Although I don’t personally do a lot of the traditionally accepted activities to celebrate Valentine’s Day, I do like the sentiment of being a little nicer to someone for whatever reason. So, to help get in the spirit, MyBestDesktops.com will be posting what I hope to be a whole slew of lovey-dovey desktops over the next couple weeks.

Today, we kick it off with Valentine’s Red Rose 1. Keep checking MyBestDesktops.com for the latest and greatest in sweet desktop wallpaper goodness.

In the meantime, I’ll try to remember to keep updating the thing…

My woman (and myself to a lesser degree) has been looking for some new plates and stuff, so when I walked by Tart on Melrose and saw these very, very cool plates in the window, I had to take a photo and show them to her. The store was closed at the time, so I couldn’t go in for a closer look, but I figured we could get them online later…

Sure we could… for $80 per plate! Awww damn. A little out of my price range… I mean, even the coffee mug was $70!

I need to remember to get rich so I can have fancy plates one day.

My Best Desktops is in the midst of a Halloween desktop wallpaper blowout! Head over there and download ‘em while they’re hot!

For a few years now, I’ve been designing or using some of my photography to make desktop wallpapers for my personal use. Sometimes, I would even make these available to the world via a couple different web outlets like my work site. The downloads have really been phenomenal for quite some time, so I’ve finally decided to launch a site just for these desktop wallpaper downloads.

Say hello to MyBestDesktops.com!

At this site, I’ll upload ALL of the past desktops and continue adding new desktops practically everyday for the foreseeable future! That means vector desktops, photo desktops, text based desktops, fun desktops, serious desktops, animal desktops, travel desktops and everything between!

So, check out MyBestDesktops.com and get downloading! I’ll do my best to remember to update it as often as possible.

While wasting some time in Shiodome, I stumbled across ADMT or Advertising Museum Tokyo. The place did a good job of showing how advertising evolved with Japan through the last couple centuries by showing old signs, paintings, prints, newspapers, manga, television spots and more.

If you’re in advertising and happen to be in Japan, it’s a short and relatively cool distraction… even though it turned out to be an elaborate method of the largest and oldest advertising agency in Japan, Dentsu, to toot their own horn.

I should remember to open the “Advertising Museum of Brooklyn” and just fill it all with my own stuff.

Producing large websites the likes of sixflags.com for a company as unique as Six Flags Theme Parks is an undertaking so large, so full of potential pitfalls, and so amazingly complex that it’s no wonder complete interface to infrastructure redesigns of this size don’t happen all that often. That said, the all new web presence for Six Flags is a huge step into the future everyone involved should be proud of.

Highlights include large expanses of space for gorgeous new photography on nearly every page, massive video streaming at HD resolutions larger than many HDTVs, immersive 360 degree panoramic photography users can use to experience what it’s like to be at the top of the scariest rides on the planet, two original Flash games, over 2000 pages of rewritten copy, and more image assets depicting more rides, stores, events, entertainment, emotions and experiences than you can imagine across numerous park sites coast-to-coast!

The best part is that the new site will only just keep growing with more new content, new features, sweepstakes, partnerships with leading companies and more. So, sign up for the all new Team Six to stay up to date with the latest Six Flags news, but remember that despite the fact that this new site is chock full of experiential content, the only way to get the full Six Flags experience is to visit the one closest to you! Get your tickets, Season Passes, or VIP tours here and enjoy!

I gotta remember to visit Six Flags Great Adventure as soon as it opens!

Creating the advertising and signage for the movie Children of Men (which I remember really liking) must have been a ton of fun for the UK based Foreign Office. Being in advertising, this is the type of project I would have loved to have done as it was basically free reign to comment on today’s marketing and the directions it could go in the future.

I need to remember to save time from work to pursue some more fun projects.

(Via Kottke.org)

Just walked back up the street from checking out the marathon. It’s really convenient that the runners pass within half a block of my apartment. One of these days maybe I’ll have enough courage to try out myself.

Although I tried my best to get some good photos, I only managed a couple decent ones. Oh well, I guess there’s always next year.

In the meantime, I should remember to keep checking the NYC 2006 Marathon Group on Flickr to see what other people caught.

Being that this site is all about memory (or the lack there of) and that I do interactive work for a living, I was bound to come across something from the design world not only directly tied to memory, but also something I wanted to remember… if that makes any sense.

All that convoluted mess aside, Getty Images “collaborated with five leading designers to create 10 ways: interactive experiences that explore what makes visual language so powerful.”

Some of the pieces are interesting (some maybe not so much) but obviously the one that caught my eye was Memory. Created by the Barbarian Group, it initially displays an image inviting the user to draw on top of it. While drawing, the image fades away. I really can’t decide whether I enjoy the concept or not, but the execution is engaging and thought provoking.

Don’t forget Memory or the other 10 Ways explorations.