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Sunday, October 01, 2017

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Dressed for ‘Undressed’

Pittsburgh Magazine - October 2017 - Pittsburgh, PA: Christian Dior once said: “Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don’t show.”

In art, it’s basically all or nothing in one particular area: The human form is either dressed or undressed — as in nude.

During all of my years of covering art, I’ve really never had to deal with anything else. Until now.

Become a Professional Designer in a Few Minutes With Canva

www.lifehack.org: No matter what jobs you do, a project will involve one or more of design-related tasks such as editing photos, creating special presentation slides, creating posters, wallpapers and unique imagery.

If you’re not a designer, you have a few basic options:

Hire one. It can be expensive; the average freelance designer rate is about $75-$150/hour now.1
Use tools like Photoshop or InDesign yourself. It’s often complicated and can take many steps to achieve something relatively basic.

In both situations, time, effort, money are expanded.

What if there was a simpler way?

How to use Apple’s terrific document scanner in iOS 11

The Verge: One of the most useful tricks in Apple’s iOS 11 update is found inside the Notes app: it’s a document scanner. If there’s a business card, receipt, or any other document you want to save or mark up, this tool makes getting it on your iPhone or iPad dead simple. If you’ve been using a third-party app for this purpose until now — and there are several great ones — you can probably uninstall it in favor of Apple’s own solution. That’s what I did, anyway.

These 10 Artists Are Challenging Our Idea of What Street Art Can Be

www.artsy.net: Most people still think of spray paint, tags, and murals when they hear the term street art. But increasingly, the genre can encompass everything from miniature wooden sailors set afloat in a river of urban rainwater, to rainbow-colored origami radiating across the facade of a centuries-old French church. Here are 10 examples of artists whose creativity and unique vision pushes the boundaries of what we consider street art or, more broadly, the expanding field of “urban intervention.”

These To-Do List Methods Will Help You Finally Get Organized

www.fastcompany.com: For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been on a mission to create the perfect to-do list. I’ve tested multiple apps from Evernote, Any.do, to Wunderlist. I’ve used physical and digital post-its. Earlier this year, I even attempted to keep a bullet journal. It didn’t last long–I stopped having the patience to draw symbols and make my pages colorful and pretty. Eventually, I realized that the thing that worked for me is The Ivy Lee Method–a very simple system where I write down no more than six things I want to get done that day, in the order I want to complete them.

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