Perhaps for use during a Wonderfile campaign….

Last Saturday night I attended the Artcrank Poster Show in downtown Minneapolis.

The show was at one on one bicycle studio, a place I had never been but wish I had, and will go back. And whatdya know, ran into Mr Tim Bramer! Pretty cool concept - Bike shop/Art Gallery/Coffee House/Local Hang Out for bicycling enthusiasts and activists. They also have a “bike graveyard” in the basement - hundreds and hundreds of old bikes and parts lined and stacked, interesting.

On display was a pretty impressive collection of bike inspired art and design, including this one by one of my design school classmates Adam Turman. He’s got a great style and does a lot of concert posters and album art for an impressive roster of clients. I picked up a couple of Minneapolis-ish prints for my office a couple of weeks ago - (this one and this one), just need to get them framed.

*update - Adam posted pics from the event on his blog

Rob Bryanton has a great little Flash tutorial that supports his book Imagining the Tenth Dimension.

A great example of using tech to simplify the complex - the Flash tutorial quickly and clearly explains how to imagine the 4th through 10th dimension. Kid stuff really….

The site won a W3 gold award in 2006.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

Interesting view of US home pricing data plotted to a 3D rolloercoaster ride. Prices are adjusted to inflation, and mapped from 1890 to the present.

Ride the Rollercoaster>

After a considerable amount of thinking and experimentation, I have reached a powerful conclusion. Gone are the days of tracking my life in various applications spread across various medium–the tool I have settled on is the conventional legal pad. It’s about the size of my laptop and much thinner, so it can ride with it in the bag, it needs no power, I don’t look like a loser using it on the bus, and in manageable doses, it’s easy enough to search. The last time I tried this, I imposed rules about how to take notes, schedule tasks, and recall information, even going so far as to limit certain pen colors to certain functions. This time, anything goes, and it’s working great.

My aunt, an attorney in Nashville, keeps a paper calendar and task list after similar electronic organizational woes. She does an amusing pantomime of the lawyers that use PDAs who sit in court trying to find a date that will work for the next hearing.