Garr Reynolds is a jazz-loving marketing professional and student of Zen and the Zen arts who lives in Japan and travels the world talking about all things presentation. His Website: www.presentationzen.com
No joke: I'm walking in the rain this evening to my friend's design studio for a meeting when that "Chocolate Rain" song of Internet fame pops into my head and I can't get that &^%$#@! riff to stop inside my cranium. Then I look up...rain, chocolate...weird. I took a snap with the iPhone in Osaka. In case you're not one of the 50 million who has heard this "song": http://snipurl.com/t61ue
Snapped this in Namba outside the Body Shop - the middle of a much larger poster. This was the only text on the poster. Got my attention (and not for the interesting English...).
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I remember the day well.I was living in Aomori and glued to the tv coverage. Already 20 years ago...wow...and here I am again watching 20 years later.
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Hmmm, how do you say "omiyage" in Korean? Anyway, really nice package. Received this from one of my students returning from Korea.
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Thomas in Germany reminded me of a very cool plug-in for Mac OSX called Mondrianum from Lithoglyph. Mondrianum is a plug-in that makes it easy to save your Kuler themes and search all Kuler themes right inside PowerPoint or Keynote or any other app on your Mac. Once the free plug-in is installed it acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature. This plug-in absolutely made my week — totally awesome! (What's Kuler? I talked about it here a few days ago.)
Above: After you install the plug-in you'll notice a new option on the upper right of your color inspector. As long as you have an internet connection you can search the entire Kuler community of public themes. In the screenshot above, I searched all the color themes that I created in Kuler from photographs by searching for my user name — you can search by user name or idea, concept, season, whatever...
Above: Here I am saving the theme to the system-wide color picker so that I can have access to it even when not online. It is easy to created themes in Kuler and then save them to Mac so you can access them anytime.
Above: Here is the color scheme now from within iWork. You can rename the colors or theme at this time as well.
Above: You can search by any keyword you like or by a user's name if you happen to fancy someone's particular themes.
If you are using Kuler, then you must have the Mondrianum plug-in. Amazingly simple and powerful. I assume there is something this easy for the PC as well? If so, can you please let me know of any plug-in for the PC that will integrate Kuler with your system color picker? I will post the link here. MondrianumComments [2]
When purchasing another copy of "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs" (recommended) by Carmine Gallo today I noticed this little window at the bottom. Interesting to see my two books on presentations/design separated only by Sarah Palin's. Maybe I'll write "The Rogue Presenter" someday. :-)
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Surprised to see this in the Nikkei today. This is at least the 3rd time in this paper, "The Wall Street Journal" of Japan. The support and interest in the Japanese version has been quite amazing and unexpected. Really happy to see so many Japanese interested in looking at presenting in a different way.
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"I can haz relax time wiz za heatid floors..." - Luke
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