One minute snippets of life in Hong Kong, my new Youtube series
Rantings from a guy who has 36 pairs of identical socks.
The French street artist INVADER has come to Hong Kong several times, but this last month he came ‘officially’ as part of an organized show at the PMQ gallery. There his works hung on well lit walls with tour guides and a gift shop, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t busy again on the streets of the city.
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1) Stop getting dressed.
Steve Jobs, William F. Buckley, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, and a massive number of bankers and lawyers. What do they have in common? They all, basically, wear the same thing everyday. Steve Jobs was famous for his turtlenecks and jeans, and bankers and lawyers are always in charcoal grey with white shirts and a colored tie. Of course it isn’t the exact same item they are wearing day-in-day-out, but they are wearing ‘something’ that means they no longer have to worry about what they wear everyday. They can literally grab the first thing that comes out of the closet and put it on, ending the ‘decision’ period of what to wear, what to wear that goes on daily. Even if you spend only a minute a day deciding what to wear, you are wasting six hours a year.
You can even take it a bit further. If you find something you like, or that is not very important, such as underwear or socks, consider buying in bulk. I have 30 pairs of black socks and 20 pairs of white socks, all the same. I have not matched socks in over 10 years. Why? Because every sock matches every other. I have 30 pairs of underwear. I have 6 pairs of khaki pants and 6 pairs of black pants. I have two pairs of dress shoes (identical).
I just don’t care, and no one really notices. The reality is that unless you are working in the fashion industry, the vast majority of people wouldn’t notice if you wore the same thing daily, unless it started to smell.
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Take a look around your room. Anything you have not touched in the last 60 days should go to a place where it is not visible. Sorted into a closet or put away so as not to clutter your brain. Items you haven’t used in 12 months should be pitched. This goes not only for computer parts lying around that you are afraid to throw away, but clothes as well (getting back to the first point on my list).
Anyway, these are just a few random thoughts. What are your tips?
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patience skills to make it look anything like an official plane. But now with my kids–that would change. We’d take the time, do it right. I even took out my ‘third hand’ tool from my electronics shop to hold the planes and let the glue dry without my fingerprints working their way into the plastic (as it did so many times before). I bought the officially color-schemed paint, more or less, and special brushes. I even bought some paint thinner (interesting side note–it came in an empty beer bottle–it’s a Hong Kong thing).
The instructions had about 35 pieces or so and 35 steps. By step 5 I knew this just wasn’t going to work.
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