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Rickshaw's Moleskine Case Offer: 15 Pre-production Samples Customized to Your Choice of Fabric

Mark Dwight (Rickshaw's Founder & CEO) updated us on his Moleskine case.  Check out the youtube video showing how the fabric is sewed onto the case, happy to get a glimpse of the process behind.  The first 15 people contacting him directly gets to choose their own fabric!  Don't wait!

Hey Patrick, I hope you're having a nice holiday. I just thought I'd let you know I posted a new video about the latest revision of my moleskine folio. I demonstrate the customization process (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgX3cpg7wvM). I have 15 pre-production samples I'm making available to the first 15 people that contact me directly (mark@rickshawbags.com) -- $50 each plus tax and shipping. I'll work with each person individually to customize their fabric selection. Perhaps some of your readers would be interested.

Moleskine Folio Build

Here's a history of its development: M.bian Moleskine Case - an abandoned project, Responses to M.bian Moleskine Case, M.bian Case Meets Rickshaw's Mark Dwight, Rickshaw's Moleskine Case Update May 2008, Rickshaw's Moleskine Case Update Oct 2008.

Check out Mark's blog too. I've witnessed the start of his company, met him 2008 around May/June and watched how fast it grew into producing so many varieties almost on the fly.  Great work Mark!

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These Are The Few Of My Favorite Frames

I moved in to this apartment 4 years ago when my son was born, while he and my wife were still in hospital I moved in everything to welcome them home later.  I'm moving again, lots of good memory here in this place I spent the last 4 years watching this little guy growing up, a lot had to be thrown away though.  So I'm taking a lot of photos of this place, the drawings, son's painting etc.

The Few of my Favorite Frames

Among all the treasures, these are the few of my favorite frames.  Reminds you of The Sound of Music?  Yes, every year Pearl TV channel plays the movie and every time I watched.  This year this song keeps repeating itself in my head, prompting me to look at the frames I have.  Anyway, this will probably be my last post in 2008 coz I'm not sure when the internet connection can be established in the new home.  Xmas at retail was challenging but it was great after-all, back ached at stores when I was unpacking, tidying up stocks.  Back aches more these few days after all the packing at home.  Tomorrow will be a new day of unpacking and display at home :)  Happy New Year!

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"Woodpecker, Fly" and More Lo-Fi Life & Camera Discovery

Fellow Flickrer Fuzzyeyeball from Singapore did this "Woodpecker, Fly", an amazing BBF customization!  Check out ndroo's blog entry of this project.

Fuzzyeyeball's Woodpecker Fly

And don't stop at Fuzzyeyeball(aka ndroo)'s Flickr site, go straight to his blog if you like photography and crafts/hacks like I do.  You will be amazed by those fun projects and wanna pick up your camera right away.

Doube fun by ndroo

This double exposure fun with film strips is super easy to do (IMHO), will certainly give your photos a whole new perspective.  Also check out his recent beautiful Splat double exposures.

Splat by ndroo

A picture worths a thousand words, totally true about "how to do redscale film" and "SX-70 modification for 600 films", coz most of other sites don't show photos and arrows as detail as his.

Link: FUZZYEYEBALLS : My lo-fi Life & my obsession with lousy lo-fi cameras

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How to Live Artfully

Stepcase Lifehack recently has an article by Dustin Wax about "How to Live Artfully".  Interesting comments from fellow viewers and you've got to spare a few minutes rethinking about life.  The tips may sound trivial to materialists but when you appreciate life's finer details you open up yourself to connect to people in whole new ways.

Artemis "Put Together" A5 notebooks, covers and accessories

Art of living or life of art, I've been trying to mingle.  And they gradually became un-separable, what a great synergy between these two simple words.  You find two words and associate them to become your mantra.  Here's my addition to Dustin's list:

lovely article! Attention to details with appreciation, logging dreams seriously are among the things I do most often to get inspired. I have one thing to add:

Create Methods: most of us most of the time REACT to what’s happening to us, but before you react, try to create a whole new method to tackle the issues on hand. This habit will give you a lot of insights and train yourself to be even more creative, one step at a time. You will soon discover that nothing is really impossible too. Just remember *everything is connected*, you just have to find paths leading to what you intend to happen. Most rewarding by itself in my life. 

What's that to do with the photo in this post?  I'll leave it to your imagination, but it is a photo shot of our 2008 back to school thematic promotion.  A great stationery series from Artemis, flexible A5 notebook system which you can customize the way you like it.  Add diary, notebook, zip pockets, name card holders, photo album or clear folder to your beloved cover and you get a personal system.  That's why the series is called "Put Together".  All time best seller for us.  And I'm not advertising, I just love the simplicity of it.

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More Blog Responses of mind.Depositor

Got some amazing blog responses of mind.Depositor, especially when Lifehacker.com (with followup here and Japanese version of it) and Make Magazine also reported it.  (previous blog responses: GTDTimes, Moleskinerie, Koloist, David Allen Co., Lifehacking.jp, Geeks Guide To Productivity)

Mind.Depositor in use

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Christmas Trees Are Edible

An email from Xplane, a company I love for their promotion of visual thinking.  I own a few posters they made.

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And here's their long version of "Did You Know?: The Holiday Edition"

Did You Know?: The Holiday Edition (long version)

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Photo Shuffle Gives You Psychic Readings

I like to shoot films and usually ask the lab to print all photos, gotta feel the nasty pain of complete failure in order to shoot better, especially when I'm not familiar with a new camera.  This inevitably left me with a looot of prints I won't throw away but shy to show by themselves.  Many of them are not too bad, in fact good enough to be a backdrop of another great photos.

Unused Photos As Backdrop

With a little photo shuffle matching color and tone, I can easily find places where these photos belong.  A simplest way is to put them right into a KOLO Capri cloth album, then add smaller format main photos in front.  The result is a colorfully complicated psychedelic canvas which when presented to a perceptive viewer or even an oracle may explain why you were in such deep trouble in the last year.

Unused Photos As Backdrop

Why not?  You can play with your 78 not so familiar tarot cards to tell your own fortune, why not shuffle images you took and contemplate what's going on with your life?  After-all, they are images streaming from your past actions, thoughts and feelings bound to carry tidbits of tasty subconscious juice.  Here's some examples:

Unused Photos As Backdrop

My train of ideas runs underground, can you catch a glimpse of me peeking into the world on public ground?  Rear mirror.

Unused Photos As Backdrop

Using a lot of double exposures enhances the flow of your creative juice.  So go shuffle!

Unused Photos As Backdrop

One other way to use Capri is to take away the pocket sleeve and write down your thoughts about the photos on the opposite page.  Yet another great photo journaling tool!

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What's in Your Bag, What's in Your Dream

What's in My Bag

Looking inside to see what's your bag gives you a lot of insights, of what you are recently up to, of what you've already known but never being verbalized...... It is just like reviewing a dream, you discover patterns, signs and relieves.  I woke up just now after 4.5 hours of dreaming and 1 full hour of dream review/replay.  It was a fantastic dream, all beautiful people at different ages, one explained her Parkinson's disease, bright sunlights in beautiful buildings, meeting people in conference, people carrying all kinds of cameras, a typewriter hack, light coffee/martini in a restaurant, a mini-cooper strapped with a pair of jet engine fell off from sky to water passenger safe, on a cruise safely observing such AFV type accident, met several journalists and chatted about their confidential information, an announcement from our managing director, group photos with high school mates, .... how wonderful I got his little brain of mine dreamed away a totally stressful day.  Patterns discovered: people were in groups of three when I interacted (journalists, waiter/waitress sat chatting with me, etc), discovering new things from old acquaintance, being nice to people unintentionally got me useful information, .... told me a lot of myself.

What's in My Bag

So what I discovered from my bag is similarly intriguing.  I found that most of the stuffs there are recording devices except an iPod for playback.  How simple is that!  I record and organize a lot of things using these tools usually in very visual ways, I playback audiobooks/musics to relax and learn.

Here's what's inside: Moleskine and leather cover from Gfeller, pen clip from Authentics, Field Notes and its ball point pen, Moleskine leather diary, mind.Depositor, customized USB memory stick, Rollei 35SE, Canon IXUS digital camera, Visconti roller ball, Recife Baby Press, iPod video 60GB, Skullcandy Titan in-ear headphone, Beats headphone by Dr. Dre (I don't own this one, just testing it, amazing quality)

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Two Analog Names Brought Photo Journaling to Life - PoGo Moleskine Set

This day finally came.  Two analog names joined forces to create this special edition set with a modern day twist: Moleskine notebook + Polaroid PoGo portable photo printer (check out polapremium.com)  Although the Polaroid name became all digital in recent years with the discontinuation of film production, the set really created convenience to people who like to do photo journaling in real time.  I've been searching for options to do just that - taking photos and writing things down at the same time, during travel or when touching moments come.

PogoMoleskine1

PogoMoleskine2

My own version of this photo journaling practice used to be "Polaroid SX-70/SLR690 + Moleskine" but due to the difficulty to find 600 films, I switched to "Fujifilm Pivi MP300 + Moleskine" (Photo Journaling A Lot Easier with Pivi).  It is less satisfying and less instant but still I can achieve my purpose.

Color info still retains after 3 cycles of shoot/print

Photo Journaling with Pivi

The missing element of this PoGo+Moleskine set is the camera itself.  So instead of an instant camera plus a notebook, you carry around your digital camera, PoGo and a Moleskine notebook.  Sometimes it makes a huge difference but I guess this is just a transition to the future when digital camera will finally include instant print function.  It shouldn't be far away, look what Takara Tomy did with PoGo together, a product just like what I said called Xiao.

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... and I couldn't stop customizing...

mind.Depositor with stamp

I don't have the tools to emboss my mind.Depositor leather cover, the alternative is to use craft ink with a stamp I got from Convent Garden last year.  Yeah I just couldn't stop customizing my "productivity" tool :)  Perhaps I should do the Scription logo on the back of the leather cover.... hmmm.....

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