International Women’s Day was created by the United Nations. Hugs and high fives mandatory today for all the women in your life.
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Women who are my heroes in the creative industry? View a collection of the ones I have gathered over the years.
Rocking it still today?
Designboom has been around since 1999. Birgit launched it just a year after us. It has been striving and gathering not only quality content but a large readership as well. Its appreciation keeps on growing.
Well deserved too imo.
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The Jealous Creator was launched in 2009 by Danielle Krysa. Her self-depracating jealousy has led her to featuring projects fuelled by her phenomenal curiosity. A published author—her seriously in your face advice and sharp eye are uncommon qualities.
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Swiss Miss is in Tina’s words: a design blog/studio she started in 2005. I actually discovered her portfolio right around then, and was taken by her different approach in presenting her design work. Her tentaculous projects are immensely successful.
One of her well-known project is the Creative Mornings which expanded the world over: not a small feat for a swiss girl in NYC.
I am currently head over heels in preparing my very first art portfolio and because of iOS way of cataloguing the camera roll – (I work with 3 devices each with its own directory) – I collated new work in individual folders as back up..
Leaving me with a massive task to do: reconciling, sifting and deleting all duplicates.
From 55k down to 10k just for my iPad Pro. Still got 7k+ from iPhone + iPad mini to sort after the 10k are done. View my art feed.
So for now – I am minimizing my editorial activities to a strict minimum.
Netdiver Mag is on hiatus.
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Meanwhile – don’t wait – be inspired via podcasts to kickstart your creative or art projects:
Critical thinkers are focused on constantly upgrading their knowledge, and they engage in independent self-learning.
ndlr: Must read!
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DuckDuckGo – the search engine that doesn’t track you!
ndlr: Been using it for a few years now – all searches you do are not recorded and NOT batched to a monstrous data retaining centre for further mining. Not as Gee do.
The iPad Pro has changed my life, and I don’t care about desktop computing anymore.
ndlr: I own one (first gen) and DO all my generative art + art / photos editing on it!
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While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true con men are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. — Scott Monty
Has it been 7 weeks already? Never took time off from publishing nor curation to focus on creating ART only. Read the whole post for a more in-depth reveal of my new career direction.
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Change of avatar = new journey for me.
Updated avatar reflects both sides of what content to expect in my feed: design + art.
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Netdiver mag will publish again – weekly – and as of right now lol. I still hold a lot of appreciation and respect for creators in the industry. Guess I just can’t stop showing what inspires me.
If you like Colourpop art – follow my Instagram feed to view my color explorations and where I share about processes, artist life, tools and tips. Oh and the Merge series is well under way, and I have loads of new works to show.
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Editorial addendum
Red hot on my mind is ‘content‘.. visual and written. What and how – staged or not – to show? What and how – personal or not – to write?
My eureka moment came when I realized I wanted to share my ‘explorations’ – as a big eye wanderer and record the ‘journey’.
That’s it. Simple. No limits – no constraints – no agenda – no schedule – no performance – no imaginary crowd to please.
I am on the ‘move’ creatively – an artistic explorer of sort – this is who I am – so who I am I – I will share.
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What a strange name for an independent Internet privacy company. Contrary to G/ who records every instance of their services useage with DDG, no recording of your data, EVER!!!
