100 Days in the News: day one project: iPhone VOODOO
Today’s inspirations were:
The Power of Negative Thinking
and
Keepin’ it real fake, part L: The “Ipod style Mobile Phone iPhone”
My day started with a meeting during which a friend and I talked about our obsessions with iPhones- they cost a bit too much for us, one brand dominates the market, and well, we want them anyway. I started thinking that I needed to come to terms with the fact that perhaps in the next few months I would not be getting a high paying job, would not be getting an iPhone, and would still be lugging around my laptop so I could catch that one e-mail I was waiting for.
What to do? Well for one the situation is not so terrible. I have a phone that has a truck load of sentimental value, not to mention that it flips open in a fancy way. Also, it’s good to remember that it can be a relief to be unreachable. I replay to myself an experience this summer when a friend’s boss e-mailed him an angry note in the middle of a camping trip effectively reining in the good times being had.
I’ve realized it’s not so much the “having” of the iPhone that’s driving me nuts, but the fact that it seems like an extremely handy tool that many in my social circle see as the ultimate authority in problem solving when it comes to directions, weather, looking up words, and on and on. Just once or twice I want to find the word in the dictionary faster than on wikipedia- I want to make it outside and get hit by rain drops before my friends can look up the local weather conditions.
How to even the score?? With the use of Today’s 100 DAYS IN THE NEWS project. The very first in a series of 100 projects based on my responses to news items in my Google reader!
I’ve decided to level the playing field with my very own hand crafted iPHONE VOODOO!!!
The next time a friend pulls out the iPhone, I plan to whip out my little evil equalizer and stall that high-tech gadget with some electronic soul-poking.
“Why isn’t my iPhone working?”
“Hmmm…wow. I don’t know…sure is strange!!! Oh Look! We can just use this paper map to find our way!!”
Total construction costs: $20.00
Total time in construction:3hrs.
Amount of fun had (scale of 1-10): 7
