{"id":563,"date":"2008-07-08T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-07-08T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T12:09:00","slug":"2008-07-08-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2008-07-08-done\/","title":{"rendered":"2008-07-08 Done!!!"},"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\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2649644342\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3016\/2649644342_c759edc650.jpg?w=400\"  class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/> <span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2649644342\/\">2008-07-08 Done!!!<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\"> A short while back I was working on a piece of scripting, and I was suffering from terminal procrastination. Very much the same as I&#8217;m doing now.<\/p>\n<p>I decided at the time to draw myself a motivational picture depicting a reward for finishing the script.<\/p>\n<p>I drew this little caricature of myself in a hammock on a desert island, enjoying the satisfaction of being done with my scripting duties.<\/p>\n<p>Now, while procrastinating on my current script, I figured I&#8217;d do a quick colouring job on this pic.<\/p>\n<p>And naturally, the &#8216;quick&#8217; job took two hours. They were FUN hours, don&#8217;t get me wrong. But they weren&#8217;t SCRIPTING hours.<\/p>\n<p>At least I can claim that this picture is useful as a possible training resource. Kinda along the lines of, &#8216;You&#8217;ve got five minutes to finish your task&#8230;&#8217; and then popping this on screen when the deadline hits.<\/p>\n<p>But back to reality. Somewhere in the back of my brain, the script is emerging.<\/p>\n<p>Now for a little nap.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting started off as an ink sketch in my li&#8217;l Moleskine. I scanned it, then messed around with colour in Photoshop CS2. All on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc.<\/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>2008-07-08 Done!!!, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. A short while back I was working on a piece of scripting, and I was suffering from terminal procrastination. Very much the same as I&#8217;m doing now. 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