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10 October 2010

#284 Throw away your television

We all live somewhere, even on park benches . 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. And since your life shouldn’t be boring just because you’re at home, we proudly present: Seven things you can do in your home.

Your TV hates you. It's like a new pair of pants. If you don’t buy a new pair of pants you'll never get a chance to miss them, since you never had them. If you get rid of your TV, you won’t miss it after a while. Since you don’t have it. In addition, there will be something that you haven’t had in a long time: Time.

You know how you accumulate paperbacks each year to read during summer vacation? Bam! Now you can read them on a Monday. Time. You know how you always say you don’t have time to clean, dust, polish the windows and thus also refrain from inviting friends home for dinner even if you think that it’d be very nice? Bam! Now you can have a tapas potluck again. Time.

Your TV hates you. It steals your time with bad sitcoms, reality shows, white trash and macabre news. In addition, it’s ugly. It is not just a new pair of pants you do not need. It’s a pair of ugly new pants you don’t need. The few programs that you want to watch you can see streamed on the web. There is no reason whatsoever to have a big ugly machine that steals all the energy in your living room. Bam! Now you can sit and talk with your family at dinner. Bam! Now you can have breakfast in the living room and know what the food tastes like. Bam! Now you do not have to wonder what that voice you hear in your head is. It is your own thoughts. Bam!

Bonus - True Blood found here. The Swedish http://www.svtplay.se/ spam programs can be found here if you need them. http://www.tv3play.se/

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 hour or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
You get a lot of new time at your disposal. You can’t zap. You can’t watch bad television.
Pros: 
You get a lot of new time at your disposal. You can’t zap. You can’t watch bad television.
Taggar: zap, TV3 play, tv, True Blood, SVT Play, seven things you can do in your home, new age, litter programs, garbage, 365 things
31 August 2010

#238 Take a class

Alexander Kandiloros has previously spoken about being tongue-tied in front of Regina Spektor, couch surfing and all the jeans that litter his house. Now for something completely different:

One of the things I like best is learning new things. Pattern recognition. Being able to keep up with conversations with very different people. There are those who know everything there is to know about a single subject, but as for myself, I've never been able to choose one area. I want to know everything! About everything! Which at best leads to me to know a little about a lot.

Introduction to Greek mythology, Biology of philosophers, argumentation analysis for beginners, Aesthetic History of Ideas, and Modern Hebrew are examples of evening courses taught at the University of Gothenburg. One evening a week; we can all fit that into our schedules. We will never be fully taught, we will never be finished. The brain is a muscle that needs to be exercised to become big and strong.

But you don’t even need to apply for a course to go to a lecture. All lectures are public - and free, and with one phone call or by Googling, you can find out where those interesting lectures are taking place. Get what an amazing country we live in!

At ABF, you can learn to bind books, paint with watercolors, cook, or why not accounting? There simply is something for everyone. Their courses often cost a bit but not much really. There are skills to develop and nurture, and there is money to be saved by repairing our own clothes, books and furniture, people to impress people by knowing a little about a lot.

Required time: 
1 week or more
Cost: 
Less than €50
Cons: 
You have one less night a week to waste watching TV.
Pros: 
You learn new things. Meet like-minded people. Understand more. Develop yourself. Learn to see things from other perspectives.
Taggar: university, tv, slötittande, read a course, knowledge, Hebrew, flaunt, alexander kandiloros, Adult Learning, 365 things
20 July 2010

#202 Send program proposals to a TV channel

Some shows make you think that it is still 1967. Others make you wish it was.

Some shows make you think that it is still 1967. Others make you wish it was.

Some days I feel like picking up my TV and throwing it out the window. If it weren’t for us having a lot of cats in the yard that could get hurt from the splintering shards of screen, I probably would have done it already. For some reason, I usually get the impulse when the TV is showing some crap program like 2 & 1/2 Men, Paradise Hotel, or Sing-along at Skansen. I don’t know why. There isn’t an obvious connection between them but then again I haven’t sat down on the couch long enough to properly analyze them.

But as always with criticism I like it to be constructive. It’s pointless to complain about something without having a suggestion on how to improve or replace it. To just sit and whine makes one become a grumpy old man and I don’t want to be a grumpy old man. Instead, I use my creativity to write down what I would like to see on TV instead of dumb blondes with silicone tits, stupid Americans called Charlie Sheen or stupid Sing-along programs that don’t give me a thing. I began by asking myself the question:

WHAT WOULD I LIKE TO SEE ON TV?
HOW WOULD THE PROGRAMME LOOK?
WHO WOULD PRODUCE THE PROGRAMME?

It’s a good start. Instead of focusing on what I want to make go away, I focus my energy on what I want to add. Medicine instead of poking the wound. Soil instead of the hole. Then there’s a thousand ways to go from there. Which road would you choose?

There are those who sit at production companies and TV channels and who are just literally waiting for creative people to send in suggestions for new gems. Why couldn’t you be the one to think of the next fantastic idea for a TV program? It can’t be worse than the crap that’s on now, right?

Submit your ideas to info@365saker.se and we’ll help each other to develop and send them to production companies and television networks.

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Less than €50
Cons: 
It can be difficult to know what needs to be included in a program proposal. Get in touch via email and you will get constructive criticism and a little help along the way.
Pros: 
You control a medium that needs as many sharp minds and intelligent suggestions as it can get.
Taggar: tv, sing-along at Skansen, sharp mind, program proposals, paradise hotel, BOOB-TUBE, 365 things
22 January 2010

#22 Start your own TV-channel

Required time: 
1-5 minutes (Depending on your skill with computers)
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
None.
Pros: 
You make yourself heard, set your thoughts free into the world and develop your creative skills. As an added bonus you might make new friends. You could for example do it on www.youtube.com or www.metacafe.com
Taggar: tv, johan miderberg, diy