Montreal Girl Geeks - TOON swag.

Last week I got to geek out right here in my hometown! I presented The Art of Visual Storytelling to the Montreal Girl Geeks; a breakdown of the inner workings of my visual thought process with illustrated stories and animation. The event was hosted at BDO, complete with snacks and tech dude. Seriously, the tech was great - he let me use this über cool headset mic that actually looked like an alien probe. FUN right?

One of the things I covered in my talk was the iPad and how I'm using it to do (amongst other things) toon swag. So of course I could not resist tooning the three women who run the MTLGG: Sandy Sidhu, Liesl Barrell and Leann Brown. 

The @MTLGirlGeeks are @SandySidhu, @LieslBarrell and @LeannZing.

These women are fun, smart, lovely, interesting, and they're doing cool stuff in tech and social media. And the group? They're my homies! All ages of women and even some dudes. It's fun to travel to geek out about my passions, but to find this coolness in my own backyard? Priceless.

Cake all round for #MTLGG.

The Art of Visual Storytelling is one of my public speaking topics. Contact me to book this talk, toons & tech.

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Abstracted...

Tomorrow evening I'm doing a talking on The Art of Visual Storytelling. I'm always learning, always striving toward expertise; I wish to command the medium so that I can express myself, deftly, succinctly, with humor and grace.

Anyways...tomorrow is the first time I'm speaking on this particular topic. In breaking down some of my stories for the presentation I realized how much I'm falling into natural story arcs without even thinking or planning. The visual devices that I use to create tension, the pacing of a story, the emotional triggers in an image or expression; all the subtleties and nuance of my lines and dots lay before me.

I found that I was deconstructing my self.

I've delved deep into The Heart of ME before. Scary...but also freeing. Do you ever feel abstracted?

My talk, toons and tech on the Art of Visual Storytelling, hosted by Montreal Girl Geeks.

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