Using Jottnote and photos taken on the iphone.
Category Archives: goodies
Figure drawings at the Cantor
Met my friend Dave today at the Cantor to take a look at Deibenkorn and Bishoff paintings there and was surprised to see a wonderful exhibit of figure drawings by Frank Lobdell. Especially if you’ve ever done any figure drawing yourself, these are well worth a visit for inspiration and to see the range of expression possible. The exhibit is up through most of February.
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Jot note images on iPhone
Jot Note effects on a few images today. Especially like the cactus.
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Hiking Phoenix Mountain
The family took a hike up Phoenix Mountain for a little pre-feast activity that we all could enjoy. Beautiful vista and some interesting plants. Even the 5-year-olds made it, with a little help.
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Fun texts on iPhone
Love Whiteboard on the iPhone for fun quick sketches and notes to friends. Now that we can send pictures with text messages, I can make a quick drawing, using Whiteboard, take a screen capture of it to my Camera roll, then send a text message with that picture attached. It can be very simple to cheer up my daughter who’s having a hard day.
Or more complex if I have time to fool around with color while waiting in line at the market.
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Speak easier
Wow, three days of training at Speakeasy in San Francisco. The trainers and format were wonderful. It was painful though: Three days of watching yourself speaking to others on video. Definitely scheduled a haircut and a wardrobe buff up. But at the end of the three days, working with a small group of other “students” from a variety of companies, I felt more prepared and more self-assured in talking with people in general, even one-on-one, as well as in larger group settings. The recordings showed the difference too. I received coaching on how to connect with the audience, whether one person or many, and how to speak with authority and authenticity. Top takeaways sound simple, but have big impact: breathe, speak in sentences, stay centered and connected. A great start at communicating more effectively with confidence.
Free inspiration opportunities
Amazing FREE learning opportunities in the next few weeks you may want to hazard attending:
IxDA: Designing Social Interfaces
October 29 in San Francisco.
(Note, visit this event at your own peril. Obviously, it will be a little “kinky”)
Three great Liu Lectures at Stanford in November
Check the Liu Lecture blog for complete dates, locations, and more in-depth bios for the speakers. These are all highly creative, innovative thinkers, looking forward to attending all of these I hope. Here’s a brief rundown lifted from the intro email I received:
The first speaker is Maira Kalman, a fascinating illustrator known for her work in the New Yorker, the New York Times, a number of her own books, and myriad collaborations with her late husband, Tibor Kalman. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, 6:00PM in Braun Hall (Bldg. 320) Room 105
The next talk will be given by Genevieve Bell, the Director of User Experience at Intel. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 6:00PM in Braun Hall (Bldg. 320) Room 105
The series will close with a lecture from Ben Fry, who earned his PhD at the MIT Media Lab for computation and aesthetics. He is a co-author of the open source computer code known as Processing and wrote a book on the subject of Data Visualization. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 6:00PM in Herrin T175
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Elegant profile
Sami at Baylands Park in mid-November. She loves running after all the gophers there. An underground city of them, so it’s unending sport for her.
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Sketchbook: many smiles
Drawing
Just a snap with the iPhone, not great quality! This is from a sketchbook I kept on Tibetan paper. It had sketches, mostly pen and ink, and some color touches, that I kept during a second trip to India, and for a year or two after occaisionally. This was a small image of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezi, in his form of 10 (? I think) heads.
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Unfinished things…
In Maryland, enormous beautiful pink Dahlias grew in the garden. They were so big and heavy they had to be propped up. Like standing lotus flowers. So I painted them–I was inspired by Indian miniatures at the time, painted in opaque water-based paints. This was one of my favorites, tho unfinished… it’s almost better that way: whenever I see it mind’s eye actively fills the sketchy parts, and it’s almost like I’m back painting it again, in late August on the back porch overlooking the Potomac.
