Roy is a live, digital sketchnoter. He uses graphic facilitation to make live sketchnote paintings of the ideas swirling around in conventions, meetings, tv shows, conferences, and workshops. He does his graphic recording on a tablet pc hooked up to a large screen. Increasing attention, interactivity, and engagement. And making the content of your speakers more sticky. He can be on the premises, or he can drop into your event virtually. Book him now. Whatsapp or Telegram him on +27741046386, or email royblumenthal@gmail.com.
Jennifer Mosaic — Made Using Free Foto-Mosaik-Edda, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Pretty damn impressive free software! Makes a database of all the pictures you want to include in your mosaics. Then assembles them to create a picture out of your source pic. Fricking amazing. http://www.sixdots.de/mosaik/en/.
101 Uses For Your Vuvuzela — Mel Gibson, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. David Germond of The Win Win Group emailed me a challenge… To come up with alternative uses for your vuvuzela now that the World Cup is over. His email was simple. It said: ‘This is what Zapiro did…‘ So here’s my stab at it. I took a good hour to do a Google search for a suitable Mel Gibson picture. I was hunting for one where he spews vitriol, something to match the…Continue Reading “101 Uses For Your Vuvuzela — Mel Gibson”
Blumenthal’s ‘Back From Berlin Bash’ — Visual Facilitation at half-price for two weeks, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Just returned from Berlin. A top multinational pharmaceutical company made use of my services as a visual facilitator. To give YOU the chance to experience what Europe’s corporate top brass experienced, I’m BASHING my prices for just two weeks. If you book and pay for a visual facilitation session with me in the next two weeks, you’ll get me FOR HALF PRICE. We’re accepting bookings at half price…Continue Reading “Blumenthal’s ‘Back From Berlin Bash’ — Visual Facilitation at half-price for two weeks + a free half-day for the Gauteng-based NGO of your choice!”
John vd Ruit — Spud (An Animated Thank You), originally uploaded by royblumenthal. John vd Ruit, world best-selling author of the hit series of SPUD novels, popped his voice into my cellphone a while back. I made this video out of it. I drew three ink-on-paper sketches of John in my Moleskine. I scanned them, then tidied them up and coloured them in Photoshop CS3. I hauled them into CrazyTalk 6 and animated the pics. Finally, I composited everything together in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3….Continue Reading “John vd Ruit — Spud (An Animated Thank You)”
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 in ArtRage 3.06 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc while watching the interview. Feel free to laugh at my rendition of Seth. And here’s the interview itself, embedded from…Continue Reading “Seth Godin shares his views on being a successful entrepreneur, freelancer, artist”
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 filled with learning, loving, and laughing. This pic was sketched into my Moleskine using my trusty disposable Bic Intensity gel pen. I took a snapshot of the open book using…Continue Reading “Happy 2010! (Jennifer in Bed, with Cat)”
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 Tshabalala-Msimang and her AIDS denialism are responsible for South Africa having such a big problem. Now she’s dead. Can our country recover? Made in ArtRage 3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus…Continue Reading “Pate de foie Manto”
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 liver transplant wasn’t good enough for her. She had to continue drinking. Just had to do it. And the first liver transplant was a stolen liver. She jumped the queue….Continue Reading “Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Dead Dead Dead”
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 image. If you have a need for a unique Santa pic, please feel free to use it. It’s released under a Creative Commons ‘Attribution, Share-Alike’ license. I made…Continue Reading “South African Santa”
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 as good as blind. And he was old. One of the shoot days had us doing an intense and late afternoon/night shoot in an antique shop. At the end…Continue Reading “ARIA — a short film directed by Guto Bussab, written by Roy Blumenthal”