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A Pomodoro in Time

I just finished reading a book called “Pomodoro Technique Illustrated” by Staffan Nöteberg (http://www.amazon.com/Pomodoro-Technique-Illustrated-Really-Minutes/dp/1…). I guess it’s a little premature to say that it’s changed my life, but in my first week of truly implementing the method, I find myself on Thursday and have already accomplished more than I had mentally apportioned to get done for the whole week. A couple of months ago, I had read the free PDF by the original author and decided to test it out, but in typical fashion I sort of did it half-ass.... go on »

Tags: learning, NLP, self-improvement | 10 comments

Big and Fearless

Last year, my friend Sara asked me about my resolutions that I had for 2009. For some reason, I took it very seriously and wrote a lengthy post about my resolutions. I accomplished most of them to some degree. I’m not going to worry about the ones that I apparently wasn’t as resolute on as I could have been. But we both enjoyed the process so she wrote me this year for my 2010 resolutions. And here they are…... go on »

Tags: comic books, consulting, diet, health, learning, NYC | 15 comments

New Year Resolutions

It's time for New Year's Resolutions! I usually don't do New Year's resolutions - I do vacation resolutions. It's on a trip that my head clears and I have some time to think about what I'd like to change in my life. This year, though, for some reason, I have a ton of New Year's resolutions. And I have to admit, I'm pretty excited by them.

1. Be narcissistic.... go on »

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Photographic Lighting: Final Class

We had our final photography lighting class. The assignment was quite open ended:

EVOKE AN EMOTION

It is now time to take all that you have learned up to this point and put it together into strong evocative images. Images that show you can control the mood and voice in your lighting technique.

No pressure.... go on »

Tags: learning, NYC, photography | 17 comments

Photographic Lighting: Week 7

This week, our assignment for class was to photograph food. He gave us the general guideline of using natural light in the background and a reflector in the front to capture the light. I think I did pretty well at getting the subject to really pop with the reflector. I took some shots without the reflector for comparison and they came out a little too contrast-y - and not in a good way. The reflector gave the food a nice glow to it.... go on »

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Photographic Lighting: Week 6

I'm a bit behind on my posts about photography class. Week 6 was all about black and white photography. I was hoping to bring in some male nudes, but all of my friends were shockingly prudish! I'm trying to figure out if that's because in the age of the internet, people just don't want someone to take nude photos of them. Or perhaps none of my friends trust me. Or perhaps the younger generation just isn't as comfortable stripping for art. Hmmm...... go on »

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Photographic Lighting: Week 5

I missed the 4th week of photography class, so I'll jump right into week 5.

This week in class, we started using soft boxes - which are big boxes of fabric you put over a light to direct all the light in one direction. There's a flat white part where the light emits, which diffuses the light.... go on »

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Photographic Lighting: Week 3

The third week of photography lighting class, we worked on beauty lighting. We set up two stations with a tripod and a strobe light. We later added umbrellas to the mix to see how that affected things.... go on »

Tags: food, learning, NYC, photography | 16 comments

Photographic Lighting: Week 2

The first review of my homework for my photography lighting class went well. He gave me a specific challenge: to photograph objects instead of people. I clearly enjoy photographing people and he wanted us to start working outside of our comfort zone.... go on »

Tags: comic books, learning, NYC, photography

Total Immersion Swimming Workshop

I have always wanted to be a better swimmer. I can manage to splash about and get somewhere when I need to, but I never really took to the water. A few years ago, I got a weekly swim instructor. He definitely helped, but I still felt like I struggled with the water a lot. And it was exhausting. I could only do a few short laps at a time without stopping to wheeze. I didn't know how people could swim lap after lap without stopping. A friend told me that I should learn to relax in the water and not try to swim so fast. Whenever I tried, I would sink, get water up my nose, etc.... go on »

Tags: exercise, learning, NYC | 6 comments