The Caneelian – Leadership, Creativity, Startups, Organizational Culture
The personal blog of Caneel Joyce PhD, executive coach & culture builder. Work is a spiritual journey and sometimes a total cluster.
Just found Vector Magic, a free webapp [trial] that easily converts bitmap images to clean vector art. (Desktop edition also available.)
I found this via this excellent post on Lifehacker: Top 10 Photo Fixing and Image Editing Tricks.
If you’ve used Vector Magic before, please post a photo reply and show us your work.
My favorite Sunday in London is a stroll of the lovely Columbia Road Flower Market. The flowers are beautiful, the people watching sublime, and Cockney accents are just as an expat would hope. Best thing about it I think is the relaxed pace, which makes it distinctly different than any market I’ve ever been to in the U.S.
My find this weekend was this bit of collaborative street art. This piece is mixed media – colored paint & poster-size photocopy image looks done by the first artist, sharpie embellishments done by the second.
Doubt the first artist intended for her to ever wear nipples drawn up so high on her chest (or are those a second pair of eyeballs?) but it adds to it, I think.
{…does anyone know the anything about this one’s artist(s)? please reply…}
Mick Jagger. Childlike, raw, beautiful, and perverse. Mick’s existence suggests a truth we have all secretly always hoped for; that if unleashed, our inner rockstar would be… transcendent. {photo link: The Many Roles of Mick Jagger, via moviemorlocks.com}
Link: Get Back In The Box – Chip and Dan Heath – Creative Thinking in Business | Fast Company
“Improv actors are taught to be specific,” Sawyer says. “Rather than say, ‘Look out, it’s a gun!’ you should say, ‘Look out, it’s the new ZX-23 laser kill device!’ Instead of asking, ‘What’s your problem?’ say, ‘Don’t tell me you’re still pissed off about that time I dropped your necklace in the toilet.’” The paradox is that while specificity narrows the number of paths that the improv could take, it makes it easier for the other actors to come up with the next riff.
Link: Google HQ Bans Microsoft Windows In-House After Hacking Scare | Fast Company
Google disses abusive lover Microsoft and bats eyelashes at Apple….