Yesterday I broke Kevin’s poem for him. I didn’t mean to, but I put it through QuotesCover which uglified it and broke the line spacing. Kevin responded with this.
I’d already been playing with Susan’s challenge, so I thought I’d break things even more and mash everything together. Here’s the (not perfect result. Note that it won’t work in Chrome 🙁 Here’s screen shots to show what is meant to happen:
Susan threw down the gauntlet.
I’m rushing off to meetings and the like today, but as I was doing this it occurred to me that someone with skilz could put this tache and beard onto the Captain there.
Any takers?
Susan’s response was this: 
So I put them both together and made this:
It’s a lot more fun doing this with others 🙂
Earlier I wondered what it would sound like if I played all of the embeds in this blog post of Simon’s at once by clicking play on each of them, so I tried. Interesting, I thought. So I recorded my efforts using Audacity (didn’t need something that powerful, but I had it open on my PC anyway) and uploaded the results to Soundcloud.
Next I used Kevin’s curated list of Tech Tools to choose a Gif Maker (I’d been working on my own curated list copied from here earlier, so I knew roughly what I wanted). I chose EzGif and uploaded a few pics from my hard drive.
What next, I wondered … of course, Popcorn Webmaker (sadly, dying slowly, but I will keep using it while I can). I uploaded the Gif, added a link to the audio from Soundcloud, tweeked it and published. Here’s the result:
Who is Simon? Remix and show me what you think.
Another attempt to manipulate my poem into an image. This time I’ve used Tagxedo – another tool I’d never used before (note: uses Silverlight, so I had to use Firefox, not my beloved Chrome – hmmm, I wonder if folk will be able to view this?). You can either add a url or past in text – I pasted in the 6 words from Sheri’s challenge again. If the first image does not load, I have taken a screen shot and added it at the end.
There’s a good selection of shapes to select – I chose a cat as one of my little darlings is peering through the window watching me. Another cool feature of Tagxedo is that mousing over words and clicking on them takes you a Google search about that word.
Now I need to think about remixing this poem further. Any suggestions?
Today’s #clmooc challenge is to take something done in one media and convert it to another. My first attempt uses one of the poems written for Sheri’s challenge.
First I copied and pasted the text of one of them into Visual Poetry. Then I used that to draw an image. I’m not great at drawing, especially when using a mouse with my right hand (I’m left handed, but always use a mouse in my right hand, for reasons).
The image on the left is the result. I couldn’t work out how to save it, so I took a screen shot and edited in Paint. Such skilz 😛
Think you can do better? Show me what you can do!
I don’t know how it started, but somehow Terry promoted Susan and me to Vice President and President of all the things. I was already making Susan a hat, so I told her she’d get a badge as well. Here is – a klein bottle hat made from remnants of aran yarn left over from jumpers and cardigans I’ve made.
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Side view
With added felt badge pinned on
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What the inside looks like.
#CLMOOC doesn’t “really” start till tomorrow but some of us were eager to get going so I guess we started early. We started by remixing some Webmaker Thimble memes, and then Greg (@jgmac106) upped the game by sharing a riff on the Star Wars scrolling theme. Kevin (@dogtrax) remixed it, and then I remixed his.
Then Terry (@telliokuwp) asked if anyone wanted to collaborate on a poem to share our thoughts about Mother Emanuel and I found some words. We’re now in the middle of recording that, and Terry is doing a wonderful job of editing it together.
Love hanging around with such creative folk – it’s infectious.
Submit your blog to the hub, they said. So I tried. I didn’t read it properly, coz this blog is a WordPress blog, but it’s self hosted, so the instructions for adding a WP blog are probably not for me. So this morning I realised I’d need to remember how to find the RSS feed, and that though I’d done it for #rhizo15 to add my blog to Laura’s Inoreader, I’d forgotten how to do it. I’m bound to need to do this again, so I’m sharing it with myself here so that future me can find it. Well, assuming that future me remembers that past me did this for her…
Yet again, looking at this through a rhizoANT lens, the technology is a major player in my world. Today it jumped up and reminded me not to take it for granted – it demanded that I concentrate on IT and IT ALONE. I am sure that, as #CLMOOC progresses, I am going to have a lot more experiences like this. As a colleague once said, using most tech is not as easy as buying an item from Amazon. Erm, quite – and we can reflect on why that might be!
Apparently #CLMOOC starts today – I am excite!
I’ve made a quick poster using Mozilla Thimble. Dunno how to embed it in this blog though 🙁
