MORE STORYTELLING NEWS!
We're pluggin' away!

This was our team - me, Peter, Gin, Aleks and Jen - all fresh and raring to go - 
FOURTEEN HOURS AGO!

 

Thirteen hours ago:

 Hacker snacks:

Six hours ago:

Here's a little animated teaser:

STORYTELLING NEWS!
I'm on count-down for Vermont's first ever digital storytelling contest!

StoryhackVT 
is happening THIS WEEKEND! 

In Burlington, Vermont

24 HOURS!!
from 10am, Saturday, October 19th

to 10am, Sunday, October 20th  

Follow this link for more info and some interesting examples of digital storytelling - http://storyhackvt.com/ - 

I am on (the 5-person) Team Extempo!

A couple of teammates at a recent planning confab  >>>

We will make our story available for viewing and voting, at the end of our 24-hour marathon!  And THIS is where YOU come in >> We’re going to be asking you to

VOTE! 

Voting will stay open for a week after the stories are posted. 

Here are the Storyhack rules for this competition:

1. Teams must have between one and five members.
2. Teams will be provided a theme at the start of the Hack. The theme must be incorporated into the story in some way.
3. Stories must be told across (at least) three digital media.
4. All stories must be original works and composed during the Storyhack.

Team Extempo:

Me - http://bbarncat.wix.com/beth-barndt-

Aleks Ch Chernomazov -  http://www.travelconsulting.us/

Jen Dole (extempo storytelling) - http://www.extempovt.com/

Gin Ferrara (Spindle & Widget) - http://www.spindlewidget.com/,  http://www.ginferrara.com/

Peter Wolf (Wolf Multimedia Studio) - http://wolf1.com/

All my dynamo teammates have heavy-hitting digital skills; all are 'multi-mediators' - artists and communicators, in one form or another.  

If you use FB, please 'like' our team's Facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/TeamExtempo.

I have used collage as a storytelling medium since I first started illustrating dreams (back in 1977!).  Here are a few 'storied' collages that I've done over the years:

Stay tuned!!  Viewing and Voting directions to come!  

October's Postcard of the Month
Slow leaching of green...

Although, suddenly, it seems to be leaching rather fast!   It's funny to make the cards for the month ahead, some of them (like this one) attempting to evoke the coming month's palette, when that is not yet my vista's palette.   And then, all of a sudden, the cards are done, and that IS what things are looking like!

I didn't have any particular inspiration for October's card (other than color palettes), but I did have this collage that I'd made a few months ago, and thought had a nice October-ish feel to it.  

Plus, the migrating geese lent a 'farewell' feel to it, which seemed appropriate for my post-Lucy*, end of summer sensibilities.

So, out came the papers:

from my increasingly scrumptuous stash  :)

and this was the next iteration:

Which then posed a dilemma  >>  a weigh-in re: geese/no geese...  Several votes for as is/no geese, but...    :)

Fixin's.  Or most!  I added a couple, and left out one:

THE STEPS - only 28 this time!

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

 

Step 4

 Step 5

 Step 6

 Step 7

 Step 8 

Step 9

 Step 10

 Step 11

 Step 12

Step 13

 Step 14

 Step 15

 Step 16

 Step 17

 Step 18

 Step 19

 Step 20

Step 21

 Step 22

 Step 23

 Step 24

 Step 25

 Step 26

 Step 27

 Step 28

Panel of 21:

Fin.

*Dear old Lu went to herd sheep in doggie nirvana shortly after my last post.  We buried her out back, stacked a nice rock cairn over her grave.  

Then, the next night, when we stopped by to visit, we found these prints on her top rock! 

Most likely just cosmically well-timed paw-print configured raindrops (it had rained a little earlier in the evening), or maybe even little raccoon prints from some lively fella out rock-hoppin'??!   We took it as as Lu's  "Hello; everything's just fine" kind gift.    Hopefully you are not creeped out!