Author Archives: Susan

REALITY?: Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Susan

Hope your day is stuffed with good folk, good food, and promise of more blessings in the years ahead. Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Recycling

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Susan

A test to see if it works–it’s a one and a half minute a/v job, but it’s 8 mb, and takes about double that to load with a high speed connection.  Here’s the link: Recycling Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Creative Force & Flow

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Susan

Kicking and screaming, I was dragged into the digital world of art, clinging to the classics and the old masters as being non-replicable in the odd world of computers.  I’ve learned a lot different. I’m one who is anal retentive … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Recycling: The Movie

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Susan

The movie, it is done. Windows Movie Maker is a bitch to work with; it kept freezing after every transition between frames.  I had to shut down and reboot, get back into the program and throw in one more fade, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Woe is Me

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Susan

I’m getting really bummed out by technical difficulties.  Don’t know if it’s the laptop itself or just the Windows Movie Maker program, but the project I’m working on is becoming more frustrating than fun.  I’ve gotten no further on it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: O Lord…

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Susan

There may be a reason why Windows Movie Maker keeps crashing AND my printer suddently won’t print this morning.  I did click "Yes" when asked: Are you sure you want to send ‘Jesus’ to the Recycle Bin? Continue reading →

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REALITY & NEW MEDIA: Sunday

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Susan

It’s been a hard workin’ weekend.  Right after putting the bookcases together and sorting the books onto the shelves (by the way, it barely holds what was on the living room floor, leaving space for acquisitions, so I still have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Christmas Warning!

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Susan

Just had to link to Paperback Writer’s list of decoration no-nos. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Just one of them chance moments…

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Susan

…that we’re lucky enough to catch without knowing what we’re doing (this is not Photoshopped–that’s real rain mist on the lens since I wasn’t smart enough to wipe it first).

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LITERATURE: A Mess of Thoughts

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Susan

As sometimes happens, what I’m currently thinking about or reading ties in peripherally with other topics that come up currently in the blogging community. My pondering of McCarthy’s characters and plots and his different manner in handling them in No … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Fun with Photoshop

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Susan

Since I don’t have animation experience yet, I’m going the old-fashioned route with a modern twist: Photos varied slightly in color and magnification to be sequentially arranged and given one-second slots in the timeline; much as the old flipping of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Submission Responses

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Susan

Well no, they haven’t read the stories yet, but they did respond…with a submissions request of their own to subscribe to their lit journal. I suppose that it’s only good business sense (although they didn’t bother to look up whether … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Microphoning

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Susan

So I get online and Google "Wizard of Oz lyrics."  Copy a few down.  Then proceed to sing "The Wicked Witch is Dead"  and "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" into my computer and listen. Yep.  I’m a Munchkin. Then I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: And Carpentry

Posted on November 17, 2006 by Susan

Well, the decision was to go cheapo just to get the books off the floor for now.  I just don’t know if we’re going to add that room on and if we do, everything will be switched around and changed, … Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Flash Animation Tutorial

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Susan

CORRECTION:  The software that is referenced here is actually a free download called Blender, and while it may work similar to Macromedia Flash, it’s a totally different product.  This is what happens when your brain is on stress.  I apologize … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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