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What’s going on in early October at LeMasney Consulting?

Sweetgum Seed lamp (detail), steel, glass, and LEDs, Robert Kuster and John LeMasney, 2015
Sweetgum Seed lamp (detail), steel, glass, and LEDs, Robert Kuster and John LeMasney, 2015

There’s a lot going on now at LeMasney Consulting!

Teaching

John LeMasney teaching
John LeMasney teaching

Teaching at area schools and libraries has started up again! I’m at Rider University, Princeton Adult School, Princeton Public Library and other great venues and old friends like Cherry Hill Public Library. I’m talking about visual literacy, graphic design, personal branding, Arduino & Raspberry Pi, the Internet of Things, and lots of other fun topics. You can see all of my public events on the calendar in the sidebar or menu.

Or here’s the link: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pdst7j4q666373rccaibb6osuk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

Clients

JK monogram study (in progress) cc-by lemasney
JK monogram study (in progress) cc-by lemasney

I’m doing a lot of WordPress work now in helping some local entrepreneurs get off the ground, developing branding campaigns, and strategizing about new avenues. A lot of people are really excited about one-page designs, but I’m not totally sold on their longevity. Call me and tell me your take on it.

Design

Jedediah Higgins House, Kingston, NJ, Interior, Stairs, Banisters, Floors, cc-by lemasney
Jedediah Higgins House, Kingston, NJ, Interior, Stairs, Banisters, Floors, cc-by lemasney

I’m still very excited about the Photo Essay about Jedediah Higgins House though I’d love more people to see it. Have you checked it out yet? <blink> I’ve also been thinking alot about the social networking problem of chaos versus order, and how hashtags are a really great, open solution that many people are still confused about. Hashtags are an idea, simply, that collect other ideas. When I precede a word with a hash (#) it indicates that I am using it as a collector, group, or thread that leads to other content about that topic, because others have used that hashtag as well. I love WordPress in part because of how well it uses tags and categories as well as other metadata to prompt you to create a taxonomy (or folksonomy) of your content.

Art

Princeton Parklet Maple Seeds cc-by lemasney
Princeton Parklet Maple Seeds cc-by lemasney

The Princeton Parklet is coming down (today, in fact) and my seeds are coming down with it. I’m sad to see them go from the public view, but happy that two of them so far have been sold for $500 apiece! If you’d like one of these beautiful pieces, please contact me about their availability. We can make more!

The Story of the Maple Seeds at the Princeton Parklet is an interesting read too!

In the meantime, we’ve continued the work with seeds, and here is a preview of the next seed, a sweetgum seed, those prickly balls that are underfoot all autumn long.

Sweetgum Seed lamp (detail), steel, glass, and LEDs, Robert Kuster and John LeMasney, 2015
Sweetgum Seed lamp (detail), steel, glass, and LEDs, Robert Kuster and John LeMasney, 2015

 

 

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Belly buttons don’t get nearly enough love. – John LeMasney

bellybuttons dont get nearly enough love cc-by lemasney
bellybuttons dont get nearly enough love cc-by lemasney
bellybuttons dont get nearly enough love cc-by lemasney
Belly buttons don’t get nearly enough love cc-by lemasney

It’s true. Belly buttons don’t get nearly enough love.  (cc-by lemasney)

“The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus, colloquially known as the belly button, or tummy button) is a scar[1] on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. All placental mammals have a navel, and it is quite conspicuous in humans.[2] Other animals’ navels tend to be smoother and flatter, often nothing more than a thin line, and are often obscured by fur.[3]” – Navel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://goo.gl/8GvGtv

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WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN: A CONVERSATION ABOUT RADIOHEAD

WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN: A CONVERSATION ABOUT RADIOHEAD
WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN: A CONVERSATION ABOUT RADIOHEAD
WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN: A CONVERSATION ABOUT RADIOHEAD
WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN: A CONVERSATION ABOUT RADIOHEAD

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We would certainly be delighted if you checked out the introductory episode of

WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN: A CONVERSATION ABOUT RADIOHEAD

presented by ThePods & Sods Network and hosted by John LeMasney and Craig Smith.

DOWNLOAD | http://podsnsods.podomatic.com/…/2015-08-20T18_09_35-07_00.…

STREAM | http://podsodcast.blogspot.com/2015/08/RH00.html

Please enjoy and share.

‪#‎radiohead‬

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Open Source Primer: John LeMasney interviewed by Rich Kazimir on WDVR

Open source and free do not mean the same thing at all cc-by lemasney
Open source and free do not mean the same thing at all cc-by lemasney
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A Primer: 11 Questions about Open Source (answered)

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Rich Kazimir on Technology Today on WDVR on the topic of open source. He asked me variations on the following questions.

  1. What exactly is ‘open source’?  What criteria applies ?
  2. Let’s focus first on software.  What is open source software?  What are some examples?
  3. What are some pros and cons of the philosophy?
  4. What is Mozilla?
  5. How did the movement get started?
  6. Who contributes to open source products?  How do they continue to exist if they resulting products are free?
  7. What are some other open source products?
  8. Do you have any idea how many open source software products are out there?
  9. Is ‘shareware’ the same as ‘open source’?  Is ‘freemium’ the same as ‘open source’?
  10. What other industry areas have embraced an ‘open source’ approach, or at least started to?
  11. What is the future of ‘open source’ as you see it?

Here is the audio from that broadcast.

Some background on WDVR

“WDVR FM hit the air waves on February 19, 1990 as a newly established, Non-Commercial Station. It is licensed to Penn-Jersey Educational Radio, a New Jersey, 501 (c) (3), Non-Profit Corporation. Its mission is to provide high quality, Non-Commercial Educational Radio service to the Delaware and Lehigh Valley area of Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. WDVR provides a uniquely diversified format of music and talk, utilizing a staff of over 50 unpaid volunteers, each with his or her own specialized expertise in music and/or talk–“50 colorful gems creating a beautiful audio mosaic”. WDVR is a full-service FM station operating 24 hours a day at 89.7 Mhz from Delaware Township, NJ and at 90.5 WPNJ in Easton, PA. It also utilizes a translator on 96.9 Mhz in Trenton, NJ, serving the Lawrenceville, Princeton, Trenton area and points south. On the internet WDVR can be heard streaming live on www.wdvrfm.org . WDVR is a listener supported community oriented station, offering radio programming which is always suitable for the entire family.” – WDVR FM 89.7 91.9,

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We choose cc-by lemasney

we get in our own way cc-by lemasney
we get in our own way cc-by lemasney
We get in our own way, or we pull out all the stops. And in-between, we choose. - John LeMasney cc-by lemasney
We get in our own way, or we pull out all the stops. And in-between, we choose. – John LeMasney cc-by lemasney

We get in our own way, or we pull out all the stops. And in-between, we choose. – John LeMasney cc-by lemasney

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The Only Zen You Find – Robert Pirsig cc-by lemasney

The Only Zen You Find - Robert Persig cc-by lemasney
The Only Zen You Find - Robert Persig cc-by lemasney
The Only Zen You Find - Robert Pirsig cc-by lemasney
The Only Zen You Find – Robert Pirsig cc-by lemasney

On Robert Pirsig

“Pirsig’s work consists most notably of two novels. The better known, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, develops around Pirsig’s exploration into the nature of “Quality”. Ostensibly a first person narrative based on a motorcycle trip he and his young son Chris took from Minneapolis to San Francisco, it is a deep exploration of the underlying metaphysics of western culture. He also gives the reader a short summary of the history of philosophy, including his interpretation of the philosophy of Socrates as part of an ongoing dispute between “cosmologists” admitting the existence of a Universal Truth and the Sophists, opposed by Socrates and his student Plato. Pirsig finds in “Quality” a special significance and common ground between Western and Eastern world views. Pirsig’s publisher’s recommendation to his board ended, “This book is brilliant beyond belief, it is probably a work of genius, and will, I’ll wager, attain classic stature.”[8] Pirsig noted in an early interview that Zen was rejected 121 times before being accepted by William Morrow Publishers. In his book review, George Steiner compared Pirsig’s writing to Dostoevsky, Broch, Proust, and Bergson, stating that “the assertion itself is valid… the analogies with Moby-Dick are patent”.[9] The Times Literary Supplement called it “profoundly important, disturbing, deeply moving, full of insights, a wonderful book”. In 1974, Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write a follow-up, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), in which he developed a value-based metaphysics, called Metaphysics of Quality, that challenges our subject-object view of reality. The second book follows on from where Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance left off.” – Robert M. Pirsig – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://goo.gl/NKI4h