Uggie, the star of The Artist, died today. He was 13 and had cancer. He had a fab little life after a tough start and (apparently) loved hotdogs… I did not know that when I made this gif or the caption could have read: Anyone said hotdogs? You were the cutest JR aside from my own gifadog of course. Rest in peace, buddy. Here he is doing tricks for Ellen, so brilliant!
Month: August 2015 (page 2 of 2)
Uggie, the star of The Artist, died today. He was 13 and had cancer. He had a fab little life after a tough start and (apparently) loved hotdogs… I did not know that when I made this gif or the caption could have read: Anyone said hotdogs? You were the cutest JR aside from my own gifadog of course. Rest in peace, buddy. Here he is doing tricks for Ellen, so brilliant!
Today’s daily create asked us to create calming collage. At the same time I saw a tweet from David Kernohan about Sway. A tool to create interactive digital stories from Microsoft. I thought I could make me collage this way to try it.
This shrink is not impressed. I could not preview video in the editor, add music or gifs (though I did not try to upload any of mine). You have little by way of customisation but can tell the system how much stuff matters through the use of focus points and level of importance as it formats. Fonts are very limited.
What is nice? If you just use their content the pre-sort and tags (with hyperlink if you click the image) creative commons content for you. Now this is a winning feature for those of us in a hurry or too lazy to attribute. You can choose how the interactive story is viewed: one page down, one page sideways, one item at a time. You can edit easily within the limits of the tool, all devices friendly helps. It seems, though I did not test, that you can have more than one authors.
Looks like you must have an outlook account to get in, but luckily gifadog already does his email there.
I would use again if I had a written story and just wanted to create a quick transmedia artefact. The no music thing is not great, the number of ways in which you can group things is. It is designed as ‘cards’ that you put in a storyline, easy to learn.
Here is my collage for calm after an hour of using only their content.Scroll down in the embed to view, but looks better on their site.
Today’s daily create asked us to create calming collage. At the same time I saw a tweet from David…
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I am really taken by bot wisdom of late. We did one daily create with @everyadage and I have been following it ever since. I love the nonsensical prompts that almost make sense. A couple of DS106 participants have been playing along with me @JanWeb3 and ds106ronald and we have been taking a few of the adages and making creative edits with the prompts.
So here is: Is it not unimportant to have trumpets coming from a bitter tulip?
I tried so many possibilities for showing this visually! How do you show a bitter tulip? In the end I settled for shrivelled equals bitter. What background is appropriate? In the end I settled for showing wonderful music coming out of the trumpet being played by the bitter tulip.
The idea here was: Is it not unimportant to have trumpets coming from a bitter tulip when they make such wonderful music?
As it is a saying (we have many sayings in the village) and I used village plain font, I am having it count for a few credits in #prisoner106.
How? All images CC0. I used Photoshop and mainly played with embossing and skew tools. Got texture somehow in the background and made a nice frame for it through render > picture frame.
This was challenging in design and made me play with new tools in Photoshop – had never used skew before. Hard fun! Thank you Ron and Janet for playing!
I am really taken by bot wisdom of late. We did one daily create with @everyadage and I have been following it ever since. I love the nonsensical prompts that almost make sense. A couple of DS106 participants have been playing along with me @JanWeb3 and ds106ronald and we have been taking a few of the adages and making creative edits with the prompts.
So here is: Is it not unimportant to have trumpets coming from a bitter tulip?
I tried so many possibilities for showing this visually! How do you show a bitter tulip? In the end I settled for shrivelled equals bitter. What background is appropriate? In the end I settled for showing wonderful music coming out of the trumpet being played by the bitter tulip.
The idea here was: Is it not unimportant to have trumpets coming from a bitter tulip when they make such wonderful music?
As it is a saying (we have many sayings in the village) and I used village plain font, I am having it count for a few credits in #prisoner106.
How? All images CC0. I used Photoshop and mainly played with embossing and skew tools. Got texture somehow in the background and made a nice frame for it through render > picture frame.
This was challenging in design and made me play with new tools in Photoshop – had never used skew before. Hard fun! Thank you Ron and Janet for playing!