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James Westfall is a jazz vibraphonist and keytarist born in Houston, Texas.
He began on violin at age 6 before moving to piano and then percussion. He became interested in vibraphone due in part to his grandfather. (Who learned the instrument during the great depression.) He later moved to New Orleans where he attended the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans he studied under Terence Blanchard, Ed Petersen, Steve Masakowski and Brian Seeger. Later he moved to Los Angeles, California where he was part of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. At present he lives in New Orleans.
Westfall heads the The Wee Trio and Bionica and heads the record label Bionic Records.
The name James Westfall also appears in the movie Anchorman when Paul Rudd's character mentions he nicknames his left testicle James Westfall and his right Dr. Kenneth Noisewater. However, the name of the character's left testicle is spelled James Westphal. This is an actual friend and former classmate of Paul Rudd.
Selected discography[edit]
- The Wee Trio, "Live At The Bistro" (2013) Bionic Records
- James Westfall, "The Colt 45's Digital EP" (2013) Bionic Records
- The Wee Trio, "Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective" (2012) Bionic Records
- Bionica, Take Your City (2010) Bionic Records
- The Wee Trio, Capitol Diner Vol. 2 (2010) Bionic Records
- The Wee Trio, Capitol Diner Vol. 1 (2008) Bionic Records
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It's been a while…
Really, it has been what… months? Yeah, most likely.
I dunno why I'm writing this now, probably because I wasn't here for Nick's birthday, and I felt bad for it, mostly because I didn't seem to give much attention to it, like I would before, because I have changed.
So I decided to write this… call it the last page if you want, the last post, the farewell - how poetic…
As you may have noticed, all of you that still check my blog for updates, know that I've left. I always said I would once, and I also said that I'd never delete it because it's part of me, a huge part of me, that not only made part of my life, but that also helped me to cope with many struggles. Many would ask me not to leave, and I'd always say 'Okay, not now then…' but the time has come. I know that this is just a fan blog, and that many of you are just followers, but there was a time when all this wasn't just a blog, it was my life, and many of you were not - and aren't - just followers, but friends, amazing people… almost family, my little family as I would always call it! And damn, it was good and nothing could stop it.
My mom always said that, just like many fangirls, I was having a fase, and I know it wasn't, if you ask me I'm still a huge fan of the band to whom I dedicated this blog, but times change, and so do I, in fact we all do, and when I started seeing what I always tried to hide, my 'crush' faded a bit… because I got disapointed, not only with the fandom, not only with the crew itself, but with the band too.
Many of you know that I'm always ranting, because I say what I think, and I don't usually change my opinions to please anyone, at least no one that is not willing to understand me, as many did, and hurt me in ways that I'd always ask myself 'Why am I on this fandom?' Well because I love the band, yeeess, but you don't need to be here dealing with all the crap to be a fan.
I was in many 'dramas', most of the times because some people just don't know how to socially behave - there, said it, ooopsy.
Everyday I'd come to my computer, and try to have fun, enjoy the band things, and then booom, without even knowing I'd be in the middle of stuff that was none of my business, but that people would always try to get me into…
That's when I started to back off. I started by 'cleaning' my Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr.. well everything, and that's when I realised that I was feeling quite better. Till the moment that I left all of it, now that was challenging, because this was part of my life, but I thought to myself that I was being stupid, that if I have the music, then I have it all…
The fandom thing is all beautiful, until you see what lies beneath, and sometimes it's nasty, really.
So I left, I didn't stop being a fan, and I know that many may have thought 'She was not that big fan as she always said she was', well guess I am, but now I found other ways, healthy ways let me tell ya…
I tried to get back here, but I believe that many people may have felt the same way I did, because they're not here anymore, and this certainly isn't what it used to be, but I'm glad that I was part of it.
I am truly sorry, but I had to get this written down, I had to share my feelings…
I know that many of you will not read this, but since it's my last post, well… hopefully many will give up on checking this blog.
No, I won't delete it.
No I won't give it away, it'll stay like this, frozen.
Maybe one day I'll come back, but I dunno… probably not, certainly not.
So I just wanted to say goodbye.
It was great, it was lovely… you are lovely.
I'll always be there for those that still care, and you'll always have a space in my heart, my little family, eh!
Thank you very very much, really…
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Folks coming to WHUUF: this may affect you!. If you're coming to WHUUF from north of Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, please note that Oleson Road will be closed from July 28,2014 until March, 2015. Information about the closure and detour routes is available by clicking here. WHUUF is on the east side of Oleson Rd. between Hall Blvd. and Garden Home Rd.
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West Hills UU Fellowship in Portland, Oregon, is currently seeking a quarter-time Choir Director for a contract position. The successful candidate will have considerable knowledge of both traditional and modern musical styles and of vocal performance, be able to support the UU Principals, and will demonstrate the ability to work tactfully with adults. Previous experience as a Choir Director preferred. A degree in music is highly desirable.


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The government plans to set up hospitals exclusively for oral health care at both the national and regional levels, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Thursday.
"Facilities for dental treatment and oral health are still inadequate in India. In rural areas, they are practically absent," he said while inaugurating the Centre for Oral Health Promotion at the Centre for Dental Education and Research at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here.
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We all learn what we need to learn, eventually. Trust in the process. Trust in your mistakes. In fact, stop calling them mistakes and instead recognize them for the lessons they truly are. It is all so very beautiful – these gorgeously twisting and winding experiences that make up our lives. Even your heartache, even your pain has a raw beauty, a beautifully bruised purple color that you see when you close your eyes that lets you know you're Alive. Learn to love your life, like a book you cannot put down. I wonder what the next chapter will hold. I write it as I go….relishing each moment for all its infinite possibilities….feeling the raw emotion only one who is fully alive can feel…cherishing the characters who will forever live in the pages of my heart. I am bliss!
Namaste. ॐ
We are all mirrors.
The following is an incredibly meaningful passage I found from this post by
We are connected through universal consciousness, all of us are connected.
We magnify this oneness energy when entering a relationship with someone. Upon first meeting this person it feels like a supernova star just exploded in your heart chakra….your energy combined with this other person's energy, creates energetic cord entanglements that are unpenetrable from anywhere in the universe…
…[I think] we attract into our lives a mirror to show us what experiences we need to release in order to find peace within this one. When you meet someone and there is that magnetic attraction feeling, that person is the perfect mirror to reflect back to you areas that you need to heal. The healing is then your job, instead of becoming offended by these deep soul divulges; you dive deeper into the relationship with yourself (not fixing the other person) to see what the root of the pain is from. It is also your partner's job to do the same. We are always just projecting ourselves onto another, what we love about them are areas we are comfortable with within ourselves and have healed…
Today, I encourage all of us to breathe through our insecurities. Resist the urge to get carried away with them or define them as 'Truth'; instead, ask yourself some gentle questions and begin to explore where these uncomfortable feelings come from. Thank them for coming forward and then allow them to go. I like to visualize blowing them away like a dandelion….
Remember, our kind introspection is like a salve for our inner wounds…
Namaste. ॐ
No Safety or Security
You want to be happy, to forget yourself, and yet the more you try to forget yourself, the more you remember the self you want to forget. You want to escape from pain, but the more you struggle to escape, the more you inflame the agony. You are afraid and want to be brave, but the effort to be brave is fear trying to run away from itself. You want peace of mind, but the attempt to pacify it is like trying to calm the waves with a flat-iron.
We are all familiar with this kind of vicious cycle in the form of worry. We know that worrying is futile, but we go on doing it because calling it futile does not stop it. We worry because we feel unsafe, and want to be safe. Yet it is perfectly useless to say that we should not want to be safe. Calling a desire bad names doesn't get rid of it. What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking it is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don't like it. In other words, if we can really understand what we are looking for-that safety is isolation, and what we do to ourselves when we look for it-we shall see that we do not want it at all. No one has to tell you that you should not hold your breath for ten minutes. You know that you can't do it, and that the attempt is most uncomfortable.
The principal thing is to understand that there is no safety or security.
-excerpted from The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan Watts
Why? The Most Important Question.
One of the most basic keys to battling any fear of intimacy is a willingness to accept uncertainty.
Doesn't that look nice and simple on paper (er, the screen)? In reality, we all know that's quite something to overcome, especially when our hearts have been banged around and hurt. Many times these past wounds cause us to build up neat little walls without even realizing it.
How do we even begin?
I can tell you that it does NOT begin with finding a romantic partner you hope will save you or make you happy or reassure you or give promises or fix the mistakes others have made. Instead, it starts with loving and developing a relationship with Self. Can you look yourself square in the eyes in the mirror and tell yourself (out loud), 'I love you.' Go try! Can you do it? Does it feel silly? Why?
Once we can really see and believe in our own value, rejection and uncertainty are not as frightening. When we know we are beautiful and smart and worthy and complete and whole, everything else is simply someone's opinion. Realizing that we have everything we need within ourselves, we are able to create healthy, energetic boundaries in our personal relationships and, as a result, be more open with giving our Love freely to others – because we aren't looking to others to GIVE us our worth. (!!!)
That doesn't mean it's always easy. For me, it's been more of a 'two steps forward and one step back' kind of dance, but I'm getting there. :)
Oftentimes these fears and insecurities were developed long ago; perhaps in childhood, or in one of our earliest intimate relationships that ended badly and left a scar. I encourage you to sit in meditation and explore these fears…challenge yourself and ask, 'Why….' It takes some digging but when I've uncovered something I was previously afraid to look at, it suddenly becomes so clear: Of COURSE I felt that way when X,Y, or Z happened! But now that I am older and wiser I know better, and I can let go of that false belief because it no longer serves me.
Explore explore explore. I know it's scary. And some days I just don't have the energy to work at it either. But I keep coming back, because the payoffs are tremendous. That wall is crumbling down, one chip at a time. My new favorite word is 'Why.' When I feel tense, when I feel defensive. When I feel afraid, when I feel aggravated. When I feel triggered in some way. Why? It's amazing how deep that tiny little word can take you. Most of the time it's the ego needing to be fed, and when we question it, we disarm it.
As we clear the old misbeliefs, negative self-talk and falsehoods from our lives and allow ourselves to really see our intrinsic goodness, our auras begin to expand. We attract more positive people and experiences into our lives – and when we radiate Love, there is no room for anything less.
Namaste. ॐ
The Alchemy of Pilgrimage
I find author Paulo Coelho tremendously inspiring. His interview with Krista Tippett of On Being gave me goosebumps. Here's one particularly powerful excerpt:
"….emotions are something we can't see, we can't touch, we can't recognize…but at the same time, emotions change the world. And the most important one being Love…if you could make Love be…not understood, but felt by people, accepted by people…probably we would forget to ask questions like 'Who am I?' and instead of asking questions and trying to get answers, you will understand that you are a manifestation of Love, and a manifestation of Love cannot be understood. It can only be felt…"
"…From the moment that I was not scared of manifesting my Love, my life changed. I had bad moments – yes. I was hurt – yes. I was sad – yes. But still, this Love…goes beyond the fact that I like or dislike something. Just Love. It is more powerful than anything else…"
"…There are moments of ecstasy, where you sit down and you feel everything. I cry at these moments. I have this urge of crying. But not crying for joy, not crying for sadness, no reason for crying but being amazed for being alive. And let us allow these things to happen to us, accepting and respecting the mystery. We don't need explanations for everything. We need to fill our lives with Love, and as Love does not have an explanation, okay – let's simply enjoy."
Do you ever feel completely filled up with Love in the way Coelho describes? Sometimes I feel as though I'm vibrating with it. Not romantic love, not parental love or friendly love. I mean the Love that tethers us to each and every living thing in the Universe. The Love that allows me to, at times, literally feel what another in my vicinity feels, whether I know them or not. I sometimes imagine myself as a magnet, picking up stray emotions that exist in the ether that surrounds me. Sometimes I wish I could stop feeling so much because I feel exhausted and sore – my insides bruised with a build up of raw emotion that I don't even understand. During these times I may cry during a particularly cleansing asana practice or in the middle of a massage as it is all released from my physical body.
Perhaps this is why I feel much clearer and calmer when I honor my need for solitude, where I can recharge and regain perspective – meditating and focusing on nothing more than 'inhaling Love, exhaling Peace.' Letting go…
I hope you have time to listen to the podcast (linked above) and enjoy Coelho's tremendous wisdom.
Namaste. ॐ
The Art of Listening
"Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence." – Eckhart Tolle
We can all tell when we're really being listened to, probably because it doesn't actually happen all that often. I know that I interrupt – a LOT. I'm incredibly energized by stimulating conversation and get SO excited when the topic is something I relate to! I want to interject, 'Oh! Yes! I read about/experienced/heard about/have thoughts about that too!' Or I want to understand better so I'll ask, 'Okay, so wait, who/when/why/where was that…' Regardless of my good intention or desire to understand better, interrupting or looking away or just not being fully present doesn't make the speaker feel good. So, for me, it's a work in progress.
To really turn off the mental chatter, look into another's eyes, and hear what is being said – without any interjecting, mind wandering or phone checking – can be such a beautiful exchange of energy and, the wonderful thing is, words do not have to be spoken in order to convey that you understand. That you relate. That you care.
Whether we realize it or not, being the field of conscious presence Eckhart Tolle is talking about gives whomever is speaking permission to be honest. It is such a gift, this simple act of being present. Not only in our personal relationships, but at the store. At work. Every day.
"Far more important than what you are listening to is the act of listening itself, the space of conscious presence that arises as you listen. That space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer "other." In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness." – Eckhart Tolle
Namaste. ॐ
Once you have started moving inward …it is very, very dark. Because for lives together you have never been inside, your eyes have been focused on the outside world…
…So when you suddenly come in from the outside, your own house looks dark. But if you sit a little while, by and by the darkness disappears. There is more light; your eyes are settling. For many lives together you have been outside in the hot sun,k in the world, so when you go in you have completely forgotten how to enter and how to readjust your eyes. Meditation is nothing but a readjustment of your vision, a readjustment of your seeing faculty, of your eyes…By and by, when you have adjusted to the inside light, you will see that you are the very source. The seeker is sought. Then you will see that the treasure is within you, and the whole problem was that you were seeking for it outside.
…You are rich, infinitely rich – as rich as nature itself. But you are looking in the wrong direction. The direction is wrong. That's why you go on missing. And it is not that you will not succeed in life – you can succeed. But still you will be a failure. Nothing is going to satisfy you because nothing can be attained in the outside world that can be comparable to the inner treasure, to the inner light, to the inner bliss.
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Vodafone has awarded its estimated £600 million global media planning and buying account to Group M's MEC, with the UK account being run through a 'Team Red Media' unit.
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MEC and 'Team Red Media', which is made up of resources from Group M's agencies, beat the Denstu Aegis Network in the final stage of the pitch.
Omnicom's OMD was the incumbent on the global business, but was knocked out of the review process in March. Vodafone also works with local media agencies in some markets.
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Vodafone retained OMD to the global media planning and buying account, after a review, in August 2009, when the business was thought to be worth £800 million.
When the pitch was revealed in January, a spokesman for Vodafone said the review was "in keeping with good corporate practice, and following the advancements in the media and digital landscape."
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August 26, 2014
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Writer's Digest. 5 Essential Tips for Writing Killer Fight Scenes
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August 5, 2014
"Derry Daring Rides" in The Loose Canon
My short story "Derry Daring Rides" can be read in The Loose Canon, an online journal from Montreal. Zsolt Alapi, co-editor of Siren Song Publishing, knew my writing through Black Bile Press in Ottawa and asked if I could send a couple stories his way. I thought "Derry" would be a good fit for The Loose Canon, and so did he!
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My glorious minions. Fred says. I know you've been waiting to hear me unveil my sentimental favourite. I loved Steve Austin too, Dougie, and Lee Majors did a bang-up job on TV, but for me, nothing beat the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle Stadium.
I sit and turn up the volume.
That's right, folks. Evel—that long-forgotten genius of daredevil. A man who wasn't afraid to face his fears. A man driving a legacy. A man who lingers in the minds of men everywhere. Evel and his awesome stars and stripes motorcycle came with a ramp, launch pad, and fold-out stadium stands. That sucker went a mile! Okay, maybe not a mile but at least ten feet. And the sky-hook, don't get me started on the sky-hook! That was his coup de grâce...
...It's Angie on the line, Fred says. Okay Angie, let it ride. What was your ultimate toy?
"Derry Daring," I say. "She was to Evel Knievel who Pinky Tuscadero was to The Fonz."
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Harry Crews On Writing
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"If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told. Sometimes the lies were told you by people who meant you well, and who meant the very best for you. Your mama might have. I know my mama told me some of them great lies. She didn't mean it. She didn't think they were lies. She didn't think they were lies then, don't think they're lies now. I know in fact they're lies. Don't make her bad, it's just the way we are. But if you're gonna write fiction, you have to get right on down to it."
"If you're writing a thing honestly, there are plans you can make, there are outlines you can make, there are notes that you can make to yourself about your intentions. All of those things invariably change. They are reshaped and rethought. Writing is a very, very messy business."
"Conception is pristine and pure and has all manner of hope in it, but between conception and execution, something gets lost. I'm sorry, bud, don't let anybody shit you, there's a big gap there. There's always going to be a big gap there, and you can drink yourself to death over it or you can shoot yourself in the head over it or you can be an asshole to your family about it. There's a lot of ways you can handle it, and everybody, every man and woman, comes to their peace with that however they do. I got no advice here, everybody works it out for him or her self."
"As soon as something pleasant and cheerful and confectionery occurs to me, I'll write about it; but I can only write about whatever comes. And what has come thus far has been a kind of blackness."
"When I start writing, I say to God, 'God, give me five hundred words. I don't want to be greedy, although I am at times a very greedy person; but I'm not greedy today. Give me five hundred words and I'll be satisfied. I don't want to know the whole rest of the book. All I want to know is the next five hundred words. Thank you. Amen.' And then, do it. Five hundred words, after all isn't much. If you double-space and you've got good margins so you can make notes to yourself, you're only writing two hundred and fifty words a page. That's two pages. Now that's going to sound very mechanical, very arbitrary, but that's the way I do it. That's the way I think. Many times those two pages go somewhere else, usually the trash basket or furnace. Andrew Lytle used to say, 'Fire is a great refiner.' And it is."
"I'd give you this: that to be a fiction writer means you spend most of your time thinking about, meditating upon, trying to dissect and understand just those aspects of the human animal that other human beings try their damnedest never to think about."
"Being a fiction writer is a good way to go crazy, it's a good way to be a nervous wreck, it's a good way to become a drunk. You continually pick at yourself, the little sores that you have. They scab over and you pick them open again. Other people not only let them scab over, they let them scar over. They leave it alone. Writers don't do that. They can't keep their fingers out of the sore. They've got to keep it bleeding. And it's off that blood that they make their stuff."
"And my mother to this very day does not understand why somebody would give you good money for something that was made up. As John Updike said when he accepted the National Book Award, 'Fiction is a tissue of lies that's truer than anything that ever happened.' Yeah, the nuts and bolts in there may not be the truth, but the truth of the heart, again, those great abstract nouns, 'hope' and 'despair' and 'love' and 'ambition,' and all the rest of it. Those are the only things that are worth considering anyway, aren't they?"
"Talent helps. Listen, get all the talent you can. But writing is guts and it's courage. You cannot have a failure of courage. Everybody in the world is telling you you're no good, and you can't do it, and it's not going to work. You've got to keep talking to yourself, say, 'Come on, son. Come on..."
"I know writers are very fond of saying that they're not in their own books: 'Don't look for me in my book, I'm not in here anywhere.' Well, they probably are not in there in full form. But their prejudices, their sentiments, their biases, their angle of vision on the world - to say that's not in the book is bullshit and they know it. 'Don't confuse me on some kind of one-to-one basis with somebody inside the book.' This is particularly true if they're writing a first-person novel. Readers are often inclined to confuse the voice, that 'I,' with the person that's writing it, but that's a distinction that writers insist upon, and I think rightly so. I know I sure as hell do."
"You have to go to considerable trouble to live differently from the way the world wants you to live. That's what I've discovered about writing. The world doesn't want you to do a damn thing. If you wait till you got time to write a novel or time to write a story or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you'll never do it. 'Cause there ain't no time; world don't want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week."
"I can't understand anybody who tells me that they enjoy writing, that it's fun. Frankly, I don't believe them. It's certainly never been fun for me. What is a real rush, for me, is after you've done it, before you even sent it to New York, and that's it. I know this is strange, but when you look at it, and you think, 'Before me, this was not. Because of me, this is.' Now that's a rush."
Harry Crews (1935-2012) was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist.
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May 29, 2014
Peter McArthur: History Under the Trees
|Peter McArthur 1866 - 1924
History Under the Trees
Peter McArthur: The house, the life, the writings
July 5, 2014, 1:00pm
Doon Heritage Village / Waterloo Region Museum
10 Huron Road, Kitchener, Ontario
Waterloo Historical Society's History Under the Trees will remember my great grandfather Peter McArthur. The once-famous author's birth cabin (and also where he lived for the final two decades of his life) has been a prominent part of the village streetscape at Doon Heritage Village in Kitchener. WHS has invited Professor Adam Crerar of Wilfrid Laurier University to help us rediscover McArthur's life and writings.
McArthurs gather for History Under the Trees
"From 1909 until his death in 1924, Peter McArthur became one of Canada's most popular writers by describing life on his Middlesex County farm in articles for the Toronto Globe and the Farmer's Advocate of London, Ontario. That he was able to appeal to both rural and urban readers is interesting in two respects: it suggests that the lines between the country and the city were considerably more amorophous than contemporary rhetoric has suggested, and it provides an example of anti-modernist writing that gave as much pleasure to the "folk" as it did to the urban middle-class."
-"Writing Across the Rural-Urban Divide: The Case of Peter McArthur, 1909-24" by Adam Crerar, Journal of Canadian Studies, Spring 2007
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Design Books- What do you think is missing?Hello designers- I am a graduate student who wants to work on a design book for part of my thesis this semester. This is a very personal project- a self-reflective look at my process, with the goal of improving my process with the use of critical and creative thinking tools.
What I want to know from other designers is- From the many many design books that are on the market that you have come across, what do you feel is missing from them???? Please don't be afraid to communicate your private emotional thoughts about what drives you to want to become a better designer!
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Are you a graduate student with any field experience?
Doesn't a master's thesis require an argument?
This just sounds wrong somehow. Self-reflection of what process? Your design process?
What's missing from most purely design books out there today is a balance of focus. You can't just focus on the creative process. To be a good designer means you have to be creative within the parameters of your clients' needs, their end goals, and their budgets. There's far too much emphasis on the creative thinking in books and articles, but not enough on the nuts and bolts of making it real. You can use all the critical and creative thinking tools you want but if you can't get it out of your head and into the client's hands in a reasonable and affordable way, all that thinking is wasted time.
Originally posted by PrintDriver View PostDoesn't a master's thesis require an argument?
This just sounds wrong somehow. Self-reflection of what process? Your design process?
Back to Renessac's question... What I feel is missing from many design books is well-written content that actually says something beyond the basics. I like photographs of people's work as well as the next person, but I usually want to know more. For example, I want to know the parameters of the problem, what issues the designer ran into, how the solutions were arrived at, the frustrations involved, how they were overcome, an analysis of the working dynamics that made the project successful, the opinions of the designers involved, whether or not the design solution accomplished the objectives of the clients, the general working philosophies of the designers, etc.
In other words, it's great to see a fantastic poster, a great logo or the results of a branding campaign, but I'd really like to go away with a good understanding of just how it came about. For me this would be as, if not more, useful than the photos of the actual finished pieces.
What's missing from most design books? The details of designer reality. At least, the one most of us mortals work in.
I'd love to see a design anthology that included accurate and honest answers to:
- what was the agreed upon budget/schedule limits (broken down by stages would be great)?
- what was the final costs, in time and money (again broken down by stages)?
- how many people were involved and who actually did what (include vendor support)?
- how well did the final solution actually WORK (and not just look great) and how was that assessed?
- What were the most significant compromises and their sources?
- what were the hardest sells?
- how were any derivative pieces handled?
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I guess the personal element like stated above is missing, you get a lot of theory but we want actual practical examples of the reason for your conclusion author!
I love the book The Business side of Creativity He explains the why's in certain parts and to me that is like a math problem if you don't do the work how can you understand the answer.
Thanks all for your replies and thoughts. In response:
@PrintDriver- Yes, I work as a designer and own my own business. What I want to deliberately reflect on is my creative process. My program requires what is called a "synthesis" versus a traditional thesis.
While you are all absolutely right that it is more than just the creative process, there is far more to it than that, client relations and business aspects and all, what I am focusing on here, for this project, is my own creative growth- the concept development part of the process specifically. Through deliberate reflection on my creative process I hope to learn from and improve it.
@ <b>, I think you understand where I am coming from. That question of how the designer arrived at a solution, the deep thinking involved, is what I want to explore in my own mind and convey to readers.
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Parental Consent and Notification Laws Are Dangerous. You Can't Legislate Healthy Family Communication
A law forcing notification or consent doesn't help a young person who feels that they cannot turn to their parents out of fear for their safety or parental anger and disappointment. It simply makes it harder for them to access safe and legal care.
In four months, Texans are guaranteed to elect a new governor for the first time in 14 years, and Davis' battle stance is appropo: She's been under attack from naysayers, pundits, and even members of her own party since before she announced her candidacy for Texas governor back in October.
The recent exclusion of the long-term work of scores of reproductive justice organizations, activists, and researchers that have challenged the "pro-choice" label for 20 years, seen recently in New York Times and Huffington Post articles, is not only disheartening but, intentionally or not, continues the co-optation and erasure of the tremendously hard work done by Indigenous women and women of color for decades.
The persistent focus on the links between "choice" and abortion—the origins of this relationship and some of its impacts—in no way fully expresses or honors the vision or the agenda of reproductive justice advocates.
Taking the temperature of the anti-choice movement post-Hobby Lobby, one thing becomes clear: Its members are getting braver all the time about admitting out loud that they're just anti-sex and out to get your birth control.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a bill Wednesday that would expand reproductive health-care coverage for women in the military and their families.
Why is the Becket Fund expending so much time and money fighting against filling out a form—a requirement that, at first blush, seems like no big deal? As you'll see, the implications of this brilliant legal strategy are anything but boring.
The Alaska legislature recently approved a project that will place free pregnancy tests in bar bathrooms as part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about fetal alcohol syndrome. But what is fetal alcohol syndrome, and could this effort possibly help address it?
The bill, known as An Act to Promote Public Safety and Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care Facilities, was rushed through the legislature after the state's buffer zone law was struck down in June.