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Things to do When You Are Bored Inside4/30/2020 by Orly Morris
Time passes differently in quarantine. The masses are no longer ruled by the numbers on the clock reading nine to five. This disarray of daily life has launched many into confusion, procrastination, lack of motivation, and in extreme cases insanity. In order to retain a clear understanding of what day it is many are looking for ways to fill the listless hours. Fortunately the internet is blossoming with new challenges to try, viral dances to imitate, and stay at home competitions to compete in. In our very own backyard, the Quaranteen Film Festival was established by Zahra Ahmed and Lola Beall, both students at Dekalb School of the Arts. They planned and recruited artists to make short movies following a prompt provided in merely forty eight hours. Part of the goal of the project was to “give people something to focus on for a few days,” in the words of Ahmed and Beall. All nineteen of their participants were given a respite from boredom for those two short days. On a larger scale the Quarantine International Film Festival (QFF) went on, accepting any movies from those willing and able to partake on the condition that they stay inside and use their tools at hand. QFF and other projects like it give a handy task to a bored artistic mind and are providing massive virtual platforms to show off their work and talent. Not unlike the renowned group of guys from the youtube channel “Yes Theory” who started a competition called “Living Rooms Got Talent” with a monetary prize attached. After all the submissions were filtered by Yes Theory, followers could vote on their favorite. The top seven received five thousand dollars for personal use, and the same amount for their local food bank. They had a massive amount of participation from people in over a hundred different countries, even for those who weren’t chosen it was a great opportunity to showcase their talents and do something in their living room besides binge watching Tiger King. One of the most notable apps of this year, Tik Tok, cannot go without mention. It is consistently more viral than a virus, seeping into multiple social media platforms outside its origin—specifically the dances. The dances are copied and repeated by hundreds of thousands on the platforms. Some of the most popular are “Renegade”, “Savage”, “Captain Hook”, “Get Up”, and “Say So.” Tik Tok has 800 million active users with more than 33 million downloads of the application. Suffice it to say, the platform is keeping many busy with an activity that is as portable as a phone camera—no need to break quarantine. All around the world people are stuck in their homes furloughed and bored with the endless hours and no deadlines. Turning to the internet for exciting challenges and new objectives has become an extremely popular way of warding off brain dead Netflix binge watching from dawn till dusk and back again. For links to some of the aforementioned challenges see below.
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