8 Simple Tips on Personal Marketing
by layerphase on May 10, 2012
On several occasions persons starting a new business or providing a new service have asked me for tips on how to get the word out on what they’re offering. These persons are mainly freelancers and small business operators, so naturally they’d be most interested in marketing methods that are free or not too taxing on their pockets.
Dutty Bwoy Adventures
by layerphase on May 10, 2012
Have you seen Dutty Bwoy? I happened to ‘buck up’ on this web series late last year and I’ve been hooked on it ever since! If, like myself, you’re a fan of action-adventure flicks, then you need to follow the Dutty Bwoy series!
Dutty Bwoy is a series of animated shorts based on the escapades of three Jamaican youth – Strap Don, G Swag and Wanga. It’s an eclectic mix of blazing guns, Jamaican Dancehall culture, along with a dash of humour to boot. Each episode features the three youth along with actual celebrity characters such as Usain Bolt, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Vybz Kartel and Mavado.
http://youtu.be/buqQ03DayHI I’m an Interaction Designer, and this is some of the shit we say.
by layerphase on February 4, 2012
I’m an Interaction Designer, and this is some of the shit we say.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Kingston, Jamaica
by layerphase on January 16, 2012
“If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say …Here lived a great street sweeper.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., June 20, 1965, Kingston, Jamaica
Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity
by layerphase on November 27, 2011
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Robinson’s TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? “Everyone should watch this.”
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government’s 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His latest book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a deep look at human creativity and education, was published in January 2009.
“Ken’s vision and expertise is sought by public and commercial organizations throughout the world.”
— BBC Radio 4
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines
by layerphase on November 22, 2011
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations — a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen — that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.
Anthea McGibbon of OAaSIS International shares her passion for creation. (by OAaSISintTV)
by layerphase on November 18, 2011
NaNoDrawMo – 50 Drawings in 30 Days!
by layerphase on November 2, 2011
Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), NaNoDrawMo is a personal challenge to push would-be artists beyond the bounds of comfortable “when I have time” practice for one month and see what happens.
Loosely defined goals are for each participant to produce 50 individual works/drawings between Nov 1 and Nov 30. You can always do more than 50 if you’ve got it in you! That’s just the minimum everyone should be shooting for.
You do not have to be good. There is no quality requirement. The idea is to force yourself to practice by setting a high quantity goal. Also, it’s not a competition (except with yourself). Any medium is OK…
For more info, check out nanodrawmo.org (Redirects to the NaNoDrawMo group on Flickr).
Richard Buchanan: Keynote from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo. Interaction design does not
by layerphase on October 23, 2011
Richard Buchanan: Keynote from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
Interaction design does not stop at the flatland of the computer screen but extends into the personal and social life of human beings.