Saturday, October 19, 2013

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:




Thursday, October 17, 2013

STORYTELLING NEWS!
I'm on count-down for Vermont's first ever digital storytelling contest!
team extempo
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:
Jen Dole (extempo storytelling) - http://www.extempovt.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: 


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!  





Wednesday, October 2, 2013

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!