2006-05-10 John Hauser & Julie Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. John Hauser has a delightful picture of a rastaman on the stock.xchng free-photo site. With his permission, I used the pic as a backdrop to a poetry performance of mine. The …
2006-05-10 David Playford Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. David Playford is a photographer in England. I came across him when I was searching for pictures to use for my poetry performance shows. (Seth Godin clued me into an amazing site that …
Beaujolais 2 Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I drew this some time ago at a portrait circle I was part of. It’s done on my palmtop, using Mobile Atelier software. Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator. Hire …
2006-04-30 Self Portrait Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I’m sitting at Codes in Rosebank playing with my new easel. It’s mounted on a camera tripod that I got from a junk shop. Hans at the Rosebank Flea Market makes a brilliant …
2006-06-29 Illustration Friday – Life Under the Sea Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I thought this pun might be rather too obvious, but when I started sketching, an idea or two formed which made it quite a load of fun for …
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Illustration Friday: Robot — 2006-04-22 Robothand Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s topic for the Illustration Friday group is ‘Robot’. So I flipped the screen into the ‘down’ position on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, fired up Procreate Painter …
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I’m feeling really low about Brett Goldin’s murder. He grew up with my girlfriend S and her brothers. She’s gutted. It’s just so damned senseless. Five guys have been arrested for the killings (Brett and a buddy of his, Richard …
I’m a member of the Virgin Active group of gyms. About a year or so ago, they changed the interface on their touch screens, and my gender mysteriously changed from male to female. A couple of weeks ago, the interface …
Friday, April 07, 2006 Service: *Food: * *Ambience: * * *Babe Count: * * * This is my second visit to this branch, and it’s my last. The first time was okay-ish. Long, long, long waits. And some trivial details …
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Oh Jeeeez. This list is too much. It’s a list of 2005’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. And I reckon this one takes the cake… 29. Men, on the other hand, have a charming self-destructive quality.Speaking at an ad industry …