What you think?

Two great places on the web I found today

Recently I've been finishing my design of a dog in a sneaker. Though I thought I'd finished the sneaker today I've been making finishing touches and it's been a lot of work.
I've come across a few interesting sites today: http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com for people dressing with style and http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com is about what a gentleman should be like. :)

My first project in Adobe Illustrator

 

Hi! :) This is the first thing I've made in Adobe Ilustrator. I've been just trying out some tools to make an old design come true, still it's not finished and I'll post the final result when it is. I've been reading Seth Godin's blog recently and I've found some interesting stuff there http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ also a very interesting post by Paul Graham on why Yahoo failed http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html. :)  

 

Just something about Adobe Illustrator CS3 and how to learn to draw :)

I guess if you want to start with computer graphics it's the right site for you: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
I'm a starter myself. I have just barely completed reading and doing excercices in Betty Edwards book: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain http://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 and it came naturally to me that you need an application for everything you learn. I'll let you see the results. :)

Speedreading

I still haven't worked out typepad, but hopefully time will come and it will flow naturally to post new things. I've completed reading Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading Program and it seems to me more like an essay of her impressions about speed reading and anecdotes about how taking a full course at Brittanica-Wood Center has helped a student improve their scores. And that would be it. Like were my impressions after first reading it for the first time last year. But for now, I' ve learned already to find in books even poor ones or ones written by ghost writers something of merit, a pure thought of the author I'd say. And so this time reading it was different. I started studying for my exams in September and I've applied a bit of her teachings. I'll let you know how it goes. By the way if you'd like I'd might share some of my notes on her book.
I've read basically every book on speed reading and accelerated learning I could get my hands on, and if you'd like we can discuss the topic freely and share experiences. 
Funny thing is Wood in her book presents somehow modified version of Tony Buzan's mindmaps, the difference is in the simplicity. Wood proposes a system of straight lines and calls it slash recall patterns. Recall is to imply that it's made for revising. I've been doing this slash pattern for my law textbook and I'm quite happy about it- I'll let you know how it goes. :)

I'd ordered about a month ago books from Amazon, and I haven't got them delivered though with expediture shipping and a few days ago I got an email asking me to review them for the Amazon website. :) I think it's a test whether I can loose my temper. :) I'm writing about this because I decided some month and a half ago that I will order books each month and read on various topics to broaden my horizons and learn. I've always wanted to know things and to know how to do certain things and didn't know how to. But since I've fullfilled my chilldhood dream to be able to draw with a book of Betty Edwards I think it's worth the struggle to learn something new. And so I'm ordering but not until I get my first order. :) What you think?
 

Witaj! :) Natknąłem się ostatnio na bardzo ciekawy artykuł, który skłonił mnie do założenia bloga w sieci. Będę tu umieszczał rzeczy, które w jakiś sposób cenię i które chciałbym przeczytać zebrane na blogu kogoś innego. Będę tu również dzielił czasem się swoimi spostrzeżeniami dotyczącymi rzeczy tu zamieszczanych. Artykuł o którym wspomniałem wcześniej mówi o zastosowaniu biznesowych strategii w życiu codziennym, jest dosyć długi ale warto bo może zmieni sposób w jaki patrzysz na życie.
Oto link :)

http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1