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21 October 2010

#294 Make yourself heard

Sometimes it's more likely that people read your blog than see what you’re doing.

Sometimes it's more likely that people read your blog than see what you’re doing.

Alexander Kandiloros lost the breath holding-contest in #293. Today he writes about the starting protests on the web. Do you see the connection?

The Internet is good for more than finding the cheapest deal for that camera, picking up good looking strangers and watching movies that haven’t been released in Sweden yet. It’s also a forum where everyone can be heard and are allowed to speak up when they encounter something that is not okay, regardless of where in the world they come from or where they are. If other people agree with that person, something cool happens. When people agree on a common enemy, anything can happen. Then you can demand change.

Comedian Aziz Ansari goes to see Star Trek and wants the impressive IMAX experience and pays five U.S. dollars extra to go to such a theater. Afterwards, he realizes that it was not at all that great and impressive. IMAX have mega screens and conventional screens and despite complaints that the theaters aren’t allowed to put up anything that differentiates the mega screens from not the regular screens.

Aziz spread it on his blog, the world gets angry, then another guy starts a blog to mark out all normal-sized screens (called LIEMAX!) on a map of the United States, and IMAX agrees to differentiate the variants.

http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/post/106587114/reblog-the-fuck-out-of-this-warning-amc-theaters-are
http://destroyfakeimax.blogspot.com/

Text: Alexander Kandiloros

Required time: 
1 hour or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
It can be time consuming, and change isn’t guaranteed.
Pros: 
You take a stand and try to correct an injustice. Is there a more noble goal?
Taggar: star trek, protest, network, justice, Imax, change, Aziz Ansari, 365 things you can do
11 July 2010

#192 Take a new route to work

 

Research shows that it’s good for the brain to take a new route to and from work every day. Or school. Or the employment office, for that matter. If we keep taking the same route to work and also turn on the MP3-player as soon as we get out of the apartment the brain will get lazy. People become accustomed to be fed with the same impressions, in both sight and sound, every day. The organ that is supposed to make you smarter and more creative is instead making you a big sack of potatoes sitting on the couch watching reruns of Two and a Half Men.

You don’t have to make a big effort. Start by getting off one stop too early or too late. You can expand it later, but start small. It makes more of a difference than you think. Then maybe you’ll start to walk some distances before getting on the bus. If the distance is short enough, maybe you’ll start cycling to work. Maybe you’ll leave your MP3-player at home. Begin to think and reflect more. Realize that Two and a Half Men is pretty predictable.

 

Required time: 
1 hour or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
It may seem unnecessary and fuzzy at first but then you will notice the effects it’s having.
Pros: 
You break patterns and habits. This allows the brain to become more alert and sharp. You think more clearly. You are challenging yourself in small steps.
Taggar: route, change
23 February 2010

#54 Write your life story on an A4

Navid Modiri already had hip Ray-Bans as an 8-year-old.

Navid Modiri already had hip Ray-Bans as an 8-year-old.

There is no reason to wait until you're old and your days are numbered. It is never too early to sit down and write down your life.

Half time recaps and summing up makes us all feel good. A good friend of mine takes one day every year, just before New Year and writes a few lines summing up the past year:

- What things have been good.

- The things that were less good.

- How we can do things better the next year.

- What we have learned.

- What would you like to learn more of next year.

- Which friends you should keep and appreciate more.

- Which friends are redundant.

There is no reason to wait until you know you're going to die to get an overall picture. You can order maps of the landscape from the National Land Survey or visit Google Earth to see how your city looks from above. There is also an opportunity to sit down and make a picture of how your life has looked until now. When you do this it makes it much easier to grasp what is bad; what is good and what could use improvement. Possibilities appear. And you have a better chance to prevent bad patterns, habits, and people interfering with your life.

Required time: 
Two hours.
Cost: 
The cost of a pad and pen, 0.5 €, unless you have these things at home.
Cons: 
You realize you are not living the life you want to live.
Pros: 
You realize you are not living the life you want to live and have the opportunity to do something about it.
Taggar: life story, direction, decision, change