A new plan for lemasney creative (lemsy) in 2024.
2 What if our smartphones could suddenly, faithfully, and quantifiably reproduce our favorite tastes, smells, and touches? What would that feel like? What would it smell like? What would it taste like? How would it disrupt our current paradigms? How would it affect culinary arts, human relationships, and memory?
Recording the rest of our senses: touch, smell, and taste.
A while back, I decided to go into GIMP and create an image of me and my sons, but to overlap our faces, and merge them at the eyes, nose, and mouth. It's a simple trick, really...
Two photos of me and my sons together.
2 Here's the story of the time I repainted a cage for a popular fight club in Northern Virginia, StreetBeefs.
StreetBeefs Cage Redesign
I have the honor of announcing that Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL) has agreed to let me speak in a free technology series in their beautiful downtown location. I love technology, and want to share what I love about it, continuing the work I've done for 20 years in the Northeastern part of our country. If you have a topic or a venue that you'd like covered, please contact me, and let's make that happen.
Technology Classes with John LeMasney
Ten things to consider before you take your first backpacking hike cc-by lemasney
Hiking Trip: 10 things to consider before your first
What I love about Convenience Stores in NJ! In the video, I talk about my love for Wawa, the general best practice of computer interfaces for food ordering, the variety and service aspects of convenience, and more.
What I love about Convenience Stores in NJ cc-by lemasney ...
Are you happy with your online presence? If you've worked with me, you know how much I love helping businesses get started. You need a few things for the digital side, and a few things on the real-life side. I have helped thousands of people with technology, and a lot of them are pleased. Take a look at the Testimonials page for more on what people are saying. Then consider our Small Business Starter Package!
Branding Starter Package: What if it was easy?
Photo Essay: The Jedediah Higgins House - Wood, metal, stone, and love in Princeton, NJ. cc-by lemasney
Photo Essay: The Jedediah Higgins House – A story of ...
The story of the maple seed hanging sculptures that are a part of the 2015 Princeton Parklet is a very interesting one, and I thought I'd share it as a way of thanking everyone involved in their creation. But first, some definitions.
The Story of the Maple Seeds at the 2015 Princeton ...
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon – EM Forster “Apparently, this quote is not from any […]
Spoon feeding in the long run – EM Forster cc-by ...
7 Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf “A foolish, flattering lady, pausing on the threshold of what she once called “the heart of the house,” the […]
Books are the mirrors of the soul – Virginia Woolf ...
Very often, at the end of a class, I’m supposed to offer a survey on the behalf of my host. Also very often, at the […]
Please don’t forget to fill out the survey cc-by lemasney
"James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognisable to its readers."
She feels in italics and thinks in capitals – Henry ...
Depth of Processing is a design theory in which it is believed that when information is analyzed more deeply, the information is more likely to be retained. Instruction sheets that are more complex and analytical are more likely to retained than more superficial ones.
30 of 365: Depth of Processing design principle
Baby face bias is a design principle in which designers use the generalized human interpretation of baby-faced features (such as large eyes, round head, small nose and mouth) to represent and codify naiveté, innocence and kindness. By emphasizing or exaggerating baby like features in faces, a design can evoke a feeling of protection, ownership, or forgiveness in a viewer. Alternatively. more angular features, less elongated heads, and other more adult features are less likely to be interpreted as innocent, kind, or naïve.
10 of 365: Baby face bias #design #design-principles
Advance Organizers are a design method in which an audience is given new information in one of two ways in order to become oriented with a new concept.
2 of 365: Expository and Comparative Advance Organizers
Ray Park as Darth Maul cc-by lemasney
Ray Park as Darth Maul cc-by lemasney
4 Designers as defined by Buckminster Fuller
Designers as defined by Buckminster Fuller
4 There are a few things that are debatable while assessing alcoholism and alcohol abuse. It is not a science, in my opinion, in how one is finally regarded as an alcohol abuser, but rather an informed label out of many factors. Does it apply to you?
I sometimes drink. Here’s why I often ‘reduce my use’ ...
1 This was my first entry in a short series on animal-human hybrid sketches. I'd really like to revisit this, as it is a fun, simple way to grab someone's attention and talk about something quirky.
Animal bird-human hybrid experiment number 1
4 Sometimes we do what we want instead of what we should. Sometimes we even deeply enjoy it. I do it, you do it, and the […]
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist, devilish. ...
This is one of the more successful pieces in the series of animals made of text. In this case, I decided to make a cat […]
Kitty made out of text
Elephant made out of text
Elephant made out of text
If you've ever been to one of my workshops on open source graphics apps, you likely saw me use this technique there as a way to demonstrate the power of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). In the GIMP, this is a technique that involves layer masks, blurring, brushwork, image scaling, and guidelines as a way of believably merging one recognizable face onto another becognizable head.
A presidential mashup: Abraham Washington
Hi, friends. This piece was started in 2022 and was just recently completed. It’s called Journals of War, about war, politics, and the gore of […]
“Journals of War” Mixed media on paper. 30″x40″. (lemsy, 2023)
Using Inkscape to illustrate text cc-by lemasney
illustrated quote: “To set what you like against what you ...
John LeMasney played Kubrick's 2001 backwards and forwards simultaneously. Here's what he discovered.