{"id":428,"date":"2014-07-19T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/it-has-been-a-while-since-i-have-written-a-post\/"},"modified":"2017-01-29T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T18:48:47","slug":"it-has-been-a-while-since-i-have-written-a-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/it-has-been-a-while-since-i-have-written-a-post\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-428 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/it-has-been-a-while-since-i-have-written-a-post\/attachment\/429\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/files\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n8z60zJyB21szp3bdo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It has been a while since I have written a post here. I have been posting my art (See? calling it &lsquo;art&rsquo; not &#8216;artefact&rsquo; anymore \ud83d\ude42 but not narrating the process. The truth is that narrating process is hard and as I get more into making art, I am less able to run the &#8216;witness loop&rsquo; to be able to accurately explain my creation process. This is, of course, natural when creative flow happens. We &#8216;lose&rsquo; ourselves. What this means is that we lose the judging mind and align in activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I want to make an effort to narrate this daily create because I believe this to be my graduation assignment!<\/p>\n<p>There are many goals to set going forward, but for the first time since I started participating in DS106 I have made something that is inherently and standalone pleasing to me. Awesome feeling. I have had glimpses of it when making animated gifs but this time the intensity was different.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It started with me scanning<a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc923\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the daily create site<\/a> and seeing what others had done for today. The prompt made me go: meh. I am in the middle of another project for our <a href=\"http:\/\/thebergerons.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Summer DS106 Story\u00a0<\/a>doing a trailer in the style of a silent movie (something that is proving more challenging than I expected). May be I get one with that and forget about the daily create today. Or may be not.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4\" target=\"_blank\">watched a video today that admonished me<\/a>:\u00a0&quot;The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you&rsquo;re doing.&ldquo; I decided to make an animated gif, I know how to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had the idea of many hands moving and that gave me the slogan you see in the image. Hands were dancing in my head and I started, predictably for those who know me, to make a gif.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where to find hands? @<a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/m9nE1D2dzNPRBIJ5fTscyBw\" target=\"_blank\">cogdogblog<\/a> introduced me yesterday to the most beautiful resource I have found in a long time <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Public Domain Review<\/a>. Looking for images was a great excuse to lose myself there for a while. Actually, I found what I wanted straight away. The <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collections\/the-physiognomy-of-hands-1917\/\" target=\"_blank\">physiognomy of hands<\/a> in 1917. Use these images in Photoshop and make the hands dance whilst the slogan pops up. Boom. Not Boom. I could not keep the background still whilst the hands danced.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I watched all my layers I could hear a faint voice saying &#8211; it looks great as a still image. I ignored it for a while and kept trying to make the hands dance. I knew what I was doing. Until I was willing to suspend knowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I abandoned the idea of an animated gif and looked at &#8216;what the marble wanted to be&rsquo; as they say Michelangelo thought of sculpture. Not that I am comparing the output, just the process. I spent hours playing with Photoshop selecting, blending positioning the hands. I tried many fonts and colours and then I noted that this was a kind of &#8216;silent film&rsquo; poster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Off I went down another Google rabbit hole.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1001fonts.com\/nickelodeon-font.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Find a font that suits the silent era<\/a>. I have never installed a font, I just use what is there and match it as best I can. Lazy creator. This time was different. I wanted to shape the poster as it seemed to want to be shaped. Worked out how to install font and restarted machine. Boom. Like. Now I thought about the inter-title screens in silent films. It needs a frame. I looked and could not find anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I remembered that Photoshop now has Picture Frame to use. I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsquirrel.com\/picture-frame-photoshop-cc\/\" target=\"_blank\"> needed a tutorial for how<\/a> to use that. I played around until I made something the fitted the style.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boom, my poster for today.<\/p>\n<p>It really helps not to be struggling so much with the tools. As Ira Glass reminds us &#8216;our taste <em>is<\/em> impeccable, it take a couple of years for the execution to start to align with our taste and we know when we are falling short&rsquo;. Well, today I did not fall short. There is a big difference between quickly getting something done, and losing oneself in the process of creation. I have known that from writing all my life, but this is the first time I experience it with digital art. Thank you daily create for the &#8216;boring&rsquo; prompt today.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I have written a post here. I have been posting my art (See? calling it &lsquo;art&rsquo; not &#8216;artefact&rsquo; anymore \ud83d\ude42 but not narrating the process. The truth is that narrating process is hard and as I get more into making art, I am less able to run the &#8216;witness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[304,303,146,305,104,302,280],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awesome","tag-black-and-white","tag-creative-edit","tag-creative-thinking","tag-dailycreate","tag-tdc923","tag-thoughtvectors","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}