This is a presentation I recently gave at a pecha kucha event in Brussels (20sep08). The key message is: Boring can be fun. So go with the flow and make life easier & more agreeable.

1. Froots of Boredom Find the roots & reap the fruits

2. Boring presentations When even your dog begins to despair …

3. Discomforting? No! Unless luxury becomes depressing

4. State of … Mind, heart or soul

5. Intelligence? Or creativity for my part

6. Age dependent Remember those holidays …

7. Culturally Be it Patience or Pachinko

8. Repetition Visual or auditive

9. Eastern culture Practice in martial arts

10. Fruits The proof of the …

11. Restlessness She loves me, she loves me not

12. The 5 senses Where we really need none

13. Angst vs waste Dreading the white paper

14. Adding Never flashy enough

15. Subtracting The bare necessities

16. Patterns Without endings or …

17. Dull ads Almost entirely unlike Windows

18. Wonderful ads Almost but not entirely …

19. Benign vs malignant About being bored or being a bore

20. And they were … Born/Bored happily ever after Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Walter Benjamin, 1936