Roy Makes a Caricature

Categories art, artrage, creative commons, creativity, visual facilitation
Roy Makes a Caricature

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 Owen was taking pictures of the various people and stands at the convention. And he took some candid shots of me at work. My subject in these pics takes care…Continue Reading “Roy Makes a Caricature” →

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

Categories art, creative commons, creativity, visual facilitation
A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini

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 put the event together. My work was showing on two big plasma screens on either side of the main projection screen. Delegates were able to see me capturing the key…Continue Reading “A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini” →

Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 2009

Categories art, visual facilitation
Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 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 to the various government bodies, NGOs, sponsors and donors that visual facilitation adds massive value to what they’re attempting. And what exactly are they attempting to achieve in this…Continue Reading “Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 2009” →

Financial Mastery — a few pictures from Elise and Craig Ellis’s workshop

Categories learning, visual facilitation

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 AND GROW RICH, along with George Clason’s THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON, with a few twists thrown into the mix by John DeMartini. My main takeouts from the workshop…Continue Reading “Financial Mastery — a few pictures from Elise and Craig Ellis’s workshop” →

HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY by Warwick Cairns — a multimedia animated summary

Categories animation, art, artrage, creative commons, creativity, photoshop, visual facilitation
HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY by Warwick Cairns — a multimedia animated summary

HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY is Warwick Cairns’s second book. It’s all about how the arbitrary ‘safety’ and ‘health’ laws imposed on us by ‘the people who run things’ are actually really bad for us. The book details strategies for taking back our power, and living better lives as a result. This video is a multimedia summary of the book. THE SCRIPTING PROCESS I contacted Warwick with the idea. And he wrote a first draft script. I edited that, and sent it back to him for…Continue Reading “HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY by Warwick Cairns — a multimedia animated summary” →

Animated Rich…! Mulholland tells us about Missing Link

Categories animation, art, artrage, creativity, visual facilitation

Rich…! Mulholland is the founder of Missing Link. (http://missinglink.co.za )  He appeared last Saturday on the television show I work on. I’m the inhouse visual facilitator for Kaleidoscope on CNBC AFRICA, making pictures of the ideas liberated by the interview process. Because Rich…! was in an insert, the picture I made of him went unaired. So I figured I’d turn it into an animation. I smsed him a rough script, and asked him to send me voice files via email. He tweaked them, and made them…Continue Reading “Animated Rich…! Mulholland tells us about Missing Link” →

How to Go About Getting into Visual Facilitation

Categories art, artrage, creativity, visual facilitation
How to Go About Getting into Visual Facilitation

An ArtRage forum member sent me a message asking me how she could get into doing visual facilitation for a living. I figure my answer to her might be worth sharing. And maybe we can have some dialogue about my thoughts that might open it up and make it a bigger topic for us all. Here’s the main part of my letter to her (with pleasantries removed)… ————————————— Good to hear that there’s another person interested in doing this! It’s an absolutely awesome rush to…Continue Reading “How to Go About Getting into Visual Facilitation” →

‘I believe I can fly!’ — starring Jacob ‘Laduma’ Zuma

Categories animation, art, creativity, politics, visual facilitation

Here’s my latest little bit of messing around in CrazyTalk 5.1. This is a pic I made of Jacob ‘Laduma’ Zuma back when controversy hit him really hard. (Please don’t confuse him with Zu-Ma Se Poes. Different politician.) I’m experimenting with some ideas that Conrad Koch and I have been discussing. This is one of those experiments. Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.

27 Dinners Jozi — How Can Speakers Be More Engaging, Audiences Better Behaved, and Everybody Happier?

Categories creativity, Live Blogging, visual facilitation
27 Dinners Jozi — How Can Speakers Be More Engaging, Audiences Better Behaved, and Everybody Happier?

This is a slightly edited version of a comment I’ve left on a blogpost on MORALFIBRE: http://www.moralfibre.co.za/?p=262#comment-19 In the post, Vince talks about his experience of the last 27 DINNERS (http://27dinner.com/) evening, at which I did the visual facilitation and live-blogging. Several people have responded in the comments to some of the less-than-desirable elements of the evening. (Luckily, my visual facilitation seems to have been well-received. Phshew!) The stuff I’m talking about below pretty much all comes from my own experience as a speaker, standup…Continue Reading “27 Dinners Jozi — How Can Speakers Be More Engaging, Audiences Better Behaved, and Everybody Happier?” →

Live Visual Facilitation Coverage of the 27 Dinners Jozi Chat — Mon 28 July 2008

Categories art, artrage, creativity, Live Blogging, visual facilitation
Live Visual Facilitation Coverage of the 27 Dinners Jozi Chat — Mon 28 July 2008

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” →