From the monthly archives:

March 2006


Yup. It’s true. After creating a Cafe Press store several months ago, and getting their weekly email newsletters, I’ve gotten around to making the store active.

If you’d like to buy any of my drawings printed on things like t-shirts or mugs, it’s really as simple as heading to http://www.cafepress.com/schmuckshop and clicking on the items you’re keen on.

Now it’s NOT so simple if any of the drawings I’ve selected for you to browse through aren’t to your taste.

Let’s say you’ve gone to my online Flickr Gallery, and you’ve found a pic of mine you reallllly like. I need you to email me the address of that pic, as well as the Cafe Press item you’d like me to print it on.

Email me at schmucknews@gmail.com.

Then I can set up a product specially for you, and I’ll let you know when it’s done.

Yeah… it’s a bit of a ball-ache. That’s cos Cafe Press limits free users to one print per product line. And I’m really only going to upgrade to pro-membership if people are actually buying any of my items.

So if it’s not too much trouble for you, and you like any of my artworks enough to buy them, please let me know!

Much appreciated!

Blue skies
love
Roy

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Illustration Friday: Monster

by Roy Blumenthal on March 25, 2006

Just found this intensely cool site called ‘Illustration Friday‘. Every Friday, they give a new topic, and artists from around the world create or find artworks of their own and link them to the site.

Here are two of my monsters from back in 2003, when I first started making digital art on my iPAQ 2210, running NeFa’s Mobile Atelier shareware.

This one’s called: ‘Dude with mean eyebrows‘.


This one’s called: ‘Scary thing‘.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006: My Flat, Cresta

Service: * * *
Food: *
Ambience: * * * *
Babe Count: *

I’m listening to American Music Club’s LOVE SONGS FOR PATRIOTS. Beaut stuff.

I’ve just finished creating a GoogleGroup for teachers who’ve attended my creativity seminars. (It’s also for anyone else interested in this topic, by the way.)

To subscribe to the group, please go to:

http://snipurl.com/creativity or http://groups.google.com/group/creativity-in-the-classroom/.

Only people who have subscribed to the list will be able to post. And it’s free. And I’m looking forward to your insights.

I’ve chatted to a good few teachers about what their needs are, and I’ve set up a few topics to address some of the more obvious ones. It would be realllllly great if you could add topics of your own.

I also have a Squidoo Lens on Creativity, which has some resources on it. There’s also a lens on Goal-Setting.

Now I’ve gotta head to Spar to get some yoghurt and musli. And some stuff for lunch. And some housecleaning stuff. S. is out at a dance class now in preparation for WE WILL ROCK YOU rehearsals starting next week, and Sarah, our housecleaner has arrived. She brought me some tea. Thanks Sarah!

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An exceptionally talented bunch of post-grad students on the Wits ‘World of Work’ program

March 20, 2006

Monday, March 20, 2006 Service: * *Food: *Ambience: * * *Babe Count: * Right. First things first. I’m at home, listening to Geoffrey Oryema’s BEAT THE BORDER on Peter Gabriel‘s RealWorld label. The Oryema vibes account for the moderately cheerful ambience. S. is out right now, enjoying her last week of freedom before gruelling rehearsals [...]

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Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre for a group of ex-’ladies of the night’ in Berea, Johannesburg

March 8, 2006

Wednesday, March 08, 2006 Service: * * * * Food: * * * * Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * This morning, 11 o’clock, I’m in my car, parked outside a block of flats in Berea, near Hillbrow. Pretty much the roughest area in South Africa. An old coloured man [...]

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Yesterday’s creativity seminar to teachers seems to have been enjoyed by most!

March 8, 2006

“This was a thoroughly enjoyable workshop.”“Everybody can be creative, and with the necessary tools, it can be achieved.”“Different — thought-provoking — stimulating. Thank you for an enjoyable day!”“It made me certain that I am creative.” A few of the comments from my feedback forms from yesterday’s creativity seminar to teachers. Phshew. Woke up really early [...]

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Viva Hecate Productions joins forces with Beacon in war on waste

March 8, 2006

Here is an article that appeared on BizCommunity about a production I wrote and conceived on behalf of Hecate, for Beacon Sweets. David James directed the show, and made a brilliant success of it. http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article.aspx?c=98&l=196&ai=9462 Tiger Brands’ Beacon Sweets factories in Durban enlisted Viva Hecate Productions to assist with an industrial theatre intervention in their [...]

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Intense preparation for my creativity seminar for school teachers tomorrow

March 6, 2006

I’m in intense preparation for a full-day creativity seminar I’m delivering tomorrow. I’ll be doing loads of interactive stuff with around sixty school teachers from around Gauteng, all aimed at helping them (1) be more creative in the classroom, and (2) liberate the creativity of their learners. Something I’m doing differently this time is that [...]

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