HOTLINE BLING: REDISCOVER THE MAGIC OF MAKING ACTUAL PHONE CALLS

There’s an art to the phone call that is evaporating into the ether.

Unplugging ManualJess DavisJanuary 4, 2016hotline bling, phone calls, texting, communication, pick up the phone, stop textingComment

Facebook I Love You. But You’re Messin' With My Hormones

Dopamine causes seeking behavior. Our neanderthal ancestors searched for food, water and shelter. Today, many of us have those basic needs, so we fill our desire to seek with other sources of information: enter social media.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisDecember 31, 2015digital detox, digital addiction, social media, facebook, folk rebellion, social media detox, facebook deactivate Comments

Print vs. Post: Photographic Magic

Photos that you can feel, smell and pass down for generations through albums that get a little heavier each year.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, Counter CultureJess DavisDecember 22, 2015print vs post, film is not dead, instant gratification, memories, screens, instagram, facebook, analogComment

Folk Rebellion's ANALOG GIFT GUIDE of 2015

Some of our favorite gift ideas that get the screened-in folks in your life, out of the cloud and back into real life.

Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisDecember 10, 2015folk rebellion, gift guide, analog, analog gift guide, unplugged gifts, offline, juniper books, lomography, camp grounded, dallas clayton, loopy mango, rock your bliss, jacki carr, urban cowboy b&B, allswell creativeComment

Having "the Talk" With Your Screen Addicted Parents

Personally, I wish I could say my parents were not addicted to their technology. Lately it appears to rule their world

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisJuly 10, 2015screentime, screen sense, digital addiction, digital detox, unplug the drug, parents, Technology, tech addict, Tech Effects, folk rebellionComment

Heads Up 7up

Unless you want to volunteer to yell to a bus of people to pick their heads up, we have to start with ourselves.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsMaya CarmosinoJune 9, 2015heads up 7 up, people looking at their phones, folk rebellion, look up, Victoria Nachman, Unplugging, Digital detox, screentime, iphoneComment

In Favor of Drinking Coffee Instead of Instagramming It

There’s something about coffee shared with friends, sipping out of a real mug and having life-giving conversations.

Mindfulness, Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMay 12, 2015instagram, coffee, connection, documenting life, instagramming coffeeComment

The Power of Accountabilibuddies

If the best way to make friends is to be one, let’s be brave and ask our friends to put. the. phones. down.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 28, 2015unplugging, folk rebellion, look up, Tech Effects, tech addictionComment

Fuck eBooks

I like my books to live, to be crumpled and rumpled and drawn on and eaten over.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 24, 2015ebooks, kindles, folk rebellion, Janne Robinson Comment

Self Care Doesn't Give a Fuck About Your To-Do List

I wish our yoga mats had the ability to call us on our shit.

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 15, 2015self care, mountains, massage, slow down, mindful living, self-care, janne robinson, elephant journalComment

Don't Lie. You didn't really LOL.

LOL is the tech version of polite noise. Did you really mean IDGAF?

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisMarch 27, 2015instagram, Technology, Digital detox, digital divide, digital addiction, polite, irlComment

Resurrecting Family Dinners (Sans Cellphones)

It is not strange for me to have coffee with a co-worker and the number of cellphones, laptops and iPads to out number the humans at the table.

Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, Counter Culture, The FactsJanne RobinsonMarch 23, 2015meals, eating, family dinners, family dinner, unplug, be present, new years resolutionsComment

Drawing It Into Existence

What do you wish to draw into existence today?

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMarch 16, 2015vision board, moon board, intentions, mindful, pinterest, Janne Robinson, affirmations, pema chodronComment

I Went To a Meditation Class and This is What Happened

You won't turn into a rainbow farting unicorn after your first class. We promise.

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMarch 10, 2015Vajradhara Meditation Center, brooklym, mindful, mindfulness, mediation, meditate, first time meditation Comment

Social Media is the Edited, Sugar Coated, Selective Parts of Our Lives

We just feed each other shit and hope no one calls us on it. Figure if we're all doing it, it's okay.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, The FactsJanne RobinsonFebruary 26, 2015social media, news feed, filter, unplug the drug, netflix depression, janne robinson, folk rebellion, narcissm, personal branding, fake, john mayer photoshop, selfies, filtered lifeComment

Let's Quit Looking Down, and Start Looking Up

Show up, differently by letting the people in your life know that they get first dibs, simply by being physically present in your life.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, The FactsJanne RobinsonFebruary 16, 2015Janne Robinson, look up, soul, roald dahl quote, eye contact, man missed whale, man on phone misses whale, missed opportunitiesComment

Waterfalls Are My Antidepressant

If you are stressed, anxious, sad, worn down I prescribe you one trip into the wild.

Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, Counter CultureJess DavisFebruary 12, 2015wilderness, therapy, negative ions, waterfalls, Janne Robinson, Elephant Journal, earth, nature, healingComment

This Valentine's Day DONT WHIP IT OUT

Honey, hold out for more than a dick pic.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisFebruary 11, 2015tinder, tinder dating, dick pics, los angeles, new york, romance, chivalry, dating, real life, tech dating Comment

Hey You With the Pretty Face, Welcome to the Human Race*

Meditation works. Period. Give yourself 10 minutes.

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisJanuary 23, 2015mediation, mindfulness, mindful, how to unplugComment

Why Naps are Really, Really Good For You.

Edison, JFK, Churchill, and Napoleon were all religious nappers.

Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, Counter CultureJanne RobinsonJanuary 9, 2015nap, napping, greek, nasa study, instant gratification, siestaComment