This is a listing of my profession-related activities and actions. It should let you know why I think of myself as a professional.
John LeMasney received his Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with a communications in December of 2009, and walked as a part of Commencement in May 2010.
John graduated with distinction, holding a cumulative GPA of 3.95.
John was also awarded the Graduate Education Outstanding Achievement Award for Organizational Leadership.
He would like to thank his teachers, fellow students, family and friends who supported his efforts.
LAWRENCE BRANCH LIBRARY RECYCLED ART CONTEST WINNERS
Lawrenceville –The Lawrence Branch of the Mercer County Library System sponsored the Trashed Art Contest to encourage our community to look at trash in a different way and create an awareness of the usefulness of garbage. Winners of the contest were: Sue Kaminski, East Windsor, Sue’s entry “Cap Fish” was made from bottle caps; Gene Dombroski, Ewing, entered “Winter Tree” made of copper wire; and John LeMasney also from Ewing, entered “Dawn, Ocean City” which was a painting on a canvas mosaic of recycled paper squares.
The contest judges were Pete Abrams, a local metal artist, Lori Anselm, a designer at TerraCycle, Ellen Brown, library director, Mercer County Library System (MCLS), Richard Cavallo, chief fiscal officer, MCLS, James Damron, branch manager, Marygrace Billek, director, Mercer County Department of Human Services, and Bill Jones, maintenance engineer, Lawrence Branch of the MCLS. Prizes were donated by the Friends of the Lawrence Library and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A simple idea that I need to focus on right now. 😉
A hopeful wish from me to all the things that matter to me. I love design, my family, a lot of my projects, and many of you. Let’s keep going, okay?
I started making these calligraphic lines many years ago as a way of making shorthand notes on movement while watching a video of ballet. As the dancers turned and spun in the air, being thrown and jumping, I’d record the motion with a pen on a page.
It turned into a primary form of my mark-making ever since that first moment. I have thoroughly enjoyed moving from analog mark-making on paper and canvas to the digital canvas. Inkscape has been a beautiful analogue for that process. The things that I learned in one have definitely influenced the other, and I feel privileged to be among those who had a foot in each pool (digital and analog mark-making).
I never get tired of making things glow, shine, have depth, reflect, or stand out in Inkscape. In this case, I took my Wacom tablet, and with the calligraphy tool, I made the key 3 marks you see. Then I duplicated, applied a yellow, and applied a blur to the duplicate, sending it behind the first marks. I added a deep red background, and to create some depth I made a pill shape and used the spray paint tool set to single path to create the texture.
Have you ever practiced making marks on a page? Do you doodle in corners? How would you like to see the ways in which you could turn those marks into art using tools like Inkscape and the GIMP? Contact me at 6095539498, or john@lemasney.com to see how you could get started!
“But that which most I wonder at, which most
I did esteem my bliss, which most I boast,
And ever shall enjoy, is that within
I felt no stain, nor spot of sin.
No darkness then did overshade,
But all within was pure and bright,
No guilt did crush, nor fear invade
But all my soul was full of light.
A joyful sense and purity
Is all I can remember;
The very night to me was bright,
‘Twas summer in December.
A serious meditation did employ
My soul within, which taken up with joy
Did seem no outward thing to note, but fly
All objects that do feed the eye.
While it those very objects did
Admire, and prize, and praise, and love,
Which in their glory most are hid,
Which presence only doth remove.
Their constant daily presence I
Rejoicing at, did see;
And that which takes them from the eye
Of others, offer’d them to me.
No inward inclination did I feel
To avarice or pride: my soul did kneel
In admiration all the day. No lust, nor strife,
Polluted then my infant life.
No fraud nor anger in me mov’d,
No malice, jealousy, or spite;
All that I saw I truly lov’d.
Contentment only and delight
Were in my soul. O Heav’n! what bliss
Did I enjoy and feel!
What powerful delight did this
Inspire! for this I daily kneel.
Whether it be that nature is so pure,
And custom only vicious; or that sure
God did by miracle the guilt remove,
And make my soul to feel his love
So early: or that ’twas one day,
Wherein this happiness I found;
Whose strength and brightness so do ray,
That still it seems me to surround;
What ere it is, it is a light
So endless unto me
That I a world of true delight
Did then and to this day do see.
That prospect was the gate of Heav’n, that day
The ancient light of Eden did convey
Into my soul: I was an Adam there
A little Adam in a sphere
Of joys! O there my ravish’d sense
Was entertain’d in Paradise,
And had a sight of innocence
Which was beyond all bound and price.
An antepast of Heaven sure!
I on the earth did reign;
Within, without me, all was pure;
I must become a child again.”
– Innocence Poems – Poems For Innocence – Innocence – Poem Hunter,