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Never stop learning or trying to grow as a coach! The game is constantly evolving. 20+ years of coaching & I’m still trying to soak up as much as I can & pick up things here & there. If you think you know it all it’s time to hang up the whistle! @championship_productions #beasponge https://www.instagram.com/p/B4il1Y0lAsb/?igshid=296h7cs2zlpw
Self awareness Saturday and I have a PSA. Let’s take a little more time to listen today, than to talk. 🤐 I’ve heard that when we speak we’re only repeating things we know. When we listen, we’re able to learn new information. 💯 How can we learn and grow if we’re constantly spewing our opinions? Make it a point to get quiet. Listen to others when they speak, listen to yourself in a quiet place and see what you can soak up. #beasponge #learn #listen #grow #bequiet #stoptalking #getyourmindright #andrewfcarter #motivation #keepgrinding #minuteofmotivation #selfaware #selfcare @therock @cameronrhanes @hubcitycrossfit @lewishowes @joerogan (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByvoLCdlk6G/?igshid=wzauqv65vjp7
“Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way adsorb it; do not become others.”- Vivekananda #jellyfish #seadancers #jellies #pacificjellyfish #beasponge #lovelife #persevere #beyourself #youarebeautiful #krixbeeblephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/BwxovPnlvwW/?igshid=1lnk8ffthkn56
Submerged into a trance of observation.
I was set a task to take a 10-minute journey either on bus, train or by foot. Once I had reached my location we had to spend 10 minutes listening to a segment of Virtual Light by William Gibson. From then on we were to record what we could hear, see, taste, smell and feel. We could record this information in any way we would like.
This task has been a springboard to my idea generation into creating graphic visuals for my campaign to drug users.
My location. A metal bench between the north exit and main departure boards in Grand Central Station, Birmingham @11:00am-11:30am.
What I saw
people meeting friends, family and loved ones
people waiting - stood with their bags between their feet watching the time and departure boards change
people looking at their watches
people running - they’re late
people walking with a coffee and food - they are relaxed
people walking
What I smelt
A flowing stream of savoury foods
Fresh brewed coffee
The smells around the station are all food and drink related, these smells occur in this area as they are sold in many cafes to create a calm and relaxed atmosphere for travellers departing and arriving to and from the station.
What I felt
The cold, bitter wind tunnelling through the station
The sense of the world passing before my own eyes as I sit in on a bench watching people’s paths change
What I heard
Footsteps
Announcements echoing through the station on the tanoy
Music from restaurants and shops gently brushing over the sounds close around me
One ended conversation as people hold their phone to their ear making phone calls
The task challenged the way I normally work and was a technique that showed me how to gain a depth insight into an environment. By listening to a descriptive audio clip it felt like I had been sent into a new dimension that became creatively active as one moving and changing organism. I trusted my own instinct in how I wanted to record and react to my observations in the moment.
When challenged with this way of gathering information I found myself entering a free and relaxed enviroment in my head. The way I see and translate imagery is abstract. I can feel very worried and anxious about sharing my ideas as I feel they are not a perfected graphic students work. With this technique it enabled me to relax and record in any format and style that I felt right for me.
Above are photographs that I recorded. From the area that I located myself to record and document, the main activity of movement that stood out to my eyes was walking. The kinetic shapes that are formed between peoples legs stretch and transform as they walk. This kinetic movement interested me as all shapes were different, dependent on the size of an individuals stride, nature of walk, length of the legs and clothing eg. a skirt, jeans, shorts etc. Studying this gentle formation change of one shape it inspired me to look into the art of graphic motion design. I could visulaise these shapes created on a screen morphing from one shape to another. I also was drawn to the paths that people walked through the station. Some walked straight, some turned around and re-walked their path, and some were confused and walked back and forth to directional signs to find their platform. these invisible paths I wanted to expose. I watched for 4 minutes people walk in my area of the station and recorded this by a blind drawing. I felt that using this technique I would be able to gain an increasingly abstract but acurtae drawing. The quality of the lines drawn have a subtle soft rigid as my hand and eye co-ordination were working in partnership to draw every detail that I saw. I found that the outcome was visually pleasing as it contains the depth of information I saw and intersting shapes and patterns can be created from this recoirding if i was to proceed in pushing the images boundaries.
I am planning to revisit this technique in projects to help me gain a strong research pinpoint to help me begin my creative thought process and journey into exploring how I can achieve my brief.
#BeASponge
Entrepreneur Tuesday: At times we compare ourselves to other people and this causes us to display envy because we aren't where we WANT TO BE! We act rude or have an attitude when we meet successful people in our field because we want to be successful! We wonder how they got to their position and mentally come up with a million scenarios. We allow our insecurities to lead our behavior which eventually burns bridges! This behavior is ridiculous but it's REAL! People would rather talk down on you instead of celebrate your accomplishments. So my message today is be a SPONGE instead of a BRILLO PAD!!! You'll get so much further in life if you use every opportunity to absorb and expand verses hating on someone and rubbing people the wrong way!!! Ask questions, be open, and celebrate others! Until next time stay focused, keep grinding, and RESPECT THE PROCESS! #KeepWorking #StayFocused #BeASponge #AlwaysBelieve #AbsorbKnowledge #KeepEvolving #BeResilient #PushThrough #EntrepreneurLifestyle #FuturisticThinker #WhatsFuelingYou #YourSource #BeLegendary #GoodSource #EntrepreneursNeedMotivationToo #EntrepreneurQuotes #Like #Share #Follow 👉🏾@_optimistic_k & @movgrind
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