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BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirts are Done!September 26 2008

Last night I picked up 4 boxes of beautiful, charcoal gray t-shirts for BarCampMilwaukee3! Here are shots of the actual shirt, hot off the presses:

Note that I've had my friend Brian Artka add his name, Twitter handle and tags to his shirt, so I could demonstrate how the shirt will work at BarCampMilwaukee3

Jason Fried's Discovery World SketchnotesSeptember 24 2008

This evening I had the opportunity to hear and sketchnote Jason Fried of 37signals while speaking at the Discovery World Museum on Milwaukee's lakefront. Jason's 1.5 hour talk was sponsored by my alma mater, Milwaukee Area Technical College.

I captured 22 pages of sketchnotes from the talk:

View the archived live video from the September 24th, 2008 event here: www.justin.tv/signals37/archive

Afterwards I had a chance to say hello to Jason, and show him the sketchnotes. He seemed very pleased and a little surprised (in a good way) about how I managed to capture that many pages in an hour and a half.

Jason, thanks for coming up to Milwaukee to talk with students, MATC alumni and the business community. We all really appreciate your time and insight.

Come up again anytime! :-)

BarCampMilwaukee3 Final T-Shirt DesignSeptember 15 2008

After receiving not a single entry in the BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt design contest, I decided late last week that I ought to come up with a design for the shirt, and quick.

Below is the final BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt design for 2008:

How did I Get Here?

The deadline for ordering shirts and submitting some art was looming, and there were no submissions to the contest to speak of. It was last week Thursday when I opened my sketchbook and started to doodle. What came out in rough form was a design vaguely similar to the design above.

I wanted something a bit organic, fun and round. I remembered that Pete Prodoehl had "tagging" space on name tags at the first BarCampMilwaukee in 2006. I took his idea a step further by embedding the tagging spaces right in the shirt design.

At the Web414 meeting that evening, I saw Jordan Arentsen wearing a charcoal gray t-shirt from a recent Adobe AIR event, and loved how the shirt looked. I checked his tag (with h

Pizzas on the GrillAugust 30 2008

After mentioning on Twitter that I was going to make pizzas on the grill for friends today, I decided to record the process on video:

Making pizzas on the grill is great for small or large groups and is especially fun for kids. Everyone gets to participate, yet each person can be an individual within the group. Even better, they taste great!

Give 'em a try while you can still fire up the grill!

Tour de France 2008 Info ListJuly 5 2008

Ah, the 95th running of the Tour de France is on again! As I've done each year since 2003, here's an updated collection of Tour de France 2008 information:

Streaming Audio & Video

Eurosport (Windows Media Audio)
ITV
Zattoo
Sporza Tour (Belgian)
Official TdF Channel (YouTube)
Cyclism Sundays (Hulu.com)

Tour Websites

Tour de France Official Website
Tour 2008 General Classification
Tour 2008 Stages
Tour 2008 Route
Versus: Tour de France 2008
Versus: Tour TV Schedule (US)
OLN: Tour TV Schedule (Canada)
ITV: Tour Coverage (UK)