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Garr Reynolds is a jazz-loving marketing professional and student of Zen and the Zen arts who lives in Japan and travels the world talking about all things presentation. His Website: www.presentationzen.com
The designing of Presentation Zen Design (The Book)
Here's an iPhone snap of the opening spread of the new book. Have to be done with all design in two weeks. Seems like it would be easy, right? It takes for *^%$#@!-ever (at least for me) to design a book. Problem is, as I design it I see that I have way too much content (again). Loads will have to be cut. Anyway, the book is a bit late but it is getting done. I have some rally nice contributions from John McWade, Nancy Duarte, Scott Kelby, etc. The book.
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LIVE from Obama's speech in Tokyo
As expected, great public speaker. Good content. Very happy to have been invited. He gave a shout out to Obama Japan as well - crowd liked that one.:-)
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Waiting for Obama to speak in Japan
In VIP section. That's Beat Takeshi to the left in front of my seat. Nice guy.
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On the evening express to Tokyo to attend Obama's speech
Speech is tomorrow AM. Pictured here is a beautiful ekiben and green tea. Healthy meal.
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Selecting the all important bento for trip to Tokyo
People look over the beautiful ekibens (bentos) in Kyoto station...
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We notice faces
We notices faces just about more than anything else, especially the eyes. Beauty is highly subjective (obviously), but there is a lot of evidence that we are more drawn to faces with greater than average symmetry. There is also something called Baby Face Bias where we see people (or things like the VW Beetle) as more "honest and innocence" if they have large eyes, round features, small nose, high forehead, etc. The Attractiveness Bias says we see "attractive" people as being more healthy, intelligent (think JFK v Nixon debate). What is attractive may depend on things like hip-to-waist ratos, face symmetry and other things that communicate "health." In any event, faces -- especially massive 4-story images of a face -- get attention. On a rainy day in Namba, Osaka.
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Carl Sagan quote in a slide. Perspective.
"Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile, blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars." —Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan: One of my heroes. If I had it to do all over, I'd be an astrophysicist (or a Jedi)
Carl Sagan, he'd be 75 today. He left us much too soon, but what a contribution he made. I took this snap of an area dedicated to Sagan at The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field last July (which was fantastic!). That's one of his famous turtleneck sweaters in the case. Remembering Carl Sagan: http://snipurl.com/t61zl
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