The idea for this came from Charlie Sorrel. I like the idea of carrying around a moleskine instead of an iPhone, mostly because I like the aesthetics of the Moleskine. They have a great weight and they're handsome. The iPhone is pleasing in its own way, but it feels slippery. On the other hand, adding the overhead of the Moleskine form factor is a serious liability. So I went into this ambivalent.

I started with the reporter's notebook, 'cause I like the idea of making it a flip-phone. Also, I don't actually like the reporter's notebook form factor for note-taking, so this one had been lying around for a while. It's grid-ruled, which makes the measuring a little easier.

As you can see, the iPhone could fit snugly inside this form factor.

So now we're going to try something different. The only way to improve is with practice, and we'd like to get better at being a creative, vital influence on the rest of the world. The day job just isn't cutting it.

So every day, we'll be creating something. It might be a photograph, an art project, a mix tape, or even just a considered blog post... but everyday, *every day*, we'll be putting something back into the world.

Today, of course, is the redesign of the site.

Per slashdot, the folks at satobs have found this NOTAM that suggests USA 193 is getting shot down right around Maui. We can only assume that Barking Sands Missile Range will be doing the dirty.

Update: the deed will be done from a ship. That Star Wars crap would never work anyway. In other news, this whole operation is probably a very, very bad idea.

Happy President's Day.

...due, I can only assume, to the strict "Beards Only" policy at the
Banhart Compound.

Good gravy, these are neat. Insects rendered as automata.