Six Pieces for Life

Live like you only have until the next:

1. day
2. week
3. month
4. year
5. decade
6. century

Lost Cellphone

Drop an iPhone somewhere. Whenever the accelerometer reads motion, have it record video and send it back to a server wirelessly. Create a collection of "found cell phone" footage, of people discovering the cell phone and deciding what to do next.

Inspired by the U.Frame Festival category, "Light Media (films made with mobile phones)".

The Beat of the World

Watching the World Clock, you can almost feel the pulse of certain statistics. It'd be interesting to make a mixtape that kept one of these statistics as the tempo throughout the entire mix. Imagine a dance party where every beat corresponds to a death. Or a birth. Or a new car/computer/bicycle. Perhaps these dance parties should be held in pairs, and which dance you were doing wouldn't be revealed until the dance was over. A chance for meditation.

The Alternative

Wikipedia lists possible reasons for writing a suicide note as:

• To ease the pain of survivors by attempting to dissipate guilt
• To increase the pain of survivors by attempting to create guilt
• To set out the reason for suicide
• To gain sympathy or attention
• To give instructions as to disposition of remains

A particularly interesting suicide note comes from Christine Chubbuck, a news anchor who prepared a press release for her suicide before shooting herself on air.

In this vein, I would like to prepare a press release describing my decision to live. Not permanently of course, as I may change my mind at any moment, but for the moment it was written. The title would be something like "Local Student Commits Unsuicide".