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dabc 2016
(photoshop experimental)
For those who don't know but maybe could be interested dabc stands for digital art from a blank canvas and there is a small but dedicated group of us who work in this style that post at this group.
D A B C group ~Digital Art from a Blank Canvas~
If you are interested you are very welcome to join ..!
āBeholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realitiesā¦ā ~ Plato.
āArt washes from the soul the dust of everyday lifeā¦ā ~ Pablo Picasso
āCreativity is intelligence having funā¦ā ~ Albert Einstein
10cc....(Live ~sorta ~1975) ~art for art sake~
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(large is cool)
digital 2016
PANO-Vision group --~PANO-Vision~
Getting on the Pano-Sabotage bandwagon.
Trying out this unique style at the local shopping center while going down the escalator....!
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I started a mindmap today to help me think of some photography ideas, I've used mindmapping before to help me clear my brain out and focus on things and I find that it really works for me, I think because I'm a visual person I like to see things and how they relate to each other.
I think this is sort of a visual representation of how my brain has felt lately, one side is feeling tense and rather volitile, while the other is attempting to be free and whimsical....I hope that the side with the umbrella wins in the end.
Favorite Fifteen 50mm Lenses
01. Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50/2 exakta. 1961-8 East Germany 6 elements 4 groups Planar. Formerly labeled Flexon, this model is the predecessor of the multi-coated 50/1.8. 5 blade hexagon bokeh; though mostly smoothed. Single thorium coating (no yellowing), needs hood. Unique floating tab aperture distance markings. Exakta shutter linkage must be pressed for aperture to close down. Works well with Focal reducers and converters even full-frame 35mm.
02. KMZ ŠŠ½Š“ŃŃŃŠ“Ń-22 50/3.5 l39, Russia 1951-3, 4 elements 3 groups. 8 blades all circular bokeh, but swirls at widest apertures. Simple coating low contrast. Collapsible (most compact lens), but has a difficult front-facing aperture control.
03. Asahi Optical Super Takumar 55/2 m42. Japan 1960s 6 elements 5 groups relabeled 55/1.8; identical. Yellowed radioactive simple coating needs hood. Vignettes on focal reducer and converters. Auto switch can prevent aperture from opening its widest.
04. Š®ŠæŠøŃŠµŃ 3Ī 50/1.5 NikonS-ContaxRF-Kiev. Russia 7 elements 3 groups Sonnar copy. 13 blade best-defined bubble wide open (even better than Trioplan with front focal multiplier), then smoothed out +f2.8. Needs hood. Adapter mounts loose.
05. Canon 50/1.2 l39. Japan 1956-60 v1, 7 elements 5 groups, 11 blade design by ItÅ Hiroshi. 11 point flowers +f2. Extremely swirly with busy subject bubbles both of which smooth out near f5. Most corrected by f8.
06. Konica Hexanon 50/1.7 v2 AR. Japan 1976+, 6 elements 5 groups, 6 blade hexagon. Most corrected lens of the set, and pairs well with focal multiplier converters. No focal reducers made for the short flange distance of Konica AR.
07. Canon Serenar 50/1.9 l39. Japan 6 elements 4 groups design by Kuroki Masana 1949. Collapsible, but needs hood/flags; not coated. 15 blade slight swirl wide open. Lower contrast than later f2 refined model.
08. Nikon series E 50/1.8 pancake F mount. Japan 6 elements 5 groups. 7 blade some heptagon bokeh, but mostly smooth. Works well extended, reversed, bellowed, or stacked for macro. Also pairs well with focal reducer and converters.
09. Porst Cosina 50/1.7 m42. Japan 1973, 6 elements 4 groups. 6 blade hexagon bokeh, smooth STF like extreme shallow depth of field. Works well with tubes, focal reducer and converters.
10. FED ŠŠ½Š“ŃŃŃŠ“Ń 61Š zebra l39. Russia 4 elements 3 groups Tessar copy. Lanthanum glass coating; yellowed. 10 blade, swirls with thin bubbles. Tight focus barrel causes inadvertent unscrewing from mount.
11. KMZ Helios 44-2 58/2 m42. Russia 6 elements 4 groups Biotar copy. 8 blade, not as swirly as earlier versions. Vignettes on focal reducers and converters.
12. Rokkor PF 58/1.4 MCII - Japan 1969, 6 elements 5 groups. Soft corners, and extremely swirly wide open. Vignettes on focal reducers and converters. Would be great to CLA can reduce flange distance to work with L Mount.
13. Yashica Yashinon-DX 50/1.4 m42 - Japan 7 elements 8 groups. 6 blade hexagon bokeh best on APSc due to bad edges; all apertures. Vignettes on focal reducers and converters.
14. Cosmicar 24/1.8 C-mount. Japan, 5 blade pentagon bokeh. Extreme swirl. Close focusing. Circle matte crop.
15. Olympus F.Zuiko 50/1.8 OM. Japan 6 elements 4 groups. 6 blade hexagon bokeh. Distorts on focal reducer. Better on film than digital sensors.
I apologise for the appalling quality of the photograph. That is the combination of using an iPhone and a location with uneven lighting.
Normally an iPhone 4 should be present in this picture as I always carry it in the bag - actually in the blue '3way Accessory Case' attached to the blue 'Deluxe Strap Pad'.
I didn't empty the Ordning & Reda Pencil case as it has only a couple of pens (Pentel Tradio - www.penteleurope.com/pages/trj50_trj74_infopage.htm and a Rotring Core series fountain pen, Tanakor model used to write on my main working notepad - a Clairefontaine - good paper deserves to be honoured with a fountain pen and a good ink) and a pack of Waterman ink cartridges in it.
The bag is a:
Custom Laptop Messenger Bag
- size: medium
- ballistic nylon spinach / stripes blue / ballistic nylon spinach
- binding: pacific blue
- logo: pacific blue
- liner: argon blue
- crater laptop sleeve
- grab strap
- compression straps with tabs
- right handed
I find the blue liner especially nice, although I have always been a fan of the orange ones.
Notoriously missing - my Livescribe pen, which I forgot at work this weekend.
As always, my What's in my bag shot comes heavily annotated with Flickr-notes, simply mouse-over an object to see what it is.
Scription's Perfect System 2011-2012
I didn't realize until 3 days ago when I put these 3 things together (which contain a whole lot more of other things inside each), that this bunch of tools are actually EVERYTHING I need wherever I go, and it is quite compact IMHO. Powerful isn't it? In a moment I'm gonna share with you the details but first, let's contemplate on the pattern behind, which is beyond objects and tools, but of planting seeds which someday all coagulate and become something more.
Today I have a dream job most of you envy and I myself enjoy tremendously, but this dream job is just one of the things I surrounded myself with. My core has always been planting seeds, finding tools, connecting unrelated stuffs and sit back to look at all of these actions once in a while. Sitting back is most important of all, it is one of the happiest moments when you can most certainly find and reap innovations and insights.
Back to objects and tools. This so called "Perfect System" which I assume is valid at least until the end of 2012, is a result of me continuously simplifying my daily needs, finding tools that fit and beautifying them along the road. Somehow it all made sense when I put them together.
Traveler's Notebook
It is not a perfect notebook but you have a choice to carry only what you need and I customized it to fulfill my needs for: travel, GTD, scheduling, mind mapping and drawing. It is basically holding all my plans and thoughts.
Travel: card pockets to hold business cards, hotel access cards, mileage cards, medical card. Zip pocket to hold receipts, post cards, stickers, paper clips. Elastic band to hold my flight itinerary, boarding pass and passport.
GTD: I carry two refills inside Traveler's Notebook. One is used for GTD, drawing and mind mapping. Instead of carrying extra deck of GTD index cards like before (scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/hacking-gtd-tabs-and-i...), I use my Leather GTD Tabs (scription.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/leather-gtd-tabs---a-h...) to clip on specific pages for various purposes (Next Actions, Projects, Waiting For, Someday). In addition, I created some custom inserts to facilitate my mind mapping needs. It is a PDF in A4 size which you can download, print double sided, cut into the right size, fold in half and insert into a refill notebook very easily. Here's the file! Try it out and let me know your feedback. On blank page of the refill, I enjoy drawing things randomly or sketching my next leather project ideas.
Scheduling: The second refill I use for scheduling. I've decided that no commercially available diaries fulfill my needs and most of them too rigid. So I created a way I temporarily called Chronodex, which you may already had a glimpse in some of my previous photos. I'm still adding and modifying things but here's a version you can download and try: CHRONODEX VERSION 6. It is a PDF in A4 size, you can process it the same way I mentioned above and use it as a free weekly diary. The main advantage of it for me is that I can use the space freely but still referring to the correct time slice/pie, it is visually more pleasing and less rigid to me. Again, I'm happy to hear your comments, good and bad.
Well, I also stitched a leather loop onto the back cover of the Traveler's Notebook to carry an extra pen the way I like it. Other customization is just aesthetic, like the bookmark charm and the camera charm.
Twelve South BookBook and iPhone
This BookBook leather case for iPhone is super popular and we are always out of stock. I found it perfect to be my wallet and communicator all-in-one.
Wallet: I use Twelve South's BookBook to hold my credit cards, staff access card, transport card and occasionally paper money.
Communicator: I customized the BookBook to allow better experience photo shooting with iPhone [scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/twelve-south-book-book...]. For work, using iPhone for photos is good enough most of the time. Besides, my iPhone is, like many people, for: Instagram to have fun with photos and image loving communities, email, music player, phone calls, Facebook, whatsapp, audiobooks (I now "read" books mostly in audiobook format, at least I won't fall asleep), meditation (I use binaural beats to achieve mind states), alarm, address book, teamviewer (to connect remotely to my work or home computer), tethering, calculator, etc. Thanks to Charles Kao and Steve Jobs, never been so powerful connecting to the world.
Pen Holder on Neck Strap
It seems trivial nowadays to many people but it is so useful for me.
Pens: I carry 3 pens close to me (I want to carry one more, a mechanical pencil either by Rotring or Kaweco, but that's just too much to carry sometimes). A Pilot Capless Matt Black: it is efficient like a roller ball, just click and write, but produces elegant strokes as a fountain pen even at fine nib, I use it mostly for scheduling and mind mapping. A Kaweco Sports ball point pen: I hate ball pens but sometimes you need to use them on laminated name cards or coated papers, very good price and small to carry. A Graf Von Faber Castell Classics Platinum fountain pen: thanks to a dear friend who bought me this, I now use it for important signature (not much actually), its medium nib allows me to generate beautiful calligraphy and heavier strokes for sketches, I love the classic shape a lot and ā¦err it is also something I can brag about :)
Leather Pen Holder on Neck Strap: I made this pen holder modeling after one made by 4GATS, a talented Japanese leather-craft company made of 4 staffs. If you like the look of this, all credit goes to 4GATS, I made it because I couldn't get one myself and I love to DIMyself. Having pens readily accessible but with style is satisfying, how? I get more than 30 people staring at my chest every single day, anyway I hate putting pen and especially more than one of them on my shirt pocket. One additional function I like to have this on my neck is that I can clip my visitor's pass onto it whenever I go to trade shows, no more ugly event straps hanging on my neck!
The leather pen holder is usually hanged from my neck or in my shirt pocket, BookBook in my pant pocket, while I carry by hand the Traveler's Notebook. Well, the "Perfect System" may sound like a clumsy organizer to you, but it is my constant (remember Faraday's "constant" [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Constant] in LOST? [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Constant]) and I invite you to think more about the constant concept if you will.
Finally, if I had the luxury to carry one more thing I would carry an analog camera: Voigtlander R4A 35mm f1.4 or Canon F1N 50mm f1.2 or Polaroid 110A converted to use Fujifilm peel apart.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/scriptions-perfect-sys...
For those of you who want to enjoy the everyday creativity Chronodex brings, but already moved on to digital note taking or scheduling, I've made Chronodex available for you in digital format.
GhostWriter Notes iPad app is one of the best digital notebooks you can find on a tablet. Since the creation of Chronodex, many of you want to apply the idea in your own preferred paper and notebook size and format, some of you adapted it into stickers, printed on tracing paper. Now you can have the same fun on your iPad, just download the Chronodex Daily GTD for GhostWriter Notes JPG, save it in your photo library, choose the image from your GhostWriter Notes "paper" setting, that's it.
GhostWriter Notes is like a scrapbooking page with dozens of nice features you can play with your Chronodex core. I love the choice of ink pen which gives you very fine lines to color your pies. You can simply use the Chronodex core as your mindmapping center on GhostWriter as well. If you look into the details of the format, I'm sure you will find your very own creative use of the core.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2012/01/chronodex-daily-gtd-in...
Ressucitei meu Filofax de 11 anos para melhor gerenciar meus mind-maps. Mas jĆ” encomendei um novo em www.filofax.co.uk, na cor vermelha desta vez :)
Scription's Perfect System 2011-2012
I didn't realize until 3 days ago when I put these 3 things together (which contain a whole lot more of other things inside each), that this bunch of tools are actually EVERYTHING I need wherever I go, and it is quite compact IMHO. Powerful isn't it? In a moment I'm gonna share with you the details but first, let's contemplate on the pattern behind, which is beyond objects and tools, but of planting seeds which someday all coagulate and become something more.
Today I have a dream job most of you envy and I myself enjoy tremendously, but this dream job is just one of the things I surrounded myself with. My core has always been planting seeds, finding tools, connecting unrelated stuffs and sit back to look at all of these actions once in a while. Sitting back is most important of all, it is one of the happiest moments when you can most certainly find and reap innovations and insights.
Back to objects and tools. This so called "Perfect System" which I assume is valid at least until the end of 2012, is a result of me continuously simplifying my daily needs, finding tools that fit and beautifying them along the road. Somehow it all made sense when I put them together.
Traveler's Notebook
It is not a perfect notebook but you have a choice to carry only what you need and I customized it to fulfill my needs for: travel, GTD, scheduling, mind mapping and drawing. It is basically holding all my plans and thoughts.
Travel: card pockets to hold business cards, hotel access cards, mileage cards, medical card. Zip pocket to hold receipts, post cards, stickers, paper clips. Elastic band to hold my flight itinerary, boarding pass and passport.
GTD: I carry two refills inside Traveler's Notebook. One is used for GTD, drawing and mind mapping. Instead of carrying extra deck of GTD index cards like before (scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/hacking-gtd-tabs-and-i...), I use my Leather GTD Tabs (scription.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/leather-gtd-tabs---a-h...) to clip on specific pages for various purposes (Next Actions, Projects, Waiting For, Someday). In addition, I created some custom inserts to facilitate my mind mapping needs. It is a PDF in A4 size which you can download, print double sided, cut into the right size, fold in half and insert into a refill notebook very easily. Here's the file! Try it out and let me know your feedback. On blank page of the refill, I enjoy drawing things randomly or sketching my next leather project ideas.
Scheduling: The second refill I use for scheduling. I've decided that no commercially available diaries fulfill my needs and most of them too rigid. So I created a way I temporarily called Chronodex, which you may already had a glimpse in some of my previous photos. I'm still adding and modifying things but here's a version you can download and try: CHRONODEX VERSION 6. It is a PDF in A4 size, you can process it the same way I mentioned above and use it as a free weekly diary. The main advantage of it for me is that I can use the space freely but still referring to the correct time slice/pie, it is visually more pleasing and less rigid to me. Again, I'm happy to hear your comments, good and bad.
Well, I also stitched a leather loop onto the back cover of the Traveler's Notebook to carry an extra pen the way I like it. Other customization is just aesthetic, like the bookmark charm and the camera charm.
Twelve South BookBook and iPhone
This BookBook leather case for iPhone is super popular and we are always out of stock. I found it perfect to be my wallet and communicator all-in-one.
Wallet: I use Twelve South's BookBook to hold my credit cards, staff access card, transport card and occasionally paper money.
Communicator: I customized the BookBook to allow better experience photo shooting with iPhone [scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/twelve-south-book-book...]. For work, using iPhone for photos is good enough most of the time. Besides, my iPhone is, like many people, for: Instagram to have fun with photos and image loving communities, email, music player, phone calls, Facebook, whatsapp, audiobooks (I now "read" books mostly in audiobook format, at least I won't fall asleep), meditation (I use binaural beats to achieve mind states), alarm, address book, teamviewer (to connect remotely to my work or home computer), tethering, calculator, etc. Thanks to Charles Kao and Steve Jobs, never been so powerful connecting to the world.
Pen Holder on Neck Strap
It seems trivial nowadays to many people but it is so useful for me.
Pens: I carry 3 pens close to me (I want to carry one more, a mechanical pencil either by Rotring or Kaweco, but that's just too much to carry sometimes). A Pilot Capless Matt Black: it is efficient like a roller ball, just click and write, but produces elegant strokes as a fountain pen even at fine nib, I use it mostly for scheduling and mind mapping. A Kaweco Sports ball point pen: I hate ball pens but sometimes you need to use them on laminated name cards or coated papers, very good price and small to carry. A Graf Von Faber Castell Classics Platinum fountain pen: thanks to a dear friend who bought me this, I now use it for important signature (not much actually), its medium nib allows me to generate beautiful calligraphy and heavier strokes for sketches, I love the classic shape a lot and ā¦err it is also something I can brag about :)
Leather Pen Holder on Neck Strap: I made this pen holder modeling after one made by 4GATS, a talented Japanese leather-craft company made of 4 staffs. If you like the look of this, all credit goes to 4GATS, I made it because I couldn't get one myself and I love to DIMyself. Having pens readily accessible but with style is satisfying, how? I get more than 30 people staring at my chest every single day, anyway I hate putting pen and especially more than one of them on my shirt pocket. One additional function I like to have this on my neck is that I can clip my visitor's pass onto it whenever I go to trade shows, no more ugly event straps hanging on my neck!
The leather pen holder is usually hanged from my neck or in my shirt pocket, BookBook in my pant pocket, while I carry by hand the Traveler's Notebook. Well, the "Perfect System" may sound like a clumsy organizer to you, but it is my constant (remember Faraday's "constant" [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Constant] in LOST? [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Constant]) and I invite you to think more about the constant concept if you will.
Finally, if I had the luxury to carry one more thing I would carry an analog camera: Voigtlander R4A 35mm f1.4 or Canon F1N 50mm f1.2 or Polaroid 110A converted to use Fujifilm peel apart.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/scriptions-perfect-sys...
For those of you who want to enjoy the everyday creativity Chronodex brings, but already moved on to digital note taking or scheduling, I've made Chronodex available for you in digital format.
GhostWriter Notes iPad app is one of the best digital notebooks you can find on a tablet. Since the creation of Chronodex, many of you want to apply the idea in your own preferred paper and notebook size and format, some of you adapted it into stickers, printed on tracing paper. Now you can have the same fun on your iPad, just download the Chronodex Daily GTD for GhostWriter Notes JPG, save it in your photo library, choose the image from your GhostWriter Notes "paper" setting, that's it.
GhostWriter Notes is like a scrapbooking page with dozens of nice features you can play with your Chronodex core. I love the choice of ink pen which gives you very fine lines to color your pies. You can simply use the Chronodex core as your mindmapping center on GhostWriter as well. If you look into the details of the format, I'm sure you will find your very own creative use of the core.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2012/01/chronodex-daily-gtd-in...
[Blogged on http://dharmafly.com/blog/how-to-save-the-world-and-succeed-in-business]
Madhava and I ran an interactive workshop at BarCamp Brighton:
"How to Save the World and Succeed in Business"
This is the perennial question for our own startup web development company, Dharmafly, and instead of telling anything, we wanted to get the answers from the crowd...
We split people into groups and got everyone mind-mapping. Each group had a sheet with 'How to Save the World' written in the centre and another sheet with 'How to Succeed in Business'. On each sheet, with limited time, people wrote down related concepts and then connected them together...
There often seems to be a conflict between running a thriving business and working in an ethical way. Much of our society is cut-throat and ruthlessly capitalistic. But we found that many practices complement both needs and there is a common desire for collaboration, integrity and taking an ethical approach.
The future looks bright...
Scription's Perfect System 2011-2012
I didn't realize until 3 days ago when I put these 3 things together (which contain a whole lot more of other things inside each), that this bunch of tools are actually EVERYTHING I need wherever I go, and it is quite compact IMHO. Powerful isn't it? In a moment I'm gonna share with you the details but first, let's contemplate on the pattern behind, which is beyond objects and tools, but of planting seeds which someday all coagulate and become something more.
Today I have a dream job most of you envy and I myself enjoy tremendously, but this dream job is just one of the things I surrounded myself with. My core has always been planting seeds, finding tools, connecting unrelated stuffs and sit back to look at all of these actions once in a while. Sitting back is most important of all, it is one of the happiest moments when you can most certainly find and reap innovations and insights.
Back to objects and tools. This so called "Perfect System" which I assume is valid at least until the end of 2012, is a result of me continuously simplifying my daily needs, finding tools that fit and beautifying them along the road. Somehow it all made sense when I put them together.
Traveler's Notebook
It is not a perfect notebook but you have a choice to carry only what you need and I customized it to fulfill my needs for: travel, GTD, scheduling, mind mapping and drawing. It is basically holding all my plans and thoughts.
Travel: card pockets to hold business cards, hotel access cards, mileage cards, medical card. Zip pocket to hold receipts, post cards, stickers, paper clips. Elastic band to hold my flight itinerary, boarding pass and passport.
GTD: I carry two refills inside Traveler's Notebook. One is used for GTD, drawing and mind mapping. Instead of carrying extra deck of GTD index cards like before (scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/hacking-gtd-tabs-and-i...), I use my Leather GTD Tabs (scription.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/leather-gtd-tabs---a-h...) to clip on specific pages for various purposes (Next Actions, Projects, Waiting For, Someday). In addition, I created some custom inserts to facilitate my mind mapping needs. It is a PDF in A4 size which you can download, print double sided, cut into the right size, fold in half and insert into a refill notebook very easily. Here's the file! Try it out and let me know your feedback. On blank page of the refill, I enjoy drawing things randomly or sketching my next leather project ideas.
Scheduling: The second refill I use for scheduling. I've decided that no commercially available diaries fulfill my needs and most of them too rigid. So I created a way I temporarily called Chronodex, which you may already had a glimpse in some of my previous photos. I'm still adding and modifying things but here's a version you can download and try: CHRONODEX VERSION 6. It is a PDF in A4 size, you can process it the same way I mentioned above and use it as a free weekly diary. The main advantage of it for me is that I can use the space freely but still referring to the correct time slice/pie, it is visually more pleasing and less rigid to me. Again, I'm happy to hear your comments, good and bad.
Well, I also stitched a leather loop onto the back cover of the Traveler's Notebook to carry an extra pen the way I like it. Other customization is just aesthetic, like the bookmark charm and the camera charm.
Twelve South BookBook and iPhone
This BookBook leather case for iPhone is super popular and we are always out of stock. I found it perfect to be my wallet and communicator all-in-one.
Wallet: I use Twelve South's BookBook to hold my credit cards, staff access card, transport card and occasionally paper money.
Communicator: I customized the BookBook to allow better experience photo shooting with iPhone [scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/twelve-south-book-book...]. For work, using iPhone for photos is good enough most of the time. Besides, my iPhone is, like many people, for: Instagram to have fun with photos and image loving communities, email, music player, phone calls, Facebook, whatsapp, audiobooks (I now "read" books mostly in audiobook format, at least I won't fall asleep), meditation (I use binaural beats to achieve mind states), alarm, address book, teamviewer (to connect remotely to my work or home computer), tethering, calculator, etc. Thanks to Charles Kao and Steve Jobs, never been so powerful connecting to the world.
Pen Holder on Neck Strap
It seems trivial nowadays to many people but it is so useful for me.
Pens: I carry 3 pens close to me (I want to carry one more, a mechanical pencil either by Rotring or Kaweco, but that's just too much to carry sometimes). A Pilot Capless Matt Black: it is efficient like a roller ball, just click and write, but produces elegant strokes as a fountain pen even at fine nib, I use it mostly for scheduling and mind mapping. A Kaweco Sports ball point pen: I hate ball pens but sometimes you need to use them on laminated name cards or coated papers, very good price and small to carry. A Graf Von Faber Castell Classics Platinum fountain pen: thanks to a dear friend who bought me this, I now use it for important signature (not much actually), its medium nib allows me to generate beautiful calligraphy and heavier strokes for sketches, I love the classic shape a lot and ā¦err it is also something I can brag about :)
Leather Pen Holder on Neck Strap: I made this pen holder modeling after one made by 4GATS, a talented Japanese leather-craft company made of 4 staffs. If you like the look of this, all credit goes to 4GATS, I made it because I couldn't get one myself and I love to DIMyself. Having pens readily accessible but with style is satisfying, how? I get more than 30 people staring at my chest every single day, anyway I hate putting pen and especially more than one of them on my shirt pocket. One additional function I like to have this on my neck is that I can clip my visitor's pass onto it whenever I go to trade shows, no more ugly event straps hanging on my neck!
The leather pen holder is usually hanged from my neck or in my shirt pocket, BookBook in my pant pocket, while I carry by hand the Traveler's Notebook. Well, the "Perfect System" may sound like a clumsy organizer to you, but it is my constant (remember Faraday's "constant" [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Constant] in LOST? [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Constant]) and I invite you to think more about the constant concept if you will.
Finally, if I had the luxury to carry one more thing I would carry an analog camera: Voigtlander R4A 35mm f1.4 or Canon F1N 50mm f1.2 or Polaroid 110A converted to use Fujifilm peel apart.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/scriptions-perfect-sys...
The contents of this pen case might seem somewhat familiar to those who took a look at my photostream. I now use those pens and pencil almost exclusively for mind-mapping since I now scan the IT books I used to use them on.
That's what I am currently walking around with. Those of you, who have seen my previous what's in my bag shots will notice how the number of items, their size and the total weight of the bag keep on decreasing.
Note: there is a version with corrected colours here: www.flickr.com/photos/beorn_ours/3018938766/?eOrig=301603...
I just did not want to have to create all those notes again ;-)
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One of the best things in owning a notebook for me is that I no longer have to spend most of my time at home at my working room. When I need a keyboard (programming, chatting, writing) I'm working like this, and when I need just the screen (reading, browsing, handwriting, mindmapping), I can as well do this at bed.
sunset
vertical dimensions
abstracts in nature
reaching
iPhone 11 Pro 2.0x; Halide Photo App 2.0.5; Image Post: Affinity Photo 1.8.6
2021-01-10-iOS-2047
(Winter 2021) GT Cooper
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O scroll suave e o zoom simplificado do iPhone / iPod touch fazem deles os dispositivos mĆ³veis perfeitos para se visualizar mind-maps!
Estou usando o serviƧo online Mind Meister para elaborƔ-los. Depois salvo em JPG e sincronizo no iPod touch.
A respeito da palestra gratuita em SP sobre mind-maps e tecnologia mĆ³vel, todos os detalhes estĆ£o no blog.
Here is a look inside my mindmapping kit at the materials I use to create hand-drawn mind maps.
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Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e
"Ukiyo-e (ęµ®äøēµµ, Ukiyo-e?), "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.
The "floating world" (ukiyo) refers to the impetuous urban culture that bloomed and was a world unto itself. Although the traditional classes of Japanese society were bound by numerous strictures and prohibitions, the rising merchant class was relatively unregulated, therefore "floating."
The art form rose to great popularity in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) during the second half of the 17th century, originating with the single-color works of Hishikawa Moronobu in the 1670s. At first, only India ink was used, then some prints were manually colored with a brush, but in the 18th century Suzuki Harunobu developed the technique of polychrome printing to produce nishiki-e.
Ukiyo-e were affordable because they could be mass-produced. They were meant for mainly townsmen, who were generally not wealthy enough to afford an original painting. The original subject of ukiyo-e was city life, in particular activities and scenes from the entertainment district. Beautiful courtesans, bulky sumo wrestlers and popular actors would be portrayed while engaged in appealing activities. Later on landscapes also became popular. Political subjects, and individuals above the lowest strata of society (courtesans, wrestlers and actors) were not sanctioned in these prints and very rarely appeared. "
One of the theories to debate why Dumbledore trusted Snape. Friends and I debating online here in the US and in Scotland, awaiting the final book. Its a mystery, a big puzzle and there is nothing like a good puzzle.
I believe Snape is the ultimate 'poker' player. He has kept his cards close and has really not belied his true persona yet.
Aunque las reglas estƔn hechas para romperse, hay que conocerlas antes de romperlas. He intentado resumir las leyes de los mapas mentales.
L'adoption du Web 2.0 est une question stratƩgique pour de nombreuses entreprises de diffƩrentes tailles. Voici le rƩsultat d'une rƩflexion collective avec des employƩs d'une grande entreprise.
This tray has all the micro slips and slip holders, as well as erasable blank magnets.
The pre-printed slips have symbols on them, similar to the ones on some of the magnets. They are mostly for problem solving and decision making.
There are also a whole bunch of magnets with little clear pockets to hold the slips.
See here about the blockage magnets.
The central space holds long magnets and clear strips to hold a line of slips or notes like a magnetic clamp - see the magnet board on the table easel.
Having to move reluctantly, I had to throw away stuffs which tells a lot of my "previous life".
Bought these blank masks a few years ago to play with my son. I would ask him to tell me what to draw on the faces and did it in front of him. It was great fun with lots of laughters. Other times, I would draw something inspired by Damien Hirst or other classic paintings, or simply drew something out of the blue. Search Google for "Chinese Opera Masks" to see how colorful they can be!
I remember a time in my secondary school years when my parents forbade me to be a photographer, artist, musician or painter. My Dad's home was filled with great Chinese paintings and he talked a lot about these painters. Under the radar, I had to secretly borrow a camera to take pictures, signed up for a Chinese painting class from a well known master and bought these pigments and brushes, etc. Why this conflicting practice from my parents? My Dad loves Chinese paintings and he made a living buying and selling them. He spent a lot of time studying painters' life and how they evolved, authenticating them, putting them to auctions in Christie's and Sotheby's. In his words "great painters lives terrible lives and only after they are dead do people take advantage of their talents". Painstakingly sad and most of the time truthful. I must show you some of my previous Chinese paintings later on. These dishes and pigments are really important to me even though I haven't touched them for over 15 years. They are the past but the image is forever.
My little brother brought a sand block for sculpture and he only crafted the word JULY on it, it was also like 15 years ago. After reading an English novel with a tag line "It's like touching fantasy" I took this sand block and crafted something out of it. It was then placed in my Macquarium for a long time. Wow, it was over 10 years ago since I made the Color Classic Forever web site and "blogged" about my creation and mis-fortunes. New York Times even told my little story:
Exerpt of the New York Times article printed on August 24, 2000
Patrick Ng, an Internet executive in Hong Kong, has taken his obsession to more lyrical heights. A vice president at PacificDotCom, Mr. Ng has documented his self-diagnosed case of "CCFS" (Color Classic Fixation Syndrome) on his amusing Web site, Color Classic Forever (grus.hkstar.com /patrickn/colorclassic). The story began in October 1998, when Mr. Ng saw a photo of the Color Classic. He alerted a newsgroup to his quest for one and visited several shops until he found a dirty nonworking model.
After giving it a scrub, Mr. Ng rhapsodized in a diary entry on his site: "I now see the uncompromising beauty and elegance of CC even more obviously, it simply shines. As this mystic discovery continues, my super-ego seems to warn me the danger of the game, the emotional attachment to a physical object."
On New Year's Eve, while others were partying, Mr. Ng was otherwise occupied, as a later diary entry showed: "I embraced the dusted classic during the countdown. The rest of that night, perhaps I should say the rest of the millennium, I gradually slipped away and fell into a deep trance, everything went blurred except a single point of vision, I naturally put that point on the shining Color Classic."
He then decided that he wanted the machine to carry his child, "to give her life," he wrote. As it turned out, Mr. Ng's "child" is his Siamese fighting fish, Faust, who now swims in an aquarium installed in the Color Classic's chassis.
Cured of his obsession, Mr. Ng now keeps his Macquarium in his office, which overlooks Hong Kong. "I receive e-mails from all over the world asking about Faust," he said. "He's doing fine."
If you want to create a Macquarium, check out my version 1.1 and version 2.0instructions. Hmmmm.... want to see me naked with Color Classic? Here it is "Born Naked With Color Classic.
It was important to me and part of them still is. Notes from my Psychology/physiology/research method classes and my Philosophy classes. I particularly had a tough time in Philosophy classes being the only Chinese student there, unable to verbalize my thoughts and participate in discussions, I often got below average marks. I enjoyed the late night studies particularly, there is a point when you give up trying to get pass and start to study for the real meaning of life. Super fun! Unforgettable!
I couldn't throw away my blackboard though. I love the rawness, the sound of chalk on board reminds me of school life, the perfect circle my secondary school math teacher drew..... it is the essence of learning to me. Simple tools to pass along knowledge.
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This mind map looks at the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy/Innovation, and how organisations can get stuck in the 'Red Ocean'.
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This is the middle of a detailed observation of the Gospel of Mark 3:7-35. Part of my schooling involves training in reading and interpreting scripture. A detailed observation is one of the techniques we learn. I am not that good at looking at these relationships so I have to do things in an odd way. This is the result. I scanned and cut-out the sections so I could look at the relationships. The arrows and boxes are showing relationships.
I have more if anyone finds this interesting. Like all of my school notebooks, this is done in an extra large moleskine cahier.
This Mind Map is a summary of the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle.
Present moment awareness; living in the now, is very simple to understand. To experience this moment with greater aliveness, try an easy experiment. Pick up or look at an object (perhaps even look at your hand) and view it without any thought whatsoever - no labelling, judging, analysing; no restless need for something more exciting - simply look, feel, sense, touch. You will probably detect a quietness inside you, a stillness, an alert presence - just pure being without expectation. The mind may try to investigate the moment - see if you can observe the object and at the same time effortlessly allow space around any thought that arises - that is to say, don't feel compelled to follow your thought instead of paying alert attention to the object in front of you.
If this makes you feel more peaceful, restful, relaxed, brings a sense of inner calm; if this resonates with you at all, I recommend reading "The Power of Now"
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It's by no means the full story, and I broke some mindmap rules (but I would go off on a tangent in my head, and I figure that's getting out of the box. Right?)
Also note that I put "mindmapping" under procrastination. If I wasn't mindmapping at that moment, I could be writing.
Didn't use enough symbols.
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I made a box to sit on the base of my table easel. It has four trays with blank and symbol slips and coloured magnets and magnets with symbols.
I can use this kit to brainstorm ideas or solutions to problems, or to organise notes and ideas.
The advantage of this kit over traditional paper mindmaps and other mapping processes is the flexibility. Each idea, note or concept is written on a separate piece of paper and attached to the board with magnetic slip holders. They can then be added, moved and removed without making a mess of the diagram or map.
On this board I only have a list and some notes, as that is what I was working on at the time I took the photo. I will add some examples of use in the future.
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