PORTFOLIO
A graphic design and fine art portfolio where I combined my graphics skills with creative writing and marketing campaigns. Here is a link to my photography and video portfolio which has creative writing that explores the meaning behind the images.
Design, Drawing, Painting, and Sculpting
Info Graphic
Truckee bike route map
Give Back Tahoe campaign
Brochures, News Letters, and more...
TIMES ARE CHANGING
Things seem to change much faster in the 19th century. Not only has the pandemic changed the way we act and the way we interact, but technology is making huge strides in AI and the systems get exponentially smarter as people use them. We're on a bell curve trajectory straight up. And for us who grew up during the computer age, our brains aren't processing things as fast as they used to. Computers are getting smarter and faster and we're getting slower and more stupid. According to a blog post for The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University dated March 27, 2019, regarding a paper published that month, "Professor Adrian Bejan, presents an argument based on the physics of neural signal processing. He hypothesizes that, over time, the rate at which we process visual information slows down, and this is what makes time, 'speed up' as we grow older."
"As we age, he argues, the size and complexity of the networks of neurons in our brains increases - electrical signals must traverse greater distances, and thus signal processing takes more time. Moreover, aging causes our nerves to accumulate damage that provides resistance to the flow of electrical signals, further slowing processing time."
To simplify this theory, when we're young, we process images much faster so our brains capture more information in a specified amount of time. As we get older, it takes more time to process each image. Hence, our brain captures less information in that same amount of time. If we were to watch a movie of images from our life when we were young it would take much longer to watch an hour of images versus watching an hour of our life's images as we get older. There are fewer images to string together from that hour. Einstein tried to say this over a hundred years ago with his Theory of Relativity, he determined that time is relative and the rate at which time passes depends on your frame of reference.
We can move to a place where the pace is a bit slower or join an off-grid commune and live off the land, but if we don't work with "The Man," we could be left in the dark. Remember the book, Who Moved My Cheese? And then there was, Who Stole My Cheese, a parody of, Who Moved My Cheese, referring to challenging situations in corporate America where people want their share of the "cheese."
Ok, I got a little off track. I was trying to make a reference to what's happening in my world because of AI. To quote me from the article I posted on LinkedIn, "I thought I had found my stride and enjoy mixing technical writing with UX writing and creative writing... I expected the rate for writing to be less than it had been for product and project management. I expected there might be a few stumbles along the way but what I didn't expect was for the rates I'd be offered to decrease just as I added rhythm to my steps."
Well, I'm having to pivot once again. I'm super excited about my pivot because there's a position for a Senior Global Content Producer at Mercy Corps. I began my career in graphic design and illustration, produced graphics for advertising, and continued to take animation classes, painting classes, photography classes, and writing classes. Through journalism, I learned to create content that dealt with difficult subjects. I had a wonderful career in motion picture film and broadcast training customers, doing demos, providing customer support, and always creating. More recently, I've been focusing on writing, both creative writing and technical writing, and have participated in workshops and continuing education for both. My passion is communication. Telling the stories of people in the world.
It's time to go back to what I'm passionate about! I want to work with nonprofits, help people, and support the greater good through creating content.
