Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 2009

November 6, 2009

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Ole Qvist-Sørensen, director of the Danish visual facilitation firm, BIGGER PICTURE, put out a call to visual facilitators around the world to help out with a fascinating challenge…
To create emergency pictures during the BARCELONA CLIMATE TALKS currently taking place in Spain this past week in an attempt to demonstrate [...]

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@docpop’s ‘Pictureless Comic Contest’: Hindsight — 2009-11-04 — Joost and Amor

November 4, 2009

@docpop’s ‘Pictureless Comic Contest’: Hindsight — 2009-11-04 — Joost and Amor, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

@Scottstead, a Twitter buddy of mine, and fellow visual thinker, alerted me to an interesting challenge…
@DocPop threw the gauntlet down, asking artists, illustrators, cartoonists, humans, to create a 4 to 40 panel comic strip with NO PICTURES.
Of course, the only medium [...]

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Extending A Metaphor — Going From The ‘T-Shaped Person’ To ‘The Brush-Shaped Being’

October 15, 2009

Bright people know stuff. And they generally interact with other
people who know stuff. Our knowledge fields are ‘T-Shaped’. And our
interactions are generally pretty narrow, taking place along the
narrow shaft of our specialisation, or the low penetration of our
general interests.
What if we were to embrace a more extended metaphor that allows us to
be at home with [...]

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Financial Mastery — a few pictures from Elise and Craig Ellis’s workshop

October 7, 2009

Craig and Elise had a full house of delegates at their Financial Mastery workshop in Rivonia today. I was present as Craig’s guest, and I brought my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc with me for the event. I decided to do some pictures summarising the main content.
The concepts are drawn largely from Napolean Hill’s THINK [...]

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A videographer faces off with Roy Blumenthal at the Y&R ‘Dress to Kill’ party (via postie)

August 31, 2009

While I was caricaturing at the Y&R party, a videographer who was wandering around filming stuff happened upon me.
I immediately opened a new page, and made a speed-sketch of him filming me. He wandered off again before I brushed in the colour.
If you’re interested in hiring me for digital caricatures at your year-end event, [...]

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Roy Blumenthal ‘Caricaturing to Kill’ at Y&R Joburg’s sexy party

August 29, 2009

Here’s a slideshow of the caricatures I made at Y&R Johannesburg’s ‘Dress to Kill’ Party on Friday 28 August…

All of the pics are available for free download from my Flickr gallery. Here’s the link to the set: Y&R Dress to Kill on Flickr.
If you were at the party, and you’d like to make copies of [...]

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Internetix Mark Gevisser #internetix

July 24, 2009

Internetix Mark Gevisser #internetix, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

Mark Gevisser’s keynote speech at Internetix 2009 in Cape Town, in tandem with a chat I had with him at breakfast, leads me to a significant reframing of the Zuma PRESIDENCY. I’ve been a pessimist about South Africa’s hopes under Zuma. Given the bloke’s shady past.
But the presidency [...]

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Roy Blumenthal — Edmonton Stories #yeg #iclei

July 10, 2009

Roy Blumenthal — Edmonton Stories #yeg #iclei, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

This story appears on the EdmontonStories.ca site. Please click through so you can see the video of me making a complete picture from start to finish.
The story comes from an interview conducted by Elize Smit, a once-upon-a-time South African, now a fully-fledged Edmontonian.
She condensed it [...]

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RIP: A Remix Manifesto (with a pic of Gregg Gillis, aka, ‘Girl Talk’)

June 27, 2009

Girltalk — Colour (After), originally uploaded by royblumenthal.
One of the movies on the Air Canada flight from Edmonton to London was Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. (Download a remixable copy of RIP 2.0 here: http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/rip2.0.)
The documentary is a wonderfully immersive introduction to the Creative Commons movement. Well worth seeing.
One of the artists featured in [...]

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June 21, 2009

Roy Blumenthal Making the Amy Goodman Visual Facilitation Pic
Earlier this afternoon I caught the live streaming vidcast of the OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE held in New York.
I liked what I was encountering. So I did a visual facilitation of some of the keynotes. You can see the pics I made in my Open Video Conference set [...]

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