So Luis told me today that the parking tickets booklets have been generating a good amount of interest on the ol’ interwebs. People are blogging. Even How, a prominent design magazine, blogged about them.
I know – it’s just a blog post, but it’s pretty exciting to see my work recognized.
Awhile back, my friend Luis asked me to take some photos for a new product he was launching for shineboxprint.com: a book of pre-made parking tickets to leave on cars who’ve committed parking atrocities. I was honored to oblige.
Luis scouted a parking structure off of Highland and 16th street and we spent an evening taking photos of, well, parking spaces. For only shooting 30-minutes, we got some incredible pictures.
Chris LaRocque wrote the copy, and even though I’ve never met him, I’m impressed with his work.
Here are some of my favorite lines:
The project came together so fluidly, we are planning on doing another round of booklets.
You can buy the Parking Tickets book, and other great pre-made cards here.
Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 poses, which take 90 minutes and is performed in a room heated to about 105 degrees.
It’s hot, and you sweat. A lot. You may think this sounds gross, 40 people crammed in a room, sweating buckets. Well…it is, but the benefits out-weight the unpleasantness.
In addition to burning about 700 calories, you get a diverse strength training workout. Poses focus on flexibility, breathing, and balance.
More importantly, it’s interesting. Previous workout routines, for me anyways, become boring after a few weeks. It’s hard to keep in shape when you don’t look forward to working out.
The strange thing about Bikram Yoga is the challenge of each session. Sometime you will have great class. You breeze through every move, left with enough energy to try the advanced versions of the poses. Other times the classes are brutal. This is due to a combination of not being hydrated, how hot the room is, or how long the particular instructor decided holds each pose. I’ve had classes where I thought my heart was going to explode on a backward bend or my legs were going to give out on balancing pose.
Don’t let you turn you off from trying Birkam, though. No one has ever died (that I am aware of), and you feel phenomenal afterwards. It’s an incredible workout.
Which is why for the month of July, I will be participating in the 30-day challenge at my Yoga Studio. 30 days of continuous yoga breaks down to 45 hours, or 2700 minutes, of consecutive sweating.
It’s going to be a long month. I’ll check in from time-to-time to let you know how it’s going.
Sadly, my attendance to Refresh Phoenix the last 2 years has been virtually nonexistent. It was the location of the pervious venue, Inza Coffee, that did me in. It was a nice place, but an inconvenient drive when fighting traffic to Scottsdale after a hard day at work. (I shouldn’t complain though, many dedicated web folks from across the valley made that trek every month, and they probably lived or worked farther away than I did.)
That’s why I am happy to hear Phoenix Refresh has moved to Bison Witches, a more central location in Tempe. Though parking might be challenging, it sounds like it may have the right mix of credentials to host Refresh.
Something else I am looking forward to is Bison Witches’s diverse beer selection, which I feel always pairs well with good conversation about web design. I may also finally get a chance to redeem some beers through foamee, though it seems I owe more than are owed to me.
So come out this Tuesday to Refresh Phoenix. I hope to see you there.
3G iPhone activation is now only in-store. This is unfortunate. One of the best experiences of buying my iPhone was taking it home and activating it myself. No more awkwardly standing around the store, making forced small talk with the sales associates.
I imagine this is to prevent people from taking phones to other carriers or shipping them overseas. I’m also curious to see how and if they are going to manage online sales.