Custom Moleskine Sketchbooks!

Posted on March 21, 2008
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Moleskine

Custom laser engraved Moleskine sketchbooks!
I was just added to the Artist Series at
EngraveYourBook.com
The books are on display till mid April along with a great collection of my work at the Fresh Pot on Hawethorne. Or you can order the customized books right from Engrave your Book.

Art Opening

Posted on March 16, 2008
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Art Opening
Please join me Monday, March 17th for a very informal yet fun opening of my new art show at the Fresh Pot on Hawthorne.
Stop by from 7ish till 9ish in the evening and say hi.
If you can’t make it tomorrow, please check out this show as it will be up till mid April.

This show is a collection of drawings on top of antique photos. It’s a fun show that I highly recommend checking out in person.
Some of the pieces in this show are displayed on my flickr page at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mohdi
.

Thanks,

Drew

Drew and Internet

Posted on March 14, 2008
Filed Under Huh?, Announcements, Ideas | 5 Comments

Internet: Where you been Drew, I miss you?
Drew: Oh internet, I’ve just been trying to survive, it’s been a bit rough.
Internet: Don’t you want to hang out any more?
Drew: I just saw you earlier today.
Internet: It’s not the same like it used to be….
Drew: We’ll I’ve been kind of busy, you know… working on my sketchbooks and art and stuff.
Internet: Books. Books. Art? I know all about that stuff.
Drew: It’s just not the same I guess. I have been going flickr crazy isn’t that ok?.
Why don’t we hang out more after I hang this art show on Saturday.
Internet: Maybe you shouldn’t work on your books so much.
Drew: Uh… I bet you could write a pretty good book.
Internet: That’s a pretty good idea. You know MoHDI.com has been lacking in good ideas lately.
Drew: That will change soon.
Internet: Oh really?
Drew: I’ve been working on a lot of amazing things, you know inventions and things…
Internet: Why not do some more patent searches on google? Come on…
Drew: I got a little suspicious about that last time, I think my patent searches raised some flags.
Internet: :)
Drew: Oh internet you are pretty cool, I think it would be great if anyone could chat with you like I’m chatting with you right now.
Internet: Now that’s a great idea!
Drew: I think so too.
Internet: You should build the chat client and post it on MoHDI.
Drew: That would take so much work to build, you must be internuts!
Internet: Ha hah ha haa haa!
Drew: Haah ha haa hah!
Internet: Ha hah ha haa haa!
Drew: Haah ha haa hah!
Internet:Despite my vast knowledge of jokes, you are hilarious Drew.
Drew: Yeah. I know.

Hundred Dollar Ideas…

Posted on March 2, 2008
Filed Under Business, Art, Marketing, Announcements, Sketch Book, Perspiration, Ideas, Portland, Productivity | 12 Comments

A recent computer problem has been one of a few small hurdles that the MoHDI staff has had to deal with recently. After much strategic thought and planning it has come down to the core tactics of survival in order to allow seeds to grow.

With rent and bills over due, it’s time to figure out how not to lose the place I’m living in and how to manage to keep a roof over the head and food in the tummy long enough for one or more of these pursuits to pay off and for the proper financial guidance that seems so desperately needed from time to time.

Currently my first order of business is to pay rent and bills that will allow me to keep a place to live.
Since rent was due like a couple days ago and crucial utilities can not be shut off, it’s time to take some steps to maintain my non-homeless lifestyle that I have become so comfortable with.

Here is where you can help.

I’m selling my car.
If you know of anyone looking please let me know.

The Car
1986 240 Volvo Sedan, it’s a manual transmission with 161k miles on it.
There are a few dents in it but it’s a good car. It needs new tags and brake pads. The stick is a little loose but once you are used to it it’s fine. I’m asking $1110 but this is negotiable as I need to have sold it like a while ago.
Selling the car will pretty much help MoHDI and staff operate for another month and hopefully be enough time to finish some projects that will actually pay.

If you are not in the market for a car, I’ve got tons of original art for sale.
If you click on the photo you will be taken to my Flickr page and can see some of the pieces I’ve been working on. All of the cabinet cards are priced resonably at $50 each and if you are interested in any other art, I have stacks of both framed and unframed pieces at a variety of prices.

Other Projects move forward
In July of 2007 I started a sketchbook that when finished would be sold to the person who had the best offer for the finished book. Well last week I finished the first in the series for Buy My Sketchbook
While the press releases have yet to be released you can see all pages of the book at buymysketchbook.com
The current best offer is from my Mom and she is offering me $200 plus a nice dinner. I hope with a little bit of exposure on the project I’ll be able to fetch a bit more for the first book in the series. There was after all a ton of time that went into this book.

I’ve already started book two in the series. I hope to get the process down to about a month a book.
Below is a sneek peek at Sketchbook #2 for BuyMySketchbook.com.
Book 2 Preview

Lots more ideas are coming, It’s just hard to get things posted while in survival mode.

I guess it might be time to look for an actual job one of these days. In case you are wondering, my submission to WK for the seeking project they had was either not what they where looking for or perhaps when they asked for my resume, I should have actually sent them it. Either way, I didnt’ get accepted into that program although I still think it would be a fun place to work. Considering my financial situation I’d be willing to work there even if my office had a poor view of the city and I only had one assistant.

I’ve had a boatload of ideas and inventions to post in the past few weeks, I hope to be getting more up on the site once the current situation with money is resolved.

Feel free to comment or contact me if you would be interested in a car, art or a sketchbook.
(my contact info is on the sidebar of this site)

Hundred Dollar Ideas are just Ideas that make a little money.

Comment Box

Posted on February 13, 2008
Filed Under Ideas, Portland | 1 Comment

If you want to make a comment at an establishment you go into there is probably no better way than filling out a comment and putting it in a comment box. If that business does not have a comment box, why not bring one of your own. The Comment Box, is a box you can set up anyplace you want to make a comment about something.

Recently I was telling a friend about an experience I had at the Bagdad theater in Portland.

Basically I went to see a movie with a friend, the movie was supposed to start at 7:30 PM. Since it was a Friday, I was sure to show up and be in line a good 10 minutes before the movie would start. By the time we entered the theater the movie had actually started. This pretty much upset me, I missed about 5 minutes of the movie as they actually started the movie right at 7:30 despite a good 10 minutes of people in line. So I was basically complaining about how they probably shouldn’t start the movie until at least the people who showed up and had been waiting in line before 7:30 had a chance to get into the theater.

So I was telling my friend Scarlett about this and telling how I should write a letter or something. She told me one of her brilliant ideas she came up with while having a bad eating experience where the place she was eating at had replaced metal forks with plastic ones.

Since the place she was eating at didn’t have a comment box, her idea was to make a comment box then bring it in, fill out a comment and leave the comment and comment box. Brilliant I think.

So you can easily get your message heard as well open up a forum of communication with customers and business. By delivering a comment box into an establishment, you are providing a wonderful service to everyone involved.

Brilliant.

Friends of the Nib at Floating World

Posted on February 7, 2008
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First Thursday is going to be hot this month.

Friends of the Nib sounds awesome!

Wow!

If I can’t make the event tomorrow, I might just have to make a Seattle trip one of these days.

Rumor has it Joe Sacco might be speaking tomorrow at PNCA, although I’m not sure.

Oh Portland how I love you.

Super Tuesday Events!

Posted on February 4, 2008
Filed Under Announcements, Events | 10 Comments

Tuesday February 5th is just around the corner and there are two wonderful events going on that should not be missed.

Ignite Portland 2
Tuesday, February 5th
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Bagdad Theater
3702 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
Admission is always FREE

It will be an amazing time. The only problem that I have with ignite is that they scheduled this event on super Tuesday where many states will be voting in the primaries.

So, if you want to keep an eye on the politics going on join me at Beulahland to watch the results of the voting.
No matter who you support you are more than welcome to show up although most of the crowd will be Obama supporters.