{"id":167943,"date":"2025-09-25T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:55:07","slug":"anu-valias-guide-to-curing-your-internet-addled-brain-polyester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167943\/","title":{"rendered":"Anu Valia\u2019s Guide to Curing Your Internet-Addled Brain \u2014 Polyester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Read Stuff Not On A Screen\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Go to the library, pick up ONE art book (too many choices and you&#8217;ll find yourself back where you started: go in with a PLAN, STAN!) Scan your favourite eight images from that art book, print them out. You are your own Pinterest board now, baby! Also, get yourself a copy of John Waters&#8217; book Role Models. He is a Great Appreciator. He will help you also be a Great Appreciator. Read just one chapter of that book and you&#8217;ll forget the internet exists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Engage With Art You\u2019ve Never Heard Of\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Request a print catalog of Critic&#8217;s Choice Video (<a href=\"http:\/\/ccvideo.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ccvideo.com<\/a>). Get offline as soon as you put in that request. Wait a few days. When that catalogue comes, go through it, page by page. They have the most random assortment of movies and TV you&#8217;ve never heard of. Learn about Roger Corman&#8217;s entire oeuvre, polish up your Grindhouse knowledge, get in tune with 80s porn stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Learn Something New<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Okay go online, but ONLY open up Coursera. Sign up for a class. Take out your little notebook, write notes as you take a lesson. Do a little multiple choice test to prove you&#8217;ve learned something. You&#8217;re back in school, look at you go.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Be Your Own Art Project<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tweeze your eyebrows. Go ham, don&#8217;t check your work. Tweeze too much, draw new ones on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Plunge Hidden Depths In Ordinary Stuff<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Here are my suggestions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&#8211; Go over to a friend&#8217;s house. Sit on their couch. Ask them, &#8220;What&#8217;s been on on your mind?&#8221; If they have kids, ask them. Listen. Then share what&#8217;s on your mind. Go home. You could also Wait for the sun to set, and the streetlights to come on. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Grab a camera, put Cinestill 800 film in. Snap half the roll. The next day, give the camera to a friend, ask them to take pictures in the daylight before the sun sets. Develop the roll \u2013 you&#8217;ll have 24 hours through the eyes of you and your friend. Reverse if they&#8217;re a night owl and you&#8217;re a morning person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&#8211; Rent a DVD. Watch the film with the Director&#8217;s Commentary. If you don&#8217;t have a DVD player, go to a friend&#8217;s house to watch. Make sure to ask that friend what&#8217;s been on their mind before you watch the movie otherwise it will seem like you have only come to use their DVD player.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read Stuff Not On A Screen\u00a0 Go to the library, pick up ONE art book (too many choices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,244,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-167943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}