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Grab your helmet, check the air in your tires, and hop on your bike because in many U.S. cities, May 12 - 16 is Bike to Work Week! Six Apart has a lot of biking enthusiasts, so we're very excited to support this event by encouraging all of our employees to bike to work this week. San Francisco's Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, Thursday, May 15th, and New York's is Friday, May 16th.

Bike to Work Week

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Six Apart is helping out its employees by providing maps (shaded according to steepness - a must in SF!) to help everyone plan out his/her route, as well as finding first-time riders buddies to commute with. We're also supporting ALL SF riders who pass the front of our office by handing out coffee, juice and snacks from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. If you're in our neighborhood, look for the sign that says "Six Apart Supports Bike to Work Day" and stop by to say hi and get energized!

Improve your health, financial status, productivity, and happiness by joining thousands - maybe even millions - of commuters around the country who are hopping on their bikes to get to work. Visit the Bike to Work Week website to find out more about events in your area.

Support the two-wheeled way of life with the "Passing Left" theme found in "Photo-Based" in the Design Area. Planning on cycling to work this week? Let us know in the comments!

Passing Left

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Scott Bourne of MacBreak Weekly (and many other podcasts, including the ApplePhoneShow and TWIP, This Week in Photography), recently wrote two articles for JPG Magazine, including "10 Tips For Avian Photographers" and "Photo Essay - The Wolf." Scott also sat down with Leo on TWiTLive.tv last week after MacBreak Weekly to talk about some of his shots and techniques.

As we mentioned last week, we had to postpone the maintenance that was due to occur on Thursday, May 8th.

We have rescheduled the maintenance for tonight, Tuesday, May 13th, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT). We'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Again, thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!

Here's an update from Mark Dwight (Rickshaw's Founder & CEO) on his progress to make a case for Moleskiners.  His messenger bags will be available online in about 3 weeks' time, do check out his beautiful web site and sneak peek on some of the very distinct designs.  In the mean time, please comment on the Moleskine case by posting on this or youtube site or email to him directly.  I will meet him at NYSS/ICFF next week to check out the actual sample.

Tonight, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT), we'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!

Update: we've postponed tonight's maintenance, and will let you know when we reschedule.  Thanks for your patience!

Last week, we announced the winners of the HP "What Do You Have to Say? Theme Design Contest and promised you we'd make the winning themes available on Vox in the coming weeks. After a little more thought, we decided you shouldn't have to wait a second longer to use these creative and inspiring designs on your blogs, so we made them available for you today. Who says good things only come to those who wait?

Winning Themes

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Here's a Moleskine Japanese Album I started for the Moly_x_10 group.  The topic here is: What has nothing to do with TIME.  I'm going to send it to the next artists inviting them to add their drawings/writings to enlighten me.

Moly_x_10 My Book

Moly_x_10 My Book

Strings From Sham Sui Po

I had an a great day-off today.  Went to look for some strings for a friend and market researched several stationery, art/craft stores.  Strolling in Sham Sui Po area where there are hundreds of outlets selling all sorts of fabric/fashion related materials, I rediscovered the area which once were part of Hong Kong's textile industry success, feeding 625,000 residents directly or indirectly in 1960s.  There is no place in the world having such high concentration and variety of textile materials.  If you are not familiar with Hong Kong, we even have streets full of retailers dedicated to selling birds, flower and fish.

String/Cloth/Button Street in Sham Sui Po

String Wholesales/Retail in Sham Sui Po