Roy Blumenthal is The Drawing Monkey

@StaffordMasie (delivering a tech talk at the @InoVatioDistrib conference), originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Stafford Masie used to be the head dude at Google South Africa. (Yeah… you can google him.) He talked to Inovatio‘s channel partners about the direction technology is taking us in the near future. The key takeout from his talk is this… Businesses HAVE TO have agility. One of his key hints about business success is that we need to embrace video. In a big way. This pic was made live, on…Continue Reading “Stafford Masie delivering a tech talk at the InoVatio Distribution conference” →

Boxing Clever — a WinWin Group conference for Unilever, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Thanks to the genius of David and Steve at the WinWin Group, Unilever had what must rank as one of the most exciting and DIFFERENT conferences ever! My role on the production was to provide visual facilitation for Gary McGaghey. This pic was taken by one of the crew members. He was stationed up near the ceiling to capture video and stills of the event. What you’re seeing is roughly half of…Continue Reading “Boxing Clever — a WinWin Group conference for Unilever” →

Doodle Using ‘SketchBook Mobile Express’ For Android, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I’ve been yearning for a decent drawing app for my Android phone (I have an HTC DESIRE). MAGIC DOODLE was the closest I was able to get to actually USING the phone for drawing. But it had too many drawbacks for it to become anything more than a curiosity. Now, AutoDesk has risen to the challenge by releasing SketchBook Mobile Express for Android. The app has been around for ages on the iPhone and…Continue Reading “Doodle Using ‘SketchBook Mobile Express’ For Android” →

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)” →