Roy Blumenthal's Artworks

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July 4
Rob Smale — Return on Investment: Rob Smale is an executive coaching specialist. We recorded his CNBC AFRICA’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ interview in studio yesterday (to be broadcast tomorrow night, 19:30 Central African Time, channel 410, DStv). His key message is that there IS a measureable return on investment when it comes to coaching. But only when we change the paradigm. We have to think about the VALUE of the intervention, not the PRICE of it. Price is just one way of looking at value.I made this pic in the live recording of the show using ArtRage 2.5 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Rob Smale — Return on Investment:

Rob Smale is an executive coaching specialist.

We recorded his CNBC AFRICA’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ interview in studio yesterday (to be broadcast tomorrow night, 19:30 Central African Time, channel 410, DStv).

His key message is that there IS a measureable return on investment when it comes to coaching.

But only when we change the paradigm.

We have to think about the VALUE of the intervention, not the PRICE of it. Price is just one way of looking at value.

I made this pic in the live recording of the show using ArtRage 2.5 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

June 30
Vik Maraj — Colour (After) #yeg: Vik Maraj is a change-consultant working from Edmonton, Canada. I met him through Chris Moore, the Chief Information Officer of the City of Edmonton. Vik’s assisting the City’s IT department in getting to a new level.This duo of pics originated as a sketch in my Moleskine. I scanned it. Then used the colour balance tools in Photoshop CS3 to crank up the colours locked into the paper.
Vik Maraj — Colour (After) #yeg:

Vik Maraj is a change-consultant working from Edmonton, Canada.

I met him through Chris Moore, the Chief Information Officer of the City of Edmonton.

Vik’s assisting the City’s IT department in getting to a new level.

This duo of pics originated as a sketch in my Moleskine. I scanned it. Then used the colour balance tools in Photoshop CS3 to crank up the colours locked into the paper.

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Vik Maraj — Black and White (Before) #yeg: Vik Maraj is a change-consultant working from Edmonton, Canada. I met him through Chris Moore, the Chief Information Officer of the City of Edmonton. Vik’s assisting the City’s IT department in getting to a new level.This duo of pics originated as a sketch in my Moleskine. I scanned it. Then used the colour balance tools in Photoshop CS3 to crank up the colours locked into the paper.
Vik Maraj — Black and White (Before) #yeg:

Vik Maraj is a change-consultant working from Edmonton, Canada.

I met him through Chris Moore, the Chief Information Officer of the City of Edmonton.

Vik’s assisting the City’s IT department in getting to a new level.

This duo of pics originated as a sketch in my Moleskine. I scanned it. Then used the colour balance tools in Photoshop CS3 to crank up the colours locked into the paper.

June 28
Girl Talk — Black and White (Before): One of the movies on the Air Canada flight from Edmonton to London was Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. (Download a remixable copy of RIP 2.0 here: http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/rip2.0.) The documentary is a wonderfully immersive introduction to the Creative Commons movement. Well worth seeing. One of the artists featured in the movie is a remix musician called ‘Girl Talk’. (Here’s an interview with Greg Gillis, the dude behind the nom de plume: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7522-girl-talk/.) I LOVE what he does. And I HAVE TO get stuff he’s done. Buttkickage of the highest order. This duo of pics is a before and after. On the plane, I hit the pause button on a good shot of him. Whipped open the trusty li’l black Moleskine. And slammed some lines down with my Bic Intensity gel-ink pen. So the black and white version is what I ended the flight with. And the colour version is a high res scan brought into Photoshop CS3. The only thing I’ve done is draw various outlines, and use the colour adjustment tool to get some lovely smooth, flat colours going. That’s made possible specifically because of the fact that I scan at high res, in full colour, with low contrast. This means that the paper texture is part of the black and white picture, even though it can’t be seen.Originated in black ink in an A6 unlined Moleskine. Scanned. Then tweaked for colour in Photoshop CS3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Girl Talk — Black and White (Before):

One of the movies on the Air Canada flight from Edmonton to London was Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. (Download a remixable copy of RIP 2.0 here: http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/rip2.0.)

The documentary is a wonderfully immersive introduction to the Creative Commons movement. Well worth seeing.

One of the artists featured in the movie is a remix musician called ‘Girl Talk’. (Here’s an interview with Greg Gillis, the dude behind the nom de plume: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7522-girl-talk/.)

I LOVE what he does. And I HAVE TO get stuff he’s done. Buttkickage of the highest order.

This duo of pics is a before and after.

On the plane, I hit the pause button on a good shot of him. Whipped open the trusty li’l black Moleskine. And slammed some lines down with my Bic Intensity gel-ink pen.

So the black and white version is what I ended the flight with.

And the colour version is a high res scan brought into Photoshop CS3. The only thing I’ve done is draw various outlines, and use the colour adjustment tool to get some lovely smooth, flat colours going.

That’s made possible specifically because of the fact that I scan at high res, in full colour, with low contrast. This means that the paper texture is part of the black and white picture, even though it can’t be seen.

Originated in black ink in an A6 unlined Moleskine. Scanned. Then tweaked for colour in Photoshop CS3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

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Girl Talk — Colour (After): One of the movies on the Air Canada flight from Edmonton to London was Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. (Download a remixable copy of RIP 2.0 here: http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/rip2.0.) The documentary is a wonderfully immersive introduction to the Creative Commons movement. Well worth seeing. One of the artists featured in the movie is a remix musician called ‘Girl Talk’. (Here’s an interview with Greg Gillis, the dude behind the nom de plume: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7522-girl-talk/.) I LOVE what he does. And I HAVE TO get stuff he’s done. Buttkickage of the highest order. This duo of pics is a before and after. On the plane, I hit the pause button on a good shot of him. Whipped open the trusty li’l black Moleskine. And slammed some lines down with my Bic Intensity gel-ink pen. So the black and white version is what I ended the flight with. And the colour version is a high res scan brought into Photoshop CS3. The only thing I’ve done is draw various outlines, and use the colour adjustment tool to get some lovely smooth, flat colours going. That’s made possible specifically because of the fact that I scan at high res, in full colour, with low contrast. This means that the paper texture is part of the black and white picture, even though it can’t be seen.Originated in black ink in an A6 unlined Moleskine. Scanned. Then tweaked for colour in Photoshop CS3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Girl Talk — Colour (After):

One of the movies on the Air Canada flight from Edmonton to London was Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. (Download a remixable copy of RIP 2.0 here: http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/rip2.0.)

The documentary is a wonderfully immersive introduction to the Creative Commons movement. Well worth seeing.

One of the artists featured in the movie is a remix musician called ‘Girl Talk’. (Here’s an interview with Greg Gillis, the dude behind the nom de plume: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7522-girl-talk/.)

I LOVE what he does. And I HAVE TO get stuff he’s done. Buttkickage of the highest order.

This duo of pics is a before and after.

On the plane, I hit the pause button on a good shot of him. Whipped open the trusty li’l black Moleskine. And slammed some lines down with my Bic Intensity gel-ink pen.

So the black and white version is what I ended the flight with.

And the colour version is a high res scan brought into Photoshop CS3. The only thing I’ve done is draw various outlines, and use the colour adjustment tool to get some lovely smooth, flat colours going.

That’s made possible specifically because of the fact that I scan at high res, in full colour, with low contrast. This means that the paper texture is part of the black and white picture, even though it can’t be seen.

Originated in black ink in an A6 unlined Moleskine. Scanned. Then tweaked for colour in Photoshop CS3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

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Dr Maija Hakanen — Black and White (Before) #yeg #iclei: Dr Hakanen is from Finland. During one of the lunch breaks at ICLEI, I pulled out my Moleskine and sketched Dr Hakanen. This duo is my before and after in the colouring process. Scanned at highres, and colour balance pumped up in Photoshop CS3.Sketched in my Moleskine. Scanned. Coloured in Photoshop CS3.
Dr Maija Hakanen — Black and White (Before) #yeg #iclei:

Dr Hakanen is from Finland. During one of the lunch breaks at ICLEI, I pulled out my Moleskine and sketched Dr Hakanen.

This duo is my before and after in the colouring process.

Scanned at highres, and colour balance pumped up in Photoshop CS3.

Sketched in my Moleskine. Scanned. Coloured in Photoshop CS3.

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Dr Maija Hakanen — Colour (After) #yeg #iclei: Dr Hakanen is from Finland. During one of the lunch breaks at ICLEI, I pulled out my Moleskine and sketched Dr Hakanen. This duo is my before and after in the colouring process. Scanned at highres, and colour balance pumped up in Photoshop CS3.Sketched in my Moleskine. Scanned. Coloured in Photoshop CS3.
Dr Maija Hakanen — Colour (After) #yeg #iclei:

Dr Hakanen is from Finland. During one of the lunch breaks at ICLEI, I pulled out my Moleskine and sketched Dr Hakanen.

This duo is my before and after in the colouring process.

Scanned at highres, and colour balance pumped up in Photoshop CS3.

Sketched in my Moleskine. Scanned. Coloured in Photoshop CS3.

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Timo Permanto — Black and White (Before) #iclei #yeg: Timo was part of the Finnish delegation at ICLEI. I asked him about living in the far north of the world. And he told me that there’s a warm current up the Atlantic that keeps conditions in Finland and Norway pretty pleasant in summer, and slightly moderated during winter. But he also told me that the knife-edge balance that is global weather and climate could cause a dramatic turnaround in the sustainability of life in Finland and Norway. Here’s the problem… As the ice caps melt — and they ARE melting, cos the earth IS warming — cold water from the Arctic travels south. This changes convection patterns in the entire ocean. In ALL of the oceans. So the sliver of warm water that keeps Finland and Norway alive MIGHT direct itself to a different destination. The earth is dying. We are killing it. This has to stop. Please put climate, sustainability, green issues, emissions, pollution, on the agenda in your municipal political scene. Do it. We have no way of surviving the next 70 years without immediate action. I hope you’re as alarmed as I was to hear about this stuff.This duo of drawings originates in my Moleskine. It’s then scanned. And coloured in Photoshop CS3. On my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Timo Permanto — Black and White (Before) #iclei #yeg:

Timo was part of the Finnish delegation at ICLEI.

I asked him about living in the far north of the world.

And he told me that there’s a warm current up the Atlantic that keeps conditions in Finland and Norway pretty pleasant in summer, and slightly moderated during winter.

But he also told me that the knife-edge balance that is global weather and climate could cause a dramatic turnaround in the sustainability of life in Finland and Norway.

Here’s the problem…

As the ice caps melt — and they ARE melting, cos the earth IS warming — cold water from the Arctic travels south. This changes convection patterns in the entire ocean. In ALL of the oceans. So the sliver of warm water that keeps Finland and Norway alive MIGHT direct itself to a different destination.

The earth is dying. We are killing it.

This has to stop.

Please put climate, sustainability, green issues, emissions, pollution, on the agenda in your municipal political scene.

Do it.

We have no way of surviving the next 70 years without immediate action.

I hope you’re as alarmed as I was to hear about this stuff.

This duo of drawings originates in my Moleskine. It’s then scanned. And coloured in Photoshop CS3. On my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

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Timo Permanto — Colour (After) #iclei #yeg: Timo was part of the Finnish delegation at ICLEI. I asked him about living in the far north of the world. And he told me that there’s a warm current up the Atlantic that keeps conditions in Finland and Norway pretty pleasant in summer, and slightly moderated during winter. But he also told me that the knife-edge balance that is global weather and climate could cause a dramatic turnaround in the sustainability of life in Finalnd and Norway. Here’s the problem… As the ice caps melt — and they ARE melting, cos the earth IS warming — cold water from the Arctic travels south. This changes convection patterns in the entire ocean. In ALL of the oceans. So the sliver of warm water that keeps Finland and Norway alive MIGHT direct itself to a different destination. The earth is dying. We are killing it. This has to stop. Please put climate, sustainability, green issues, emissions, pollution, on the agenda in your municipal political scene. Do it. We have no way of surviving the next 70 years without immediate action. I hope you’re as alarmed as I was to hear about this stuff.This duo of drawings originates in my Moleskine. It’s then scanned. And coloured in Photoshop CS3. On my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Timo Permanto — Colour (After) #iclei #yeg:

Timo was part of the Finnish delegation at ICLEI.

I asked him about living in the far north of the world.

And he told me that there’s a warm current up the Atlantic that keeps conditions in Finland and Norway pretty pleasant in summer, and slightly moderated during winter.

But he also told me that the knife-edge balance that is global weather and climate could cause a dramatic turnaround in the sustainability of life in Finalnd and Norway.

Here’s the problem…

As the ice caps melt — and they ARE melting, cos the earth IS warming — cold water from the Arctic travels south. This changes convection patterns in the entire ocean. In ALL of the oceans. So the sliver of warm water that keeps Finland and Norway alive MIGHT direct itself to a different destination.

The earth is dying. We are killing it.

This has to stop.

Please put climate, sustainability, green issues, emissions, pollution, on the agenda in your municipal political scene.

Do it.

We have no way of surviving the next 70 years without immediate action.

I hope you’re as alarmed as I was to hear about this stuff.

This duo of drawings originates in my Moleskine. It’s then scanned. And coloured in Photoshop CS3. On my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

June 27
Flying Over the Canadian Arctic: Wow! It’s around 1:30pm Edmonton time. We’re flying over the Canadian Arctic. And this is my view down. Damn! Am I glad I looked down? Yeeeehaaaaa!
Flying Over the Canadian Arctic:

Wow! It’s around 1:30pm Edmonton time. We’re flying over the Canadian Arctic. And this is my view down. Damn! Am I glad I looked down? Yeeeehaaaaa!

June 26
Flying Over the Canadian Arctic: Wow! It’s around 1:30pm Edmonton time. We’re flying over the Canadian Arctic. And this is my view down. Damn! Am I glad I looked down? Yeeeehaaaaa!
Flying Over the Canadian Arctic:

Wow! It’s around 1:30pm Edmonton time. We’re flying over the Canadian Arctic. And this is my view down. Damn! Am I glad I looked down? Yeeeehaaaaa!

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A sketch of Coraline and Cat: One of the movies on Air Canada’s personal entertainment system was CORALINE, the animated masterpiece. I hadn’t seen it yet. So when I saw it on the menu, I leapt at it. The drawing is astounding. I found myself wanting to be immersed in the graphic world they’d created. So I pressed pause, and sketched Coraline and the cat.
A sketch of Coraline and Cat:

One of the movies on Air Canada’s personal entertainment system was CORALINE, the animated masterpiece. I hadn’t seen it yet. So when I saw it on the menu, I leapt at it. The drawing is astounding. I found myself wanting to be immersed in the graphic world they’d created. So I pressed pause, and sketched Coraline and the cat.

June 21
Chris Moore — Portrait #yeg: This is Chris Moore, the dude who was instrumental in getting me to Edmonton for the ICLEI World Congress 2009. I thought I’d try a slightly more accurate portrait of him than the one I generated fast during our session with the IT Department.
Chris Moore — Portrait #yeg:

This is Chris Moore, the dude who was instrumental in getting me to Edmonton for the ICLEI World Congress 2009.

I thought I’d try a slightly more accurate portrait of him than the one I generated fast during our session with the IT Department.

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Xeni Jardin — BoinBoing TV — Open Video Conference #openvideo: Xeni Jardin is currently taking questions at the tail end of her presentation at the Open Video Conference. I decided to do a live visual facilitation of the preso while watching it streaming from my hotel room in Edmonton.This pic comes to you live from my ArtRage 2.5 painting software on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Xeni Jardin — BoinBoing TV — Open Video Conference #openvideo:

Xeni Jardin is currently taking questions at the tail end of her presentation at the Open Video Conference.

I decided to do a live visual facilitation of the preso while watching it streaming from my hotel room in Edmonton.

This pic comes to you live from my ArtRage 2.5 painting software on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

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Jean Baptiste-Kempf — VLC — Open Video Conference #openvideo: The world’s most downloaded video player is about to have its most significant release to date… VLC version 1.0. Jean Baptiste-Kempf just compiled the code live on international web-cast at the Open Video Conference being held in New York. I’m covering bits and pieces of the conference from my hotel room in Edmonton, Canada.This pic comes to you live from my ArtRage 2.5 painting software on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.
Jean Baptiste-Kempf — VLC — Open Video Conference #openvideo:

The world’s most downloaded video player is about to have its most significant release to date… VLC version 1.0.

Jean Baptiste-Kempf just compiled the code live on international web-cast at the Open Video Conference being held in New York.

I’m covering bits and pieces of the conference from my hotel room in Edmonton, Canada.

This pic comes to you live from my ArtRage 2.5 painting software on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.