The Weird, Complicated, Sexist History of Pockets People have a lot of feelings when it comes to pockets. In short: They are great only when you have them and only when they are large enough to stuff anything you want inside of them. A snack? A phone? Entire essays have been written about why women's pockets are so small. Why are women's pockets so contentious in the first place? Turns out, pockets have been fashion's favorite little secret since the 17th century, so this deep love and passion for them is not only sensible, but has also been ingrained into our society for the last 400 years. 17th century: Pockets are pretty useless, but also sexy. Women's clothes didn't really have internal pockets for most of history, even while men's started appearing in the late 1600s. The purse-like items were much harder to access, though, than pockets or purses. 18th century: For women, those hip purses become an accessory. Oh, and an update on the men: They still have pockets and they work just fine. So the purse was born. Thanks, patriarchy.
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: What Makes A Good Story Portfolio/Story Artist? In the comments for my last post, J. Kelley asked in the comments if I could write about what makes a good story portfolio. I thought that was a good suggestion for a blog post, because people e-mail and ask me that from time to time. As I wrote down some thoughts, the post got longer and longer (sorry about that) and suffered from a bit of "scope creep". First, some disclaimers: I am not representing the Disney company in any way in this post. I also want to point out that I've never worked at Pixar, or DreamWorks, or Blue Sky or anywhere else. Furthermore, it is worth setting context for this post by pointing out that most of my colleagues at work would say that I am way too hard on portfolios. Clarity This is extremely important. The whole point of looking at a story portfolio is to see how that person handles the telling of a story. The other way to get perspective on your work and see if it's clear is to simply take a break and come back to it. Here is an example: TV Boards Appeal
The Creative Force Behind the Land of Nod Photo by Christopher Sturman A 17-year veteran of the retail world, Michelle Kohanzo started at the Land of Nod as a customer-service representative. She now heads the children’s-decor company, overseeing operations, product development, and partnerships with other retailers and more than 200 independent artists. Q. Where did your artsiness come from? Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Curs Croitorie la Atelierele ILBAH - Cursuri croitorie autorizate Croitoria este mai mult o arta decat o stiinta! Este o indeletnicire care se dobandeste prin studiu si experienta. Se spune ca un adevarat croitor este precum vinul: devine mai valoros si mai cautat odata cu trecerea timpului. Cursul de croitorie din cadrul Atelierele ILBAH se adreseaza persoanelor care vor sa stapaneasca masina de cusut si toate tehnicile necesare executiei pieselor de imbracaminte pe comanda. Design-ul, materialele folosite, atentia la detalii, calitatea executiei, tipul de croiala precum si rezistenta in timp a produsului finit sunt doar cateva din aspectele ce fac diferenta dintre o haina oarecare si o adevarata piesa vestimentara ce va atrage privirile tuturor. De la primele masuratori si pana la livrarea produsului final, croitorul de haine pe comanda trebuie sa aiba in vedere realizarea unor piese vestimentare care sa potenteze calitatile celui care le poarta si totodata sa ii ascunda defectele prin tipul de croiala si materialul folosit. 1. 2. 3. 4.
In Sunday Sketching, Christoph Niemann Tells the Brutal Truth About the Creative Process © 2016 Christoph Niemann For years, Christoph Niemann spent every Sunday conducting a drawing experiment. The artist, whose illustrations have appeared in dozens of publications, including WIRED, would sit down with a blank piece of paper and a random, everyday object. He never knew what he was going to draw—only that his drawing would include whatever object was in front of him. Niemann devised hundreds of these visual puns, and now he’s collected them—along with more work from his career—in his new monograph, Sunday Sketching.
fastcompany I recently got to work an hour early. I had one goal in mind: world-domination, early-morning productivity. I made coffee, opened my email inbox, and the next thing I knew . . . it was noon. After my lackluster morning, I decided to do some research and really figure out the right way to spend the first hour of my workday. [Related: 6 Successful Women Share Their Morning Routine] 1. Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, you can go through the rest of the day knowing it can’t get any worse. [Related: 8 Things That May Be Decreasing Your Productivity At Work] 2. Productivity experts recommend that you not spend your morning reading and answering emails (as I learned firsthand, it can totally derail your good a.m. intentions). [Related: 22 Morning Routines That Will Inspire You To Get Out Of Bed] 3. 4. It’s small but mighty: Say hello to your colleagues in the morning. This article originally appeared on Levo and is reprinted with permission.
Mic îndreptar de fericire Joanne Mbeche are în total șapte nume. Doar primele patru au încăput în pașaport. În Kenya, dacă îți spui numele complet, interlocutorul va înțelege dacă ai venit pe lume într-un anotimp ploios sau într-unul uscat, din ce regiune vii, dar și de-al cui ești - tribul sau familia din care faci parte. Când faci cunoștință cu cineva, îi spui deja foarte multe despre tine. Joanne a ajuns în România în 2000, când încă nu împlinise 18 ani, cu o bursă la medicină. Acum, e specialistă în medicină internă la clinica privată Regina Maria din Cluj, orașul de care și în care s-a îndrăgostit. La întâlnirea de FED Cup dintre România și Cehia, Joanne Mbeche a fost medicul delegat din partea Federației Internaționale de Tenis. Bun diagnostician, kenyanca ne-a spus povestea ei. FED Cup la Cluj: Joanne Mbeche e în dreapta imaginii. În urmă cu 16 ani, a venit din Nairobi, oraș cu vreo 3 milioane de locuitori, în București, pentru anul pregătitor înainte de Medicină. A rezistat doar câteva săptămâni.
Blow up your work: How to enlarge, expand and make giant graphics - FESPA Even the latest, highest resolution digital camera can’t capture enough pixels to give truly photo-quality results on something the size of a truck or even a ship. So, how do you get artwork, especially something that needs to look like a photograph, up to huge size? Over the years a lot of techniques have emerged. We talked to Austin Coates, studio manager of UK large format specialist PressOn, who said “most of what we print is for large viewing distances. Pixel boosting The techniques for increasing (or decreasing) pixel count are generally called interpolation or resampling. Naturally Photoshop had this from the start. For enlargements, which is what we’re mainly interested in here, there’s a choice of Preserve Details, or Bicubic Smoother. If you enlarge by 300% to 500% there’s a visible difference between the three options. There are third party pixel resamplers, of which probably the most well-known is On1 Software’s Perfect Resize. What to do about PDFs? Vector perfection
Imagining your future projects is holding you back. Do you have a big creative project in store? Do you lie awake sometimes, thinking about what might go into it, what the characters or environment might look like, how it will touch the audience in a whole new way? Do you imagine what it will feel like to have this project under your belt, and what kind of effect it will have on your life? Let me tell you about Forest Lords. Forest Lords is a series of ten fantasy novels, each a 1000-page brick, about the epic adventures of Greenleaf Barksley, elf proletarian, and his journeys to attain the Golden Leaf and save his homeland from the scourge of the Curse of the Titaness Denox. The thing is, none of this series exists—not even Forest Lords Volume One: The Elven Soul. But there is no book. *(As a matter of actual fact, there are no binders either. I got this term from Kazu Kibuishi when I interviewed him for Out on the Wire episode 7: Dark Forest. I try not to to look at what I’m going to do as this amazing great grand thing. If… Success!
Neglected Utopia: Photographer explores the forgotten modernist estates of Paris From the 1950s to the 1980s, Paris was booming. Foreign migration and urbanisation of the city caused a huge surge in population and a crisis for housing. France’s solution came in the form of vast housing projects and so during this period massive, modernist and really quite unique estates sprung up across the city — aiming for a new way of living. Just a few decades later and these towering buildings look dated, discarded and forgotten. Images all © Laurent Kronental Via Bored Panda