Thats-so-Raja !

I have taken up this challenge to complete one sketch everyday (by spending around 30 minutes) for 21 consecutive days. Today marks the end of the challenge. (You can check my earlier posts for the actual sketches) It is such a relief that this did not end up prematurely like any other new year resolution. Every evening, I would reach home, take snickers (the spoilt brat of a puppy at home) for her walk and settle down to this art work before anything else (despite all the rebellion from the mind). At the end if it all, what are the key take aways from this marathon exercise? I would want to use a framework to distill that. How else can I pose as a strategic thinker ? I would want to evaluate this using 3 dimensions. First is the "skills" dimension, which is probably the simples of all. Obviously, any artistic hobby that we undertake shall add to our skills. Second would be the "self-actualisation" dimension. This is rather a big word but what I want to cover i...

The CWG 2010 seems to be back on track. But I was too busy with work and missed the window when 'fun' things were happening. It was a loss for the cartoonists but good for the nation. Chak De! India! Anyways, I will publish here whatever I had in my mind... Tight Rope Walk Snakes and other problems plague the CWG Delhi 2010 "Organiser, there is a snake in my bed" "Well, you always say our country is full of snake charmers! You can find one quickly!"

The Boxing Champion's bed crashed . Also it was revealed that the bed was made in China.

Bridge to the stadium collapses adding to the Common Wealth Games woe ! Pole Vault!

Me and Ajay brainstormed on the dynamics of an ultimate cloud computing environment. And I extracted our ideas into this (cartoon) context diagram. We are dealing with daunting levels of complexity in this area today. So ‘Abstraction’ becomes the key with which we approached this subject. An ever expanding box with a dashboard and a toilet man are the subtle(?) visual cues that convey the abstraction and ease of use. The levels of technological maturity as we expect here are not available today. This is the ‘FUTURE’. A Nirvana in Cloud Computing. And it speaks thus: The Cloud is the new operating system. Elastically growing and shrinking hardware are achieved already. The Cloud Management platform will maintain an inventory of the hardware capability - updating it as the hardware had been consumed and released. We will not deal at the application servers, BPM engines, databases level anymore. The tools will not matter. ‘DIY Blocks’ here refers to a catalog of pre-built ensembles that ...

From Obama's transport in the pervious post, lets look into cost cutting in the corporates. Not for the eyes of CFOs.

Boy, drawing Obama really gives a bang! Please float your wits here folks, will try and cartoon them.