LIACast 70 - Mastering Your Schedule with Dave Seah

Dave Seah is an information designer, stationary designer, and highly reflective prolific blogger. In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast, Jerzy and Rob have a conversation with Dave Seah about anything from blogging to getting started being an independent creator.

How did Dave become so mindful with his process? How did he journey from being a computer programmer to being a designer? We cover lots of ground!

Also: Quest 3 has been EXTENDED!

Links Mentioned in this Episode

• Dave Seah's Blog
• Devloping Operating Principles
• Groundhog Day Resolutions Primer
• The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste -- by Tom Hodgkinson
• Gilmore Girls
• Dave Seah on Twitter
• Saving Private Ryan
• Na No Wri Mo
• Emergent Task Planner
• Definition of a Carpet Bagger
• Apple II Gemstone Warrior
• The Oatmeal Comic - Making Things
• Cannonball Run Outtakes
• Trello
• Dave's Trello Board
• 2-up Emergent Task Planner Template
• Quantified Self
• Art & Story Podcast
• Dave Seah Creative Cootie Catcher
• Sid & Dave's Unnamed Podcast

Workshops, Flexible for Your Schedule

• Lean Into Art Workshops

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

LIACast 70 - Mastering Your Schedule with Dave Seah

LIA Cast 69 - Perseverance and Perseverance

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There’s a romance to “muscling through” and shipping. Never give up! Ganbare!

“Only a weakling gives up when the going gets tough!” - Peter Parker

But what if you’re shipping the wrong thing? How do you know whether it’s a question of your own abilities, or if it’s a situation where you can’t see the forest for the trees?

But changing projects means giving up on the old one, right? Isn’t that admitting defeat? Way to give up, Baron Wimpy von Quitsalot.

It's a packed episode as we walk around this topic, take on a curveball, and talk about this episode's Quests!

Reference (some affiliate links)

• Calista Brill's post "When to Give Up" on the First Second blog
• Dave Roman's post "Before You Give Up...Try Changing it Up"
• How to Make Webcomics
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
• Writing Down the Bones
• Jerzy's Sequences & Consequences and Headline Mashup workshops

And don't forget to check out this episode's Quest: Evil, or Just a Jerk? Deadline to get your entry discussed on the next show is February 13, 2013!

This episode's entries for Quest 2: Harvester of Borrow!

• Jerzy
• Rob
• Dee

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• Jerzy on Twitter Rob on Twitter
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LIA Cast 69 - Perseverance and Perseverance

LIA Cast 68 - Doing it Wrong with Ryan Estrada

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This one is packed to the gills with topics and discussions that visual storytellers of all stripes will enjoy. Ryan Estrada returns to the show to talk about his Do it Wrong manifesto, reflections on tabling at Korean comic cons, and the exciting model he's exploring through his Whole Story project where you can pay what you want for a massive bundle of digital comics.

Reference

• Thunder Punch Daily 123 - 5 Years From Now
• Dan Mishkin
• The Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Supaidaman
• Gumroad

And don't forget to check out this episode's Quest: Harvester of Borrow! Deadline to get your entry discussed on the next show is January 30, 2013!

This episode's entries for Quest 1: Mecha Sound!

• Jerzy
• Rob
• Lee

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• Jerzy on Twitter Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter 

LIA Cast 68 - Doing it Wrong with Ryan Estrada

LIA Cast 67 - Limbering Up for the New Year

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Now that we've reflections and plans for 2013, there's nothing for it but to dive in and complete those goals, right? Easy! But time and again we find ourselves falling short of our goals, for a variety of reasons:

• We sit down to do the work and don’t know where to begin
• We have the desire, but not the ideas
• Nothing we throw down on the page seems very good-the work is happening laboriously, not joyfully
• We don’t have any “inspiration”

So this week we dive into some thoughts on the value of "limbering up." How does the way we feel about the work change when we take a few moments to incorporate a warm-up exercise? How can we spin ourselves up to the workday and keep that energy going throughout a project? How might they simultaneously remove friction from Mind, Body, Spirit, Skill, and Awareness?

We also launch a new feature with this episode: The Lean Into Art Quests! Scroll down for more information about some new interactive challenges we're all going to take on together.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Reference (some affiliate links):

• Rob's Polytechnicast on Recursive Journaling
• Adlerian Psychology
• Dream Theater
• Chuck Wendig's 25 Writer's Resolutions
• The Sketchnote Handbook
• MoKo Slim-fit Cover Case for Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1-Inch
• Dragon Naturally Speaking

This episode's Quest: Mecha Sound!

Consider a sound effect for any or all of the following:

• A rusty old tractor starting up
• An air conditioner in use
• Someone making an espresso

There are 3 ways to participate in the quest:

• Heroic Challenge: Create the sound effect on paper or digitally. Black and white or color.
• Items of Excellence: You may also find examples by others that demonstrate good mechanical sound designs.
• Link Power-Ups: Provide a link to an article or tutorial that will help others in their quest.

You can share your questing materials on Twitter or Google+ with the #liaquest1 and #liaquest tags. Finish your quest by January 16, 2013 to have it discussed on the next episode!

We'll even start you off with the first Link Power-Up: Check out LIA Cast 14 for our episode on designing sound effects!

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

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• Jerzy on Twitter Rob on Twitter
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LIA 67 - Limbering Up for the New Year

LIA Cast 66 - Reflecting on Last Year, Planning for Next Year

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As 2012 comes to a close, we take the opportunity to talk about a subject that is on a lot of people's minds during this time of year. As some of us make resolutions for the future while reflecting on accomplishments and failures of the past year, we think it might be a good idea to be intentional about this kind of reflection and planning. But what kind of thinking is most useful when planning and reflecting? What resources are out there for us to use as a starting point?

Links mentioned in this episode:

Workshops

• The Lean Into Art Season of Creative Challenges! Many of our workshops are only $10 for a limited time.
• Spotlight on Jerzy's FTAM! workshop, only $40 for an in-depth session on the fundamentals of sound design and how to create sound elements in vector format.
• And Krishna Sadasivam's Creating Crazy Characters workshop, another 4 hours of video that will walk you through how to create characters based on shape and how understanding shapes helps us create dynamic characters.

People

• Ryan Estrada and The Whole Story project
• Shadowing Tronix
• Krishna Sadasivam
• David Seah
• Susannah Conway
• David Allen
• Stephen Covey

Reference (some affiliate links):

• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within  
• David Seah's Groundhog's Day Resolutions
• Rob's Polytechnicast on the "Jawa Detection Kit"
• Susannah Conway's 2013 Planning Workbook
• The Back To Work Podcast series on "getting things done"
• The Emergent Task Planner

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter 

LIA Cast 66 - Reflecting on Last Year, Planning for Next Year