Graeme Sacks snaps Roy in Killarney — after Roy appeared on eNEWS CHANNEL live

March 2, 2010

Graeme Sacks (@AfricanABC) popped into Mugg & Bean in Killarney. He took this pic of me demonstrating ArtRage to an interested-party. I’ve been uploading pics I made live on-air this morning at eNEWS CHANNEL. They had a special to celebrate 100 Days To The World Cup, and I was invited to do on-the-spot visual facilitation [...]

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Seth Godin shares his views on being a successful entrepreneur, freelancer, artist

February 11, 2010

Seth Godin is one of the sanest marketers in the world today. David Garland scooped an interview with Seth for his blog, THE RISE TO THE TOP. In the chat, Seth shares his views on how to make a difference in the world. This is my ultra-compressed summary of the interview. This pic was painted [...]

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Roy Makes a Caricature

January 28, 2010

Standard Bank held a three-day conference. I was the caricaturist for the Group Corporate Affairs division. These three pics are from a caricaturing/visual facilitation gig I did for Standard Bank through the WinWin Group. It was a three-day job, and involved a looooooooot of caricaturing. I made about 78 pictures during the convention. Photographer Craig [...]

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A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini

January 27, 2010

A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is a pic I made live at the BMW conference. All of the BMW and MINI dealers from around the country gathered to put their ducks in a row for 2010. The WinWin Group [...]

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Happy 2010! (Jennifer in Bed, with Cat)

January 1, 2010

Happy 2010! (Jennifer in Bed, with Cat), originally uploaded by royblumenthal. The new year is upon us. I’m looking forward to a year of prosperity, abundance, and living my art. It’s going to be a year of release from old patterns and grimy people. A year of openness to good. May your year also be [...]

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Pate de foie Manto

December 16, 2009

Pate de foie Manto, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Liver as a main course. With a whole bunch of stuff to make a collapsed liver even worse. And some stuff to kill a nation. A fifth of all South Africans have HIV or AIDS right now. And that’s just the cases that are known about. Manto [...]

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Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Dead Dead Dead

December 16, 2009

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Dead Dead Dead, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. She’s dead and gone now. Maybe it means South Africa has a chance to recover from the mistakes she made botching our ability to solve the AIDS crisis this country is sinking under. Verbose? Hey. Not as verbose as Manto. The alcoholic, thieving, incompetent buffoon. One [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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