This is a listing of my profession-related activities and actions. It should let you know why I think of myself as a professional.
Here is the slide deck for our talk: TEDx and Libraries: A Partnership for Community Engagement, Presented by Peter Bromberg, Janie Hermann and John LeMasney for the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference, October 27, 2010. (Download the powerpoint deck and look in speaker’s notes for content.)
The latest in my series of animals made of text, a seal. For the landscape, I used Inkscape’s spraypaint tool to paint with a square made with the rectangle tool.
“Pinnipeds (/ˈpɪnᵻˌpɛdz/) (from Latin pinna “fin” and pes, pedis “foot”[2]), commonly known as seals,[a] are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals). There are 33 extant species of pinnipeds, and more than 50 extinct species have been described from fossils. While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic lineage (descended from one ancestral line). Pinnipeds belong to the order Carnivora and their closest living relatives are bears and musteloids (weasels, raccoons, skunks and red pandas), having diverged about 50 million years ago.” – Pinniped – Wikipedia from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped
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Look at my favorite images from this project on the Portfolio page.
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 out of text. I used Inkscape, imported the silhouette of a cat, and then typed the text on top of it. I converted the text to a path, and began to shape the text to meet the edges of the silhouette in such a way as to still have it be readable. I hope you enjoy it!
If you like this image, please share it. If you use it, please attribute me, and thanks! (cc-by lemasney)
I got called out by a friend of Dan Wadlinger’s to make a Platypus. I thought it was an interesting challenge, even if I already had a very cute P animal in this series. Hope you like it!
“The platypus is among nature’s most unlikely animals. In fact, the first scientists to examine a specimen believed they were the victims of a hoax. The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur). Males are also venomous. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe.” curated by lemasney from Platypus | National Geographic at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/platypus/
“The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), also known as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth. The animal is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record. The first preserved platypus body was thought to have been a fake, made of several animals sewn together,[3] when it was first looked at by scientists in 1799.[4]” curated by lemasney from Platypus – Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
This is a series of technology training session for Rider University faculty and staff. This series includes many of the supported technologies at Rider University.
Blackboard Training : August 2, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006) and August 2, 2010 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
Wimba Training: August 10, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006) and August 18, 2010 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
Technology Classrooms: August 18, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006) and September 14, 2010 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
Sharestream: August 26, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006) and September 30, 2010 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
Smartboards: September 13, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
presentation: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfMjc5ZDRzMmc1Zm0&hl=en
Microsoft Office: Word: September 14, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
handout: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ZZH6ehl-F9BOfuE6tVMnWaNGoXrcTjJzNRpMDZAsw4U
Microsoft Office: Excel: September 22, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
Microsoft Office: PowerPoint September 30, 2010 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Banner Training Room (Cen 006)
Host: Princeton PC Users Group
Artist’s Statement: https://lemasney.com/consulting/about-365-sketches/
Venue: Mercer County Library, Lawrence Branch, Lawrenceville, NJ
Date: August 30th, 2010