hey adam savage here in my cave with the show-and-tell i am so
so excited to show you because it's a show-and-tell of a new
product by a close and personal friend so i have
some vested interest in this one ladies and gentlemen simoniach's
everyday calendar has arrived i haven't even
cracked this this arrived on friday i'm recording this on a monday morning and i
didn't open this all weekend so that i can shoot this for
you right now
i have been privy to some of the trials and tribulations that simone has gone
through in realizing a product out
in the world and it has not been easy she has learned a ton uh and she's kept
me apprised of of of the winding path it took to get
here but here it is and it's finally time
i okay i mean maybe i should just crack it but i just i want to point out the
thing that's so awesome about this is simone set out to make it because she
wanted to be able to keep a record of meditating every day
and i have been a meditator for well over 25 years
i'm a terrible meditator i am terrible at it and
my practice is shambles and yet it has also been a really important part of my
life and i have watched it become a super
important part of simone's life and that its externalization is a
beautiful thing like this and by the way let's just look at this packaging this
is great uh single material corrugated cardboard a
nice solid box it feels very substantial um i like the i like the banner printing
everyday calendar that's all that it is this is about as
hold on all right here we go um now when we open it
the first thing we see is a wonderful poster and it says it's here
it's your very own oh and here it gives you a handy hanging
template for actually mounting this to your wall
i have no idea what you're planning to use it for but i hope it will prove to
be a really useful tool for you it surely has been for me i made the
everyday calendar because i wanted to make sure i
meditated every day and as much as it's a gold star system i noticed
that it's not necessarily the thought of getting to light up a day that spurred
me on but the thought of one little day not
being lit up so with that said be kind towards yourself
set the bar low you can always raise it later and then when you finish the year
just hold january 1st for 45 seconds to reset your calendar
boy do i wish i could do that right now
this this is this is great this is this is lovely
um okay so let's put this back oh wait no you want the close-ups of the
thing it's here oh there's a handy pair of hanging hooks
as a guide to how to mount this to your wall
here we're going to do a star wars crawl
it is dark time in the rebellion oh and there she oop oh reflections
there it is this is an adventure incorporated it certainly is
okay let's take a look at this beauty
look at this
all right so here i guess this is a power supply
yes oh right for european for european power if one so chooses but
i'm going to choose american power such as it is
oh that's just more plugs i don't need i don't like that
i this looks like a protective film oh wow yes so it is
oh man
you want to see this like you want to see the protective film come off right i
mean we've got to make it on to oddly satisfying don't we
look at this it feels beautiful it looks beautiful
this is like the elevator button board for heaven
right 365 buttons wherever you want to go
wherever you want it's willy wonka's elevator elevator
words are escaping me because it's monday let's light it up
okay i think it's time to light it up
there we go
oh it made it into the garbage can when does that ever happen
almost never okay so there is nothing else in here this is
brilliant by the way this is really good packaging simone
this is um we're talking just two pieces of cardboard for all the packaging
this is the insert that holds the board up
and keeps the power supply in place
nice big swaths of cardboard this is excellent for cutting into projects
later that's awesome dude
okay look look at the back of this this is gorgeous
bamboo renewable wood
oh and i programming you can do some programming
i haven't gone on to the website to see how
how to program it but look at this this is okay so
i think it's time that we get this up and running
so let me get uh power over here
oh that was beautiful did you catch that
oh
wait i want you to see that again watch what happens when you turn it on
again just those little attentions to detail oh
and it holds the memory of where i was oh that's great
okay so i hold down january 1st for 45 seconds and everything should go away
i'm really going to make you suffer through 45 seconds of that no i'm not
um what is
oh you can dim it oh nice you can make it really bright
okay i mean
this is this is wonderful this is really really beautiful i got to get it
stood up somehow so that you can see it so it doesn't fall and i want to get
some close-ups of these buttons coming on because it's
awesome hang on
yeah i know i've got some numbers lit up and it's all a mess
it's totally a mess i will point out that there's this
really neat way in which just touching the number doesn't light it up you
actually have to touch it for a split second and there is dare i
say touching these buttons and lighting them up requires just
a tiny bit of mindfulness like you gotta touch and hold you gotta
touch and hold that right there is like the most precise attention to detail i
can imagine because that was a choice they made how
long it takes to light it up i'm i'm pretty sure
i love small batch manufacturing i love local manufacturing i love it when my
friends make stuff and i love it when i get to have
some of the things that my friends make and this beautiful
everyday calendar by simon j is just it fills my heart with gladness
uh thank you for joining me for this show and tell and i hope that one day
you get to possess your own everyday calendar see you guys next time