The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #029 – Roy Blumenthal
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Thursday June 28, 2007 – Johannesburgh Sth Africa. We speak with Roy Blumenthal. Artist, writer, producer, cartoonist, Corporate Facilitator, Coach, Creative Thinking Specialist, Performer, published poet and general self-described ‘common-or-garden creative type’. Roy is widely known for his art created on his Tablet PC and for hanging around in Coffee Shops. An exuberant, generous person, who loves technology and conversation, we speak with him as part of the exploration and deepening connection to people on Dave’s Blogroll.
*http://www.blogger.com/profile/01194440829358126889
*http://schmucknews.blogspot.com/
*http://www.flickr.com/photos/royblumenthal
Topics covered in rough order:
. Weather talk
. What is the second world?
. How Roy became to be on show – tablet review on lifekludger
. Tablet pc Hugo – http://ubertablet.blogspot.com/
. Roys flickr stream and context
. Roy on wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Blumenthal
. Industrial theatre – corporate physical blogging? (’Beyond the Box’, South Africa’s first open source industrial theatre company. We facilitate empowered conversations, through interactive role-playing.)
. Options thinking
. Beaming digital content to Ethiopian classrooms and possibilities for olpc
. Matinee Soup cartoon [red meat]
. Illustration friday – http://www.illustrationfriday.com/
. Creative Commons, remix and revenue models – CC BY NC SA – ccdrm
. Generosity and sharing and coffee shop signs – http://www.flickr.com/photos/royblumenthal/629734448/in/photostream/
- Roy’s cc based license agreement.
. Rapid prototyping, Playful work, “Perfection is the enemy of the good”.
. The because effect of CC and creative pursuits.



July 1st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
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July 2nd, 2007 at 9:58 am
[...] Second was a lovely, rambling conversation with Roy Blumenthal on The Extraordinary Everyday lives show – a really interesting dude from South Africa (who is the artist behind many tablet pc created sketches you will see round the web). All I knew about Roy before our chat was his flickr stream, I discovered and subscribed to his blog [...]
July 21st, 2007 at 11:12 am
Hi guys, very interesting podcast and chat with Roy. I posted a lengthy ramble about this episode on my blog – didn’t want to clog-up your comment space.
Summary: locking cars – time/value decision?, good of human nature, laws based on bad deeds of the few, industrial theatre, corporate deafness, Pilates calendar suggestion…. Mike, here’s a TRACKBACK until you can tell me how to really do it ;-) Cheers, Rick