While poking around at the freemusicarchive.org, I found this track by Johnny Ripper:
I like that he described it as "audio content for visualizing scenes in your head." The only restriction on its use is a request from the creator that if the song is used in a video, to please contact him first. It is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, and conveniently, if you use this somewhere, you can just copy and paste the code on the page in order to attribute. Like this:
"at the sea by johnny_ripper is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License"
I imagine that the artist made this track (and all the others on the album) available for free in the hope that the music might inspire someone else to create a visual accompaniment. Or that by listening to Johnny Ripper's music, a filmmaker might understand his own images more clearly, or be able to edit and arrange them in a new way.
I think that if I were to create something - an image, a piece of music, a video - I would use the same license as Johnny Ripper. In a nutshell, it is described as one that "lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms." That seems to open the door to encourage creativity without allowing anyone to make any money off the creation.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Wikimedia -
I reviewed Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons. I chose these two because I have used or have needed them the most out of all the Wikimedia projects.
With Wikiquote, I like that you can search for quotes in a variety of ways. Hopefully, however, you know a little about the quote for which you're searching - Wikiquote is easier to use if you're looking for a quote from a specific person, or from a specific television show or movie (Arrested Development is especially well indexed) than if you're just searching for a general quote about baseball or women's history (no subcategory exists for either of these - so while you can scroll through a variety of quotes about college football under the category "sports" or the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 under the category "history," you cannot do the same with baseball or women's history).
With Wikimedia Commons, I find the opposite to be true in searching. It is easier for me to find and view many images on a general subject, even with a chosen parameter (ie: "coal miner black and white") than to find images from a certain source (ie: LIFE Magazine). With Wikimedia Commons, it's very easy to end up in a place you never expected. Like this.
With Wikiquote, I like that you can search for quotes in a variety of ways. Hopefully, however, you know a little about the quote for which you're searching - Wikiquote is easier to use if you're looking for a quote from a specific person, or from a specific television show or movie (Arrested Development is especially well indexed) than if you're just searching for a general quote about baseball or women's history (no subcategory exists for either of these - so while you can scroll through a variety of quotes about college football under the category "sports" or the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 under the category "history," you cannot do the same with baseball or women's history).
With Wikimedia Commons, I find the opposite to be true in searching. It is easier for me to find and view many images on a general subject, even with a chosen parameter (ie: "coal miner black and white") than to find images from a certain source (ie: LIFE Magazine). With Wikimedia Commons, it's very easy to end up in a place you never expected. Like this.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
SLED Event -
Okay y'all. I went to the St. Patrick's Day party on Eduisland 9 for about 30 minutes tonight. I left when I tried to stop dancing (you were supposed to click on a spinning shamrock to have your avatar animated by another avatar who had created 6 different dance moves - I thought this was pretty cool - but when I was ready to stop, I kept trying to click that damn shamrock but instead somehow ran/danced past the food table and into a giant hedge). Also, Jason hit me in the face with a hot dog.
The other people at the party (there were three other people besides Jason and me) were super friendly. We did not talk about education, but instead made party small talk, which consisted mostly of someone "singing along" with Steve Winwood and insisting that we "crank it up" and various other comments about how awesome the music was. Strangely, the first song I heard was "Out of Touch" by Hall and Oates (am I showing my age yet?) and I do concur that that could be a song that some might find awesome. But it felt very outdated to be gyrating around to, I kid you not, "The Living Years." The song about the conflicted relationship the guy had with his dad and then the dad died. Erin Go Bragh!
We were dancing on a floor that had been designed with green celtic symbols and had a giant rotating "Happy Saint Patrick's Day" logo in the middle of it. Someone had gone to a lot of work to design this party! Off in the distance there were bonfires (and actually, when I first arrived, Jason was somehow sitting on a bonfire dancing. I don't know how he did that). Somehow I acquired a giant green bottle, which I suggested to everyone could be Jameson's. And after the Steve Winwood song ended - it was "Higher Love" for those keeping a checklist of the adult contemporary tunes - I tried to go look around a little more, but ended up in the hedge.
So, all in all, I actually did enjoy myself. Mainly because it was so crazy and it gave me the opportunity to write phrases like "hit in the face with a hot dog." Cheers!
The other people at the party (there were three other people besides Jason and me) were super friendly. We did not talk about education, but instead made party small talk, which consisted mostly of someone "singing along" with Steve Winwood and insisting that we "crank it up" and various other comments about how awesome the music was. Strangely, the first song I heard was "Out of Touch" by Hall and Oates (am I showing my age yet?) and I do concur that that could be a song that some might find awesome. But it felt very outdated to be gyrating around to, I kid you not, "The Living Years." The song about the conflicted relationship the guy had with his dad and then the dad died. Erin Go Bragh!
We were dancing on a floor that had been designed with green celtic symbols and had a giant rotating "Happy Saint Patrick's Day" logo in the middle of it. Someone had gone to a lot of work to design this party! Off in the distance there were bonfires (and actually, when I first arrived, Jason was somehow sitting on a bonfire dancing. I don't know how he did that). Somehow I acquired a giant green bottle, which I suggested to everyone could be Jameson's. And after the Steve Winwood song ended - it was "Higher Love" for those keeping a checklist of the adult contemporary tunes - I tried to go look around a little more, but ended up in the hedge.
So, all in all, I actually did enjoy myself. Mainly because it was so crazy and it gave me the opportunity to write phrases like "hit in the face with a hot dog." Cheers!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Embedding: A Progression -
So, first there's this:
Then this:
http://soundcloud.com/jbunn/apalachicola
Then this:
Hmmmm - why is it cutting off my first slide?
Here's the first slide:
Photos are from my Picasa/Google+ photos site, but I didn't know how to create or embed a slideshow from that platform, so I put them in Quicktime Pro (good thing I'm taking this class at the same time as CI5200).
Now that I'm done with everything, I don't think that the words are a great match with those images, as the poem is all about the arrival and the images are obviously after we've been there for awhile. Kind of confusing. But, for my first stab at this sort of thing, I feel okay about it! Onwards and upwards, right?
Then this:
http://soundcloud.com/jbunn/apalachicola
Then this:
Hmmmm - why is it cutting off my first slide?
Here's the first slide:
Photos are from my Picasa/Google+ photos site, but I didn't know how to create or embed a slideshow from that platform, so I put them in Quicktime Pro (good thing I'm taking this class at the same time as CI5200).
Now that I'm done with everything, I don't think that the words are a great match with those images, as the poem is all about the arrival and the images are obviously after we've been there for awhile. Kind of confusing. But, for my first stab at this sort of thing, I feel okay about it! Onwards and upwards, right?
Monday, March 19, 2012
SoundCloud -
SoundCloud is all new to me - and I LOVE IT. Love the "time comments" - that's a really cool feature! I've also found the podcasts of a friend from college that are killing me (Glitter in the Garbage - Drew Droege - kind of foul, FYI).
We do a monthly storytelling show at the theatre called Listen to This. All original work. We should record it and put it up on SoundCloud. Yay social media class!
We do a monthly storytelling show at the theatre called Listen to This. All original work. We should record it and put it up on SoundCloud. Yay social media class!
Picasa -
For my niece's birthday, I made her a personalized coloring book out of photos from our family vacation. Pretty neat!
I did not edit the photos in Picasa to turn them into line drawings - just sharing them through Picasa. Very easy to use, especially if you already have a Google account. Picasa organizes your photos and images for you - sometimes this can be a little frustrating as it doesn't always use the same folder organization as your harddrive - but to share these, I simply clicked "Blog This" and it sent the images directly to a new post on my blog. (By the way, I used Paint.NET to change the photos to line drawings.)
I did not edit the photos in Picasa to turn them into line drawings - just sharing them through Picasa. Very easy to use, especially if you already have a Google account. Picasa organizes your photos and images for you - sometimes this can be a little frustrating as it doesn't always use the same folder organization as your harddrive - but to share these, I simply clicked "Blog This" and it sent the images directly to a new post on my blog. (By the way, I used Paint.NET to change the photos to line drawings.)
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