Category: classes and presentations
These are posts centered around presentations delivered by John LeMasney on various technology, branding, and design topics.
Hi, friends! This week, I’m using Inkscape to repair AI-based images from Gemini (Nano Banana). We use the text tool for the first time in the series, the dropper tool, the gradient tool, and we place text along a path. Check it out, and let me know what you might like to see next.
Hi, friends! This week in Design for the Non-Designer, we’ll explore key tools in Inkscape for arranging objects: Group, Align, & Distribute. If you know someone who might benefit from this video, please share!
This week in Design for the Non-Designer, we return to some key basics in Inkscape. We will explore why, when, and how to save files. We will also cover how to export or import files. I hope you enjoy it, and if you have questions or feedback, let’s talk about it in the comments.
This week in Design for the Non-Designer, we’re going to step away from the basics of Inkscape. We will perform a real-world task: restoring clean lines and edges to a pixelated logo. I discuss importing, bitmap tracing, node-editing, saving, and exporting in Inkscape. Special thanks to NJLLA for allowing me to use the task as an example for everyone!
Hey, friends! It’s John and this time I’m talking about using Inkscape to illustrate a Zen quote. This quote is “To set up what you like against what you don’t like — this is the disease of the mind ~ Seng-Ts’an” If we can find compassion, especially with those we disagree with, we make progress.
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“The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry. Edited by Stephen Mitchell. Harper and Row, NY. 1989 The Mind of Absolute Trust The great way isn’t difficult for those who are unattached to their preferences. Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear. When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction, heaven and earth are set apart. If you want to realize the truth, don’t be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind. Not grasping the deeper meaning, you just trouble your minds serenity. As vast as infinite space, it is perfect and lacks nothing. But because you select and reject, you can’t perceive its true nature. Don’t get entangled in the world; don’t lose yourself in emptiness. Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves. If you don’t live the Tao, you fall into assertion or denial. Asserting that the world is real, you are blind to its deeper reality; denying that the world is real, you are blind to the selflessness of all things. The more you think about these matters, the farther you are from the truth. Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go. Returning to the root, you find the meaning; chasing appearances, you lose there source. At the moment of profound insight, you transcend both appearance and emptiness. Don’t keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions. For the mind in harmony with the Tao, all selfishness disappears. With not even a trace of self-doubt, you can trust the universe completely. All at once you are free, with nothing left to hold on to. All is empty, brilliant, perfect in its own being. In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non self. If you want to describe its essence, the best you can say is “Not-two.” In this “Not-two” nothing is separate, and nothing in the world is excluded. The enlightened of all times and places have entered into this truth. In it there is no gain or loss; one instant is ten thousand years. There is no here, no there; infinity is right before your eyes. The tiny is as large as the vast when objective boundaries have vanished; the vast is as small as the tiny when you don’t have external limits. Being is an aspect of non-being; non-being is no different from being. Until you understand this truth, you won’t see anything clearly. One is all; all are one. When you realize this, what reason for holiness or wisdom? The mind of absolute trust is beyond all thought, all striving, is perfectly at peace, for in it there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow.”
– Seng-ts’an: The Mind of Absolute Trust from http://www.nonduality.com/seng.htm