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by | May 10, 2011 · 4:35 PM

we love you too, kevin! and you too, oriana!

And we’re pretty fond of Oriana, who interviewed one of the Lost Horizon Night Market masterminds, Kevin Balktick, on her blog Brooklyn Spaces.

Kevin tells Ariana that he found Make It Happen to be one of the most memorable trucks at the Lost Horizon Night Market.  Read the whole interview at http://brooklyn-spaces.com/2011/05/lost-horizon-night-market/

While we didn’t bring our Make It Happen talents to the most recent night market, its always possible that we will make it happen at the next one.  Meanwhile, I just signed up to volunteer at an art happening that will involve lots of interaction with perfect strangers, for an exhibition by a big white museum that shall remain nameless but that arguably resembles a giant white toilet.  They’re looking for more volunteers, so email me if you’re interested.


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by | March 4, 2011 · 2:57 PM

artistic pride/wine pride

More feedback today from a Make It Happen client, and frankly I’m not sure what to make of this.  A client who uses a very distinctive name writes that his dream was to make “Artistic Pride” happen, by August 19 2010.   He writes

“I think I got sidetracked by different pursuits and I’m unsure of what I really want to achieve most.”

I remember talking to this client, and at the time I remember not being entirely sure what artistic pride really meant.   I think he meant that he didn’t take pride in the work that he was doing as a musician.  I can’t help but think of an article I read in Wine and Spirits (stay with me …) about California Syrah producers who had stopped drinking the wines that they were making.  Their wines were big, fat, hot, sweet, and clumsy.  They didn’t like them any more, and finally one of them had the guts to make subtler, lighter, more interesting wines.  Maybe this client has the same problem — he doesn’t like his own style.  He needs to try something unlikely to be popular, something weird, and something he likes better.

My advice to this client is to drink some of the weird, funky, cloudy, iconoclastic wines that Joe Dressner imports, especially those from the Loire in France.  Those wine-makers are definitely making art that makes themselves happy.

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by | August 12, 2010 · 2:46 PM

news from planet bua

Feedback today from Make It Happen client Matt.  Matt’s dream was to make “all is love” happen in the “not too distant future.”

As of August 5, 2010, Matt reports he is in the midst of making it happen.

He writes

Once the “Make it Happen” team clearly explained what the quantum guys and the Eastern mystics were/are talking about — All is nothing by vibrations, etc — I was able to let the past and future be content-like.  Thanks, Matt.

May the force be with you, Matt.

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by | July 25, 2010 · 10:31 AM

the swedish dance history is happening now

Make It Happen is participating in the 2010 edition of The Swedish Dance History.  Its a book, it is not particularly Swedish or historical, but it does take a broad view of dance.  This includes what we do at Make It Happen and what our clients do when they make it happen.

We’ve given them a list of our former clients’ dreams, goals, and achievements, which will be published in the 2010 edition of The Swedish Dance History.  (Without any clients’ names, of course!)   And in awesome MIH style, the editors and publishers of The Swedish Dance History put the entire book together in one day at ImPulz Tanz, aka the Vienna International Dance Festival.

Check out this great video of them making last year’s book happen at ImPulz Tanz, which I believe has a shiny silver cover.

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by | June 30, 2010 · 4:45 PM

spilLover in the square in the NYTimes

Fyi, Josephine Decker’s SpilLover In The Square is covered in the CityRoom blog of the  New York Times.  See

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/times-square-130-p-m/

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by | June 30, 2010 · 8:53 AM

SpilLover In The Square

We met Make It Happen client Josephine Decker at Figment on Governor’s Island a few weeks ago and talked about the screenplay she wanted to make happen.

Last week, Josephine got in touch about applying the Make It Happen approach to something a little larger, namely the BP oil spill in the gulf.  Josephine has created a performance piece about the spill which is taking place this week, Tuesday June 29 to Saturday July 3, 2010 in Times Square.

The piece involves dancers balancing buckets of oil on their heads (okay, its actually blackened water since oil is toxic).  It also involves a Make it Happen element, with Josephine and her collaborators talking to pedestrians about what they can do about the spill, oil use, and climate change more generally.

Can individuals really make it happen for the environment?  Does changing our personal habits work, or do we need to make it happen at a larger level, by working on policy, industries, and big organizational cleanup projects?  Go to Times Square this week and talk about it with Josephine.  Make it happen, make us proud!!

Visit http://spilloversquared.tumblr.com/ for more details, and check out

http://www.youtube.com/spilloversquared for video from the event

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by | June 15, 2010 · 10:24 AM

MIH at Figment, Governor’s Island

We made it happen again, at Figment on Governor’s Island, Saturday June 12.

The range of clients and projects was fantastic, and somewhat different from our previous outings at Flux Factory and the Lost Horizon Night Market. Whereas those events were at night and attended mostly by artists and party people, Governor’s Island attracted a more diverse audience, including some downright normal folks.

But everyone has something that they want to make happen, and Saturday’s attendees were no exception.  Things that people wanted to make happen this time around included:

– Becoming the skippers of a ship and sail in open water.

– Being a more disciplined actress.

– Reviving a business.

– Having more shared experiences.

– Finishing a film.

– Finding a partner.

– Making thanksgiving dinner in a stone house for friends and family!

– Finishing a film script.

– A prototype to redefine the transfer of knowledge and save the world.

– Mission statement for a theater company.

– Love!

It was a truly inspiring, energizing day.  In fact we were so involved with people making it happen that we neglected to take any pictures of our cozy porch in Nolan Park.  So if you’ve got photos, send them to us at makeithappen.tm@gmail.com.

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by | June 14, 2010 · 9:04 PM

the excitable woman is happening

We received some truly exciting feedback from Trevor last week.  He reports that he is in the midst of making it happen.

His dream was to make “the excitable woman” happen.  Do I know what the excitable woman is?  Not entirely.  Does it matter?  Not at all.

Trevor reports:

“I would have made it happen had I not encountered a SNAFU in my piece and a circuit did not work as planned.  Once I find a specialist to help, I will definitely make it happen.”

Folks, Trevor is dutifully making it happen.  He needs an electrician.  Who can help?

Coming tomorrow, an update from Make It Happen’s exciting outing to Governor’s Island for Figment.

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by | June 8, 2010 · 8:52 PM

Make it Happen at Figment, on Governor’s Island

Make It Happen is happening again!  Join us on Saturday June 12 on Governor’s Island at Figment, an annual celebration of creative culture.

We will be Making it Happen on the porch of a lovely old house in an area of  Governor’s Island called Nolan Park.   We’ll be there from noon to 5PM, Saturday only.

See you there!

These ladies made it happen on Governor's Island!

Photos stolen from Governor’s Island Preservation and Education Corporation

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by | June 3, 2010 · 2:11 PM

We knew her way back when…

More fantastic feedback today from Dani Tersini, a singer who came to the Make It Happen truck at the night market.   She reminds us in her postcard that her goal was, no IS to make A BAND happen.

Dani reports that she is in the midst of making it happen by contacting musicians, making connections, using craigslist, word of mouth, auditioning and networking at shows.

If, no WHEN Dani becomes famous and plays Madison Square Garden, we will be able to say that we knew her when she started.  Link here to some of her music. Or try listening here

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