot from this little experiment. I think next time I might just give out popsicles to promote this site.

It’s late and I could write a bunch more about this stuff although. I think I should go to bed for now.

My fellow Oregon voters, don’t forget to drop off your ballot today before 8:00PM!

Vote.

Car Accessories

Posted on May 17, 2008
Filed Under Art, Ideas | 1 Comment

Car Fun

Lillian had a great idea last week. We saw a car drive by with something that resembled a hat. She thought it was rather funny and that cars could have all sorts of accessories to help us humans relate a bit more to our cars while showing that we as individuals can demonstrate our uniqueness by adding a selection of items to our vehicles.

Personally I think that most modes of transportation would be a lot more fun with the addition of a tail. Perhaps the tail could be an extension of the exhaust pipe or could possibly have brake lights in it.

Adding accessories to your car might also make your car feel better and if cars are anything like humans, when they are happy, they tend to get better gas mileage.

Free Advice! (tips are gladly accepted)

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Free Advice!:I’ll give you free advice and if you like the advice, leave a tip. It’s a pretty simple idea. Check out the sidebar on this site.

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Advice for Tips

if you liked your advice please donate

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Everyone needs advice. I rarely meet people who don’t need some sort of advice from time to time. After a nice chat with my friend Dan who has been giving me fantastic advice for a while now, this idea had it’s start and I had not even realized it yet. He has advised me on numerous occasions to make my time and income separate things. Basically my income should not be reliant on my time. While I’m sleeping I should be able to generate some money. Believe me this is something that I’ve been working on for some time. With advertising, affiliates, virtual products, licensing and more I’m slowly building streams of income that will work for me while I’m sleeping.
Anyhow, Dan suggested to make a little extra money I sign up to be a guide on ChaCha a company that gives answers to things over sms. It’s a pretty interesting model however guides seem to make only $.20/answer. It’s not too bad however, I think my time is worth more than that. I did sign up became a guide, and I even answered some questions too. I found it rather fun to see what people wanted answers to. It got old quick and I wasn’t liking what people would search for.
It hit me then, there should be a service like this that gives advice to people. Then I thought, dang, I could give advice to people. That’s how I got the idea for Free Advice!
The idea is pretty simple, if someone is looking for free advice, they go to my site and see if I’m available (or others) and then they start the chat. If the person getting advice wants to leave a tip for the advice, they are welcome to do so if they please.
By offering this service and giving it a little bit of marketing, I’m thinking that just through donations and my downtime on the computer, I’ll be able to generate a decent stream of income just from sharing some personal experiences and advice on some topics and things.
Initially I plan to roll out this idea slowly and see if there is any market value to it. I will probably invite some friends to assist with giving advice and hopefully the network of advisers will grow and people will come to MoHDI for advice.
The beauty of this idea is that to implement it I really just need google chat, a blog and a paypal account. These are all free things to acquire online and pretty much anyone could implement this idea if they want to.

What advice can I offer?
This is a good question, I’m certainly not going to give decent advice on everything however, I can cover quite a number of subjects. Since there is no charge for the service and it’s based on donations, I’m going to feel pretty confident that if I can’t give great advice on something, I can at least try. I think I’m going to let this idea shape itself into what it will be and make no major decisions as to what topics or areas of advice I will cover. I’m imagining everything from business, relationships, money, time, creative development, the internet and life will be most of the areas of where the advice will roll towards. I kind of feel like a creative powerhouse sometimes and I would hope that this creative mind can help in numerous areas.

So to use this service it’s really simple. Either click the link above or on the side bar if I’m available and if you like the advice leave a donation if you can.
Fun and easy.

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