Author Archives: Susan

NEW MEDIA & REALITY?: Response & Perception

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Susan

Very few have bothered to check out the Recycling project–I don’t blame you since it takes about two minutes to load and bloghopping is a check and move-on routine.  But yesterday I had the opportunity to show the movie clip … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Tweaking

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Susan

I’ve actually come to enjoy rewriting stories.  Polishing, discovering new paths and discarding my favorite phrase; tweaking.  It took a good solid year of sitting, and a good steady month or more of living with my last short story to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Mars

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Susan

Okay, so I’m off my high of using Flash 8 as merely a tool to export a file into a new format.  I’ve taken the first step in building the dumb poem from scratch in Flash. I’ve imported a single … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Drop-out

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Susan

When my dad was alone in his last two years, he used to tell me how tired he was of watching what people do, how they act towards each other.  I always argued with him that there were always people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: One Step Forward, One Step Back

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Susan

Okay, so the latest revision bugged me enough to edit some more–though I won’t touch the audio, even with a itty-bitty glitch and the white noise in the back because this is about the thirtieth attempt.  Unfortunately, what this meant … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Converting to Flash

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Susan

I’ve tiptoed into the Flash 8 program long enough to shake off my confusion and convert the Recycling version 2 movie into a .swf file that can be played on the Flash Player and appears to be higher quality.  However, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Unreal

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Susan

For my New Year’s Resolution this year, I’m giving up social interaction. Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Recycling Version 2…

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Susan

…is done.  And, like most movie productions, has come in over budget at 1.55 minutes and 16.7 mb.  But it does have eight less images, and the new ones are all pretty much themed to the idea of a circle … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: A Different Kind of Editing…

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Susan

Crap. I’m not simplifying; I’m just taking new photos, spherizing them to make them flow in a theme (except for Poe and Jesus who shall remain squares) and I’ve got just as many visuals now as I’ve had before PLUS … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: What Works and What Doesn’t

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Susan

An honest critique of a piece is alway valuable.  It is especially so when the author is entering new fields of medium beyond carefully wrought sentences and language and voice to incorporate audio and visual effects. It was pointed out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & REALITY?: The Nature of Man

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Susan

This Thanksgiving is giving me pangs about the nature of man; especially coming off of a McCarthy novel which always leans me in the direction of a basic evil that mankind has sought to overcome in order to survive in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Productivity

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Susan

Nature gave me one last chance today to get my ass outside and do the fall cleanup.  It was a perfect day for garden and yardwork, and while I didn’t do the best job, at least I got out there.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: Methods

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Susan

Finally gave up on the embedded a/v player that I had posted here to share some of what I’ve been working upon.  The hokey little player that Typepad allowed was just not working–stopping every couple seconds and driving me nuts.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & NEW MEDIA: A Productive Day is a Happy Day

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Susan

Yesterday, a holiday, was a day of rest rather than the frantic preparations when the family used to come and share the feast.  Last year was lonely enough, but this year we lost our last willing guest, Jim’s dad who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Reworking

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Susan

Boy, I’m finding out that tweaking in audio visual format is a lot different–and maybe harder, at least technically–than tweaking the written story. Besides the words or language, there’s the all important timeline synchronization to consider.  For example, while Recycling … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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