Thursday, June 28, 2012
Life as I Know It (Or, Video Editing Exercise)
A quick video about my life to show I know how to embed a video in my blog. Easier than I thought! Enjoy!
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Mucking About in GIMP (Or, Photo Editing Exercise)
While being in London will be enchanting, I actually do have a purpose for going there, and that is to take two classes on multimedia. This will include taking many pictures, videos, and sound recordings around the city in order to create such projects as a podcast, a digital video, this blog, and several other Web 2.0 assignments. That means you will not only be subjected to my philosophizing on this blog, but my assignments as well! So, to start off, we have my Photo Editing Exercise. These exercises are just to get me comfortable with the photo editor (GIMP 2.8).
Below you will find a photograph I took of Prating Angus, my mascot for the program; you will see him pop up in my pictures regularly. If you don't recognize him, he is an invention of author Sir Terry Pratchett, a Nac Mac Feegle ("also known as Pictsies, the Wee Free Men, the Little Men, 'Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed', 'That's him, the third one from the left!", and occasionally 'the Defendants'"). Feegles are small, blue men who fancy mischief, fighting, and general skulduggery. I hope he doesn't get me into too much trouble in the UK! This guy was knitted (!) for me by librarian Marie Kelly (Thanks!) and makes the perfect mascot.
And cropped:
And the cropped image with two effects-
Extreme contrast:
Predator vision:
GIMP is a neat (and free!) photo editing program which takes a bit of getting used to (I'd like to take this time to thank those who post GIMP tutorials on YouTube.com) but has some pretty cool results. More edited photos to come!
Below you will find a photograph I took of Prating Angus, my mascot for the program; you will see him pop up in my pictures regularly. If you don't recognize him, he is an invention of author Sir Terry Pratchett, a Nac Mac Feegle ("also known as Pictsies, the Wee Free Men, the Little Men, 'Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed', 'That's him, the third one from the left!", and occasionally 'the Defendants'"). Feegles are small, blue men who fancy mischief, fighting, and general skulduggery. I hope he doesn't get me into too much trouble in the UK! This guy was knitted (!) for me by librarian Marie Kelly (Thanks!) and makes the perfect mascot.
And cropped:
And the cropped image with two effects-
Extreme contrast:
Predator vision:
GIMP is a neat (and free!) photo editing program which takes a bit of getting used to (I'd like to take this time to thank those who post GIMP tutorials on YouTube.com) but has some pretty cool results. More edited photos to come!
Thursday, June 21, 2012
A Ha'penny for My Thoughts
Everyone keeps asking me: Are you getting excited? Well, no - I want to respond - who could be excited about traveling to lovely London, exploring its many wonders, making new friends, experiencing new things, and learning new skills, all while earning credits toward my degree? My penchant for sarcasm aside, let me assure everyone here and now that YES, I am very excited and indeed have been since I first heard of this program over 6 months ago.
I have spent some time in London before now. Spring semester of my junior year at University of New Hampshire I attended Regent's College, and I loved it! London is an amazing city -- and this from a confirmed country girl. What fascinates me is the juxtaposition of the old and the new. There is an ultramodern hotel near city center which has all the angles and sheen of the new age of architecture. But if you travel through an arch set into the building you enter a courtyard. And there, with the massive hotel towering behind you, is a preserved section of the London Wall. The London Wall encompassed the original city of London about 1800 years ago when the Romans first descended upon what was then called Londinium. This evidence of the living history incorporated into an ever changing city is one of my favorite aspects of London, and one I hope to incorporate into my assignments.
So, with the countdown to departure almost to single digits (10 days left!) I am more than ready (and very excited) to start this new adventure.
I have spent some time in London before now. Spring semester of my junior year at University of New Hampshire I attended Regent's College, and I loved it! London is an amazing city -- and this from a confirmed country girl. What fascinates me is the juxtaposition of the old and the new. There is an ultramodern hotel near city center which has all the angles and sheen of the new age of architecture. But if you travel through an arch set into the building you enter a courtyard. And there, with the massive hotel towering behind you, is a preserved section of the London Wall. The London Wall encompassed the original city of London about 1800 years ago when the Romans first descended upon what was then called Londinium. This evidence of the living history incorporated into an ever changing city is one of my favorite aspects of London, and one I hope to incorporate into my assignments.
So, with the countdown to departure almost to single digits (10 days left!) I am more than ready (and very excited) to start this new adventure.
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