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14 October 2010

#287 Get your own graffiti wall

We all live somewhere, be it on a park bench or in a stately home. We probably spend too much of our lives in the home. In the middle of autumn, it may take some effort to leave the bed at all. But since your life shouldn’t be boring just because you’re at home, we proudly present: Seven things you can do at home.

It is illegal to paint graffiti. You can’t go around town with a paintbrush and paint the statues red. It’s not okay to put up mosaic art in concrete tunnels. Old ladies get angry if you pee your name in the snow. There are so many fun things that others will object to you doing. But there is no one who can tell you what you can and can not do in your own home.

I had a friend once who went down to the beach with a trailer and filled it with sand. Then he went back home and made the whole apartment into a beach. Afterwards, he invited his friends to a beach party. I am not saying that he could keep the apartment. I'm not saying you should make your apartment into a beach. I’m saying that a white wall that has been covered with graffiti for a few years is easy to paint white again. And during the years in between, you can do whatever you want with it. Nobody can prevent you from having graffiti at home.

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
Spray paint has a strong smell.
Pros: 
You can sketch, scribble and paint. You can make shopping lists, crossword puzzles and hang man on your wall graffiti. You can do whatever you want on it. You can draw comic strips or write up this week's TV schedule. It’s your wall.
Taggar: spray, seven things you can do in your home, sandy beach, landlord, graffiti wall, graffiti, crayons, 365 things
30 September 2010

#273 Go to a museum

The stuffed whale at the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg is like Woodstock Festival: 500 000 people were there in reality but in retrospect seven million people also claim to have attended. In the same way every single person you meet who grew up in Gothenburg says that they, at some time when there were young, were in the whale and even had a snack. It’s not consistent with the truth. In fact, only a few percent have been inside the whale eating a cinnamon bun and drinking a Loranga. The rest of them are liars who have heard someone else tell the story and then made it their own.

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Less than €10
Cons: 
Some museums can be quite flat and boring and just contain just flat tired old records and no whales at all.
Pros: 
Then there are museums that contain things that are far more interesting than you can imagine. Exhibitions of street art, graffiti, guerrilla gardening and other things that are not typically museum-y.
Taggar: voodoo, seven things you can do in your city, museum, history, graffiti, bollywood, 365 things you can do