Multitasking

Multitasking has become recently a very popular term and a really useful skill in all aspects of life. We have been enchanted by the opportunities which we have thanks to multitasking. Doing a few things in the same moment, as learning, listening to music or some podcast and staying tuned to all the news around the world – it seems to be a very good idea to increase our abilities and our knowledge. 

                         

But is it really good for us?
In the article written by Cynthia Kubu and Andre Machado for TIME, we can find some interesting information. First of all, they say that most of us are simply unable to multitask (only 2.5% of people can multitask effectively). For the rest it is just an illusion of doing things at the same time, when in reality we do individual actions in rapid succession.

To resume a little this article, I want to present you some points of negative impacts on us:

1) Attentiveness. Due to doing two hard tasks at the time, we become less attentive for two of them which result by inability to recreate the information that we just have learnt.

2) Learning. Attention is the most important quality during learning. Besides losing our ability to focus on learning, we don’t go deeper in process of learning, so we receive only superficial knowledge of whatever we have learnt.

That only a few examples of negatives influences of multitasking on our life. I encourage you to check more information about this topic.

Ekow Nimako

Ekow Nimako is a Ghanian-Canadian artist, born in 1979. He works and lives in Toronto, where he has started to use Lego bricks since 2013 as his material to art works . Besides using lego, what is exceptional is that he use only one color - black. But as we can observe in  following material, he is not limited by black color, he rest open-minded to ideas and inspirations. In addition, what he want to express in his art, it is the topic of race and strangeness. His the most popular work is the one named "Silent Knight" which aroused interest of visitors during "Nuit Blache" (equivalent to the Night of Museums). 

                                         

                                          @ekownimako on instagram

I encourage you to watch the film about his "Silent Knight" project, in which he also explain his beginning in this type of scuplture and how he is working:

Welcome!

Hello everyone after a little break!

Since we have a new fellow bloggers in our English project, I decided to briefly introduce myself.
My name is Marta, recently I celebrated my 22th birthday. I study French language. I have learning French since high school, but I had started to love it much earlier. The reasons why I like this language are pretty obvious – as majority of people I really adore French accent, culture and the last but not least – I love Paris, thanks to its architecture and this special magic which surrounds this city (even if I know that it’s all a little bit exaggerated).

If it comes to my interest and hobbies, you will see. My blog is about everything, so mostly about what I listen to, watch or do. I hope that you’ll enjoy it. And I wish you luck and a lot of ideas for your posts!

TV host

I wrote already about Jimmy Fallon. And now this is the time for another TV host with who I love wasting my time (which I don’t have in fact) – Ellen DeGeneres. The idea of the show is similar to the Jimmy’s but for me Ellen do this better. She has hosted the show since 2003, so a lot of time passed, but she still didn’t get out of practice.




Frist of all, she is extremely charismatic. It is incredible what she can do with people. Her guest would do anything to be in her audience and play with one of her games which truly are really crazy, weird and unique. Watching them screaming, squeaking, bouncing and any others bizarre behaviors makes me feel that she the wizard with special powers. I admire her really good interaction with audience. She has a great sense of humor, she doesn’t hurt anyone. Her jokes are intelligent, even if they are prepared before the show by a group of people. She also has ridiculous games with celebrities and I still appreciate watching them looking dumb (by favorite game is 5 second rule).

But what I like the most about Ellen is her aid for people in need. She’s really passionate about helping everyone who needs. I saw an episode in which she helped a school where was nothing good (there was no heating and it was too small and the headmaster didn’t have money to make this situation better. She helped by her own, but also persuaded Justin Bieber to make a donation. I belive that she does all of this things because of good heart and only to increase her viewership.

Website

Postcards. Does anybody even remember this way of communication? They are used by one strange family member to send Christmas wishes or greetings from some excursion. It’s only my point of view, but I think that most of people consider it useless. Now, we have much more ways of corresponding thanks to smartphones and access to the Internet whenever we want. It’s faster and more efficient. But form me sending postcards is more privet and has more importance, because we have to choose a special postcard carefully on thinking about person to whom this card will come. We have a words limit so we need to think a little bit longer about the message that we want to send. So generally, it requires more sacrifice.

A few years ago I found a really wonderful website named postcrossing.com where we receive an address from a random person from around the World and we have to send him or her postcard. You have to do this if you want to obtain a special card. What we know about these selected people is the name, nationality and anything they wrote in their description. Mostly it concerns their hobbies, free time, music perforations etc. and of course, information about what message they want to receive on your postcard (like something about your country, your culture or your hobbies).

I regret that one day I stopped this. It was an indescribable feeling to wait for a postcard, wondering from where it would come, who is the person who send me this, what he or she do for a living. My collection contains postcards from: Hong Kong, Japan (I forgot the name of the city), Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Texas, Russia, Denmark and France. When I was choosing a person to who I will send a postcard, it wasn’t so different. I had a special luck for Russia and Germany. But it was fun.

Dancer in the dark

I suppose that everyone have watched a movie made him feel bad, overthinking and extreamly sad. Even if can call myslef a very sensitive person who burst in tears a lot, so my opinion may be a little exaggerated, I assure you that after this movie you will be destroyed. If you haven't watched "Dancer in the dark", I deeply recommended.

It is a musical drama film made by Danish director Lars von Trier. The film decribe the story of Selma (stars by Björk) which is a worker in factory. She lived in a trailer home on the property of town policeman Bill Houston with her son. What is important in this story, is that Selma suffers from a degenerative eye condition and because of this is losing her vision. Her son in also exposed to this disease, so Selma is saving up her money for a surgery for her son. Selma is a huge musical amateurs which she use to run away for her sad and boring daily life. The problems beging when she loses her job and find out that somebody took ger money for son... 

This story is really moving. And for me it's the "must see" movie. 

Songs

Today I want to share with you with some songs which I have hated since first time I heard them, but they badly have become the World’s hits. Why? Because I want to one if it is something wrong witk me or with these songs.

1. Robin Thicke – Blurred lines

I really couldn’t understand why it is so famous. I don’t like it and I never do. Except music and lyrics, the video clip is simply disgusting for me. Naked girls dance for men. Horrible! I will never support the image of women treated like a toy for men. And I can’t stand that somebody finds pleasure watching this. Additionally, coming back to song – there is nothing special inside. Neither music and lyrics, it’s just so silly.

2. Ed Sheeran – Perfect

To be honest, I like this guy. From time to time it happens that he makes a likeable song. And at the beginning I liked “Perfect”, but it was a really short time. I’m a little bored of the topic of love in his songs. I like to return to “Give me love” and “Thinking out loud”, because I associate some good memories with them. In the case of “Perfect” it makes me tired. The other reason is maybe he is returning with it with new collaboration (Beyonce, Andrea Bocelli). Also the video clip is a little annoying with its sweet and cute story in company of outstanding and gorgeous winter view.

What’s the song that you hate?

"France's greatest international stars"

In this post I want to present you my way to find motivation to learn and recall why I have chosen French! Even if my feelings for this gorgeous language are extremely high, there is time when I hate it so much and I can’t stand listening to this. And here comes a very special person who makes me forget about these negative thoughts and who reminds me of reasons why I like to learn it. It won’t be a surprise, because it is not somebody not-known – on the contrary, she is wildly recognizable around the World. I know that all of you know her very well, but let me recall you her live and beautiful songs.

Edith Piaf. 

She was born in 19 December 1915 and died in 10 October 1963. Her original name is Édith Giovanna Gassion (Piaf which mean sparrow is just a nickname which she received 20 years later). Her childhood was really sad and full of disappointments, her later years was also plain of changes, depressing situations and also sickness and the end, but all of these events was an inspiration for her songs in which we can find love, loss and sorrow. I don’t want to resume her bibliography. There is a really enchanting movie describing her life and it’s called “La vie en rose” (which is the title of one of her songs). I encourage you to watch this (if you have never seen it) to have closer look on the greatest French chanteuse.

What I like about her is mostly her impossible to forge – “R”, because I am a little crazy about how French language sound and she do it the best. Also her moving songs which give me an impression of “that is so French”, which makes me, feel the ambiance of France. I just leave for you with some of my favorite songs of Edith Piaf to enjoy.

Games

I was always wondering why some people chose spending time on playing games instead of do some more interesting things or simply more useful. From time to time I also play a game on my computer or xbox, but it lasts about 20 minutes and I’m becoming bored. But I’m interested how it is possible that somebody can spend about 3h in front of computer, so I asked my boyfriend who is a gamer to give me some reasons why it is so funny to play games.

The main reason is obviously a nice entertainment and fact that we can meet some people there, in games. I guess that it is refreshing, coming back home after a long exhausting day, turning up a game and focusing yourself only on a little creature that you have to kill. Spending time with friends on playing games could be fun, but what is also interesting that by online gaming we can meet people with the same interest. It is also said that some games develop some skills like reflex or logical thinking which is more enjoyable way of deepening your abilities than doing math exercises. But what is the most shocking thing for me is that thanks to playing games it is possible to earn a lot of real money. And here we have some ways of earning money like streaming, services in mmo games or trade in items in games. Have you ever considered that somebody is able to pay 600 000$ for item in game? It happened for real.

I have decided to tell a few words about this topic because I was extremely surprised about the sum of spent money in games. It sounds crazy and unbelievable, but it is the truth.

Tatoos

I guess that most of us think about making tattoo at least once in a life. They are more popular now mostly because people stopped to consider them like something connected with criminals, prisons or dangerous subculture. Nowadays, everyone can express themselves by putting on their skin a flower, heart or infinity sign. Inspired by one of the video from Ellen DeGeneres, I want to present the stupidest motifs of tattoos. 

Name of your “love”

It’s obvious. It is easier to end a relationship than remove the tattoo.

Tattoos that somebody didn’t check the spelling

In fact, I have no idea how it could be even possible. If someone wants to have a clever quotation or just some sentence which is important to him why he doesn’t verify if it’s okay?

Tattoos in languages somebody don’t speak or understand

Chinese language seems really mysterious and fantastic unless you are sure that what you have on your arm is “stay strong” instead of “chicken noodle soup. 

The most popular ones.

Birds. Infinity signs. Dandelions. They aren’t very original, but they are boring and you aren’t well seen if you get one of them. Be more creative. 

I also recommend a facebook profil "Janusze tatuażu" where we can find couple of bad, but hilarious tattoos. 

https://www.facebook.com/JanuszeTatuazu/