Standing Pose
Standing Pose
Adora Sitting
These images will eventually find themselves into an eCourse: Learning how-to pose for Vintage PinUp photographs. Right now they need to be put into the editing process and finalized for production into the eCourse and other areas over on Vintage PinUp Clothing
I have always been fascinated with stop action movies and this one is quite inspiring.
I heard there was a Drink and Draw at Hugos or was it the Elevens in Northampton. Sooooooo, I went out searching last Friday and didn’t find a Drink and Draw. I did find Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School which was started by Molly Crabapple, who in 2005 dropped out of art school and started the Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School as an alternative drawing movement. There are now Dr. Sketchy’s in over 100 cities world wide. Not bad for an art college drop out.
Oh and it turns out The Elevens, in Northampton, have Dr. Sketchy’s night every first Friday of each month starting @ 7pm. Get your paper and drawing tools……
Finally got to the beach over the weekend. Traveling south then slightly east for about 1 hour and 40 minutes to Rocky Neck State Park, in Lyme, CT.
What a lovely spot, looking out into the Long Island Sound. The water was clear and the beach a nice sandy white.
I highly recommend this area for either a day on the beach or to go camping. While we pretty much parked ourselves directly on the beach, hiking and camping were very nearby as well as an estuary and marsh lands.
Now, I just need to finish that book I was reading beach side, before summer is over…..
Richard Greenwald says we are now, “living at the dawn of the freelance world, as more and more people find themselves working as consultants, contract workers or freelancers. This change in the way we work is as profound as the shift that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.”
Having been an on and off freelancer, since 1985….I of course, side with the freelancers and have to say….this is not just the dawn of the freelancers….it IS the Dawning of the Age of the Freelancers.
Do check out this beautiful film called Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman.
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
You can get it at NetFlix.
There are a series of videos here, to view. I highly recommend.
I practice Bikram Yoga which is done in 104 degree temperatures and between 40 and 60% humidity. 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises. Roughly the first 45 minutes are warm up to what Bikram calls ‘The real yoga!’
During the second half of class we do postures and in between we have savasana, which literally means: corpse pose. I’m told we have 20 second savasanas in order for our blood to circulate once throughout our bodies. Seems plausible.
It’s like a tiny nap…..and naps are the real reason for this post. I LOVE naps. Naps are highly under rated in the United States. When I moved to China, in 1990 [and first visited in 1987] daily between 11 and 2 the entire country took a rest time. European nations know this ritual as well and it is based on sound logic. Our bodies do better with some rest.
And after going full on, usually from 4:45 am….by mid-day I am ready for a savasana. I usually can pump out more productive activity after just 20 minutes of rest. On the weekends I attempt to push that time out to 45 or 60 minutes of nap time.
Try it yourself and let me know how it works for you. I’m willing to bet you’ll be more productive, rested and happier….and you’ll be more inspired.
This is so completely cool! Take 10 minutes to view this video and then think of the possibilities.
Just when we thought we got the Project Charter figured out, the book Rework, by Jason Fried & David Heinemeir Hansson, debunks ‘Planning as Guessing’. In fact, they go on to say, “Unless you’re a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy. There are just too many factors that are out of your hands: market conditions, competitors, customers, the economy, etc. Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you can’t actually control.”
They advocate, “…you have to be able to improvise. You have to be able to pick up opportunities that come along. Sometimes you need to say, ‘We’re going in a new direction because that’s what makes sense today’.”
Before you stress they do add this: “Now this isn’t to say you shouldn’t think about the future or contemplate how you might attack upcoming obstacles. That’s a worthwhile exercise. Just don’t feel you need to write id down or obsess about it. If you write a bit plan, you’ll most likely never look at it anyway. Plans more than a few pages long just wind up as fossils in your file cabinet.”
Seems to me, some planning-or having some sort of ‘general guide’ is a good thing….just as good as knowing when to make adjustments.
And Seth Godin doesn’t even want us to call ourselves Project Managers, he prefers the title: Project Runner.