Read Stuff Not On A Screen 

Go to the library, pick up ONE art book (too many choices and you’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’ 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’ll forget the internet exists. 

Engage With Art You’ve Never Heard Of 

Request a print catalog of Critic’s Choice Video (ccvideo.com). 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’ve never heard of. Learn about Roger Corman’s entire oeuvre, polish up your Grindhouse knowledge, get in tune with 80s porn stars. 

Learn Something New

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’ve learned something. You’re back in school, look at you go.  

Be Your Own Art Project

Tweeze your eyebrows. Go ham, don’t check your work. Tweeze too much, draw new ones on. 

Plunge Hidden Depths In Ordinary Stuff

Here are my suggestions:

– Go over to a friend’s house. Sit on their couch. Ask them, “What’s been on on your mind?” If they have kids, ask them. Listen. Then share what’s on your mind. Go home. You could also Wait for the sun to set, and the streetlights to come on.

– 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 – you’ll have 24 hours through the eyes of you and your friend. Reverse if they’re a night owl and you’re a morning person. 

– Rent a DVD. Watch the film with the Director’s Commentary. If you don’t have a DVD player, go to a friend’s house to watch. Make sure to ask that friend what’s been on their mind before you watch the movie otherwise it will seem like you have only come to use their DVD player.