BRIAN JAMES PRIEST
IMPOSSIBLE DIRECTORY
Online /Print 2016-ongoing.
A book project analyzing strategies for sourcing imagination. Hundreds of artists were asked to submit 25 ideas of impossible art acts. Compiled together and searched for patterns, this directory has become both artwork and resource guide. Sample below
1. write a story with no beginning
2. play a concert loud enough to be heard from everywhere on earth
3. take a picture of every location on earth from every angle
4. build a house out of ideas
5. remove the word "the" from the English language
6. write out every music lyric every performed
7. take a picture of every grain of sand on earth
8. interview a dead child
9. draw a perfect circle
10. occupy an empty room
11. freeze a fire
12. drive faster than the speed of light
13. grow an extra hand
14. turn lead into gold
15. go swimming in cement
16. introduce everyone on earth to everyone else on earth
17. retrace all of the steps you've ever taken
18. describe a color with words
19. build a staircase to the sun
20. describe the sound of silence
21. win a sword fight with a pen
22. drink Lake Michigan
23. cover California with post it notes
24. occupy the same space as another person
25. uncook every meal you've ever cooked
26. walk forever in a straight line
27. wear every article of clothing ever created
28. summarize all of human knowledge into one sentence
29. create a color whiter than white
30. crawl to Antarctica
31. paint a portrait of your own ghost
32. witness the birth of a star
33. drive two cars at once
34. win a fight that only you are in
35. open every page on the Internet on a single computer
36. stay awake for a month
37. exist in only two dimensions
38. memorize every digit of Pi
39. walk across the Pacific Ocean
40. catch every snowflake that falls during a snowstorm
41. sew a quilt that can cover America
42. stop the weather
43. invent a new color
44. simulate every particle in the world
45. monkey Bar underneath the Golden Gate Bridge
46. watch your favorite movie again for the first time
47. meet every single person you're related to
48. juggle every object you've ever held
49. age in reverse
50. learn every language
51. use knife to draw on leaves
52. use cup noodles to build a dinosaurs.
53. use women’s hair to compose a woman’s face
54. collect pictures of everyone’s face in the world to build a human’s face
55. paint Mona Lisa on water with nail polish
56. build Discobolus with scraps of wet paper
57. draw America’s national flag on sky by jet
58. recompose Chinese brush painting on laptop
59. set my face as a kind of medicine's logo and imprinted on tablet
60. draw Professor Brian’s face on one’s nail
61. completely recompose images from one’s dream
62. use chemical materials to create flames with different colors to draw a phoenix
63. compose a dragon with scale
64. embroider Monet’s lotus
65. carve Obama’s face on soap
66. utilize hand cream to build an egg
67. complete works connected with supernatural
68. prove art is related to a spiritual world
69. draw Putin with sea salts
70. reproduce Chinese brush painting with oil painting
71. grow algae in your armpits
72. have a petting zoo on the international space station
73. draw on combs with only fresh flowers’ juice
74. engrave Moses on a thick book
75. build a street with DaVinci’s products on each ground tile
76. put all Monet’s products on one product
77. draw a lion on dusts of a car’s window
78. use gum in different color to build a Christmas tree
79. make tread patterns of my boots be my face
80. weave a Pinocchio
81. engrave Lotus on coconut
82. utilize snow to recompose the story of Snow White
83. on calculator, apply numbers to draw image of Akashi
84. use a lot of spoons to build a Santa
85. produce Cinderella’s crystal shoes with glasses
86. draw a sunset on tissue paper with human’s blood
87. paint on water with spices
88. compose the image of universe with sand grains
89. draw a picture that makes people feel it is singing
90. sculpture a David on a lip balm stick
91. be on all of the continents at once
92. drink water at the same time while eating without choking
93. run at the speed of light
94. run while piloting a hang glider
95. gain a significant amount of weight without eating or drinking
96. lie all of your life and never get caught
97. shave off all of your hair and grow it back within a day
98. grow a perfect weave
99. lasting more than 10 minutes under water without any air
100. walking without any toes
101. jump off a airline plane without a parachute and still live
102. remove a light bulb without touching it
103. to see while being blind
104. hurt an ice cube's feelings
105. drink nothing but alcohol and never get drunk
106. eat fast food for a whole year without becoming sick
107. fry ice without it melting
108. get all F’s and still pass
109. build a house out of straws that will survive a tornado
110. spin a plate on the top of the Seattle Space Needle
111. to swim in a pool without getting wet
112. be pregnant while your mother’s pregnant with you
113. sing the alphabet song 100 times within one minute
114. to time travel
115. hold your breath and have a conversation at the same time.
116. mix white with white and make another color
117. to not sleep for a week and still be well rested
118. to see air
119. eat the top 6 inches of Mount Everest
120. never blink
121. chew the same gum for a whole day without it losing its flavor
122. hop on one foot across the United States
123. sleep for 17 days straight
124. write with a pen that has no ink
125. call 911 and have a cab show up instead of the police
126. cut yourself and not bleed
127. slap your own dead corpse
128. pile snow outside when it's above 60 degrees Fahrenheit
129. dance naked while being fully clothed
130. to be born anywhere but in the United States and still become the president of the United States
131. know the lyrics of all of the songs ever made
132. name everyone in the entire world population
133. have more followers on Instagram than Kim Kardashian without being famous
134. win the presidency without winning the majority of the electoral votes
135. climb Mount Everest in less than two hours
136. be a millionaire and be poor economically
137. build a mansion in a day
138. sneak a gun through airport security while shouting death metal
139. drink a gallon of water and still be thirsty
140. find $1 billion and not take it
141. defecate on the white house lawn
142. reconstruct the great pyramids by hand
143. balance a stand of hair
144. reanimate a corpse à la Frankenstein
145. climb to the peak of Mount Everest naked
146. see all of time through entering a black hole
147. count to infinity
148. teach a horse to speak French
149. chop a leg off and grow the severed limb into your double
150. move at a negative speed
151. train to see ultraviolet light with a naked eye
152. do performance art piece on the surface of the sun
153. have “looks that kill” literally
154. find the last digit of Pi
155. walk on water
156. count every hair on someone’s head
157. remove every trace of my own existence
158. make Adam Sandler funny again.
159. list 15 good things about Justin Bieber
160. drink a beer that has been chilled to absolute zero
161. eat just one Lay’s potato chip
162. be in two places at once
163. construct a teleportation device
164. construct a 4 Dimensional object
165. break into Fort Knox, graffiti my name on the wall and leave
166. chew a diamond
167. look cool while throwing up
168. catch a bullet in mid flight
169. lick the back of my neck
170. travel in time to be my own grandfather à la the grandfather paradox
171. grow to be an adult while never leaving your mother’s womb
172. survive for 20 years without a heart
173. replace all of bodies blood with motor oil
174. encase body in cement and become a permanent sculpture
175. dose the world’s water supply with L.S.D.
176. artificially create a thunderstorm.
177. raise a manatee in your kitchen sink
178. track every change in the world created by that act
179. create a child with two biological mothers or two biological fathers
180. create a child with male genitalia but no Y chromosomes
181. flush every toilet on earth simultaneously
182. move all the visible stars around to make a picture in the sky
183. prove the existence of the Easter Bunny
184. convince the pope to change religions
185. attend my own funeral
186. paint all of the blades of grass in the world to be the same shade of green, thus dismissing the saying “The grass is always greener”
187. communicate only in emoji’s for the rest of my life
188. move a mountain to another continent
189. have the sun wired up to a dimmer switch
190. make a can “phone” that connects to every home in the world
191. listen in on conversations miles away
192. make every snowflake identical
193. find Santa
194. reverse the flow of urine
195. attend the Last Supper
196. find my twin
197. beat LeBron one on one in basketball
198. find Bigfoot living in Greencastle
199. fly to the sun using a fruit fly
200. steal the top of the Sears Tower
201. take a fish for a walk
202. have a conversation with a dog
203. die Twice
204. live Twice
205. find the actual Nemo
206. live without a heart
207. travel to Paris without moving
208. avoid food and Water for the rest of life
209. tickle yourself
210. become taller in seconds
211. make a Billion Cheeseburgers alone in an hour
212. bath in a pool of lava
213. grow paws
214. have a cat raise a mouse to be a man
215. have a parrot recite the dictionary
216. have an Elephant jump over a hurdle
217. reversing the cycle of child birth
218. have a sterile Woman and Man give birth to a child
219. unburn the wood in the fireplace
220. squeeze out all the water from a rag on the moon
221. drink nothing but Ocean Water
222. lick your own Elbow
223. bite you own neck
224. flying by Flapping one’s arms
225. making everything turn gold once you touch it
226. find the darkest shade of red
227. live underwater with no oxygen
228. meet the Simpson’s
229. see a snake living inside a dog’s mouth
230. have a rabbit try to steal Trix
231. dance for 3 years without stopping
232. unmash Potatoes
233. raining cats and dogs
234. sneeze at the speed of light
235. squeezing the World in your hands
236. have an internal Clock
237. be a certified pilot in one day
238. relive memories of someone else
239. airplane flights to Mars by next week
240. swinter
241. never Dream
242. paint the White House a different color each year
243. construct a continuous road that circulates the whole world
244. connect a long rope from the earth to the moon
245. write down every phone number you’ve ever called
246. destroy every cell phone in the world
247. collect one dollar from every person in the world and donate it
248. collect a sound from every person in the world
249. retrace you and your significant other’s paths throughout your whole life with paint and see where your two lines meet for the first time
250. go back in time and introduce the cell phone to the 19th century
251. create life size
252. collect the first and last photo of everyone in their lifetime
253. reestablish time and the time zones
254. freeze someone and thaw them in 1000 years
255. convert every movie to an animated one
256. have every person in the world listen to the same song at the same time
257. give the statue of liberty a different item of clothing for each day of the week
258. rotate the most popular monuments from each continent to a different continent every century
259. connect every person in the country on a phone call
260. place a number on every person’s head and have only one other person share the same number as someone
261. make a giant umbrella that sits over New York City whenever it rains
262. replace the floors in homes with trampolines
263. build a Rubik's cube 10 stories high that can be solved but takes 1000 people to move one side
264. draw a portrait of every person you’ve met from memory
265. extrude the equator 1 foot high
266. create a giant mood ring that sits in Washington DC and shows the mood of the country
267. create a crop circle portrait of Elvis Presley
268. look at the world through someone else’s eyes
269. create a family tree dating all the way back to two people
270. save and watch your dreams through video
271. list every song you’ve ever heard
272. connect a zip line from the empire state building to the bottom of the grand canyon
273. paint the faces on Mount Rushmore
274. be able to rewind, pause, and fast forward life
275. a library holding the books of every person’s life
276. display a movie on the Hoover dam
277. graffiti the great wall of china
278. paint the bottom of everybody’s shoes a different color to track patterns
279. make every road a dirt road
280. repaint the inside of the Sistine chapel blindfolded
281. run a string across the whole world so people can be physically connected from different areas of the world
282. paint grass blue and dye the ocean green
283. connect every city in the country by an underground tunnel
284. create a map that shows the movement of every country’s leaders
285. create a 1000 foot high candle that can heat a city
286. keep a tracking device on a small item and see everywhere it travels after you throw it out the window
287. count the molecules in a banana
288. paint roads different colors according to their amount of use
289. detach Alaska and move it next to Washington
290. paint all of Greenland orange
291. dress every person in the world in all blue except for one person who is in all red
292. flip the Pyramids of Giza upside down
293. meet a fictional character
294. touch the sun with your bare hand
295. walk across the ocean floor
296. invert gravity
297. teach an ant to sing Motown
298. change the order of the planets in our solar system
299. duplicate the big bang
300. freeze a tsunami
301. view oneself without aid of mirrors or photography
302. breathe in space
303. touch and feel digital information
304. make an intergalactic paper airplane
305. stop a thought from occurring
306. make light invisible
307. take a photo of something that hasn’t happened yet
308. meet an older or younger version of yourself
309. stand on the Earth and touch the moon
310. create/watch a movie with no beginning or end
311. paint all the rocks of the planet blue
312. melt all the snow before it falls to the ground
313. convert darkness (the absence of light) into a physical substance
314. teach a fish to use chopsticks (And then explain the concept of sushi)
315. watch every movie to ever be made all at once
316. scuba dive in the atmosphere
317. create a recycling plant for emotions
318. turn a paper clip into a bridge
319. create a cube shaped star
320. invert all of the world's monuments in a single moment
321. create a gun that fires thoughts instead of bullets
322. create the same aurora borealis twice
323. make the entire ocean drinkable
324. invert the spaces of land and sea
325. trap the world’s atmosphere in a single balloon
326. create a permanent skyscraper made of ice
327. pet a dinosaur
328. turn rotten food fresh again
329. ignite all the world’s fireworks at once
330. move a mountain sideways
331. experience true childhood again
332. see gamma radiation
333. resurface all the roads in the world with glass
334. find/create an exact copy of the Earth and its inhabitants
335. schedule an unexpected event
336. film live the events of the Revolutionary War
337. move all objects on the surface of the Earth an inch to the left
338. create a family album connecting all of humanity
339. create a battery that never runs out of a charge
340. eclipse one star with another
341. reenact a dream with perfect accuracy
342. eat a concept
343. touch the bottom of the ocean while floating on the surface
344. creating a nutcracker out of George Washington’s dentures
345. interview a dead person
346. giving every orphan on the planet a home
347. mapping the Earth’s entire ocean floor with a high level of detail
348. build a whole LEGO city and live in it
349. asking every person on the planet what they are afraid of most
350. eat a Milky Way in the galactic center of the milky way
351. letting kids run the world for a day
352. collect every hair that has ever fallen out of your head and make a wig out of it
353. counting every grain of sand in a sandbox
354. preserve a child's innocence
355. giving animals the ability to speak like humans
356. getting everyone on Earth to jump at the same time
357. carve your initials on every tree in the world
358. pee in every toilet
359. replace every tree that’s ever been cut down
360. build a golden gate for the Golden Gate Bridge
361. recreate Charlie’s chocolate factory
362. find the end of space and escape
363. playing duck duck goose with ducks and geese
364. use 100% of your brain
365. win the lottery
366. dig to the center of the Earth
367. break every world record
368. relive a dream
369. photograph every woman in the world with and without makeup on
370. take a selfie with Nicéphore Niépce
371. give animals the same rights as humans
372. reverse the meaning of words
373. relive my childhood
374. lay on a cloud
375. play ring around the rosy during the middle ages
376. watch every YouTube video ever made
377. pick every four leaf clover
378. surgically turn my face upside down
379. live another person’s life
380. play golf on Mars
381. climb a ladder into space
382. draw every square inch of the Earth
383. listen to every echo ever made
384. run through a solid object
385. shake every person’s hand
386. live in a perfect world
387. bring an extinct species back into existence
388. remembering every detail of your life
389. give Rosa Parks a high five
390. reverse the rotation of the Earth
391. X-ray every person on Earth
392. play the electric guitar in the 1930s
393. reframe the Mona Lisa
394. catalog every smell on the earth
395. catalog every name of human existence
396. pogo on water
397. change the rotation of the earth
398. get the world to sing Kumbaya and hold hands
399. form a religion that has aspects from every known religion
400. conquer the world completely
401. taste every type of wood there is
402. become a temporary Supreme Court Justice
403. get the bible signed by Jesus
404. make your thumb touch the elbow of the same arm
405. taste a nuclear warhead
406. make yourself glow by ingesting hazardous amounts of radiation
407. survive off photosynthesis
408. don't sleep for a year
409. fall in love with a dictator for their 'personality'
410. forget 9/11
411. capture love as a smell
412. burn a library at Alexandria
413. adopt every kid from a single orphanage
414. achieve immortality
415. replace your body parts with prosthetic limbs until you resemble a crash test dummy
416. contribute to the end of the world
417. switch everyone's hair color for a day
418. worldwide participation in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest
419. grow fur and survive a harsh winter completely nude
420. take of picture of the universe pre-big bang
421. export all the Hollywood stars and replace them with Bollywood stars overnight
422. eradicate underage drinking
423. bring back smallpox
424. act out 'I am Legend' in modern day NYC
425. DJ on the Hindenburg
426. replace the final song played on the sinking Titanic
427. breed a cat and dog together
428. eat a lobster without harming it
429. revitalize Detroit into a booming automobile metropolis
430. mythological creatures petting zoo that feature horribly disfigured farm animals that resemble mythological beasts
431. convince Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton to start a punk band called 'Round 2'
432. replace all the toilet paper with sandpaper
433. transform into a frog after being kissed
434. get tattoos that make it appear that you are a pixilated 8-bit character
435. wear a glass suit
436. sink the White House halfway into the ground
437. dim the sun
438. hibernate for a full winter
439. commission Marcel Duchamp to make you a toilet
440. whisper sweet nothings into the president's ear
441. redo all movies from the antagonist's point of view
442. desalinate the great salt plains
443. do nothing
444. sculpture made out of lifetime of contact lenses
445. putting a different color dot on every pixel a computer screen with a gel pen
446. make a thumbprint of every person in the world on a road in concrete
447. flying into the Bermuda triangle
448. collecting every fallen leaf
449. digging to earth's core
450. bottling a cloud
451. cover the Eiffel Tower in ornaments
452. change all the water in the world to the color orange
453. all iphones in the world screenshot at same time
454. replicate the moon life-size out of cheese
455. build a bicycle out of toothpicks
456. cut out the word “the” from every book
457. hot glue pebbles to cover the Empire State building
458. melt crayons to make a wax figure as large as a volcano
459. put a star in a jar
460. record every person in the world saying your name
461. create a blimp as big as earth
462. take a photo of every individual bacteria in the world
463. make a blanket out of hair strands
464. build a freestanding stairway to mars
465. compile every text conversation ever had
466. kiss every person in the world
467. put every animal in a “Noah’s Ark”
468. build a wall out of every tooth in the world
469. make a necklace with every diamond in the world
470. put Christmas lights on every tree in the Amazon forest
471. cover the floor of the Louvre with peppermints
472. make a tower out of grains of sand
473. create a math formula that goes on for a mile
474. genetically create a modern dinosaur species
475. make a car out of glass
476. decorate the sun for holidays
477. build a ship out of bones
478. make a video compilation of every person in the world favorite memory
479. slingshot a note across the world
480. jump into a movie
481. replace the clock in Big Ben with an animated face
482. create a town underwater
483. spray paint the palace of Versailles blue
484. create an island and populate it with only giraffes
485. paint a mosaic on the back of every turtle shell
486. making a statue of important people in your life and putting it in obscure places for them to find
487. train all dogs in the world to bark once at the same time every day
488. fill the white house up with concrete on the inside
489. fill a pool with tear drops
490. replace every grain of sand with graham crackers
491. draw mustaches on Mount Rushmore
492. fill the ocean with soda
493. name and give a face to every tree in the world
494. make a physical statue out of light
495. photograph every single living creature jumping off the earth into the air simultaneously
496. dye every single hair on every person neon green
497. build a full size replica of New York City on the moon
498. replace all of the ocean’s water with ice cubes
499. create a pyramid out of every single truck in the world
500. make a single piece of steel that is so long it can touch the Earth and the Moon at the same time
501. videotape my entire life from a bird’s eye perspective
502. create a wooden block that is perfectly square and flat down to the molecular level
503. record a word for word list of every thought I’ve ever had
504. create a physical sculpture that would literally last forever
505. glue every can of soda in the U.S. together without having any of the same brand touching
506. paint a picture using red paint that was created from a mixture of every single living humans blood sample
507. tie a string to every door knob in NYC that connects directly to a metal rod that is placed in the middle of Central Park
508. paint popular movie posters on every building in Los Angeles
509. do a dance onstage alongside at least one of every mammal
510. make one six sided die out of billions of normal sized, identical dice
511. put on a nonstop 1 man play of every Simpsons episode
512. cook a steak to medium well by only using your normal body temperature
513. perform Michael Jackson's “smooth criminal” dance without ever touching the floor or using anything to suspend yourself in the air
514. perform a live multi-instrument orchestra concert by yourself while never having any solos from an instrument
515. knit a wearable sweater out of nothing but the two shortest hairs off the top of your head
516. create an Oscar winning feature length film from still pictures drawn and edited together while completely blindfolded
517. fill a plastic cup with scorching hot molten lava
518. mark every $2 bill in the world with an orange triangle
519. cut a stone slab into 9 different spheres and place one on every planet in the Milky Way and Pluto
520. make a 12 story tall statue of myself without using any materials or tools other than normal, wooden 2x4 boards and spit
521. high five a seahorse
522. make a functional car out of nothing but cotton balls, including the fuel
523. write a poem that contains every word from every language, even the extinct ones
524. put on a perfectly synchronized swimming display starring 36 identical pit-bull/boxer mix puppies
525. photograph every second of the life of one elm tree
526. place an intact snowman into an art exhibit that is 100 degree Fahrenheit throughout the whole room
527. create another gateway arch by the one in St. Louis, Missouri, and paint them both to look like the McDonald’s logo
528. create a free standing perfectly spherical building
529. add every president to Mount Rushmore
530. bind a handwritten copy of the dictionary together with my own eyelashes
531. hand fold 20 million paper cranes
532. make a skyscraper out of dark chocolate
533. craft a suit of armor out of diamonds
534. cover a limo in Powerball lottery tickets that won at least $2,000,000
535. fill a swimming pool with happy thoughts
536. paint the entire universe in one life-sized painting
537. make an infinite series of clay statues depicting an apple, with each statue being twice the size of the previous statue
538. carve a bust of Harrison Ford from a single boulder using only your breath to weather down the stone
539. attend your own mother's birth
540. make a figurine of a crab so small that it can only be seen through the most powerful microscope in the world
541. rip the US Constitution into 50 fragments
542. build a boat out of dreams
543. print a copy of every picture that can be found on the internet
545. make 15 identical but differently colored Statue of Liberties next to the already existing one
546. dye each strand of hair on a person a different color
547. rubber band a planet to make a rubber band ball
548. make an underwater gallery
549. turn the sky into a laser light show
550. create a kaleidoscope out of city buildings
551. wrap the sears tower in Christmas lights
552. fill a stadium with balloons
553. create a building out of chocolate
554. paint every species on earth
555. hang a giant dream catcher off the space needle
556. turn a crater into a candle
557. bury the tallest building on earth
558. dye the oceans tie dye
559. paint an entire mountain range
560. add more rings to Saturn
561. record every word in every language
562. pick every flower from a field and rearrange them by size
563. lasso the moon with Christmas lights
564. create a blanket to cover all of earth
565. put everything referencing ‘Venus’ on Venus
566. stack empire state buildings to the moon
567. repaint all traffic lines on the roads of America red white and blue
568. color every blade of grass a different color
569. replicate the pyramids at the bottom of the ocean
570. fill the grand canyon with candy
571. turn a planet into a yoyo
572. gold plate the moon
573. print every email ever sent
574. Google everything on the internet
575. create a real unicorn
576. turn a forest into a living replica of Alice in wonderland
577. tie dye the clouds
578. replacing the London eye with a giant bagel
579. dye every army uniform in the world pink
580. turn a water tower into a coffee pot
581.
582. create a tower out of everything you’ve ever thrown away
583. project a rainbow sphere around the Earth
584. put stained glass in every sunroof in every car
585. send a text to every person with a cell phone
586. read every book ever written
587. wrap every building in a city with wrapping paper
588. turn the quarry into a ball pit
589. count every hair on your body
590. print every Facebook interaction that’s ever occurred
591. fill the Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago with beans
592. turn a NYC subway into a disco
593. put a giant tent over a city
594. write down everything you say for your whole life and make a book
595. put a gallery on mars
596. graffiti the white house
597. create your own dinosaur sculpture out of random dinosaur bones
598. put memes on random websites like graffiti
599. build a full sized house out of Legos
600. turn every body of water into strawberry Jell-O
601. take a picture of everyone in the world wearing a cat mask
602. create a real life Sharknado
603. time lapse video of my dreams
604. have a TV channel that streams people's dreams live
605. designer clothes line for dinosaurs/ people shaped like dinosaurs
606. a music video that is a silent film
607. grow a tree the size of New York City
608. bus that picks you up when you’re sad called the struggle bus
609. draw a perfect circle by hand
610. give every human a unique name
611. video montage of pop stars saying the word “pterodactyl” without using their tongue
612. a 24 hour video following the life of an ant
613. photograph everyone in the world with a paper-mache mask with $100 bills instead of paper
614. make a sweater of eyelashes
615. a collaborative painting made by all of the U.S. presidents over time
616. take a gold mold of a snow angel made by Kurt Cobain
617. write down every word from every dictionary
618. create a family tree to the first humans
619. make a movie with one second of footage of everyday of Jimi Hendrix life
620. make a life size sand castle
621. incase John Lennon’s brain in carbonite
622. knit a sweater out of pure gold
623. @#$%^&
624. create a forest out of pine tree sculptures made of 2 liter mountain dews
625. make an elevator that moves sideways rather than up or down
626. book that you read by smelling
627. mirrors that reflect your soul
628. full body tattoo Vladimir Putin
629. dye your veins neon yellow
630. give sound waves a long vacation
631. dye radiation waves strange colors
632. glow in the dark tattoos for children
633. a production of Macbeth starring a$ap mob
634. plant a tree on the moon
635. build Donald Trump a summer home on mars
636. write Tupac lives on every mirror in the city of Los Angeles
637. make a movie about the NWA watching the movie Straight Outta Compton
638. a performance of Miley Cyrus song wrecking ball by Isis
639. list for a worldwide scavenger hunt
640. turn the moon into a scaled down model of earth
641. a mixtape of songs composed of rhythmic auto tuned breathing
642. high School Musical reenacted by monkeys
643. eat uranium
644. a mountain sized sculpture dedicated to Will Ferrell
645. a Ferris Bueller Christmas Carol Album
646. stage a LARPing event for the entire world
647. eat the inside of a computer
648. pass a cold to everyone in the world
649. hold the internet hostage
650. build a blanket fort large enough for the US military
651. decorate a Christmas tree with every ornament ever created
652. paint what love feels like
653. learn every language and write a poem using one word from each dialect
654. carve Mt. Everest into a monument of Captain Planet
655. arrange the stars into a mural
656. show the average literacy rate of the world in real time
657. paint a picture with using non visible light
658. carve an ice sculpture out of a glacier
659. sculpt using fire as a material
660. build a stairway to Heaven
661. recite every book ever written
662. draw in 4 dimensions
663. build a skyscraper completely out of light bulbs
664. create a new planet with clay
665. live life backwards
666. carve the moon into Bugs Bunny
667. draw sound
668. draw smell
669. build a mural that can be seen from space
670. decorate every pine tree in the world into a Christmas tree
671. replace every color with animal print
672. build a monument of Michael Jordan that is so big we can position it to look as if he were dunking the moon
673. spray paint the Sphinx
674. sneak up on Chuck Norris
675. sculpt with water vapor
676. paint what it is like to be intoxicated
677. photograph a black hole
678. photograph every pair of eyes to look at you
679. write down the first thought you have in the morning every day
680. show the global favorite flavors of ice cream in real time
681. watch the mountains grow
682. construct a belt that fits around the equator and slowly tightens until the planet is finally pinched in two
683. build a roller coaster that transcends all continents
684. build a children’s hospital completely out of stuffed toys
685. make a mountain float
686. grow a coral reef in the shape of the Mona Lisa
687. make visible loneliness
688. make a hit single out of whale calls
689. have everyone on Earth draw what they think the most important invention of all time is
690. be magnetic
691. build a human sized ant hill complete with tunnels and rooms
692. turn furniture into trees
693. build an elaborate Victorian-style fire place out of cotton
694. eat a dessert from every country
695. take a selfie in every settlement in the world
696. dye Mars blue
697. count the grains of sand on the beach
698. paint the Fall leaves blue, purple, and white
699. make the Mount Rushmore presidents hipsters
700. document an entire human life in crayon
701. being invisible on Fridays
702. picking every piece of grass on campus
703. jumping to the moon
704. go back in time and un-go back in time
705. empty space
706. drinking a gallon of milk in under a minute
707. morph into an animal
708. run as fast as the speed of light
709. touch the sun
710. pick up a car
711. chop down a tree with one swing of an axe
712. hitting a 100 mph fastball blindfolded
713. walking on water
714. burning water
715. going to the future
716. living with no oxygen
717. take leaves from every tree in the world and create a portrait of Obama
718. taking the soles of every pair of Jordans and creating a statue of him
719. creating a wig with every piece of your own leg hair
720. building a skyscraper with just bottles of water.
721. being able to teleport
722. making a shirt out of saran wrap
723. play catch with Babe Ruth
724. make a baseball glove out of candle wax
725. painting the Sistine Chapel Ceiling in a day
726. have dinner with Jesus Christ
727. making a desk out of Q-tips
728. a video of every president’s inauguration
729. making a car out of pure gold
730. touching a rainbow
731. making a sculpture blindfolded
732. drawing a tattoo with your feet
733. playing a one on one game with Wilt Chamberlain
734. making a basketball net out of NBA jerseys
735. having the ability to walk through things (Walls, doors, etc)
736. making a suit out of used dental floss
737. eating an entire jar of peanut butter without drinking anything
738. making a asteroid out of peanut shells
739. doing the moonwalk on the moon
740. imagine nation
741. drinking a boiling hot cup of coffee within ten seconds
742. making portraits of famous people with just coffee grinds
743. taking apart and putting together a watch with just a toothpick
744. building a statue with a toothpick from every restaurant in America
745. building an entire building out of candle wax
746. building a house with just Legos and pizza sauce
747. creating a video with every single video game tutorial that’s been made
748. build an igloo in the desert
749. making a statue of Orville Redenbacher out of popcorn
750. free solo climbing the Willis Tower
751. shake hands with a phantom limb
752. masturbate constantly until immortality is achieved
753. make every man reborn woman with complete memories of their past life as a man and then have them raped
754. have every reborn as a man with complete memories of their past life as a woman and have them be accused of rape
755. tattoo my body enough until the pigment of my skin turns black
756. have sex with my ex for a final time and make her fingers explode like firework sparklers
757. bring back all the Buffalo
758. know whether or not my life along with the universe has been rebooted thus meaning I wouldn’t notice the varying changes in the narrative
759. fly around the world so fast that I reverse time
760. gain enough weight to offer my body as a food supply for a starving country
761. become both the Czar of Russia and the Vice President of the United States simultaneously
762. push past the fabric of this dimension and summon the beast master Cthulhu
763. truly understand that life is much more subtle than a three-act structure
764. turn every lake and pond into mud and charge people to bathe them in them as a spa
765. definitively tell that chocolate is better than vanilla
766. control the weather with a wand made out of cherry stems and dolphin hair
767. find hair on a dolphin
768. traverse the whole Milky Way while holding my breath
769. drink beer until my belly button recedes inwards
770. play Jesus in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors while he hangs from the cross
771. know exactly how many other sperms I beat to the egg
772. write a top 50 list that is universally acclaimed
773. swallow my fist to my elbow and speak fluently
774. achieve physical perfection purely through positive thoughts
775. know the last thoughts of the last dying human
776. call up President Kennedy and see if he wants to cruise around with the top down
777. in death, feel the molecules and atoms of my decomposing body shift over into dust
778. count all of every grain of sand on the planet whilst blindfolded
779. become so high that I cheat my way into heaven
780. grab up every gun out on the market and fit them all inside Sandy Hook Elementary School
781. know how many lives have been saved by guns
782. cure cancer by specifically smelling roses
783. remember while blacked out
784. spell the word “death” with “l-i-f-e”
785. go a week and not have my mother call me
786. go a week after my mother has died and be able to call her
787. count the amount of times a white frat boy has said the word “nigga”
788. catch a bullet between my fingers and say, “Your gun shoots like a girl.”
789. invisible computer keyboard
790. use a rainbow as a jump rope
791. sail across the stars on a sailboat
792. give your ex a perfectly good reason why you cheated on them
793. jump from the top of Mount Everest and land on the wing of a plane
794. know for sure that I’ll wake up tomorrow morning
795. be named the King of Ice Cream by only eating pancakes
796. find the best time to divorce your spouse
797. fall in love with a horse and have society condone it
798. speak Shakespearean and have it register in your mind that it’s Cantonese
799. asking a child for forgiveness after you kill his father in front of him
800. say “yes” when asked if you achieved everything you wanted to out of life
801. make all buildings older than 100 years fire proof
802. build a well that accepts debit cards to make wishes
803. open a nursery for humans and alligators
804. drain Lake Michigan and fill it with chunky peanut butter
805. Explain the difference between left and right
806. Run a mile on the sun in Crocs
807. Win the 76th Hunger Games
808. Eat your entire self
809. Have three biological parents
810. Capture a Pikachu Pokémon
811. Receive an acceptance letter from Hogwarts
812. Read a blank piece of paper
813. Bite your own neck
814. Record everyone’s last sentence they said before they died.
815. Live off of Pringles and pink lemonade for 10 years.
826. Create a rollercoaster without a loop
827. Write down every apology you made during college
828. Photograph people’s souls
829. wax figure sculpture of Barack Obama inside a Hawaiian volcano
830. Photograph every birthmark in the United States to make a portrait of Oprah
831. Life size model of Earth made of Legos
832. The ability for people to change their skin tone color
833. 24 hour live stream video of Donald Trump’s thoughts
834. Les Miserables poster recreated out of flags produced during the French Revolution
835. Auschwitz concentration camp made out of Nazi soldiers’ bones
836. Photograph every woman of color in the world
837. Live underwater for 10 years
838. Place the Earth two meters next to the Sun
839. Hold your heart in your hands
840. Animal clothing line made out of human skin
841. Cry tears of pearls
842. Pigs flying backwards
843. Make the Manhattan skyline made of glass
848. Air animals and sea animals switch habitats
849. Slam a revolving door
850. Smell the color purple
851. Replace the Gateway Arch with a giant slinky
852. Replace the Statue of Liberty with pigeons
853. Touch your right elbow with your right hand while yelling at your left
854. Hobbits that are taller than dwarfs
855. Ghost runway models
856. Reproduce asexually
857. Find Kim Kardashian’s diamond earring in the ocean
858. Using every frame of every film ever made to create a portrait of Chester A. Arthur.
859. Sustain a spruce forest in the Sahara Desert
860. Create a sculpture that has a refractive index of 1
861. Make a 1-dimensional painting
862. Take a picture of someone’s face when they find out about a loved-one’s death.
863. Show nuclear fission in an art exhibit
864. Build an elevator to the Moon and make the musak for it
865. A performance piece on counting to Infinity
866. Construct a canonical (accurate) replica of the Death Star from Star Wars
867. Make a glass container around the Moon
877. Cook the best meal of all time
878. Paint the entire Earth orange
879. Build a city out of tea leaves
880. Break a paradox without breaking a sweat
881. Play a symphony outside of human’s perception of hearing
882. Give mescaline to every cat in the world
883. Drill to the inner core of the Earth and build a resort
884. Explain human thought and emotion and recreate it seamlessly
885. Birth a Neanderthal
886. Flood the planet in champagne
887. Make Venus a livable planet
888. Find the answer to everything (one response to every question)
889. Eliminate human greed
890. Shoot a hole through the Moon with a silk feather
891. Make a mirror that shows you your ideal landscape
892. Make a 200m tall statue of George Costanza
893. Conceive a hilarious joke that will never offend anybody
894. Rewrite the entirety of Moby Dick on a Kleenex
895. Give Jupiter a hug
896. Build a cathedral out of toothpicks
897. Jump until your legs break
898. Construct a rap in hexadecimal/binary
899. Make a picture that takes 1000 words to describe without using a single synonym
900. Describe a color to a blind person
901. Paint the perfect self-portrait without knowing yourself
902. Perfectly invert a spherical object
903. Create a statue using the pressure of water at the seafloor
904. Vending machine that dispenses prescription contact lenses
905. Eat a homecooked meal in Space
906. Grow a tomato farm underwater
907. Receive college degree while in freefall
908. Starbucks on the moon and its wifi is down
909. Paint the leaves of every tree in Indiana chrome
910. Bring the moon to Earth piece by piece
911. Convert living room into a refrigerator
912. Invent a car that runs on, and dispenses, iced tea
913. Gather everyone in the world to one spot and all jump at once
914. Solidify sunshine
915. Have everyone in California hold the same grain of sand
916. Remove an element from the period table indefinitely
917. Experience a onceinalife-time event twice
918. Pressurecook snow
919. Write down literally everything you do for a decade and then forget it all
920. hijack headphones to shout personalized insults at passersby
921. Invent a 1000sided die
922. Build a cheese bridge to the moon
923. Complement every person on Earth
924. believe the last words of every person who ever lived
925. Invent a working car with square wheels
926. Invent a fence made of clouds
927. Skip a rock down the middle of any great lake to the other side
928. Drive exclusively down the wrong side of the road for a year
929. Tree that grows underground w/ roots exposed up in the air
930. Tree that’s planted as an adult and grows in reverse into a sapling
931. Lick your back hair clean
932. Eat an entire whale in one sitting
933. Shoes that leave an extra set of footprints
934. Build a skyscraper from the top-down
935. GMO pineapples that have 0 acidity
936. Paint the leaves of every tree in a forest w/ your blood
937. Toss a Frisbee the size of your county
938. Scissors that un-cut your hair
939. Modify caterpillars to turn into butterflies without the cocoon
940. Hand weave a dress from spider silk
941. Build a house of popsicle sticks and live your entire life in it
942. Throw something so hard it leaves Earth’s gravitational pull
943. Build operable human wings similar a recreate the Icarus myth
944. Blow a bubble the size of Miami
945. Successfully crossbreed a moth and a butterfly
946. Construct a human sized underground city similar to an anthill
947. Live stream every birth in the world
948. Create a new constellation in the sky with your fingers
949. Eat all the cake in the world.
950. Hold your breath for 27 minutes on a Broadway stage
951. Swim from Alaska to Russia naked
952. Paint a sunset on the moon
953. Make a 30 ft. tall crack rock
954. Make a sex tape with every man (over 18) on the planet.
955. Sneeze without blinking
956. Pet every dog in the world.
957. Hair dye that changes your hair color randomly
958. Recreate the paintings of the Sistine chapel in someone’s eye
959. Do a 20-minute keg stand
960. Eat only chocolate for a year
961. Interview your past self
962. Start a fire underwater
963. Make a line of dildos that stretches across the entire planet
964. Replace the Pacific Ocean with a ball pit
965. Replace the Washington Monument with a giant crack pipe
966. Beat a cheetah in a foot race in 6-inch heels
967. Write every word in the English language on the pentagon in sharpie
968. Write a 200,000-page novel
969. Paint Starry Night on Mount Everest
970. Make a million copies of one million dollars
971. hide a second moon directly behind the original
972. criminal turning his dead self in for the reward money
973. firing a bow with an arrow
974. Every god ever created having a peaceful picnic
975. Making a real Clifford the Big Red Dog
976. Genetically modifying human hair to where it can change to every color in existence within the course of a day and then repeat.
978. eyes that change color depending on mood
979. Paint every building over 6 feet tall bright yellow
980. Build a 50 ft. statue of Bob Barker with the builders only using their feet as hands
981. A cow refusing to jump over the moon
982. A road sign with every road sign symbol overlapping each other
983. A van Gogh painting of Leonardo DiCaprio
984. Changing the Statue of Liberty’s clothes to a pantsuit
985. Take a picture of every insect on earth
986. Grow a tree in the shape of a full sized dragon
987. A baby being born and coming out with a painting of the mother
988. Sunglasses that let you see everything as an oil painting
989. Whatever’s under Edd’s hat from Ed, Edd, and Eddy
990. Raising a spider and having it make you a camping tent.
991. Having “the talk” with the sun
992. Marry the moon
993. Reach Nirvana listening to Nirvana
994. Make a slushy shop that uses the ice from an Arctic glacier
995. Shrink down to the size of a cell
996. A bag that can hold anything and anything can be pulled out at will
997. Paint the Eiffel Tower purple.
998. Switch the locations of the TajMahal and the Washington Monument
999.. An OompaLoompa winning 4 Olympic medals
1000. A glass ball that has a tiny galaxy inside
1001. Create a too scale painting of the Pacific Ocean painted with individually dyed drops of water
1002. A take picture of every potato chip that has the shape of Iowa
1003. Have a watermelon seed grow into a cantaloupe
1004. Make a fourth Back to the Future movie out of clips from the first three films
1005. Sculpt a dog into existence
1006. Make a giant church completely made out of stained glass
1007. Pick yourself up off the ground
1008. Replace the bottom of a river with water protected TVs that show the top of the water
1009. Make a life size replica of the Fortress of Solitude out of ice
1010. Bleed the color blue
1011. A device allowing fetuses ability to talk before birth
1012. Reincarnation after death for a year of your choice
1013. Unburnable forest
1014. Keep a soap bubble intact for an entire month
1015. dislike having royal privilege
1016. Power for humans to redesign the Pangaea split
1017. Visiting tickets to heaven that are available to any economic class
1018. Ability to revive a historic leader for 5 minutes
1019. fold the Black Sea in half
1020. The ability to carve people out of wood and burn them to life
1021. Play god
1022. The Power to trap landscape in glass and make a stadium sized Sno-globe
1023. Erase human scars with pencil erasers
1024. Draw a self portrait of your clone
1025. X-ray Emotions
1026. Create a shampoo that attracts good thoughts
1027. Make human hearts that glow through the skin
1028. Write in light
1029. Create plants that absorb air pollution
1030. Apples that cure cancer
1031. Valleys start standing up for themselves
1032. write a million more ideas in this blank space below
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