lets make things better

cheers

one month in new york:

visit friends and see what they are up to. see what people need.


1. professional investment
a. inspiration
b. mentorship

2. network
a. conferences - potential content
b. brandcenter

one month in new york:

1. professional investment

Clean my room

make sure wires are connected

go to bank
get online banking figured out


talk to forrest

Organization lost

Things to remember

the beach vacation

(the image looks better when you click on it)

Focus = work

Patience

I had a very pleasant day, thank you Kashi.

just for the moment

i think i am back in love

i realize i love selling the future as i think it could impact the present

we all express/speak/move/fart/obsess about something

and we all happiness

The Mission with Alice and Verrochi

water

Every Day Earth Day

overthink overthing

Will be missed

Notes

getting things done in the unfinished city

i drove down third from western to traction (with a short stint of fourth) after having three cavities filled. i fell a little bit in love with los angeles again.

when i finally made it to the inside, i had enough time to read the first place before the discussion began.

as we walked back i admired the collective mess of the studio, the cardboard sculpture on the ceiling, the dual projected screens.

measure r passed adding a half cent sales tax over thrity years resulting in $40 billion for transportation measures.

first place mastransit. loop

the day was an award ceremony for an open call for submissions:

A New Infrastructure:
Innovative Transit Solutions
For Los Angeles

Two things stuck out most in the two hour presentation.

1. Galye, the director of planning for the city, the "closest to implementation and practicality" called Los Angeles the "last big unfinished american city" we take part in who we become and what place we inhabit.

2. Los Angeles is not like other cities we have the ability to have breakfast in the desert, lunch in the mountains and dinner by the ocean. that is part of the beauty of living here - this was one of the last comments raised by a member of the first place team

my favorite part of the day was eric, a late entrant to the commentary who was a little bit honry, literally staring down the crowd at times and instigating the other panel members. he was insistant that the discussion continue and that there is "not a mechanism or will in place to take on the type of things proposed." That there needs to be authority to experiment in particular areas. Things can not be handled by a project by project basis and we should lead the discussion in the same way it is done around rebok. "intelligible vs. piece meal"

other thoughts of note:

- "solve individual movement in the city"
- the first cent tax passing was in 1980 and it relied upon 19th and 20th century technology - now we have information technology in plans

March 27th the conversation moves to the Metro from 2 - 4 to discuss implementation
April 4th A New Infrastructure Discussion: Transit And The City (MAK Center at the Schindler House)
April 14th A New Infrastructure Discussion: Transit and The Community (The GOOD Space)
June 25th A New Infrastructure Discussion: Architects And Transit (AIA Mobius/ Dwell Conference)

from here:
GOOD La becomes a collection of people getting things done
in the unfinished city

Number Two

Flash First

1BOG

145 and counting

As a firm believer in using business as a force for good, I was quite pleased to learn about Nike’s donation of $100K to Brian Bordainick’s Field of Dreams. Brian is 23, ambitious, and embarking on one of the largest civic engagement projects in New Orleans.

George Washington Carver High School’s resurrection occurred in the wake of Katrina and in the heart of the 9th ward. Three and a half years later the Mighty Rams find their football team practicing on an abandoned parking lot and busting their humps to raise dollars for a new community sports space providing an unprecedented resource to the city and everyone in it.

With just under five months to raise ONE MILLION dollars, there is a long road ahead.

Which begs the question, what if ten more businesses made the same commitment? Please, suggest away. Champion? Hanes?

Thank you for sharing today sir

bird one

i wanna see this

saturday response

those numbers are incredible. makes me question what is after facebook and ask what is up with the recent popularity of twitter? its been around 2 years and just now getting talked about with regularity, guess its the growth of mobile phones (quick poll: how many of you are reading this on one?). i wonder if we could form some sort of arrangement where when you visit our site through a particular service provider "x" was donated to one of our nonprofit partners or projects.

also thought to forward this just in case you haven't seen it - could make for interesting transparencies or possibly incorporated into the ecosystem
http://www.google.com/trends (looks like mid-scale chain food is popular on saturdays!)

For Mabel

January 19, 2009

personal file: in lessons learned

i had the opportunity to work with YPM (http://goypm.org/) last night.

http://www.good.is/?p=14757

capacity
access
rsvp organization
audio/visual check
toilet paper
announcements about putting away trash
lock to gate
chalk board entry to red room

work with more amazing women

emails_v1

[it would also be helpful for me as part of the conversation to clarify how the big idea operates separate from content/topic/foundation.]


[thought it might be beneficial to have some form of "key" at the bottom of each sheet.
people could see what was coming up (theme/topic), what they missed, when the "big idea/action" projects would be
and it would give a nice overall architecture to the entire initiative.

i've attached a rudimentary drawing]

in the mission

travel scan

silent movies

foggy day

emergency

lomography

New Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUKMp997IQ