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Trip to Seattle, Sept 2009: what I saw at SAM and the Henry along with a cat that looks like Hitler and a mashup I'm going to have to try.
Inspired by a recent visit to Titanic The Artifact Exhibition at the Calgary Science Centre.
I was struck by the crockery and the menus; even third class, commonly thought of today as ballast, ate very well indeed. (In fact, a lot better than I did that night; my dinner was "soup and a beer".) First Class food was ridiculously over the top, Second Class was pretty classy and Third Class ate what I think of as a feast.
The ceramic designs were interesting too; First Class looked fancy but dowdy, the sort of thing you see now in antique shops covered in dust. Second Class was today's Value Village plates but Third Class china was uncluttered, heavy and modern, with a striking logo and clean colors.
As the metal-eating bacteria Halomonas titanicae do their salvage work two and a half miles down, experts estimate that there won't be much left of the wreck in 50 years.
My graphic recording of the "Art of Participatory Leardership" (AoPL) EC practitioners' community gathering. The meeting took place on 27-28-29 June 2019 in Brussels, and each day was designed to focus on a different topic: Complexity on day 1, the Self on day 2, and the Collective Intelligence on day 3.
I should write a blog about this kind of work, to explain to those who ask me where does the energy from this drawing come from?
The meeting of the INFORM/INIO networks brought together 200 participants in Chania (Crete), Greece. This is my graphic recording of 3 days of presentations, discussions, sessions and teachings.
In my work, I tried to mix the substance of the event with elements surrounding it like the blue of the sea, fishing boats, seagulls, swallows, and houses on the the beautiful Chania's port.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Redi Direko was hosting her talk show on 702 Talk Radio. During the show, she took ANC Youth League Spokesperson, Floyd Shivambo, to task. He was on record accusing DA leader, Helen Zille, of 'sleeping her way to the top'. He also suggested that the male members of her cabinet were her 'concubines'.
Shivambo phoned the station, outraged at being taken out of context, and demanding the right to reply, to explain what he meant.
Listen to the podcast for the full version of his incompetent idiocy. Or watch this animated summary to get a sense of what listeners and Direko had to go through. Here's the podcast link: is.gd/zKir.
I made the caricatures using ArtRage 2.5. I used Audacity to edit the audio down to an acceptable length of time. The animation was made using a closed beta version of CrazyTalk 6 (I was asked by the developers to be one of the beta testers of the software).
The music used in the end credit is by Antony Raijekov. It's released under a Creative Commons 'Attribution, Share-Alike' license.
The computer I'm working on is sponsored by Rectron South Africa. It's an Asus R1E tablet pc.
[UPDATE: The 'Making Things Blatantly Obvious' blog has a full transcript of the Redi vs Floyd 'debate': http://bit.ly/17DHgw.]
[UPDATE 2: This 'Redi vs Floyd' animation is featured on p13 of Issue 60 of the online weekly men's magazine, 'Milk': http://www.milkmag.co.za/milkmag/v01/issue60/index.php.]
[UPDATE 3 (4 June 2009):]
After a comment I received on my FaceBook-facing distribution of this video, I've re-thought Floyd Shivambu's role in this. Here's my analysis...
I sense that Floyd isn't as airheaded as he came across. My guess is that he got really riled by Redi, and got stuck in an anger groove that he couldn't easily shake himself out of.
I also suspect that he was given a directive from the ANC or the ANCYL to say nothing substantive about the matter. So he found what he thought was a good way of obfuscating the issue without putting his foot in it too badly.
Of course, his strategy was really kinda kak. Cos it blew up in his face.
The trouble with being a spokesperson is that you've GOT TO remain calm, cool, engaging. At ALL times. Even when you're being lambasted on live radio. And he did NOT crack that. He didn't even remotely crack it.
I don't know Floyd at all. I haven't come across his poetry. And I've never been to any performances of his. So I can't comment on him as a person. What I CAN comment on is that he CAME ACROSS as a cynical bully who got very peeved!
The trouble with politics is that what's being SAID is never the agenda. It's what's UNDER the words that needs to be excavated.
This little edit of mine is an attempt at exposing what I believe to be going on in South African politics...
Obfuscation. Derailment. Refusal to deal with the issue. Ad hominem attacks. Secrecy. Trial by insult.
Floyd achieved a hell of a lot in the interview. He has indelibly linked Helen Zille's name to the idea of her as an owner of concubines. Long after the LOGIC flaws of his arguments have been forgotten, the emotional undertow will remain.
South Africans now think of Helen Zille and male concubines as one concept.
So Floyd is nowhere near as idiotic or silly as he pretended to be.
The meeting of the INFORM/INIO networks brought together 200 participants in Chania (Crete), Greece. This is me in front of my work exposed in our offices in Brussels after the event.
The image was drawn in front of the audience, in real time, while the speaker’s speeches
Number of artists: 1. Legusha Denis
Изображение было нарисовано на глазах аудитории, в реальном времени, пока шло выступления спикеров
Количество скрайберов: 1. Легуша Денис
Scribing Tools:
Foam board 1400х1000 mm
Markers: Neuland No.One, BigOne
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
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One day graphic facilitation of a workshop with researchers and people of European Commission DG RTD and JRC. The workshop was about long term challenges and EU R&I policy. Participants were asked to debate on 4 different themes, I was asked to facilitate with visuals the group working on the Innovation theme. My main take-away of the day is the difficulty for participants to agree on what is the meaning of "innovation". Thanks to the visual elements, the participants were able to "see" this difficulty and this awareness allowed them to redirect their discussion in a more constructive and clear way.
Jill Foster produces a weekly online video program about personal finance, creates plans for small businesses and nonprofits to use online communications more effectively, and plays key leadership roles in two of Washington DC's most important tech. networking groups, DC Web Women and DC Media Makers. She is also going to the Democratic National Convention where she will be reporting via voice, video, text, and photos from her cell phone for Utterz.com Like all entrepreneurs, she has to think carefully how to make the most of her time in her personal as well as her professional life. I had a conversation with her about her various projects, dreams, and needs and visually mapped it out with key words, connections and images. She found it very helpful. You can hear what Jill Foster said about the experience here.
The meeting of the INFORM/INIO networks brought together 200 participants in Chania (Crete), Greece. This is me at the end of the second day of this 3-day event.
On 16/09/2019, more than 300 colleagues from DG REGIO and DG EMPL were in an away-day to reflect on “how to better navigate to the future” for beautiful operational programmes. I was not asked for that, but I can not help but capturing the essence of the day with visuals. Inspired by the energy in the room, a tent to be exact, I mixed sketchnotes and scrapbooking.
Watch the animation: youtu.be/5-XIkzassKE
Last summer I had a temp job. One day a visiting scientist came, and on that day interesting conversations were had. I doodled and wrote down strange Science Words as the Smart People talked, and this drawing is the result.
Instead of doing a "Year Plan", this time I decided to draw what I like about working.
I'm now a weekly member of CNBC AFRICA's business magazine show, 'Kaleidoscope'. Mandlakazi Mpahlwa draws information out of our guests. And in my position as the show's resident visual facilitator, I draw that info live on screen on my Asus R1E tablet pc.
I wrote this promo for the show when Catherine Gargan, my senior producer at CNBC AFRICA, confirmed that we'd be going ahead.
I had already secured a sponsorship deal with Rectron. They agreed to supply an Asus R1E tablet pc for me to use on the show.
However, when our shoot date arrived, there was no stock of the machine in the country. So I had to use my trusty old Toshiba Tecra M4 as the star of the show.
(The animation of me and Mandla at the end was created by me in CrazyTalk 5. I made three drawings -- a pic of me, a pic of Mandla, and the backdrop. I saved the two portraits as PNG files, with no background. Pulled each one separately into CrazyTalk. Gave each one a green-screen background. Pulled a recording of the voicefile in, animated the pic, exported as an AVI. Did that for each pic. Andre, the editor, then pulled those separate files into Final Cut Pro, where he removed the green screen background, and composited both individual animations into the same video frame, with the painted background behind. All that for 3 seconds on screen. Cool, huh?)
Thanks to Catherine Gargan for producing and directing, Bathabile Modutoane for camera, everyone in studio for getting the feed right, and Andre Oosthuizen for editing.
All paintings I make for the show will be made on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc, running ArtRage 2.5. The show airs via satellite on Saturday nights, 7:30pm to 8:00pm (Central African TIme, or GMT +2 hours), on CNBC AFRICA. That's channel 410 on DStv.
Thanks to the genius of David and Steve at the WinWin Group, Unilever had what must rank as one of the most exciting and DIFFERENT conferences ever!
My role on the production was to provide visual facilitation for Gary McGaghey.
This pic was taken by one of the crew members. He was stationed up near the ceiling to capture video and stills of the event.
What you're seeing is roughly half of the room. The entire space is a massive square, just on 22 x 22 x 22 x 22 metres. It's about 2.5 to 3 stories tall. The screens are all joined, with uninterrupted pictures on all four surfaces. It's built from scratch in one of the Durban International Conference Centre spaces.
Dean Foure of Integrity, the company that provides the projection system, tells me that it took the rigging crew almost four full days AND nights to get the structure set up. And it's HUNDREDS of tons of wood and scaffolding.
Dean says it takes almost twelve hours to get all eight projectors EXACTLY balanced, colour-matched, aligned. And those eight projectors cost R10 million. (Each one is about the size of half a Fiat Uno.)
I've worked on big screens before. But never anything on this scale. And, as it happens, this is the first time anything this big has ever been seen in South Africa.
Gary's talk had a boxing theme. So that's me in the foreground in boxing garb. And all of my pictures were boxing-related.
I pre-drew almost everything, with two layers... a before layer, and a final-state layer. I then used my eraser tool to 'live-erase' the before layer stuff out of the way to reveal what lies beneath.
At the same time, I was moving the canvas into a new position every few seconds to stay in sync with Gary's talk.
Audience loved it. Client loved it. WinWin loved it. I loved it. That's a lot of love.
The image was drawn in front of the audience, in real time, while the speaker’s speeches
Number of artists: 1. Legusha Denis
Изображение было нарисовано на глазах аудитории, в реальном времени, пока шло выступления спикеров
Количество скрайберов: 1. Легуша Денис
Scribing Tools:
Foam board 1400х1000 mm
Markers: Neuland No.One, BigOne
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
These photo are presented here for viewing purposes ONLY. They are NOT royalty free images
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The image was drawn in front of the audience, in real time, while the speaker’s speeches
Number of artists: 1. Legusha Denis
Изображение было нарисовано на глазах аудитории, в реальном времени, пока шло выступления спикеров
Количество скрайберов: 1. Легуша Денис
Scribing Tools:
Foam board 1400х1000 mm
Markers: Neuland No.One, BigOne
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
These photo are presented here for viewing purposes ONLY. They are NOT royalty free images
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Earlier this afternoon I caught the live streaming vidcast of the OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE held in New York.
I liked what I was encountering. So I did a visual facilitation of some of the keynotes. You can see the pics I made in my Open Video Conference set on Flickr.
Amy Goodman spoke about Democracy Now, a free-tv station that seeks to put views across that aren't curtailed by corporate influence.
I made a pic of Amy Goodman's session.
I though it might be neat to show some of my process in speeded-up form.
So I zapped into www.artrage.com, started recording, and then hit 'Control Y' to redo everything right to the end state.
I brought the resulting AVI file into Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, where I sped it up substantially.
Once I had something that looked reasonable, I found some music. The track I settled on is sourced from the legally free jamendo.com. The track is called 'Minimoonstra', from the album THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC TRIP VOL 2, by the band Speedsound. The entire album is released for free use under a Creative Commons 'Attribution' license.
I converted the MP3 to a WAV file in Audacity. Brought that into Premiere. And did some minor editing to sync up the emphasis points of the vid with movement in the music.
This is the result. A short, condensed journey into how I do visual facilitation.
This video was made on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc. I originated the pic in ArtRage 2.5. And did all video editing in Premiere Pro CS3. All streaming and uploading was courtesy of the free broadband internet connection in my hotel room in Union Bank Inn, Edmonton, Canada.
[Aaaargh! Does anyone know how to edit the picture Flickr 'chooses' to represent the vid?]
Some things I saw at the Frick Collection.
Here is the Lady with the arm growing out of her stomach: collections.frick.org/media/view/Objects/105/6545?t:state...
The image was drawn in front of the audience, in real time, while the speaker’s speeches
Number of artists: 1. Legusha Denis
Изображение было нарисовано на глазах аудитории, в реальном времени, пока шло выступления спикеров
Количество скрайберов: 1. Легуша Денис
Scribing Tools:
Foam board 1400х1000 mm
Markers: Neuland No.One, BigOne
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
These photo are presented here for viewing purposes ONLY. They are NOT royalty free images
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This image is the record of a conversation I facilitated with a client about her career, relationship, and self enrichment activities. She realized she enjoyed working outside an office setting, tapped into her desire to spend more time in outdoors activities, and reflected on what worked and what didn't in past relationships. We ended by figuring out her next steps in all three areas. She left with a determined step carrying the drawing rolled up under her arm.