I'm Jacob Sam-La Rose: poet, editor, creative consultant, artistic director, and
sometime photographer. This is a collection of things that I like, things that make
me smile, things that make me think, things that I admire, things that I desire,
and so on...
Comments? Holler.
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.
Life is brief, and then you die, you know?
And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
— Steve Jobs (via minimalmac)
Festival | The Bigger Picture | A Festival of Interdependence | 24 October 2009
The Bigger Picture Festival! This Weekend! Sounds amazing!
End of a (poetry) writing day. New poems! W00t!
To celebrate, I’m geeking out a bit before shutting down for the evening. This is an early draft of a post I’ll probably finish up for my (other) new site. As such, it’s pretty short form and probably a little esoteric in places…
HARDWARE
- Macbook Pro 4,1
- iPod Touch (1st generation, I believe) (mostly for music, archived documents and other media)
- iPhone (3G) (comms and browsing)
- Various notepads - often a Moleskine (soft-cover, lined), Muji (A5, lined), Paperchase (A6 plain), StarthereNY (varied paper stock) or other miscellaneous pad
PROJECT / TASK MANAGEMENT
- Energy line on the cabinet
- Tasks and projects in Things (desktop and iPod app)
- Backpack, rendered as a separate app via Fluid (for collaboration)
EMAIL
Mail app on the desktop and the iPhone
- ‘Action’ folder to hold all actionable email
- Mail act-on plug-in for desktop for easy sorting of incoming mail
POETRY AND OTHER WRITING
- prompts and ideas for poems in an area in Things
- Larger ideas and/or groupings of prompts mapped out as projects
- writing in Scrivener (should probably do Evernote, but I prefer Scrivener for working on writing - aesthetics and some functionality). I have one large Scrivener binder that acts as the first stop for my work in progress and any uncollected finished/published work. I use a Scrivener binder for each article or book project I’m working on.
Note: Things app syncs to the iPod and the iPhone so I’ve always got ideas and prompts with me. Scrivener doesn’t automatically sync, but I do a manual sync every now and then.
NOTE TAKING
- Notes, ideas and initial drafts of poems written here
- Momo app on the iPhone - random notes taken here, syncs to an online service so also accessible via desktop. Prefer Momolog over Evernote - Momolog is faster and more reliable with regard to syncing, though Evernote has much more functionality)
- Actionable tasks are input directly into Things, while I try to do as much note-taking on the iPod/iPhone as possible - makes it much easier to find things later.
RSS AND ARCHIVED WEB PAGES FOR LATER READING
- NetNewsWire for reading RSS feeds on the desktop, with NetNewsWire app on the iPhone
- Having a hard time choosing between ReadItLater and Instapaper on the iPhone. Instapaper is much faster at rendering items, however…
ACCOUNTS / MONIES
- Excel spreadsheets
MISCELLANEOUS APPS I’D FIND IT HARD TO LIVE WITHOUT ON THE DESKTOP
- Dropbox
- Launchbar
WEB PRESENCE
- Main site - jsamlarose.com (new domain soon to be announced)
- Jslr.tumblr.com (blog - updates are cross posted to Facebook profile)
- Flickr.com/photos/jsamlarose
- Beforeitdisappears.tumblr.com (design, photography and typography scrapbook)
- Twitter.com/jsamlarose (status updates - automatically cascades to Facebook and Myspace)
- Facebook.com/jacobsamlarose (social networking)
- Photographic portfolio (new address soon to be announced…)
- http://putmeonit.blogspot.com/ (music blog I occasionally contribute to)
- http://www.last.fm/user/jacobslr (music - personal charts, listening trends and radio station)
- http://emberapp.com/jsamlarose/ (archived screenshots for layout and design)
- http://www.myspace.com/jacobsamlarose (social networking - legacy from yesteryear, profile all but defunct…)
- iPhone photoblog (coming soon)
Any questions?
Today’s a writing day, ladies and gents, (and I’ll be diving back into my editorial stack late this afternoon with a nod in your direction, Ekere…) but before I leave for the office, I’d like to draw your attention my new online presence: Before It Disappears.
Before It Disappears is an homage to things that grab my eye; a blog driven by design, typography and photography. It’s also a place for me to retreat to when the busy takes over…
In other news, my new main site will hopefully be up and running sometime next week - I’m just tweaking some text. Once I push that out, I’ll be attending to my new photographic portfolio/scrapbook, then working on the new incarnations of Metaroar and the Foundry project respectively…
All responses, likes and reblogs gratefully received.
;)
One of these days I’m going to write a series of blog entries about the web services and mac tools I use.
In the meantime, this looks worth keeping an eye on. There are lots of options for file-sharing these days, and I’ll be interested to see if Droplr becomes a more compelling offer than something like Box.net or Dropbox.
In lolcat-speak, I think the appropriate phrase would be “can i haz invite, pleez”?
— George Bernard Shaw
You exist on the internet already, in a number of different places. Maybe you’re on Tumblr (maybe?), maybe you tweet, maybe you’re a Flickr fiend, or - since video is the new photography - maybe Vimeo’s your thing. And likely most of the above. Point is, your online presence may well be fragmented across the interwebs. Lifestreaming (as a way of aggregating the content you post to your different web accounts) seems to be coming of age in tools like Flavors.me. Haven’t tested it myself, but the ability to customise things along with the apparent ease of use look pretty compelling…
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Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March 2003)
Am I an introvert? One of me is. The other one, I’m not so sure about…
