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Miranda July’s Foolproof Tips to Combat Procrastination
In this video—an outtake from her second feature film The Future—July offers a five-step fix for even the most dedicated time wasters. Her unconventional approach, which suggests taking a precious item hostage, among other things, may finally be the answer you and I have been looking for.
An excerpt from “Time Piece” (1965), a nine-minute experimental short by Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of the Muppets.
The Invisible Bike Helmet by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin.
(Found on Booooooom.com.)
Learn more about The Invisible Bicycle Helmet here: hovding.com.
Significant Objects...and how they got that way
Significant Objects, a literary and anthropological experiment devised by Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, demonstrated that the effect of narrative on any given object’s subjective value can be measured objectively.
The project auctioned off thrift-store objects via eBay; for item descriptions, short stories purpose-written by over 200 contributing writers, including Meg Cabot, William Gibson, Ben Greenman, Sheila Heti, Neil LaBute, Jonathan Lethem, Tom McCarthy, Lydia Millet, Jenny Offill, Bruce Sterling, Scarlett Thomas, and Colson Whitehead, were substituted. All the project’s stories are archived on this site.
My personal favourite thus far: Fancy Piggy Bank.
Russia drains fountains for drunken paratroopers
“August 2 is Paratrooper Day in Russia and every year more than one million burly active and retired soldiers take to the streets in their signature blue berets and striped undershirts to mark the occasion, often by combining large quantities of vodka with plunges into fountains…Moscow city authorities also distributed several tons of watermelons in a downtown park at no charge; paratroopers had been known to steal them in the past.”
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“Belly” by Julia Pott.
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