Category Archives: NEW MEDIA

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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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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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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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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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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LITERATURE, WRITING, NEW MEDIA, ETC.: Having Fun

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Susan

I’m diligently working away on the Clockwork Orange project, having discovered the method of seeking bits of film and marking them for showing, and using Word for the text portion, embellished by a Munchkin audio file. Also made a movie!  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: – A Clockwork Orange – Having Fun

Posted on November 11, 2006 by susan

Somewhere between the last few pages of the novel and the desire to see the movie I was struck with the brilliant idea of putting together a presentation of sorts for our writers group to illustrate the changes story can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – Special Effects

Posted on November 11, 2006 by susan

Have you noticed that you can take a picture of your kitchen or whatever room when it’s in particularly bad shape–in the middle of pie-baking with flour dust everywhere, or like my living room with the book stacks–and yet it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – Details

Posted on November 10, 2006 by susan

Watched a bit more of the film, and immediately felt better about something that had bothered me in the book–nitpicky close reader that I am (or, if I missed it, inept close reader, blah, blah). When Alex is in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW (?) MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – The Movie

Posted on November 10, 2006 by susan

Finally got a chance to viddy the first half of Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange this afternoon.  Real horrorshow stuff.  I’m finding that I really don’t remember seeing it, and I’m wondering if I was spaced out back in ’71 because … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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