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Edward Burtynsky at Greenburg Gallery
…Especially if it’s a charity event.
Last Saturday, me and 3 of my other friends decided to go to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf’s community event which was in partnership with U! Happy Events. CBTL here was just one of the sponsors. U! Happy Events handled the whole thing.
We were told that it was going to be an event for kids who have cancer. We were going to watch a movie, play with them - basically make them happy. 50 kids were going to be there. 2 volunteers will be partnered with 1 kid.
Cool idea. We should go!
For Php 300 each, we all got our ‘event passports’ and marked our calendars.
The event posters said to be there at 8:00AM. At 8:05AM we were there.
1 and a half hours later, we were still sitting down, listening to the host read off 167 event sponsors from his list, give away 100 peso GCs and basically stall for time. The kids weren’t there yet, he said.
9:45AM, the highlight of the day comes. He announces that there are only 25 kids. That’s um, half of 50. And they have too many volunteers. 120+ if I remember it correctly.
“Okay everyone. We will have 5-6 volunteers per child.”
Oh hell naw.
We left the event 10 minutes later thinking of the children and how awkward it must be to be surrounded by 5-6 strangers all trying to ‘get to know’ him.
When we left they were still trying to figure out how to group the volunteers. The place was small so you can just imagine these kids, some of them in wheelchairs, being surrounded by 100+ people, most of them talking, with no idea where they should go. Oh and don’t forget the megaphone.
Talk about stressful. Seriously guys.
- Remove the sign-up form once you’ve hit your target number of volunteers. I know you want donations but if you already have 50 volunteers, maybe add another 10-15 for fall outs and then those who still want to join after that, can just donate.
- Start on time. Or at least 30 minutes later. (That’s me considering “Filipino time”)
What they’re doing here is really nice and we all like the concept and support the efforts of this organization 100%. Now if they can only make it a good experience for volunteers so they’ll join again and even tell their friends.
Australian census has a census of humor. (via)
“I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Never thought I’d actually appreciate a fisheye lens but this one worked out pretty well.
If you don’t want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on lenses, you can always just rent them for a couple days. Lensrentals.com really comes in handy especially if you’re going on a vacation.
In these pictures I used the Sigma Fisheye 10mm f/2.8. I usually use the 10-22mm as my walkaround lens but when I tried this one out, I was pretty amazed and started using it.
Kids find it cool too so you can always use that to your advantage by showing them how they look all distorted and they’re usually more than willing to make funny poses for you after that.
The professional farmer measures. She tests. She understands how systems work and is constantly tweaking to improve them. When failure happens, she doesn’t rest until she understands why.
I didn”t use the word amateur, because money isn’t the point. The naive farmer is failing to take responsibility and failing to learn. The naive marathon runner straps on sneakers and runs (but doesn’t finish). The professional marathoner trains. The naive office worker empties his inbox. The professional works to understand how the office functions.
Mostly, the professional asks questions… What’s next? How to improve? What’s this worth? Why is this happening?
[By the way, it’s possible to be naive and happy. It’s difficult to be naive and productive, though.]
-Seth Godin
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