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Creativity + Productivity
Monday * Inspiration
Belated Monday posting (I'm trying to do everyday. I picked this book up over the weekend from a "Free" box on the sidewalk. Great illustration. Cover Design is accredited to Tom Ballenger. I'm not sure if this is means the illustrator but I love the image, the colors, everything. I have no idea what the book is about.
Tools for the Job
"Day in, day out, millions of secretaries around the world fulfill
their responsible task. They are their bosses right hand. They take up
stenographs, write letters, make phonecalls and prepair conferences.
But whatever they have to accomplish, they need good tools for it."
from allerleirau's flickr stream
Well- in this day and age we're our own secretaries now. I often find trouble getting things done, but I realize that it's the 'supportive' tasks I have trouble with, not the meat and potatoes of my job. Filing, writing down birthdays, remembering to mail bills... these things that make my life propel forward are sometimes the easiest to let go by the wayside.
Dumb Little Man is a fun website devoted to helping us all become happier and healthier while being productive. A few of my fav posts recently:
Staying Focused
Learning a little Everyday
and something we might all need as a reminder in these hectic times:
How to Make Everyone Miserable (Sadly it wasn't until I read this article that I realized how much I needed it)
Now go make something!
Thursday * Pretty
A pretty Alice in Wonderland illustration. Makes me want some orange marmalade.
Quentin Blake
Some good ol' Quentin Blake to ignite your imagination. Quentin + Books. Delicious.
strange coincidences
I haven't talked about this much here, simply because there was not a way that it had anything to do with Illustration- but I am a newly baptized Lincoln Lover. I was thrown into a research class in the fall, the subject of which happened to be his date of death: April 15, 1865. The objective was to learn how to research properly. The faculty kind of randomly picked the assassination due to the fact that there's so much documentation about it. However the outcome was much greater than even they could have imagined. First off there were six eager students that were already obsessed with details, secondly this overlapped with the last three months of the Obama-McCain election.
My five classmates and I became so enchanted, so enthralled with our subject that not a day goes by that we don't talk about him. I have a stack of books a mile high and growing, a few of which I've already worked through, many more that will take some time to absorb properly. I made handsome little cameo pins to celebrate his birthday a couple weeks ago that I happily passed out to my friends and family. I am working through the Ken Burns' Civil War documentary, and have taped two more Lincoln documentaries from cable....AND am following the Lincoln Spielberg movie deal with bizarre interest.
And Barack was elected one week before the end of the class. We cried ALL DAY.
On a seperate note, I discovered Maira Kalman, a beautiful illustrator and author, on accident YESTERDAY via the Molskinerie blog. I've copied the video I watched below of her talking below about her work on TED Talks (the link I instantly added to the Creativity & Productivity list on the left.) I thought: I should find out more about this artist. Her work is enchanting.
Knowing my Lincoln Love, today a friend sent this:
I could just die. Please visit the link- it's a beautiful artist's essay on her discovery of my new Love- who should be ALL of our Love, Lincoln.
I have another new love, and her name is Maira.
Summer can't come soon enough....
Rene Gruau
