Getting Organized, 2008 Ink on copy paper with "giant" push pins 6 ft. x 8 ft.
Living Productively Using Your Hipster PDA, 2008 Video still from speech 6 minutes
Getting Organized is a collection of mind maps created a few months after a move across the United States to go to graduate school. The method of mind-mapping was developed by Tony Buzan and later promoted by David Allen in his book Getting Things Done. For this project I tried to think of everything I wanted to get done, whether immediately or “someday/maybe”. Stray ideas for art projects specifically are included in the subject heading “Current Artsy Ideas”.
Although the installation’s final form was rigid and static, the concepts written were improvised and fleeting. A concurrent project with a more ephemeral and evolving process was called Make-Work Project. It involved writing each to-do on an index card, categorized among four colors that indicated projects, next actions, calendar, and stuff. The cards were bound together by a binder clip, becoming a tool called the “Hipster PDA” (by San Francisco writer Merlin Mann). I presented a speech called How to Live Productively Using your Hipster PDA to a live audience, and when I finally showed my color-coded index cards, I spilled them as if they were too unwieldy to use.
Getting Organized, 2008 Ink on copy paper with "giant" push pins 6 ft. x 8 ft.
Living Productively Using Your Hipster PDA, 2008 Video still from speech 6 minutes
Getting Organized is a collection of mind maps created a few months after a move across the United States to go to graduate school. The method of mind-mapping was developed by Tony Buzan and later promoted by David Allen in his book Getting Things Done. For this project I tried to think of everything I wanted to get done, whether immediately or “someday/maybe”. Stray ideas for art projects specifically are included in the subject heading “Current Artsy Ideas”.
Although the installation’s final form was rigid and static, the concepts written were improvised and fleeting. A concurrent project with a more ephemeral and evolving process was called Make-Work Project. It involved writing each to-do on an index card, categorized among four colors that indicated projects, next actions, calendar, and stuff. The cards were bound together by a binder clip, becoming a tool called the “Hipster PDA” (by San Francisco writer Merlin Mann). I presented a speech called How to Live Productively Using your Hipster PDA to a live audience, and when I finally showed my color-coded index cards, I spilled them as if they were too unwieldy to use.