In honor of the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has designed four man-made waterfalls to run down underneath the bridge’s two main towers.
The waterfalls will be turned on tomorrow and will remain on till Oct. 13 between 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. You can learn more about the project at its official website; for my own part, I can’t wait to see it!
In a Forum on Mac Resource, “Kap” asked:
“Do you still use a Daily Planner to keep track…of your appointments, reminders, contact info, etc.? I know thre are electronic devices made for such tasks but what if the battery runs out, the system crashes, the power is out, the device croaks, etc.?”
“Mr Downtown” responded:
“Quo Vadis Miniweek. 3 x 4 inches means never having to say ‘my calendar is in my bag/car/office.’ And it’s cool to occasionally look back at what was important enough to write in my 1979 appointment book.”
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Dumb Little Man is a site dedicated to providing “a handful of tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or just keep you sane.”
Tired of dealing with endless emails every day? Does emailing back and forth seem to be most of your job now? This article will help you cut it back.
Here are a few other tips:
- Call instead of email.Â
- Check your email early in the morning, at noon, just before you leave the office. Try not to check during the rest of the day - leave it for work, meetings, socializing in person.
- Be brief in your email.
- If you use a Quo Vadis Agenda Planning Diary, you can note your priority emails for the week in the dashboard box or in Daily Notes. Take care of them first.
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is America’s first business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. It’s billed as “the last career guide you’ll ever need.”
The book is written by Daniel Pink, the New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation. He lectures to corporations, associations and universities around the world on economic transformation and the changing world of work.
Johnny Bunko is stuck in a dead end job. He begins to suspect that what he thought he knew is just plain wrong. One night, he meets Diana, an unlikely career advisor. She reveals to him the six essential lessons for thriving in the world of work. Here they are:
1. There is no plan
2. Think strengths, not weaknesses
3. It’s not about you
4. Persistence trumps talent
5. Make excellent mistakes
6. Leave an imprint
Business Week did a whole review.
I was with Sam and Frank Fiorella of Pendemonium at the Chicago Pen Show in early May. We showcased some new Rhodia products with them. Sam and Frank are fun, wonderful people and experts on all things pen, paper and inks.
With them at the show was Letta Grosekemper, who specializes in custom nib grinding. Letta spent 54 years with Sheaffer Pen Company in their Pen Point Department as a production operator.
My Sheaffer pen nib was fine, but Letta worked on my Yard-O-Led so it writes to perfection!
I’ve already blogged about some of the artwork that’s inspired by paper manufacturer (and QV sister company) Clairefontaine.
This time, I’d like to share some work from NYC choreographer Sarah Johnson, who uses journals made by another QV sister company, Exacompta, to record her dances. You can check out a video of several past projects above; more recent videos and photographs of this athletic, fluid work is housed on Sarah’s website.
Do you know of any other cool or unusual artistic projects based on Quo Vadis, Clairefontaine, or Exacompta products? Please share them in the comments!
In her 1952 spiritual autobiography, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day (1897-1980) described her early habit of keeping a diary:Â “When I was a child, my sister and I kept notebooks; recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us, even while we wrote about.” Day maintained this habit, though somewhat irregularly, throughout her life.
Somes her reflections were prompted by happiness, sometimes by sorrow, but mostly her diary entries were an expression of her intense interest in life and her responses to what was happening around her.
The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg, has just been issued by Marquette University Press.
The Farm in Southold, NY uses the Stella Natura calendar. The Farm’s crops are bountiful, delicious and healthy. Last summer, when overabundant rains compromised many other farmers’ and gardeners’ tomatoes (including mine!), The Farm had a great crop.
The Stella Natura is a biodynamic agricultural calendar that had its beginnings with Austrian philosopher-educator Rudolf Steiner in 1924. Sherry Wildfeuer popularized an English language edition, and has edited the calendar for the last 32 years.
Biodynamics is a holistic system of agriculture whose practices are designed to harness the forces of the sun, moon, planets and stars and focus them on the earth and its plants. Its both an ancient and modern practice of preparation and cultivation.
The calendar is meant to be used with common sense and an eye to the weather. The charts can assist you in choosing optimum times to sow seeds, transplant, cultivate your crops and harvest them for storage.
2008-2009 Quo Vadis Academic planners started shipping to retailers and college bookstores early last week. They should be on the shelves by early June.Â
If you don’t see the one you want, ask the bookstore manager to order it for you.Â
Last year, the most popular student planners included the Textagenda, Scholar, Academic Minister and Principal.
Our Academic planner sales continue to grow every year, and this year has seen the biggest jump so far, almost doubling the number of college bookstores around the country that carry Quo Vadis.
Retailers located near colleges and universities have also started to stock academic planners in addition to calendar year. Why? Primarily because many college students like to shop off-campus for stationery supplies, local high school and junior high teachers buy them, and other education professionals prefer a pocket or desk calendar on the academic year.
How many life-changing events are unplanned, but come from chance discoveries?
The Red Leather Diary - Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by journalist Lily Koppel, is the story of such a discovery.
Like something out of a novel, a chance find in an Upper West Side dumpster turned into Koppel’s look at a young woman coming of age in New York City in the 1930s. Koppel stumbled across the diary inside a steamer trunk near her apartment. And thanks to a hired sleuth, she found the owner of that diary. Florence Wolfson, the young writer, was still around at 92.
In her diary, which Koppel augments with interviews with Florence, we can see a young woman with an artistic, literary aesthetic trying to take advantage of all New York City offers and find herself in the process.
Though written at a time when sex was a a subject discussed discreetly at best, the diary is studded with brief but graphic details about relationships with both men and women.
How, Florence was asked, did the diary end up in dumpster? She is not sure, but she suspects the journal was inadvertently abandoned in storage when she and her husband left 98 Riverside Drive in 1989.
The move from New York City to an affluent Connecticut suburb seemed to write a final entry to the chronicle of the eager, searching girl she had been. “Where did all of that creativity go?” Wolfson wondered aloud to Koppel as she pondered the newly rediscovered story of her youth. “If I was true to myself, would I have ended up in Wesport?”
