Monday, May 31, 2010

Harley-Davidson,women riders,Milwaukee event - Women Riders Now - Motorcycling News & Reviews




Harley-Davidson,women riders,Milwaukee event - Women Riders Now - Motorcycling News & Reviews
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Friday, May 21, 2010

reBlog from goldie1779blackbikers.com: Black Bikers Experience

 



The key code “BlackBikers” has been reactivated with CheckINN Direct so you can setup your account. I encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity. As you see it does work to have it because this is how I am able to help you.   goldie1779blackbikers.com, Black Bikers Experience, May 2010



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AT&T to Raise Early Termination Fee for iPhone and Other Smartphones from $175 to $325 - Mac Rumors

AT&T to Raise Early Termination Fee for iPhone and Other Smartphones from $175 to $325 - Mac Rumors

Monday, May 17, 2010

Inspiration or Perspiration? The Life of a Creative Person.

Inspiration or Perspiration?: "

I am in the business of creative communication. Ideas. Images. Shaping together thoughts, images and communications into stuff like Web applications, brands and the visual and sensual experiences that make memories and impressions. I have been at this business for a long time but that doesn't make it any easier to find the right idea. So what have I learned about creative that keeps me at my job and serving a lot of different clients? Namely, that perspiration leads to inspiration...
 
There have been a handful of occasions when the right concept just came to me. Like the scene in "Lust for Life" where Kirk Douglas (playing Vincent van Gogh) attacks a canvas then reveals a plein air masterpiece.  But this is more movie myth than reality. If you ever read Letters to Theo, you get the other side of the story and the real struggle to come up with a style of his own. Then there was the sheer volume of work the artist actually did to get to that point of success. In other words Vincent worked his butt off.
 
Lucky for me, I knew from the history of visual art that creative breakthroughs are rarely instantaneous. Most artists lead a very workman-like existence like Picasso. He was know to be in his studio every day around 6am and spent the better part of his day at work in the studio. The result was a prolific career spanning over 13 thousand paintings and over 100,000 other handcrafted works.
 
Aside for putting the time into the work itself, one has to show up prepared to make the effort to do good creative work. You have to come in prepared and focused. I like to come in with both the schedule and my tasks up to date and the deck cleared.
 
Before I can contribute to good design and creative I have to know the background of the assignment or better yet, be part of the learning process for the objective. In my business this means some good investigative teamwork that will eventually live in a brief or document. It might be a persona study or even a video of real customers.

The point is time must be dedicated to understanding what the creative work is supposed to do in the context of experience. I have found more success when I am actually part of that process of intelligence gathering than when I am handed the discovery work. I think this is because the creative process takes time and my mind is working on the issues in the background while I am typically focused on something else.
 
Creative concepts take time. I have heard it called incubation time, described as ideation and the failure of it termed "writers' block".   I think that making new connections and insights within various sets of data requires time to process and then reform the connections and filter out the obvious and most likely ideas that would not differentiate the creative work. However we describe it, it takes time and effort and filtering to get good work. Good creative is work.
 
 


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Inspiration or Perspiration? The Life of a Creative Person.

Inspiration or Perspiration?: "





I am in the business of creative communication. Ideas. Images. Shaping together thoughts, images and communications into stuff like Web applications, brands and the visual and sensual experiences that make memories and impressions. I have been at this business for a long time but that doesn't make it any easier to find the right idea. So what have I learned about creative that keeps me at my job and serving a lot of different clients? Namely, that perspiration leads to inspiration...
 
There have been a handful of occasions when the right concept just came to me. Like the scene in "Lust for Life" where Kirk Douglas (playing Vincent van Gogh) attacks a canvas then reveals a plein air masterpiece.  But this is more movie myth than reality. If you ever read Letters to Theo, you get the other side of the story and the real struggle to come up with a style of his own. Then there was the sheer volume of work the artist actually did to get to that point of success. In other words Vincent worked his butt off.
 
Lucky for me, I knew from the history of visual art that creative breakthroughs are rarely instantaneous. Most artists lead a very workman-like existence like Picasso. He was know to be in his studio every day around 6am and spent the better part of his day at work in the studio. The result was a prolific career spanning over 13 thousand paintings and over 100,000 other handcrafted works.
 
Aside for putting the time into the work itself, one has to show up prepared to make the effort to do good creative work. You have to come in prepared and focused. I like to come in with both the schedule and my tasks up to date and the deck cleared.
 
Before I can contribute to good design and creative I have to know the background of the assignment or better yet, be part of the learning process for the objective. In my business this means some good investigative teamwork that will eventually live in a brief or document. It might be a persona study or even a video of real customers.

The point is time must be dedicated to understanding what the creative work is supposed to do in the context of experience. I have found more success when I am actually part of that process of intelligence gathering than when I am handed the discovery work. I think this is because the creative process takes time and my mind is working on the issues in the background while I am typically focused on something else.
 
Creative concepts take time. I have heard it called incubation time, described as ideation and the failure of it termed "writers' block".   I think that making new connections and insights within various sets of data requires time to process and then reform the connections and filter out the obvious and most likely ideas that would not differentiate the creative work. However we describe it, it takes time and effort and filtering to get good work. Good creative is work.
 
 


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Thursday, May 13, 2010

reBlog from goldie1779blackbikers.com: Black Bikers Experience

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The video shows Officer Thomas White following Michael McCloskey and his friends on their Harley-Davidson Motorcycles. At one point, McCloskey takes off at a high rate of speed. Officer White hits his siren and McCloskey stops his bike.   goldie1779blackbikers.com, Black Bikers Experience, May 2010



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Inland Harley-Davidson dealers are celebrating Women Riders Month with a Corset Poker Run to benefit the Breast Cancer Society. I also want to give a shout out to Absolute Corsets. So ladies if you don’t know where to go for a leather corset; here’s your place.   goldie1779blackbikers.com, Black Bikers Experience, May 2010



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I found this fascinating quote today:



I have been contacted on numerous occasions about rooms for the National Bikers Roundup in Columbia, Missouri. Well I have some great news that I have located available rooms, however the location is about 50 miles out. The rate is well worth it and the rooms are held through my corporate account rate of $38.28 a night from August 3rd through August 8th.   goldie1779blackbikers.com, Black Bikers Experience, May 2010



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Thursday, May 6, 2010

reBlog from sandragoldiesowers.tumblr.com: Creative Geek...Goldie also N~Trigue

Pitbull or Victim?Image by cobalt123 via Flickr


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


I found this fascinating quote today:



I wish for the day when we can have an open dialog, with an agenda that will guarantee that we will be heard and our issues will be addressed. I know love has no color but discrimination, inequality and hate does…black, female and minority.sandragoldiesowers.tumblr.com, Creative Geek...Goldie also N~Trigue



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"These are my words and my feelings for today.


Sandra "Goldie" Sowers also artistically known as N~Trigue"


Wednesday, May 5, 2010

reBlog from goldie1779blackbikers.com: Black Bikers Experience

I found this fascinating quote today:



But it is Vaughs who is the interesting because not only is he a chopper rider but a successful film maker, producer, civil rights leader and black. Vaughs rides with a predominantly black cycle club out of the ghetto area of Los Angeles. (The Chosen Few MC)   goldie1779blackbikers.com, Black Bikers Experience, May 1964



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