Friday, December 5, 2008
In Retrospect
In Retrospect I have learned a lot! I have learned some tools that appear to be essential to functioning in this world in the direction it is going. I came to this class, knowing I was too young to just resign myself to feeling unempowered in a technological world, and just saying:"Go on without me world. I had things I wanted to say, and stories I wanted to tell, and gifts I wanted to contribute...but everything has gotten way too technological for me...so I'll just retreat to my garden, and the crafts of my hands, making delicious smelling beeswax candles, and salves from herbs I have grown or wildcrafted, and paint murals for my grandchildren...I'll look for my land and my horses...you go on without me world". I decided one day that I would say YES to the world as it is. Accepting it on its own terms. It may not be the one of my preferences, but I will come out of my denial and resistance, and do my best to pick up the skills with which to communicate some of what lives in my heart-in this time and place! And I enrolled in this DMF class. I may not be good at it yet, and I may find myself challenged...but I also realize that this is something that young people are putting untold hours in to. They do it for fun, for relaxing, for messing around, for curiosity, and to play and entertain themselves...I may never become as proficient as them, because I prefer the natural world...but I am on my way to being able to communicate effectively using this medium...I will explore video production next term, as I am not clear how I want to tell my stories...but I know that the tools we have been given in DMF will be valuable. I wish we could have had the photoshop part, then the In Design part, and the Bridge and website creation divided into three terms, so I could really feel comfortable with the tools, and not so skimming across the top... but now I know what to explore further- or just "mess around with, till I get the hang of it".
Monday, December 1, 2008
page 4-5 of book
I took an inordinate amount of time on this book! Sure I could have kept it simpler,but it is actually a lot simpler than what I had conjured up in my mind, and I let go of some of my ideas in the interest of time... but I also wanted to really get the hang of some of the basic tools. Suddenly switching to In Design when I was just getting the hang of photoshop, through me off, but with gracious help from my profs I made it through this last project! The one thing I would have liked to do is put a drop shadow on all the images and put photo corners on them to give it more of a scrap-book look, and keep all the page colors uniform...but in the end I decided to just let the background color be something that worked with the individual photos, and I did one set of photo corners and called it good enough as far as "knowing how", and I had already learned how to do drop shadows and used it with one of the images...so the lesson to my perfectionist now is: ENOUGH! time to move onto your photojournalism paper! That is also why I have let go the idea of reposting everything so it would show up in proper order on my blog.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Women In Art
Here is the URL for this you tube video. I would love to know the technology used to create all this morphing! I anyway was mesmerized by these three minutes of women shapeshifting!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
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