Milton Glaser discussing "fear of failure"

Milton Glaser is a famous graphic designer. His work consists of things you all have seen for years and years, like the "I love NY" logo and so many other works of graphic design. In this video, Milton talks to us about the Fear of Failure.

Milton said that "You must embrace failure, you must admit what is, you must find out what you are capable of doing."

On a personal note, as a former athlete and coach of throwing events in track and field, I know that the most successful people in the world are the ones who have made the most mistakes. They practice over and over and make mistake after mistake after mistake. My athletes would ask me, "Coach, should I just make a "mark" and stand throw? My answer is always "why would you do that? If you're ever going to reach beyond what your mind says that you can do, you have to be fearless. They would say "what if I foul?" My answer to that was "who cares, you won't even remember this track meet in a week." In life, if we always hold back, or never do anything differently, we will never realize how truly great we really are. We are all capable of greatness, we just have to be fearless and go get it!




Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure. from Berghs' Exhibition '11 on Vimeo.

Amazon A3

Karan Parkin, Graphix Gal at Graphix for Change, is a web designer and graphic artist. Karan has owned and managed parkinDESIGN, now Graphix For Change, since it was established in 1998. With formal training in fine art and graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, she combines graphic design concepts with practical development of marketing tools that meet the needs and accomplish the goals of her clients. Karan considers each client relationship a partnership – an opportunity to bring her creative skills to work in meeting the client's needs. Her creative approach to graphic problem solving leads to compelling design solutions.

I want to tell you about this great service that Amazon provides. It's called Amazon A3 and stands for Amazon Simple Storage System. Here's what they say about it:

"Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."

This is a great place to back up your website "in the cloud" for the cheapest price there is, especially for large amounts of data. Infact, for the first year, they will give you a whole lot for nothing. 

As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year." 

At Graphix for Change we can use this to back up your Joomla website in the cloud, if we install Akeeba Backup component for Joomla.