How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead. I've been fortunate to have some measure of success in my life, primarily through this very blog over the last eight years, and in creating Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange over the last four years.
With the birth of our twin girls, I've had a few months to pause and reflect on those experiences. No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome. Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet, death is the destination we all share.
No one has ever escaped it.And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new.[…]Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. None of us should ever have to face death to accept the inflexible and, too-often, novel sense of scarcity that it introduces. In fact, it'd be great if we could each skip needing outside permission to be awesome by not waiting until the universe starts tapping its watch.
31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing. .Get Inspired! Magazine: Graphic Design, Illustration Art, Coolsites, Motion, GFX, Photography inspiration. 11 Ways to Get Inspired - See What Best Designers Do. Inspiration is the fuel for our designer's minds and bodies - although some would say it actually is coffee :) If our inspiration stream dries out, things are slowing down, we don't know how to start, how to continue and how to finish the tasks we are working on.
Our mind gets distracted very fast and we just can not focus on what is needed. Or we are just trying to put the colors, shapes and letters to the right place and just feel that it doesn't feel the right way. Inspirationfeed - be inspired! The Get Inspired! Project. 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind. “Stuff No One Told Me” fun illustrations. There are several things in life that you already know and have learned but you seem to forget it because no one tells and reminds you of them.
Illustrator Alex from Barcelona has introduced these type of statements by making cute and funny illustrations. 8 Methods to Find Inspiration. Tim @ Mini Life Hacks suggested I write a following up article from my guest post about 8 Steps to Inspire Others . Thanks for that suggestion Tim, I’ll first cover the methods to find inspiration in this article and my next one will cover how to take action on that inspiration. Please consider sharing this article if you enjoy it and feel free to sign up for my RSS feed here. Search Out New Experiences Inspiration comes about because of change or seeing the possibility of change. If you always do the same things, this will be either minimal or non-existent. Nature and God’s creations Creative art and writing Stylish music and sound Innovation and brain science Life impact stories ( Arswino always has great examples of that at his blog ) Underdog stories.
Thoughts On Life : Inspirational Words : Motivation Quotes. 50 Ways to Find Inspiration: Create, Explore, Expand. “If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.”
~Daisaku Ikeda I have always loved that scene in American Beauty when Ricky Fitts shows his video of a plastic bag blowing in the wind. He’s the complete opposite of his neighbor Lester Burnham, who seems to have decided long ago to live life in a comatose state of submission, completely disconnected from authentic joy. Ricky seems inspired by everything that most people simply overlook. He explains of his bag video: “It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. How to create an inspiration board. The terms “mood board” and “inspiration board”– along with “vision board”, “story board”, and “boring board”– are being tossed around these days like petticoats in a costume drama (OK, I made up ‘boring board’).
While they are similar, in terms of being a tool used by creative people as a reference for their work, there are some distinctions that I think are ignored when people use the terms interchangeably. (Caveat: I am a big word nerd, and abuse of vocabulary causes me to twitch and foam at the mouth. Perhaps I was an elocution coach, or a Catholic school teacher in a past life… Forgive me.) Attract Wealth with an Inspiration Board. How To Create A Mood/Inspiration Board I: The SuperEASY Way. So… you want to make a mood/inspiration board, eh?
Well, hopefully I can help you out with that task with some guided instructions on how to piece together your masterpiece in either Photoshop (or GimpShop — the free graphics editor) or using some quick online tools. I’m not sure if my instructions will be the best ones out there… but according to google searches by tireless bee’s, they might be the only ones around the web. The superEasy Way If you’d like to make a simple mosaic of your inspiration images, then you can use MosaicMaker. You have the option of using the URL of your image from another source (Flickr, Photobucket, etc.) or you can create a free membership on their site and then upload them for the mosaic. A) Square tiles Any combination of tiles that you can think of (2×2, 3×4, 5×4, etc) with a maximum of 36 squares. b) 4×4 with large center Spots for 13 of your favorite images… with one dominating the scene Mrs.
Location: Los Angeles/Monterey. 14 Tips on How to Make a Great Collage. Edit Article Paper collageFabric collageSand collageNature collageElectronic collageDisplaying collages Edited by Nicole Willson, Kyle G., Jack Herrick, Waited and 109 others A collage is a work of art composed of numerous materials, such as paper, newsprint, photographs, ribbons or other objects attached to background support, such as plain paper.
A collage can even be made with physical materials or electronic images, attaching them to a digital background.