High on Planning

These are the planners at Wieden and Kennedy. We off roaded up to this awesome little cabin at the top of Mt. Hood. We talked about planning. We drank, and watched the sunset.

Solar Powered Charger - In Pink

You can get it in Black, Silver, White, and even Pink. Here's the website if you want to check it out. It looks like it's not quite in the US yet. But you can still order it...

http://www.solio.com/v2/shop/shop2_details.php?product=149

Here is an amazing exhibition in New York City if you can make it...

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Here is a brief descriptor:

Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.

This series will be exhibited at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York from June 14th to the end of July. Opening reception on June 14th. More info at www.vonlintel.com.

Social Slipstreaming

Russel Davies put up a great blog yesterday about what he calls social slipstreaming. Here's the gist:

"I've found a few people online who seem to have similar tastes to mine, but better and more enthusiastic. They're much more likely to seek interesting events out, they're better informed about what's coming up and what's likely to be good and they're more energetic about actually going to them. Their concert-going taste is like mine but better. And what upcoming lets me do is ride their coat-tails to event happiness. I don't have to religiously read Time Out and comb through upcoming I just keep an eye on what they're going to, and I go to some of the same things. (Which is why it feels slightly like stalking, and now I write it down maybe it's more creepy than I realise, hmm, maybe I should stop.)"

Of course, it took a British planner to neatly sum the whole thing up:

"...essentially ’stalking’ someone who is more into something than you (like music or gigs or politics) and using them as a guide to the subject."

He goes on to point out how this is analogous to the way planners gather information on most everything throughout the day. So in the end, what started out as a fresh insight on a new social trend turned into a moral lesson about planning.

Funny the way things go around.