OPEN ART

Last week i went to movie screening of "Hola Venkat". A low budget Indian-in-America movie. I enjoyed it, because its dark comedy and its free.

I was leaving right after the movie but my friend bid me to sit there and listen to the producer-cum-director speech. Its a low budget movie where Travelling charges eaten up a lion share of budget. A whole bunch of actors are friends of the director and apparently they didn't pay a penny for locations and cars used in the movie.

After he explained his troubles in making the movie, the director asked us to donate any amount of money to support his work. With that, i was impressed with  the concept of movie making and distribution more than movie.

As a guy who gets bored too soon, i was already bored with mainstream cinema. Low budget movies, plays and short films become my resort for recreation as they are willing try new themes. Especially short movies and plays.

While coming home, i tried to link the art with the technology. Before technological evolution, the artist have to have money or blessings of a rich  fellow to make his art known. Imagine number of movie ideas which might be great but got rejected by the producers before YouTube. We never know how many articles, short stories , poetry and novels before blogosphere started got rejected by publishers.

One hobby which got boost from technology is photography and painting. Digital art is one way of expressing self , however most of the digital art is produced by an armature in Photoshop who think creating weirdness is modern art. The cheap cameras  gave birth to good photographers, but they are hard to find. Most of the hobby photographers are just idiots with SLR cameras just zooming and shooting shit thinking its art.

Anyway, what technology did to art is , it saved creativity from the clutches of production and publishing houses. The same goes to educational system too. Without internet how i am supposed to know the contemporary thinkers and professors of west or east.

Art of irritating people , some of my methods -2

In the last five years, i have developed new methods of annoying/irritating people.

1. Stop being humble :  "I am always right" . This simple statement annoyed almost all of my friends. I kept saying it for the fun, and now people started scrutinizing my every action. This is keeping me on the edge.

People expect us to be humble in receiving compliments. The response to "You did great", should be "No, anybody can do that". Then we can play the stupid game of , i-am-humble-so-praise-me-more. If your response is "yes, not everyone can do it" with a smile, then it may sound like a witty remark initially, but others will start perceiving it as arrogance. The trick here is, not being humble in dialogue, but being one in actions. Do not let the body language give any cue that you are arrogant. I learned this little trick from great boxer Ali.

2. Give them their own medicine : More than half of us have identity crisis. We lie and exaggerate to get admiration. People lie about great literature they read and great things they did. Be their loud speaker and propagate how great they are what great things they did, to the point where other parties will get tired of you praising that person, question the credibility of him, which in turn, keep that person in soup. You have created an image for him, now he has to protect it or he will become a fool.This method takes a long time to get results.

3. Decoding persons :  Generalizing behavior of an individual. You need not be right in understanding his behavior. Just say something like, he did that because he thought so. Many hate being decoded. Everybody thinks he is a complex personality. Just demolish that belief. One need to have an eye for observation, to guess correctly. If your guess is wrong, its fine too, now the victim has to explain himself, which is pretty annoying. Any way, the mission is accomplished.

4. Take a moral high ground and say it. I learned this technique from religious preachers. They think they are better than rest of us, and preach us because its kind of  wise-man's-burden. Modify it and use it. Say out loud that, you are better than rest of them. When i say, i know a lot, it  implies that the victim does not know much. Its an indirect insult. Works most of the times and keeps victim in a soup. He cant refute , because it will make him a villain to argue against morals, if he didn't refute , it implies he doesn't have a clue on morals. Anyway, we win.

5. Correcting : An old trick , but still effective. Correct their grammar, spelling or childish acts like biting nails. Make them feel, they are immature and posses less knowledge. Its similar to above technique , without lecturing.

PS : These methods are not to insult, they are meant to have a light moments among friends. Do not fall in the pit of irritating others and think you won. Once you got the wrong idea that, annoyance of others is the proof to your intelligence , then you are doomed. Once people got used to your methods, they stop being annoyed. It might force you to escalate, like insulting in public. That's how you become friendless. Annoy people, but never become annoyance all the time.

That PS is example of method 4 :P

For part-1 of the series, click on it