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Thanks for Making It Happen, again!

We couldn’t be happier with the turnout at Saturday’s Lost Horizon Night Market.  So many of you wanted to and did Make It Happen! The Make It Happen mobile unit was packed all night.  Some of things you wanted to make happen were:

  • become a professional soccer player
  • finish an art piece
  • find your purpose in life
  • fabricate an electronic box so you can drop ping pong balls on your head via remote control
  • make a career out of your jewelry design business
  • travel back in time
  • decide whether or not to get divorced
  • secure funding for the publication of a magazine
  • have a passionate love affair

These are just a few of the things that you want to make happen and the facilitators are thrilled that you came out to participate and share your goals and dreams with us.

We’d also like to welcome and thank two new members to the Make It Happen team.  Jonah and Rez – way to make it happen!

Here are some pictures that resident facilitator Lauren took in the midst of Making it Happen.  If you have any pictures/sentiments/complaints/praise you’d like to share with us, you know the three magic words…

David in the MIH mobil unit. Look at all those folks waiting to Make It Happen!

Make It Happen, Rez!

Make It Happen, Jonah!

Facilitator Lauren is always prepared.

What are people making happen in all those trucks?

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Make It Happen, this Saturday!

This Saturday, you too, can make it happen.

The facilitators of Make it Happen will be consulting with clients at the Lost Horison Night Market.  Contact us to find out the exact time and location of the event.

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this film is trash

… but we love it because its called

Make It Happen

According to IMDB, “The movie opens in Indiana, where Lauryn Kirk (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) says goodbye to her brother, Joel (John Reardon) before departing for Chicago to audition for a famous dance school, the fictional Chicago School of Music and Dance. Although Joel – who works as a mechanic in the family garage – is wary of Lauryn’s decision to enroll, he eventually gives her his blessing. When Lauryn enters the stage, however, her dance (mostly a hip hop routine) was halted by the judge, who hostilely rejects her, saying that they need to see something more “sensual and feminine”. Dejected, Lauryn goes to a diner to down her sorrows, but soon finds her car towed off. Upon seeing her misfortunes, Dana (Tessa Thompson), a friendly waitress from the diner invites Lauryn to her apartment and out of the pouring rain. Dana subsequently offers Lauryn a place to stay, considering Lauryn could not go back home and face her brother. The next day, Dana brings Lauryn to a club called Ruby’s (whose dances are rooted in burlesque), where she meets with Russ (Riley Smith), the slick-talking disc jockey, and Brenda (Karen LeBlanc), the club owner. Brenda hires Lauryn as a bookkeeper, in light of her skills with numbers. Lauryn watches as a dancer, Carmen (Julissa Bermudez) performs impressively on the stage. Lauryn and the group bond over drinks later that night. Before locking up late one night, Lauryn goes on the stage and silently and elegantly dances, while unknowingly to her, Russ watches from a distance. The next night, Brenda finds herself short of dancers. Russ asks Lauryn to dance, after having seen her graceful performance the previous night. Lauryn reluctantly agrees, and finds herself to be Ruby’s new star. As Lauryn and Russ’ relationship progresses, Lauryn continues performing stunningly on stage, much to Carmen’s chagrin. However, Joel catches Lauryn at the club during a dance; after a bicker, in which Lauryn realizes that Joel is losing the family garage due to stacking mortgages and bills, she decides to ditch the stage and return to Indiana to save the garage. However, soon after, Joel catches a peek of Lauryn joyfully dancing in the garage one day, and asks Lauryn to give the audition another shot. Uplifted, Lauryn returns to Chicago for a second audition. She nails it, and happily embraces Russ (who has come to encourage her). Lauryn goes back to Ruby’s to apologize to Brenda, but finds a surprise congratulatory party awaiting for her. The movie concludes as the party breaks into a dance.”

Friends, if someone can get this movie made, then you too can make you dreams come true.

Make It Happen

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satisfied customers make it work!

The Make It Happen nerve center received exciting news from Wayne, an MIH client who made it happen.  Wayne writes:

“… my participation in MIH had everything to do with that job offer coming through!  What MIH taught me, after all, is that sometimes in order to “make” things happen, all we really need to do is stand by and let them happen which, thanks to the kind and able assistance of the MIH facilitators, is exactly what I did.”

Wayne, we salute you with this stolen image … work!

Be like Wayne … join Make It Happen at the Lost Horizon Night Market on Saturday May 8.  Contact us for details.

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Make It Happen 2

The Make It Happen team officially announces its next iteration:  We will be holding Office Hours at the Lost Horizon Night Market on the evening of Saturday May 8, 2010.  The Lost Horizon Night Market is an evening of brilliant and strange things that occurs periodically in an undisclosed location.

Please email the Make It Happen facilitators  and we will inform you of the time and location.

Extremely special commemorative talismanic objects will be provided to any and all former Make It Happen clients who joins us on May 8.


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even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good

Please enjoy this beautiful video, made by Joao Leonardo, of a 1965 letter written by Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse, exhorting her to Make It Happen.   The first time I saw it was at dusk, facing out of a gallery window in Chelsea.  It was intense, although I experienced it without the music, which frankly I’m not so crazy about.

One Letter from Sol LeWitt

The text reads in part:  “You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t. Learn  to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking,  worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for  some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling,  bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling,  scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning,  horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball- poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eying, back- scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself.  Stop it and just DO”

— from Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, edited by Gary Garrels, published by MOMA

You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t. Learn
to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking,
worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for
some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling,
bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling,
scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning,
horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-
poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eying, back-
scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself.
Stop it and just DO.

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See our facilitators making it happen!

Lauren and David consulting with clients.

David meets with Matt.

Lauren meets with a client.

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Make It Happen, Do It, Do It

MIH offers musical inspiration from the disco vaults.  “Make it happen … gonna do it, gonna do it.”

Queen Samantha, “Take a Chance” (1979)

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Meet the Make It Happen Facilitators

Lauren Silberman

David Schleifer

Tracy Gilman

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Dream. Commit. Achieve.

Are you having trouble achieving your goals?  Do you have big dreams, but lack the tools to reach them?  The experts of Make It Happen are here to help!  We are creating a home office/workshop/laboratory that provides you with the advice and the necessary tools to make that one thing happen in your life that you have been fantasizing about. No more procrastinating: Make it Happen.

Visit our workshop at Flux Factory on February 19th from 8pm until 12 am.  Flux Factory is located at 39-21 39th Street in Long Island City, New York.

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