Tag Archives: signs
how to stop backing yourself into corners
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how to scale your market
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how congress spends its time and your tax dollars
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how to expect any more bright ideas
© 2011 Jim Frederick
how to change the minds of inconsiderate people
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how to buoy your spirits during temporary cloud cover
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how to partially change the subject using segues
© 2011 Acadia D.
how women can initiate non-verbal queues in their intimate relationships and still get their needs met
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how to feel like the very last charred hunk of meat for sale on an in-store display rack
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how to cycle thru the morning commute
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how to run a business in purgatory
© 2011 Acadia D.
the other flushing, ny
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
More about the gowanus flushing project
how to go on vacation if your company doesn’t do email
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how they really get the city to smell like that
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borough makes urgent, yet doubly understated case for return of rotary phones
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how to move forward cluelessly with intention
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how congress negotiates when they’d rather be on vacation
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how to stop a really good nose bleed
© 2011 Suzanne Carlson
“…at these prices it better come with one of them novelty catnip toy mousie thingies “
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how to not turn back
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how to be anal un-retentive
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use the sauerkraut, luke
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consume against the machine
© 2011 Acadia D.
i break for pots of gold
© 2011 Suzanne Carlson
the other spiritual enlightenment
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how to not compromise the situation
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how to be politically political
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where chuck e fell
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what could make a boy behave this way?
how to initiate, start, blast off, go, do, etc…
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how to build upon it despite seemingly limited resources
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safe withdrawal method
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GoogleMap circa 1960’s (ish)
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
old media just givin’ it all away
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today’s top headlines
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what happens with Victoria stays with Victoria
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how to get there from last century
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how to market the market
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how to bend the rules
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how to have absolutely no idea which way to go
#cellphoneSketchpad: the ‘No Idling’ eBook cover collaboration with @worldmegan for @projectdomino
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
Thrilled to collaborate with fellow linchpin Domino Project Street Team members to produce ‘No Idling: 30 stories inspired by Do the Work‘. Also download Do the Work – free for the Kindle (apps available for non-kindle devices) until May 20.
The cellphoneSketch, NO IDLING was captured upon descent from the High-Line in NYC back in February, 2011. It seemed like the perfect image and message for an eBook based on Steven Pressfield’s recent – Do the Work.
Why? It expands on the theme of Pressfield’s work. The act of idling is what most of us are doing when we encounter resistance. We’re ON, there’s somebody home but we’re not moving. NO IDLING is a call to action and assertion to keep moving.
Why this image?
Symbols.
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1. Brick wall is a metaphor for blockage or being stopped dead in your tracks. It’s an obstacle. The sign is a challenge, an appeal and call to action to find a way to move through it.
2. The sign says ‘NO IDLING’ but at first glance it reads as ‘IDLING’. The ‘shadow’ covers the word ‘NO’ and isn’t it our shadow selves that can undermine our otherwise productive behavior?
3. The shadow cast is a particular moment in time. Had this image been taken 5 minutes before or after it would have had a completely different meaning. Resistance works like this too. It is fluid (or shadowy…). Not always there but seems to show up at critical moments in time that may prevent us from doing the work.
4. These stories are from real people who have and/or are struggling with and recognizing their shadow selves – seeing through the shadow to the ‘real’ message beneath and ultimately persevering and DOing the Work.
I also like the symbolism of capturing it (or it capturing me…) coming off the ‘High’ line – an incredible architectural, artistic, public, tribal project in and of itself.
The best part however, was collaborating with fabulous illustrator, Megan Elizabeth Morris who turned the shadowy NO into the people who do the work of YES!
how to take your own advice when it really counts
old orchard beach x 16
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
cellphoneSketchClass
The original Macintosh launched the ‘desktop’ publishing revolution in the 1980’s. The second decade of the 21st century is all about screens, apps, and an internet connection. Laptops, tablets, smartPhones and other devices – give way to the ‘mobile’ cross-media publishing evolution.
Today publishing can be as simple as typing 140 characters or less into any number of devices, tapping ‘submit’ with your finger and BAM (click)— you’re LIVE!
Students from my Desktop Cross-Media Publishing + Design course at University of Southern Maine, explored both desktop and cross-media publishing techniques for their final project. The assignment? Using your cellphone camera, choose a subject and tell a story, primarily using the visuals captured on your phone.
Students sourced, produced and published their content in print and on the web. Studio techniques using Adobe Creative Suite enabled students to retouch images, compose layouts and generate final files. Student’s cellphoneSketches were produced as greeting cards and posters; the web aspect, published right here on cellphoneSketchpad (scroll down).
Got a favorite? We’d welcome your comments!
Patrick’s House Plants
© 2011 Patrick Moulton
Springtime in Maine
© 2011 Steve Cossaboom
Rainy Day Stroll
© 2011 Jon-Michael Tabone
Pieces of Home
© 2011 Samantha Pomelow
A Day with the Dark Knight
© 2011 Adam Fahey
Adventures in the Woods
© 2011 Peter Eckstein
Baxter Woods Park
© 2011 Joshua Cole
Musicians for Life
© 2011 Nick Smith
Shopping Shaws
© 2011 MarkoMandic
Safety First
© 2011 Gouled Hassan
Strength
©Jeri Basko
A Collection of Words
© 2011 Sean Laurence Rothgaber
Classic Downtown Signs
© 2011 Daniel Bailey
Easter Car Repaint
© 2011 John Freeman
© 2011 John Freeman
A day in the life, on a Wednesday
© 2011 Tynan Nida
© 2011 Everett Houghton