POPQUIZ by Joyce Schwarz, blogger, hollywood2020.blogs.com, DO YOU SUFFER FROM VIDEOPHILIA?
LOOP Videophilia By Ian Green
400 x 300 pixels - 39k - jpg
www.artfairsinternational.com (blogger note - one of 2 images that came up on the Google search for VIDEOPHILIA.
VIDEOPHILIA: "the new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media," term courtesy of research team for a new study for The Nature Conservancy.
(See link to article about new study)Nature Conservancy Study Finds Today's Kids Are Choosing TV Over Trees
TAKE THIS POP QUIZ NOW TO SEE IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM VIDEOPHILIA or if you're committing 'treeson' where your kids are choosing TV or video games over trees!.
1) When I say "windows" what do you think of first:
a) Microsoft
b) How much you love your Mac
c) The first glimpse you got of YELLOWSTONE National park from the side window of your family's Ford Escort ?
visitor guide from www.yellowstone.ws
2) When I say the color green? What's the first thing that comes to mind?
a) THE INCREDIBLE HULK --the color Jim Carey turns in the new movie CLICK
Incredible Hulk from wikipedia.com
b) MONEY --CASH!
c) The feel of running barefoot through the sprinkler on a hot summer day and sliding on the matted down grass.
3) If I say Blizzard you think of:
a) World of Warcraft creators Blizzard Entertainment
World of Warcraft community site
b) A Dairy Queen ice cream delight?
c) Getting caught in a snowstorm while cross country skiing?
4) If I say Safari you think of
a) Apple's navigation bar
b) Surfin' Beach Boys music
courtesy of Amazon.com
c) You're dream Africa photo trek
5) If I say camp you think?
a) FooCamp or Computer Camp
Welcome to Foocamp from flickr.com
b) Guantanamo
c) Tent, moon, stars, fresh air
RATE YOUR SCORE: A= 20 points B=10 points C= 5 points
Total up your score for all five answers.
80- 100 = YOU ARE ARE A VIDEOPHILIAC -- chances are your skin is pasty looking, you eat too many HoHo's and your eyes give off a fluorescent sheen and your ears are ringing constantly . Too much TV, Movies, DVDs or Video games or iPOD listening. Your thumb may have carpel tunnel syndrome from too much texting.
60 - 79 = YOU ARE A VIDIOT -- life is more REEL than REAL for you. Your avatar goes out more than you do!
40- 69= You ARE Committing TREESON -- your kids may never take a walk in the woods. Your kids may never see a cow except on a Cheese commercial or BLACK COW label.
26- 39= Your idea of risk -- isn't just an old board game. Your soul isn't made of Silicon...your backpack isn't filled with DVDs and old gum wrappers. You're in touch with nature and nurture your children to climb every mountain.
25 = You've found the perfect balance. Life is not just games and tasks and quests and spells. The world is your oyster. You know that high tech needs high touch to complement it!
When children choose TVs over trees, they lose touch with the physical world outside and the fundamental connection of those places to our daily lives," McCormick
We close with a great photo of a sculpture we found called COUCH POTATO!
CLICK ON THIS JPEG TO SEE THIS ART INSTALLATION CALLED WHAT ELSE COUCH POTATO FROM www.panix.com
OUR PREVIOUS POST ON THE BOOK THE LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS HAS proved to be very popular one on Hollywood2020.blogs.com -- give it a second look at order the book and take it with you as you head for our beautiful national parks this summer.LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: TECHNOLOGY 'TREESON' 18 Sep 2005 by Joyce Schwarz
'TECHNOLOGY TREESON' -- somehow the island floating around Manhattan this week
reminds me of an extraordinary book that I'd like to ... back to school reading
for any age" LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS" to counter "technology treeson"....
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