Have you heard about this crazy Russian skyscraper/house yet? Built by hand by ex-gangster Nikolai Sutyagin in the city of Arkhangelsk, it currently stands—incomplete—at 144 feet, and both townspeople and local authorities are threatening to make him take it down. (There was a story about the controversy in the Telegraph last fall, and you can watch a video about it here.)
I haven’t heard any further updates recently, but for the sake of creativity, coolness, and plain old peculiarity, I hope the house stays up…
Last year, Karen wrote about the Surf Divas, all-girls surf school in La Jolla, CA. Their planner of choice: the Trinote, with blue club covers.
This year, however, they’re trying out a similar, but slightly larger format—the Prenote. (Karen found some extra Prenotes lying around the office and decided to donate them.)
The long weekend of the 4th of July is almost upon us–and I’m beginning to think about my backyard picnic. Lobster rolls will be on the menu this year.
GoodMorningGloucester offers ”The World’s Greatest Lobster Roll.”  It looks great! If you don’t have the lobster roll on a toasted hot dog bun it’s not a real lobster roll. I also want tail meat–not just stuff from the claws.
The Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport, NY also offers the “World’s Greatest Lobster Roll.” I have had one there, and it was indescribably delicious.Â
If it rains, I’ll go to Jedediah Hawkins; if the weather is good, the backyard with the Gloucester, Mass. recipe!
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!
“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:
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!
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.
 
