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Opening Doors You Thought Might be Closed
I made this gif with http://makeagif.com/youtube-to-gif Who knew that creating a gif from a downloaded You Tube video could be so easy? I have been working much too hard at this for the past 3 weeks! Sure, the name of the video editor is on my gif, but the video sequence belongs to The Prisoner series, anyway.
Sappho has been planning an escape route out of the Village. and she thinks she has found one! In the “Once Upon a Time” episode, Number 6 is introduced to the idea of a waste disposal unit! Here he is contemplating the words of Number 2.
Time is running out! The long summer evenings end soon, and Sappho needs to break away from the internet before fall courses begin.
She has bought some Village deck shoes to help her retreat, but after watching the final Prisoner episode, “Fallout”, she is wondering whether life can ever be normal again!
At the recommendation of the Village Philosopher, she has taken out Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” and plans to read it in the next 3 weeks. After all, Nureyev had read all of Dostoyevsky!!
Prisoners, ‘idiots’, Village residents, fairy tales, Burgeron Trailer Blues-all have opened doors to the digital arts for Sappho. It has taken a lot of courageous experimentation on her part and a supportive online community which has tweeted and re-tweeted her work, +1 with comments on G+, a few backchannel emails, and WordPress posts w. comments-all bolstering her to find her own voice, and I think now, she has!
Thanking the DS106 community for opening doors and windows!
Variations on a Theme: “Where Am I?”
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- Sappho, planning her escape
Sappho is up late at night, midsummer, adding some visuals- moving and not- to her repertoire of working on one of the Prisoner themes of “Where Am I?” She is planning her own escape from the Village while working on her art, but is increasingly under the influence of gifanitus, a Village condition of ‘mutuality’. She is eating well and exercising, hoping to become more ‘unmutual’.
Finally, Sappho also put together a small trailer about Freedom and Prison.
And now, it’s time for bed! BCing you…….
Sappho’s Designs
DS106: Capture/Screenshot a scene from an episode of a TV show or a movie and try to make a poster for that episode or movie. Try to make it cool! Be creative!
Here is my gif from the opening and repeated scenes of ‘The Prisoner’. I used Free Video Cutter to make the gif.
I entitled this gif “Where am I?”
Here are some of the comments I received on G+ for this gif.
Jul 19, 2015
It is Awesome!
Jul 19, 2015
Very nice dear. I like the effect you’ve got there of going around-and-around. Although for those of us with motion sickness issues, I’m feeling awfully dizzy.
Jul 19, 2015
Yes, very dizzying. Wasn’t exactly what I was going for, but I’ll take what I can get on my first try.
Jul 19, 2015
I have to say you did a great job on this +janet webster . It looks like something +John Johnston would’ve made. A smooth GIF that tells a story in more ways than one. Bravo!
Jul 19, 2015
Bravo! Well made.
I kinda recognize the fast style of Mariana’s gifs too in it.
I kinda recognize the fast style of Mariana’s gifs too in it.
Jul 19, 2015
Not necessarily intentional 😉
Jul 19, 2015
Well that’s how it works, you get influenced without knowing it.
Jul 19, 2015
Cool! Glad you found a way. It is a lovely one. Make sure you add the tags for the assignment when you do your post so you get credit units! +janet webster
Jul 20, 2015
+Nana Lou thank for the compliment. This looks a bit deeper than me:-) I see the repetitive nature of the series, resign and be dammed again and again. nice stuff.
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Still inspired by the above gif made by John Johnston, I took the still images from my own gif’s clip captured from John Johnston’s blog and made a book-cover or poster for ‘The Prisoner’ series. I wanted to keep the monochromatic scheme of the typewriter and photo still of #6 with the XXXXXXXXXXX across his face. The word ‘Resigned’ is a key word in the themes presented in this series, so I used it as a title instead of “The Prisoner”.
The floating head (a la John the Baptist) is somewhat unnerving, but I wanted to give that sense in my composition. I also like to build in ambiguity to my compositions.
I don’t have a lot of time to devote to these assignments, and I usually do them late at night, so I look for quick and easy technical solutions to my creative ideas.
Sappho’s Many Moving Parts
My summer holiday at the Village.
Gif Camp on Mondays at the Village Studio.
Introduction to Filming on Tuesdays at the Village Pantheon.
Still Photography and Time Travel on Wednesdays at Bungalow # 6.
Poster Making on Thursdays at the Village Rec Hall.
Fridays for Exercise and Workouts Around the Village. Free Day!
Saturday and Sunday: Special Projects TBA
In Nana We Trust
The Puffin Fairy Flock gave a fascinating Ted Talk on the new Speed Learn technology they acquired from The General over at the #Prisoner106 Village. With Speed Learn you can trust us that you will learn an entire three year course of material in just 3 minutes. This is the first use outside of the #prisoner106 Village aiding the #burgeron106 Bovine County Fairy Tale Festival attendees to take in the vast amount of fairy tale literature being presented at the festival.
Brought to you by the #burgeron106 puffin flock, NanaLou, #prisoner106 and DS106 VisualAssignments316
Thier Mission: Spread ideas
TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. They believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, they’re building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world’s most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long.
In fact, everything they do — from their TED Talks videos to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from the global TEDx community to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?
RESOURCES:
- TED Talk PSD file from Ben Rimes: http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/2132
- Puffin Images: https://pixabay.com/en/photos/penguin/
- Skew tool in Photoshop
NanaLou’s Digital Fridge
As a kid having your prized #Burgeron106 art projects posted onto NanaLou’s refrigerator meant it was “real” art. I’ve always been oh so proud of my family’s creative masterpieces – no matter what their age. But these days things are different. How can a refrigerator magnet attach an audio or video file? Or, heaven forbid, an interactive digital media project? Ol’ NanaLou has figured it out with my new “digital fridge” that can display any of my family’s art projects. Simply click an image on the fridge door to find out more.
VisualAssignments1442: Storytelling Collage
NOTE: For an optimal user experience, use a computer rather than a mobile device to interact with my digital fridge door.
The hardest part about making this digital refrigerator door with the image mapper software was (through trial and error) figuring out I needed to make my original image 600px wide. Anything bigger than that wouldn’t map correctly when it was actually displayed on our blog.
Resources:
- Image mapping software: http://www.ragesw.com/products/mapdesign/download/
- Refrigerator Magnet Font: http://www.1001freefonts.com/alpha_fridge_magnets.font
#Burgeron106 Fridge Magnet
The Burgeron Bard Arrives
The children at the Bovine County Fairy Tale festival have been wonderfully entertained with Nanalou and other #Burgeron106 community sharing stories over at Dr. M’s treehouse. For those at the festival looking for more adult fare I’ve been in charge of programming and advertising the talent line-up over at “The Porch”. This week, in support of our Celtic Fairy Tale theme from the summer long Around The World Workshops, the world renowned bard of Celtic literature and history, JJ MacGif is joining us.
“In ancient times the Bards were the keepers of tradition, of the memory of the tribe – they were the custodians of the sacredness of the Word.” Learn more…
He had plans to visit the family last summer for our family reunion, but was unable to make it due to finishing his intense training as a master storyteller. We especially appreciate him taking time away this year from his newly appointed government position as the Minister for Education & Culture and his post as Poet Laureate.
Want to hear a preview of this great olam’s work? Click on the PR poster above or use your mobile device to scan and read the QR code. (QRCode App available for download at: https://scan.me/download) There you’ll find his rendition of “The Fairy Oak of Corriewater” from the Scottish folktale “Elphin Irving”.
You might find this summary and analysis interesting as background on the poem.
http://tam-lin.org/stories/The_Faerie_Oak_of_Corriewater.html
On a dark night the sound of pipes heralds the coming of the faeries, who emerge shining from the green hills. They have come to dance and celebrate beneath a thousand year old oak that the Queen of Faeries had planted. The Queen is also celebrating her capture of a handsome human named Elph Irving, and intends to seal his service for seven years with a kiss. Before the kiss takes place though, the faeries rush to their steeds as a christian soul interupts. The sister of Elph Irving approaches, and takes hold of her brother, calling on God. He is transformed into a variety of beasts, and she continues to hold him. When he is turned into fire, however, she releases him with a scream and faints. The faeries laugh at her failure, and she is consumed in the blaze.
THE FAIRY OAK OF CORRIEWATER
The small bird’s head is under its wing,
The deer sleeps on the grass;
The moon comes out, and the stars shine down,
The dew gleams like the glass:
There is no sound in the world so wide,
Save the sound of the smitten brass,
With the merry cittern and the pipe
Of the fairies as they pass.
But oh! the fire maun burn and burn,
And the hour is gone, and will never return.
The green hill cleaves, and forth, with a bound,
Comes elf and elfin steed;
The moon dives down in a golden cloud,
The stars grow dim with dread;
But a light is running along the earth,
So of heaven’s they have no need:
O’er moor and moss with a shout they pass,
And the word is spur and speed—
But the fire maun burn, and I maun quake,
And the hour is gone that will never come back.
And when they came to Craigyburnwood,
The Queen of the Fairies spoke:
“Come, bind your steeds to the rushes so green,
And dance by the haunted oak:
I found the acorn on Heshbon Hill,
In the nook of a palmer’s poke,
A thousand years since; here it grows!”
And they danced till the greenwood shook:
But oh! the fire, the burning fire,
The longer it burns, it but blazes the higher.
“I have won me a youth,” the Elf Queen said,
“The fairest that earth may see;
This night I have won young Elph Irving
My cupbearer to be.
His service lasts but seven sweet years,
And his wage is a kiss of me.”
And merrily, merrily, laughed the wild elves
Round Corris’s greenwood tree.
But oh! the fire it glows in my brain,
And the hour is gone, and comes not again.
The Queen she has whispered a secret word,
“Come hither my Elphin sweet,
And bring that cup of the charméd wine,
Thy lips and mine to weet.”
But a brown elf shouted a loud, loud shout,
“Come, leap on your coursers fleet,
For here comes the smell of some baptised flesh,
And the sounding of baptised feet.”
But oh! the fire that burns, and maun burn;
For the time that is gone will never return.
On a steed as white as the new-milked milk,
The Elf Queen leaped with a bound,
And young Elphin a steed like December snow
’Neath him at the word he found.
But a maiden came, and her christened arms
She linked her brother around,
And called on God, and the steed with a snort
Sank into the gaping ground.
But the fire maun burn, and I maun quake,
And the time that is gone will no more come back.
And she held her brother, and lo! he grew
A wild bull waked in ire;
And she held her brother, and lo! he changed
To a river roaring higher;
And she held her brother, and he became
A flood of the raging fire;
She shrieked and sank, and the wild elves laughed
Till the mountain rang and mire.
But oh! the fire yet burns in my brain,
And the hour is gone, and comes not again.
“O maiden, why waxed thy faith so faint,
Thy spirit so slack and slaw?
Thy courage kept good till the flame waxed wud,
Then thy might begun to thaw;
Had ye kissed him with thy christened lip,
Ye had wan him frae ’mang us a’.
Now bless the fire, the elfin fire,
That made thee faint and fa’;
Now bless the fire, the elfin fire,
The longer it burns it blazes the higher.”
THE MAKING OF…
[NOTE: I tried to get fancy and use the collapsible “read more” feature to make the post more scanable from here down. To my horror, upon a later preview, all of the supposedly collapsed text had disappeared – leaving only the <!–more–> code. YIKES! Luckily I save often and was able to return to an earlier draft and copy the text I’d lost into the current version. Yet one more reason I want to move our site to a new and fully functional wordpress theme.]
DESIGNING A PR POSTER: DesignAssignments1521 DesignTutorials1521
This week’s trip to the Bank of DS106 Assignments had me researching the design world. Designing A Promotional Flyer,DesignAssignments1521, caught my attention. I don’t think of myself as a designer, so this was a learning challenge I wanted to take. The image, fonts, colors, placement of text and other stuff are all important in getting your message across in a clear and inviting way.
Using Photoshop CC 2014 I uploaded my image and began placing the text.I found a couple of celtic related fonts for free and after experimentation decided on UnZialish Regular with the addition of a drop shadow effect. My first attempt at copying and pasting the William Blake quote was awful. The line spacing was coming over as maybe 4 times more space than I wanted. I tried removing the formatting, but that didn’t help. Frustrated I went to the web and found out how to fix my line spacing issue. There’s an option called “Leading” that is not readily available in the Options Bar, but hidden in the Character Panel. Once I found the Character Panel,
which was not easy I can tell you, I was able to play around with both the font size and line spacing until I came up with a look I liked. I choose the line spacing to be two font sizes larger than font itself.
The placement of the text was simply by feel. I moved them around until it looked “right” to me. There were several iterations. Finally, I used the eyedropper tool to pick colors from the poster itself to maintain integrity with the image. Again, I played around, clicking different shades from different locations until I found one that worked.
ADDING A QR CODE:
The addition of a QR Code was a flash of brilliance that sort of works by allowing the viewer to use their cell phone camera to access the web for more information. I input the URL that I want the user to follow into the generator. It generates the QR code image which I then downloaded to my computer. Adding the image to my Photoshop file didn’t work correctly, so I opened it in preview and took a snapshot of the image, which then pasted into a new layer just fine.
This concept works great for a real physical poster that you’d post on a wall- but not so great in the purely digital world unless you are opening the poster on a laptop/desktop computer and have additional access to a mobile device to scan and read the code. (A work around would be to add a clickable link with the use of an image mapper software like this one from CoffeCup.)
A FINAL GLITCH:
There was one more little glitch. I wasn’t sure on the proper spelling of MacGif. My tweet to @johnjohnston confirmed that I had spelled it incorrectly as “Mac Gif”. It was an easy fix in the Photoshop file. While I was in there I also took the opportunity to adjust the white colored font at the top. The “8pm” text wasn’t as visible as I would like against the white clouds. I darkened it a bit by using the eyedropper to pick up a hue from his white shirt.
But this tiny change in the original file proved not so easy when I tried to update my announcement of the event/poster in our Google+ community. I thought I’d simply delete the link to the poster image and re-add the new one. Guess what I learned this morning? You can’t do that.
Attributions:
- Poster Image: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Bard-368668400
- Celtic Harp Music: Gwenael Kerleo – Kejadenn – Celtic Harp at https://youtu.be/dP3qVIu-2sY
- JJ MacGif (aka John Johnston) reciting the poem “The Fairy Oak of Corriewater” from the Scottish folktale, “Elphin Irving” www.worldoftales.com/European_folkt…olktale_3.html
- Chirping crickets and night time background http://www.freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/62487/ http://www.freesound.org/people/wjoojoo/sounds/193879/
- Font: UnZialish Regular http://www.1001freefonts.com/unzialish.font
- More fonts at http://www.1001freefonts.com/celtic-irish-fonts.php
- QRCode Generator App: https://scan.me/download
- Another QRCode Generator: http://www.qr-code-generator.com/start-a/#.VZ3hEsa6fwM
Introducing Dark Daisy
Unknown yet to the Burgeron family in Bovine TX, yet well known soon in The Village: Daisy (aka Dark Daisy).
Don’t let those cute cheeks fool you, you’ll never know which side she’s on.
And, she ain’t telling you, because that would be telling.
Village Information Card – Dark Daisy, local Femme Fatale
Inspired Artists at Fairy Tale Festival
The Windmill and the Butterfly – A Dutch Fairytale
Over time many Dutch artists have been inspired by the fairy tale of the windmill and the butterfly. Today artists around the world continue to find inspiration in this ancient story. The Bovine County Fairy Tale Festival being held at the Burgeron place this summer features a few of their favorite artists below: OnePercentYellow, Ron Leunissen, and @rockylou22 . To learn more and join in on the fun visit the festival’s official promotional website.
Old Dutch painting based on the fairy tale of the butterfly and the flying wind mill. Framed in wooden frame.
Today’s artists finding inspiration in the Dutch fairy tale, “The Windmill and the Butterfly”.
All styles and genres using many artistic and digital mediums have been inspired by the Dutch fairy tale.
https://plus.google.com/104078047498793487097/posts/94sbeAXSPvN
https://www.soundtrap.com/play/GtyBv0rYTJCD8XwpAG-zyA/butterfly-song/
Learn more about events and where you can stay while attending the Bovine County Fairy Tale Festival at our official promotional website: http://burgeronpr.wix.com/burgeron106fairytalefest
The Burgeron Family 