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www.intersectionconsulting.comWhat are your most important interaction channels? Where can you have the highest impact with your target audience?
How well do you communicate at each touch point?
Is your brand message consistent?
Does your target audience have a positive experience at each point of interaction?
Take an objective look at each interaction channel - What can you do to improve the experience for your clients and prospects?
Develop some strategies for each audience touch point - What is the goal of each interaction?
I am not comfortable with street photography and decided to use my camera on live view at waist level - a first for me. I would not be comfortable asking to take a photo so they tend to be grab shots. I also tried out the filters on my camera - fisheye and HDR but as we can only submit one image I chose this one.
I’ve got a problem. You see, about five or six years ago, I discovered the fantastically weird world of the Super Furry Animals, led by Gruff Rhys and I can’t get his songs out of my head. It was spring in the year 2000 and everywhere, things were starting to grow again. I found Mwng first while on the streets of NYC. I read in a mag that it was one of the only albums being released completely in Welsh. Intrigued, I picked this up and loved the sweet melodies the likes of I had never heard before. It didn’t sound like anything being created in North America or anywhere else for that matter.
I immediately fell in love and it was deep but it was about to get worse because soon after picking this one up, Rings Around the World (2001) came out. It felt more rock and psych influenced and immediately filled me with happiness. I had picked up the dvd edition so I was able to enjoy all my favorite songs on video like “Juxtapozed with U” where a giant microphone dances around with a video camera. If hostile aliens were about to attack Earth and I could only choose one song to play them in order to convince them to halt, I think I’d probably play this one. I don’t know how anyone could destroy such a place while a person like Gruff was living on it.
Weirdest of all in the video collection was “Receptacle for the Respectable” with it’s twisted and strange animation. It was almost like Wales was its own world the way Gruff thought. Probably the other song that changed me is “It’s Not the End of the World?” It gets stuck in my head at the most random moments and makes me smile sometimes even when that’s the last thing I feel like doing. My love grew again even more while listening to Phantom Power two years later in 2003. Gruff was clearly a man who could rock out with “Golden Retriever” and be gentle again with “Piccolo Snare” as well as “Venus and Serena.”
But nothing in heaven and Earth could prepare me for the intensity of love I’d feel after listening to 2005’s Love Kraft There are some days when I put it on in the morning and can listen to nothing else. I’ve listened to “Zoom!” on repeat for several hours. If time is a landscape, then in the desert of my days, the music has been played loud and has influenced every cell of my body to become a fan of this band as well.
Now, I should mention that I do like the newest one Hey Venus! even if I am not experiencing the same passion with it that I did for Love Kraft. I love the psych rock of “Into the Night” and “Baby Ate my Eightball” especially. But what I really wanted to talk about is Gruff.
Do you know the feeling you get when you just love music so much and you literally fall in love with songs, lyrics, melody lines. It’s like everything in this whole world could be obliterated but as long as the songs were there, you could drift along in the wasteland that was left and play it to the dead rocks and the tainted seas. It’s like, people weren’t born before this music because how could they have survived without it’s creation? Or, on the first through 7th days God created the Earth and all that other stuff but somewhere down the line, he created music and musicians and Gruff Rhys and there was much rejoicing.
Perhaps I’m going a little overboard. I’ve always been slightly over the top and melodramatic. It’s my way. When I love something, I really love it. When I dislike something, I really hate it. That’s simplified but you get the idea. Anyhow, I’m always afraid that the people behind the music are going to be snotty or full of themselves or just aloof. Then, you worry you won’t be able to connect with the music anymore on an emotional level because you’ll be thinking about how bad the interaction went.
But Gruff isn’t any of those things. He’s sweet and charming and even though he’s very much a man, he’s pretty much downright adorable. Nine times out of ten, I would rather take photos of a woman than a man. The tenth time, the man is Gruff.
I’ve always had a theory about concert photographers. There are alot of us and as the years have gone by, I’ve met more and more. They usually vary between fans of the music and people who are just doing this because they are paid to do it. But, my feeling is that if you aren’t connecting with the music, it will show. As for me, with a couple of exceptions, most of the photos I take are for bands I really love. I’ve done a couple of favors here and there but I’d say a huge percentage of the bands I take photos of, I am there on purpose.
That said, I am done with my brief (yes, brief!) autobiography of my love affair with the music of The Super Furry Animals. There are few bands that if I could I would follow around the world. Caribou is one as well as A Silver Mt. Zion. Super Furry Animals is definitely another, because they are one of the best bands of our time and undoubtedly put on one of the most thrilling live performances I’ve ever seen. So, I hope you enjoy these photos and hopefully it shows how much I love the Super Furry Animals.
Here are the infamous flickr paparazzi stalking unknown celebrities at Disneyland during the unofficial "Corey Dorsey is coming to town, let's meetup at Disneyland" Meetup...
Corey and Ryan Pastorino unwittingly drew extra attention this day due their frequent and prolific showing off of their big flashy white "L" lenses throughout the Park on a day when Christina Aguilera was there...At one point they were even asked to, "Put away their professional equipment" by a security supervisor, the same supervisor who had grilled my son and I after taking photos of the parked Trams during the Inaugural Mice Chat Photo Meetup in November...
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Throughout the evening, we whipped out the tripods frequently, despite the earlier warnings and never had any other issues, other than interaction with curious DIsneyland guests...
This is scene was shot in Fantasyland after closing, where our group, including (pictured here, left to right) Corey Dorsey, Ryan Pastorino, Mike Greening, my son Justin (Tripod Monkey) and the really nice and very patient security castmember trying hard to (nicely) get us out of Fantsyland. Not shown is Bill McIntosh who is playing with his own tripod under the arches of the Snow White entry queue...My camera is setup in the doorway of the Heraldry shop, where I had spotted this suit of amour on previous occasions, and thought it would make a humorous and interesting photo somehow...
HDR image from 3 exposures plus extra exposures masked-in for the people
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between folk musicians who meet on the street and play with whom they want.
It is 25. year fiddler rally held.
It must be amazing to be 3 years old and enjoy the water going between your toes. And just stand there and enjoy that for what it is. The simple force of nature and it's interaction with humankind.
I have a lot of contacts on here that shoot nothing but children. They do some amazing portraits, candids, etc. I'll never be as good as them, but I will try. So here's my attempt. Dylan at the beach yesterday, pondering life.
Today, shooting a beach wedding.
Jingili Water Gardens day 8-10
In a social environment, each repeating action is slightly different, even when social interactions are limited to a few actors and a limited range of actions is undertaken.
Walking past a stranger and muttering 'good morning' or making a hand or facial gesture, whilst limited is also grounding. Each repeated action improves the experience of the activity. The smile gets bigger and ignoring more pronounced. The gesture shifts from novel to heightened and then to automation. Simple transactions fall into the shadows or normality. The gesture occurs without realization. It is systematized. Is there a way of not plateauing into reductive repetitive activity and to continually improve the experience?
Perhaps gamification? For example, one reaction for one person and another for another person.
My original and prior thoughts were that continuous and repeated actions inhibit each transaction's ability to adapt. So mix it up - change hand & facial gestures - make the play in how the transaction initiates and concludes. Perhaps, switch the which side of the path the transaction occurs. This way the humanness within the transaction transpires the actual activity of walking on a designated and identical path. At what point does this approach breakthrough social norms to become non-sensical or even perceived as a threat?
Obviously, the superficialness of the greeting of unknown people within a simple scenario is different than that of a more complex scenario like greeting known co-workers every morning where discussion is likely to occur. However, the question of improving transactions in social media platforms is comparable. At what time does liking the same person's creative post stop having a sense of quality or uplifting emotion and enters the realm of superficial habit. Doing it because that is what you do or gaming up by employing emojis, comments, and self-promotional statements/links. There is creative opportunities within each transaction within systemic understandings acceptable norms.
It would be stupid if I thought that after 10 days of visiting Jingili Water Gardens, at more or less the same time and following the same path my ability to adapt would be stunted. After 10 circuits over 10 days, I am starting to anticipate what I will most likely encounter, and surprises become significant. It is enjoyable crossing paths with the same people, dogs, and birds. I do enjoy how the sun interacts with the trees and other artifacts within the gardens. Like a game of chess, I am seeing possibilities and anticipating what I can do. I can forecast that if I repeated my actions over a year, my structural, physiological, and behavioral insights would become finer and finer. If I could maintain this level of reflection, the data I collect on each and every transaction would compound, and my knowledge would transcend to a new level of expertise. If I do not maintain this level of reflection will the activity become a chore and a lockin
The promise of Artificial Intelligence and automation is about freeing us from the tyranny of repetitive tasks. Is reflection a burden and will AI extend its capacity to respond on my behalf? More importantly, will I employ it? The symbiotic relationship of walking through Jingili Water Gardens and reflective writing has enabled a creative response. Combined, both repetitive activities required time and effort, dedication and discipline to gain a semblance of personal reward. My simple question is - how do humans gain expertise of intrinsic satisfaction without engaging repetition? My more complex question regards the systematization of Artificial Intelligence and the problem of freedom without repetition.
If the promise is, freedom from repetition enables people to engage in more complex endeavors, however, how do we step up to more complex endeavors without repetition? How does that work in teaching? Will that mean teaching will become more complex, learning will increase and creativity will flourish?
In regards to creating great music, can this be done without developing a skills platform? Iterative improvement, through a step and repeat based process, can create exceptional art. Jackson Pollock achieved remarkable paintings through a repetitive action-based methodology. Despite the similarities, not one of his paintings is a replicant. At the heart, Pollock's artistic creativity is both repetition and reflection. On this basis, the complexity of reflection increases the output enriches. This leads to the next question if creativity is based on iterative improvement at what point is improvement non-recognizable.
Baldessari Cremation Project highlights the normality plateau many repetitive creatives find themselves - that is an expression that relies on iterative improvement eventually recycles and becomes reductive.
In regards to Jingili Water Gardens, how many repeated walks and how much reflection can be applied before reduction occurs and I am basically recycling? I will not reach this realization as I know that the repetitive loop will be broken once I return to work. So on this realization, this is my last Jingili Water Garden reflection.
What have I learned from the experience and reflection?
My quest was to discipline myself into a repetitive activity to question 'just doing it' normality, to observe freedom, and to self impose restricted actions within societal restrictions to find a path forward that increased my creatively in the twilight years of my professional career and address ways of re-entering an artistic career post 60. I believe that I have found a nebulous idea and my next logical step is to goal map creative growth across education and artistic expressions. There are two systems I need to reevaluate and build within. My creativity will be essentially adaptive. That is from within.
Since I graduated in 1981 as an artist and 1983 as an educator much has changed. Within the contemporary art realm, narrative, identity, and experience have become an increasingly important design agent. There are more people who are interested in contemporary art, there are more gallery agents, more venues, more ways to publicize and make publication. Studio arts have exponentiated into a wider scoped creative arts industry. What I can observe is that contemporary art is moving from the margin towards the center. The arts industry seems more professional and commercial in that it not only operates in elite circles but on a mass scale based on a smaller price dividend. Art events are becoming more and more spectacular. As this growth has broadened user base, traditional media-based fine art products have shifted from the leading thought to that of the level of craft. It has found it's based on media specialization. Technology has shifted contemporary artists from producing and refining style to seeking new modes of critical dialogue. The artist-as-genius model has expired. Wow - how do I step into this paradigm?
The expansion of education into society has significantly transformed society. When I entered university it was a privilege of the few. Most students did not complete their senior secondary school. Perhaps the biggest change has been in the realm of completion to “lifelong learning. There is no endpoint. The link between national growth and personal growth through formal education is established. National growth, human capital, and educational attainment underlines human prosperity. I need to question my hierarchical status. Do I remain operational in my current position and incrementally improve until I reach reduction or do I break the loop into a new paradigm of improvement?
What I have gained from the repetitive walks through Jingili Water Gardens and applied reflection is that the creative system is the system thinking. For creativity to benefit systems it cannot be as simple as - get another idea and then just do it. The components that form a system must be viewed as a whole and thinking as a whole. A creative system observes itself thinking throughout its own repetitive iterations. It takes time and thinking discipline for systems to realize creativity. Systems lose creative scope and become reductive and deprecatory. These systems need to reflect on their repetitive artifacts.
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Just a little tabelscrap I made during my SARS-CoV-2 build which proved to be ludicrously out of scale for that MOC. While too big for the main MOC, it's also too small to show any real detail but I've coloured the spike protein by protomer (red, green and yellow) to give a better idea of what it means for it to have a trimeric structure. Inspired by a much more detailed cryo-EM structure.
The human ACE2 receptor is coloured blue and is mainly present to give a simplistic overview of how the spike protein receptor interaction works, although this generally ignores all the conformational changes involved. The general shape is based on another recently reported cryo-EM structure with ACE2 as a chaperone in complex with B0AT1; an amino acid transporter. I believe this is only physiologically relevant in the kidneys and intestines and scientists are still unsure what effect the association has on coronavirus cell entry in those tissues.
The linked papers are worth a read if you have the time and interest.
Went to Kew Gardens the weekend ... they had a little "petting zoo" for the kids :) ... was delightful watching the kids getting all involved with all the baby animals :)
(the lambs were really dirty tough :( ... )
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Closeups give me that blackbook feel. Remember when you had time to rock full blown blackbook prodos? Pick up a can and its all history. Good times...
....Nothing like the real shit, though.
"The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things."
-Colin Angle
(Colin Angle is co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of iRobot Corporation - not very poetic I know)
A little play on a rainy day! Hope you all are having a good one!
Zoya, who is now 9 weeks old, is the zoo's gorgeous, rare Amur Tiger cub. She is very lively now, acting very much like a toddler on four legs and with puppy teeth! She receives a lot of stimulating interaction that helps to hone her natural instincts of stalking and hunting, all of which she is practicing without realizing while she plays! She is very rambunctious and getting bolder every day-I am very proud of her developmentally growing stronger every day!
Farmers markets are always a great place to see a great mix of people, animals, and produce all interacting.
July 2025 vacation to New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Source: hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/an/
Retouching: Lightroom
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AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background galaxy. The foreground spiral galaxy has a number of dust lanes between its arms. The background galaxy was earlier classified as an elliptical galaxy, but Hubble has now revealed a galaxy with dusty spiral arms and bright knots of stars. AM0500-620 is 350 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Dorado, the Swordfish.
This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.