Creative attempts to "cut the mustard" in a digital world.
collaborative Project of #Burgeron106 summer of 2015. I took on the editing and compilation of audio to video
Collaborative project of summer 2015 – #burgeron106 and prisoner106.
No acting part in this – but worked on finding sound files, and staying current with group to get things done.
Added to the mix a bumper and a commercial
https://konarheim.com/assignments/b-cing-u-giffing-it/ One of the Gifs from the summer.
I haven’t been consistent with weekly summaries. Many of the #ds106 “advice” posts are to start the summary early in the week and add to it instead of waiting until the last day. VERY GOOD ADVICE!
Giving it a go this week….and when done realized I had a productive week even though while going through it I felt like I had slacked.
I seem to have hit a plateau this week or maybe just falling into a realistic pace. I have spent some long hours on things the last few weeks because I could. This week has fewer leisure hours for some reason so not as intense of attack. I also seem to be hitting the midstream wall and content is not coming to me without lots of effort and thought.
Prisoner106 group kinda helped with that – seems the new new new new No. 2 is missing. Talky Tina jumped in and set some things up. From comments of many members – heading into August is a busy time and their time may be shortening as well. Radio week has some effort – not sure the constellations are totally in line – but ds106 surprises so it may fall into place or morph into something else.
This week in review:
Daily Creates: Getting back in the groove of doing the daily creates. They are a great activity and really do keep you sharp and thinking. I have slacked on them with doing more intense projects – so it is good to get back to them
Cowerful Dreams tdc1297
Chicken tdc1295
and then views through a cutout….. tdc1298
A challenge from RonaldL and John Johnston on creating a BCingU Gif..
I created a GIF while in my bungalow and waiting for a weekly message from No. 2.
Burgeron106 is looking at Native American fairytale and focusing on Animated GIFs – so reading and creating.
Video week in Prisoner106 was a time sucker – I easily forgot how long things take – but I was determined to come up with a result even though I still can’t get totally onboard with the nuances of the story. Iron Maiden saved this week for me. I even have the music on my playlist for exercise time. 🙂 Here is my result of the creation process.
Out of the two choices of the “to do” assignments – I chose the book cover recreating the aesthetic of Spacesick .
My first thought was the Dance of the Dead episode and having multiple skeletons, a sample was too close to that content and swaying me in replicating instead of creating.
While the look and feel is replicated – the process did require using design components to create. Space, form, size, color, place, text.
I used PhotoShop as my tool.
Paper size canvas – black
Brush – Sponge edges highlight then go back in with background color to soften and break up
add Gaussian Blur – minimal
Use Blur tool – large and draw dark into light colors
Add rectangles for heading – fill with color
Find camera icon and copy paste into file – Use SKEW to lengthen lens part
Add Text Fields with Helvetica fonts Bold and Regular
Find copyright free, free icons of hammer and anvil
Open in new file and use color replacement tool to add color to each
Scale
Rotate
Copy and paste into new layer in first file – place
Duplicate hammer layer to make multiples to set in pattern
change opacity for each layer going back
Add Title and tag line
Futz around
Export as jpeg
Updated:
I used an app called Snapseed. Adds effects. The part I don’t like is the randomness and just flipping from one effect to another. There really isn’t a way for you to create or control it – or get back to one you may have liked. It is take it when you see it. It does easily add some aging. I used the Grunge filter.
I started reviewing the footage from the General to find information on what might have been saved when things blew up. I think it was a plan from the start – who to trust?
Looking at the video – I was able to slow it down enough and see the shadows – look at #2 as his shadow reveals!! and there seems to be some invisible fairytale puffins in the room as well.
Background process:
AND THEN – my own mind’s critic kicks in! Needed the context of #6 and the setting! So added it in. 🙂 just went back and instead of erasing all in the circle – I lowered the opacity after cutting it out and then futzed with making it fit in the circle.
@mdvfunes asked if I had seen any signs on my walks through the Village.
I did! – But you know they are watching! So I carefully placed a camera in my hat and tried to capture some of the signs as best I could for Mariana to research. Because of the covert mission – they are not following any artistic or creative interpretations – pretty much pointing the lens as directly as I could and snapping.
I hope I don’t get in trouble – Number Six did this too and we know what happened with him.
Good Luck Mariana – I am not sure what these all mean, but they raise questions.
Here is the album of photos of the signs.
A few stand out to me-
Who is number 7?
A bar with no alcohol?
And I thought this guy retired a few times? Maybe he really resigned?
