Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Design thinking


















The suspension bridge on Spruce Street in San Diego. I used to love running on the bouncy bridge through the eucalyptus grove.

Design thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result.[1] Unlike analytical thinking, design thinking is a creative process based around the "building up" of ideas. There are no judgments early on in design thinking. This eliminates the fear of failure and encourages maximum input and participation in the ideation and prototype phases. Outside the box thinking is encouraged in these earlier processes since this can often lead to creative solutions. Wikipedia

It is something I have known but the term has been so well articulated and expanded upon by some interesting individuals. I first ran across a company named Ideo that goes in teaching big companies to think creatively. They write, "We are a global design consultancy. We create impact through design. Ideo's Tim Brown blogs about creative design...I need to think, I need to be creative, I want to be focused, I need a project...this is interesting to me...this is modern art...now what do I do?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Hanging out the laundry...














I haven't been posting this month because many wonderful things have been happening. I went back to Cali for a dear friends beautiful wedding. Then my amazing parents traveled many miles from Minnesota. We went around Istanbul, to the cave cities of Cappadocia and then went to meet my beautiful boyfriend's adorable parents in Didim. A few minor bad things are my photo shop trial membership ran out so I can't edit photos and the wiring at my Istanbul apartment is so bad that I am having major problems connecting the Internet. My beautiful computer is feeling very underutilized! Anyways everything went even better than expected with our parents and everyone should be expecting big news soon. One thing my parents and I discussed is why are there no dryers in Turkey? Is it because they are expensive? They suck up energy? They have most other appliances? Also their laundry washing cycles are about 2 or 3 hours long...huh? They just hang the clothes outside to dry or one big rack in their houses. I need photoshop again because I have many new photos to share. xoxo

Monday, December 10, 2007

Goodbye Pacific...














Goodbye San Diego. Why aren't you satisfying anymore? Time to move on. I will always love southern California. I will miss surfing the pacific with my girls. I will miss Mexican food, and warm weather. I will miss the aloe plants blooming and the big palm fr awns with their seeds. I will miss my nature walks any time of the year. All my amazing friends of course but I am out. Change is necessary. I will be back to Turkey by January...hello 2008.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Floating...


















Float:n. suspend on water; cork on a fishing line. I feel strange because I am suspended right now. I am doing some major transitioning in my life. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes good, and sometimes bad. LIFE.

The Deeper that sorrow carries into your being the more joy you can contain. -Kahlil Gibran-