South African Santa

December 14, 2009

South African Santa, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

A while back I had a speaking engagement for a bunch of MENSA types.
One of them… John Hofmeyr… called me a week or so after, and asked me if I’d illustrate a poem of his for a charity publication.
I agreed to do that. And this is the resulting [...]

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ARIA — a short film directed by Guto Bussab, written by Roy Blumenthal

November 11, 2009

Guto Bussab directed this film, opting to shoot on real 16mm film. I co-produced with him and Rudi Pieterse. And I wrote the script.
We shot the film over two-and-a-half days, using three locations in Joburg. Norman Coombes was an absolute trooper. At this point in his life, he had almost no sight left. He was [...]

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Time Lapse Photography Shows the Urgency of Why We Have To Deal With Global Warming

November 10, 2009

This is one of the more important TED Talks I’ve watched.
Photographer James Balog has spent the last few years dedicating himself to creating a record of just how bad Global Warming actually is. He’s positioned dozens of time lapse cameras in glacial and alpine regions, and makes films showing how the glaciers are retreating, releasing [...]

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Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 2009

November 6, 2009

View more presentations from Bigger Picture.

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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