After a decade or more of maundering about needing a big ole database of everyone I know and everything I've noted about them, I spent a couple days teaching myself Filemaker Pro.
Now everything is alphabetized, or in chronological order, or listed by zip code.
I'd always wanted to take open-ended notes while talking to someone, but the various databases I'd used, like Act! and Entourage had these dinky little windows for typing. So when I got to FMP, I looked at the tiny window for the Contact Management template and thought I can't have everything.
Then I found out that that field's capacity is measured in gigabytes AND I can create a layout where it's almost the whole screen, like a word processor. PLUS I figured out how to set a key combination that takes me instantly to that big notes view.
So go ahead, call me up, tell me something at length. I'll remember.
11/28/08
11/7/08
10/16/08
Andreas Templin's recent work
Here's Andreas' notice about his work for the one minutes project.
I shot his presentations, one about Giorgio Agamben's 'Homo Sacer' in the Millennium Park garage and the other about Derek Jarman's garden, with the Pritzker Pavillion as a backdrop.
Sometimes you meet someone and think that he's having the life you'd like to have. Andreas is having a number of lives you'd like to have. And he's so winning you don't begrudge him at all.
These book reviews were almost as interesting as the Donatella Versace Memorial project of his that I also documented.
10/15/08
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