11 Lock Down Things To Do

PROVOKR's Activities To Keep You Safe, Turned On and Amused

image above: martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York; cover image: Ellen von Unwerth Naomi campbell

BY: PROVOKR Staff

1. Make Art everyday – as Patti Smith always does…….paint, write, take a photograph, or draw…….do something creative with your hand and eye

Patti Smith

 

2. Watch EVERY Martin Scorsese film starting with Mean Streets and keep viewing in chronological order

Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver
Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver

 

3. Listen to every Halsey song and then every Post Malone song and write your own Posty- or Halsey-inspired original lyrics

Post Malone
Post Malone

 

4. Bake cookies, brownies or make a cake once a week

Brownies
Brownies

 

5. Guilty Pleasures Viewing – watch every episode of an unseen critically acclaimed series – suggestions from our staff include Bodyguard, Westworld and Babylon Berlin

Evan Rachel Wood and James Marsden in Westworld
Evan Rachel Wood and James Marsden in Westworld

 

6. Curate a true crime documentary film festival and virtually share and then meet and dissect each crime story with your friends……..establishing guilt or innocence of the accused.

 

7. Look at Ryan McGinley and Ellen von Unwerth’s IG to Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” and Harry Styles’ “Adore You”

Ryan McGinley's Susannah
Ryan McGinley’s Susannah

 

8. Have sex virtually with a willing a partner

seductive woman black and white image

 

9. Write a new series for PROVOKR Productions and study the original pitch from Stranger Things to prepare yours

Stranger Things poster
Stranger Things poster

10. Read a book — and start with Slaughterhouse-Five or Catcher in the Rye

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

11. Work out like a you are in prison

Prison inmates