How is blogging like a fractal?
Perhaps there are others out there who feel the same way – the deeper you get into blogging the more questions you have. The more you learn, the more there is to learn . . .
Time is collapsing!
Here it is Thursday- Studio day for the You Show- Yikes… I haven’t done much of anything with this Blog. I believe I am a bit paralyzed with the technology… Must go pick Brian and Alan’s brains as mine is still too full of useless data. Today I need to learn the tech skills to … Continue reading Time is collapsing!
You Show Daily #8: repeating pattern
Yesterday’s You Show Daily was to take a photo of an interesting repeating pattern. I decided to mix that with one of the suggestions from week 2 of the You Show, to try taking images from unusual angles. I did two sets of images for this daily create, both with repeating patterns and unusual angles. …
Following the Bouncing MultiMedia Ball: Playing in the Popcorn Fields
I am embedding a PopcornMaker Mix here so that others may share in it and play with it. PopcornMaker allows for such collaborative play. Join in. Not sure how this will work but that is the nature of the infinite game of play and life. You can watch the progress here throughout the course of … Continue reading Following the Bouncing MultiMedia Ball: Playing in the Popcorn Fields →
Experīmentum
License: CC0 Public Domain / FAQ Free for commercial use / No attribution required (Playing it safe with photo usage at the moment, until I figure this thing out. Somehow I ran across http://pixabay.com/en/lego-males-axe-toys-legomaennchen-568042/) Since becoming acquainted with the…
A look at Vine .. Give it a try …
A look at Vine .. Give it a try …
Plan an Organizational Structure
Well, I have decided to plan an organizational structure for my blog. I started in creating categories. I ended with four right now: News & Issues Using Technology Presentations Uncategorized Creating an organisational scheme somehow needs a lot of brainstorming and it turns up quite tricky sometimes.Filed under: News & Issues Tagged: portfoliostructure
SCRATCH – Create fun learning resources
While following my online course on Microsoft Partners in Learning Network, I came across this wonderful program in one of my units. With Scratch, you don’t need much programming skills to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others around the world. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group […]
Nitpicking? Or Standing Up For What You Believe In?
I’m sure it was innocent enough and the author didn’t think twice about it, but in this age of purple and pink princess culture, I couldn’t let it go – a post on Kamloops 24-hr Bidding for a “girl’s” kitchen set. So I posted a short comment – Please don’t call it a girl’s kitchen set. […]
I needed to make an image for #walkmyworld. I wanted to do a…
I needed to make an image for #walkmyworld. I wanted to do a series of cascading doors and then an open image into a room. It is a loose metaphor for hwo we step in and out of different identities.
How I Did it:
I first went to flickr. I start with their creative commons page, It doesn’t work well. I click on CC BY-SA and then use a search term. I am looking at just CC BY-SA right? Nope. If you look carefully you have all licenses. You have to reselct CC images and then look closely at the license to make sure you can use and reappropriate the image.
Crediting:
I am big on crediting…well trying to get better. I tried this time I really did. I had every image open in a different window and then I tried to favorite them. I wasn’t signed on and Flickr wouldn’t let me sign in becuase I had a Yahoo (fantasy) and a Gmail (Flickr) account,.Signed in, lost images. I would have credited….Promise.
The Tech Stuff
I used pixlr editor a free editing app available in Chrome (maybe Firefox too I haven’t checked). It is a great program and does almost everything Gimp or Photoshop did.
- I started with the first image as my base layer.
- I then opened the second door.
- I unlocked the layer.
- I then used the magic wand tool to select some of the image (can give it a cool ghost like effect).
- I then used the lasso tool (polygonal) and chose the edges of the door.
- I copied the selection and pasted it on to the first door.
- I then used just the lasso tool on the third door.
- I had to resize the layers (each door was a different layer). In Pixlr (and everywhere else this is Free transform.
What I would do differently.
- Start with the largest images. I thought I want the doors to fit in. On Flickr I will download, large, medium, small to save time. Seemed logical, bad idea.Way better to scale down than it is to scale up.
- Blur the thethird door a bit. I would either apply a blur filter or use a smudge tool to mess up the clean lines. There is a little I guess I will call it geometric dissonance that doesn’t sit well in my gut.
- Maybe I should have kept some of the blue frame.