If you’re one of the people who can’t make it to 27 Dinners tonight, I’ll be doing a live visual facilitation of the event, along with live-blogging of the pics I make. If anyone wants to write commentary, please contact me on http://twitter.com/royblumenthal or royblumenthal@gmail.com, and I’ll add you as a producer on my CoverItLive console. (You need to be running Firefox 2.* or Internet Explorer for the console to work on your machine.) This live blog is my first public run using CoverItLive. So…Continue Reading “Live Visual Facilitation Coverage of the 27 Dinners Jozi Chat — Mon 28 July 2008”
Welcome to Roy Blumenthal’s visual facilitation pictures made during the NSASA Convention 2008, at the Sibaya Convention Centre near Durban. Roy Blumenthal is a Professional Member of the Johannesburg chapter of the National Speakers Association of Southern Africa. View his NSASA profile page at http://snipurl.com/nsasaprofile, and consider hiring him to create a memorable record of your next event. After observing and being on the receiving end of Roy in action during the conference, Joe Sherren, President of the International Federation for Professional Speakers, sent this…Continue Reading “Roy Blumenthal does a visual facilitation for top international speakers at the NSASA Convention 2008”
Misogynist Hairdressers Guild Badge Colour, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This has been a prank idea for a very long time… To make a sticker to place surreptitiously on the doors of hairdressers who butcher women’s hair. I mean, seriously… there MUST be a secret guild of hairdressers dedicated to giving women reallllllllllllly bad hair advice and hair treatments and hairdos. Think of ‘older’ women with blue rinses. You think they’d do that to themselves without being nudged by their hair salon??? Come on! Nobody wants…Continue Reading “Misogynist Hairdressers Guild Badge — Sticker Prank”
I’m a Visual Facilitator, also known as a Graphic Facilitator. Imagine a workshop or seminar. Sitting in the corner is an artist with an easel. That artist is visually interpreting the ideas that are flying around the room. That artist is me. I work on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, painting primarily in ArtRage 2.5, with a video projector hooked up to my machine so that people can see what I’m painting. At the end of the session, everyone gets to take home the…Continue Reading “My new Flickr profile — I’m available to do visual facilitation work for you”
I’ve just put the finishing touches on a gorgeous product of mine at Zazzle. Yup… it’s a calendar for 2008 featuring my doggie-heroine, Bambi. Click on the image below, and you can zap off to Zazzle and order a neat present for the New Year. The calendar is an all-ages one. There’s a cartoon for every month, along with a selected quote shedding light on the humour. Everything I make on Zazzle is customizable by you. So if you want to add someone’s name to…Continue Reading “Bambi stars in her very own Matinee Soup 2008 Calendar, now on selling at Zazzle!”
This is a recent post of mine on the ArtRage Tips and Tricks forum… Here’s my solution to the tablet pc angle conundrum… In this pic, you see it configured for use on a tripod. That’s why I have the artist’s palette slotted in at the front. Normally when I’m at my desk, I don’t slot the palette in. But the keyboard and mouse are standard accompanying dishes. The tablet all alone on the easel is a bit lacking. I find that I need the…Continue Reading “Using a tablet pc to make art”
Here’s a post I recently offered to the ArtRage feedback forum… I recently stumbled into becoming a visual facilitator. It’s a field that requires real-time live capturing of people’s ideas in a meeting or seminar. The visual facilitator basically sits in the room capturing the content of the session, interpreting it visually. Some visual facilitators use traditional art-making tools. I use my tablet pc, with ArtRage 2.5, with a video projector hooked to my machine, displaying my stuff in-progress on the back wall of the…Continue Reading “Intense ‘crash test’ — ArtRage survives — with some tweaks”
Roy’s Visual Facilitation — a one-sheet of what’s on offer, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Having recently come across the field of ‘visual facilitation’, I’m striding headlong into this as a way of earning my living. This is a quick read for people to get a sense of what it is I do. It’s little more than a skim overview. But hopefully it arouses some curiosity. From the top, the interventions I’ve used are: o John Tschohl (www.johntschohl.com). o Benjamin Zander (www.benjaminzander.com). He wrote to me…Continue Reading “Roy’s Visual Facilitation — a one-sheet of what’s on offer”
I was interviewed by Dave ‘The Lifekludger’ Wallace and Mike Seyfang via Skype on Thursday for their podcast. Our episode is ‘The Extraordinary Lives Show #29‘, and it’s 55’40” long, and weighs in at a mere 19.2mb. (To download it, right-click on the link, and ‘save target’. That should do it.) In the show, towards the end, I mention an agreement I created for artists to use in defining their relationship with clients. It’s based on a Creative Commons foundation. And it should be quite…Continue Reading “Roy interviewed on The Extraordinary Lives Show (and talks about, his ‘Draft of Creative Commons-based contract for artist/client relationship’)”
This is one of my favourite performance poems. I wrote it many years ago as part of the libretto for a Flamenco ballet that a work colleague of mine composed and choreographed. He asked me to put a story together. So I wrote a bunch of poems for it. The musical backing here has absolutely nothing to do with the original Flamenco backing. This one is a mashup of a piece of Creative Commons licensed free music that I found on the web. I’ve been…Continue Reading “It’s Lunchtime in the City — a performance poem by Roy Blumenthal”