{"id":479,"date":"2007-09-19T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=479"},"modified":"2007-09-19T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T21:19:00","slug":"a-surprise-visual-facilitation-i-did-01-some-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/a-surprise-visual-facilitation-i-did-01-some-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise Visual Facilitation I did &#8212; 01 &#8212; &#8216;Some Objectives&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/1408289251\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1261\/1408289251_da60b0a470.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/1408289251\/\">01 &#8212; Some Objectives<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tLast Thursday, as I popped my tripod and easel into the overhead stowage on my plane back to Johannesburg from my Somerset West graphic facilitation gig, my phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>It was none other than Michelle Caldeira, MD of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemoon.co.za\">Blue Moon<\/a>. &#8216;Roy,&#8217; she said, &#8216;would you mind if I gave your name to someone to do graphic facilitations? He used to use the cartoonist we use, but he&#8217;s no longer in Joburg. I love the stuff you&#8217;ve been doing recently, and I want to know if you&#8217;re keen?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Of course I was keen.<\/p>\n<p>So when I landed in Joburg, it was most pleasant indeed to be phoned in the car back. Jennifer was driving, so I was free to take the call.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ian Paterson here,&#8217; said the caller. &#8216;Michelle said you&#8217;re keen to do some graphic facilitation with me?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Which is how I came to be ensconced in a typist&#8217;s chair at the Sandton Convention Centre, scribbling paintings at a furious pace on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>I made seven paintings all in all, but I&#8217;m only showing six. The six I&#8217;m showing have been &#8216;anonymised&#8217;. I&#8217;ve taken any and all information off them that could lead anyone to discovering the identity of the company I was facilitating for.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made entirely live during the morning session of a seminar at the Sandton Convention Centre. I worked on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.5<\/a> painting software. You can hire me as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/sets\/72157601289488309\/\">visual facilitator<\/a> for your meetings, functions, events by calling me on +27 74 104 6386. You can also email me on <a href=\"mailto:royblumenthal@gmail.com\">royblumenthal@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01 &#8212; Some Objectives, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Last Thursday, as I popped my tripod and easel into the overhead stowage on my plane back to Johannesburg from my Somerset West graphic facilitation gig, my phone rang. It was none &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/a-surprise-visual-facilitation-i-did-01-some-objectives\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Surprise Visual Facilitation I did &#8212; 01 &#8212; &#8216;Some Objectives&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-7J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}