I took a picture of the all the little things that happened on my birthday and posted them all to Flickr.
Birthday Stats: 27
May 7th is my birthday. In honor of this extraordinary event in history, I did what I do best, track events from the day. This go around, I used Daytum as my tool to document various greetings, gifts and surprises that I encountered from sunrise to sunset as I celebrated this 27th year on Earth.
The Adorable Stalkers
It started out as a joke, really – as most absurd things do. A fairly common theme in my life is around documenting the minutia of day-to-day behavior. (See My Documented Life) One day, I began noting how many times I encountered a handsome fellow who worked near my office. Later in the week, I shared this slightly faux paz “note-taking” to one of my friends who decided that she too, would document her encounters with men who struck her fancy.
And because, why not, we decided to start a blog – musing about our own experiences, encounters and yes, “stalkings” of those we like and want to know more about. And as the title suggests, it’s not so bad when you’re adorable.
Photography: 18 Objects
As a photographic, creative and documentation exercise, I’ve photographed 18 random objects that were about in my bedroom the night of February 7th 2009. I chose items that represented myself at the time and shot them against brightly colored pieces of construction paper. I do love color, after all. The reason for the number 18 was simply because I would be posting them to Flickr, and my settings display 18 medium sized images on my initial page.
Health Tracking Exercise
I’ve created a number of systems over several years to help me track my health and fitness data over time. So far, this latest version has been the most appealing and fun to use. I’ve created this database using FileMaker to observe my nutrition patterns and physical activities and to see how things like mood, thoughts and creativity are affected by my diet. I find systems like this one to be the most successful tools when I am working toward a healthier, more fit lifestyle.
First Heard Last
For quite a while I thought it would be an interesting exercise to document the first thing I heard every day when I woke up and the last thing I heard before I went to sleep. I was hoping to uncover some interesting surprises and patterns about my life and observe the types of people and encounters that made up my day. I began tweeting these experiences on the account @firstheardlast. Although it was a lot of fun logging these moments, it became fairly hard to keep up with so I eventually let it die. I’d like to pick up on this again soon.
Odopod: Marketing + PR '08-Current
I’ve been with Odopod for a little while, originally hired as a producer then transitioning into a much needed marketing and public relations role. I’m responsible for marketing and promoting the company and our projects through a variety of methods including; media outreach, social media, attending and hosting events and conferences, participation in digital and design organizations, speaking engagements, newsletters, award programs, collaborations, special projects, experiments and anything and everything in between.
I also serve as a research and industry analyst, providing insights and data to partners and leaders to help facilitate thoughtful discussion, articles and blog topics to promote the agency’s strategic thinking and digital leadership.
Other functions include managing content updates and features to Odopod’s digital properties including Odopod.com and Odosketch, writing content and developing ideas for the Odopod blog, and managing Odopod’s presence in SoDA (The Society of Digital Agencies) whose mission is to advance digital standards and practices through education, collaboration and open communication.
May I Suggest…
May I Suggest is a fun little side project that I began after a long walk through a quiet, residential neighborhood in San Francisco. I noticed so many delightful, small details around me and decided to start documenting and writing about and these micro-experiences in fun, lightweight sort of way.
Now I make it a common practice, with the site as a tool, to observe my surroundings and capture these little bits of life that we often miss. The site is also here to remind you that those little things are still worth noticing and may I suggest that you too, you have a look.
Life Tracking Exercise
I started a tracking exercise recently where I took the same photo each day of specific elements of my life: my face, my outift, my left hand, the best part of my day, the sky, the outside of my living space, the view from my office, my bed, my home desk, and my shoes. This is just a sample of four days from the experiment that lasted just under a month. I managed all the data in a FileMaker Database that also tracked other micro behaviors in my life. It was very difficult to sustain.
Odopod: Producer '07-08
As a producer with Odopod, I was responsible for running successful digital projects with teams both large and small.
- Odopod: odosketch
- Odopod: Odopod.com
- Honda: Customize Your Civic Kiosk
- Honda: Kiosk Color Explorer Kiosk
- Honda: Kiosk Clean Timeline Kiosk
- Nike Soccer: Nikesoccer.com
- Nike Soccer: Men’s National Team
- Nike Soccer: Mercurial Vapor
- PlayStation: 2008 Redesign Discovery
- PlayStation: “About and Using” Video Productions
Awards:
- SXSW Web Award Winner: odosketch
- The FWA Site of the Day: odosketch
- CA Webpick of the Week: Odopod.com
- 2009 Pixel Awards Nominee: Odopod.com
- CA Interactive Annual 13: Honda Kiosk
Allison is Ugly
When I first bought a MacBook Pro, I did the same thing sensible person would do – check out the features, play with settings, see what apps it came with out of the box, customize like crazy, etc., etc. The thing that I would always share with others was PhotoBooth. Friends, family, strangers – everybody loved the goofy and wildly entertaining images that the app would produce.
Because I’m so interested in photography, I decided to take PhotoBooth to another level, capturing images of myself in interesting lighting situations, backgrounds, holding objects and just using my imagination to create extraordinarily bizarre, but carefully crafted pictures using PhotoBooth alone.
Before Odopod '04-07
I moved to San Francisco from New York City where I was an Interactive Project Manager at a small digital agency called Expand the Room, or ETR. I worked on large-scale digital projects for clients like Women’s Health Magazine, US Weekly, Rolling Stone and ESPN wrangling teams and partners to produce high quality work on time and on budget.
Prior to ETR, I helped establish the digital team at Gyro Worldwide as an Interactive Account Manager, starting with the company’s portfolio site and moving on to manage digital projects for clients like ECCO, Mountain Dew and Sailor Jerry. Additionally, I was responsible for new business support, participating in pitches, creating presentations and seeking relationships and opportunities to work with like-minded brands.
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