Exquisite Corpse - December Blankets

This is a Unique writing challenge by a fellow creative soul summerdragon who owns the blog Before I am Famous. My contribution is in bold.

December Blankets

Thick clouds shake parmesan cheese onto the bareness
gaiety of childhood swells
as frosty men dance in memory.

Crystal flakes falling from above
Fall softly on my warm black leather jacket
Melt to form droplets of water on the heated glass of my windshield

Winter whispers in her ear
tickling the tip of her nose
falling fresh upon her lash, she smiles.

Time frozen within locks of sleighs and cocoa by the fire
Magick of a world covered in virgin lace
To waltz with flakes, eternal on this eve.

Exquisite Corpse is hosted by Before I am Famous.

I Hope Adobe is Able to Bring This to Fruition

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

I plan on writing more about this video this week.


As promised I am sitting here and writing more on this promising technology that Adobe is hoping to have out in the hopefully near future. There are a few ways that one could make this work in Paint Shop Pro now albeit not as great as they are making it work here in the video. The point to point manipulation is similar to the mesh warp tool in Paint Shop Pro. Using different points in the mesh grid you can manipulate features of a face together. If you wanted to make it more of an animated approach though you would need to have Animation Shop or Adobe After Effects as Dan Goldman mentions. I have Animation Shop and use it rarely, but it is still useful to have. I got it when I got my Paint Shop Pro 9. It came free with the software.

One thing that I though was cool was the ability to draw graffiti text on moving objects. If you watch the video you will see him put the words Taxi on a moving Taxi. What I really like is the way to add cartoon style call out effects to a home movie or whatever video you want to play around with. The technology is the same as the technology they use to mimic and create human like movements in video games and computer graphic animation movies. Using point to point motion sensors the call out attaches itself to the moving object and is able to move with the object. Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop have preset shapes or brushes that can be used to create a similar effect but it is more or less a static effect that doesn't allow for movement. Unless you use Animation Shop to create the effect and still at that the process is long and tedious.

This new technology in image manipulation would take minutes even hrs off of photo editing as we know it today.

As the heading to this post say's 'I hope Adobe is Able to Bring This to Fruition'

Please take a moment to take my survey?

I am taking a survey to get a better idea of what people in the design industry and also the people who are more casual users are using for their digital design program of choice and how well they understand how to really use them. Keep in mind this is not in anyway being used to harvest emails or to throw you on a SPAM list. I am using the answers for my own purpose of collecting information so I know how to better serve my readers in the coming year as well as give me a starting point in starting to create some additional services for my readers.

I also have a channel on Ustream Tv set up for digital design, but have not done anything with it until I could have the chance to start getting some survey's together to have an understanding of what people know and understand about digital design before I launch my first broadcast.

In helping me with this survey it will not only help you help me, but it will help me to help you better.


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StumbleUpon and Google-How it can Help Digital Designers Track Their Analysis

I told my friend Jonathan I would show him what I meant in regards to how the power of a Stumble helps you in the Google scheme of things. As you can see my friend artsytina discovered this post and it has been given two thumbs up in the Internet category. If you click on the little call out it will tell you how many reviews this post has on StumbleUpon as well. So if you don't have a whole lot of time some days when you are doing some quick analytical research of your site then this is a quick easy way to do some spot analysis.

Just a quick note though since this is copied and pasted from Google clicking on the callout may not work. However, you can click the link and copy and paste it into Google search and it will take you to it so you can perform this action yourself if you want to. I hope I was able to help provide a useful piece of information to you in regards to being able to save some time in analysis of your site.

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Wildheart's Works on Squidoo

Carly's Paint Shop Pro Brushes Lens on Squidoo has Wildheart's Works on Squidoo listed in her related lens search section. Pretty cool for me. Not sure how much traffic I get from her lens it was just interesting finding this out. By the way I am going to check out her brush pack and download it for my own Paint Shop Pro brush files.

My Widget at Entrecard get's some attention, but not good attention.

Over at Entrecard Xploited I received a dishonorable mention about my widget design looks like I got top mention in graphic design. Ok not something to brag about but I just thought it was interesting that someone actually took the time to include me in an Entrecard write up. Here is what they had to say.

For the people who are listed in the Graphic Design category, there is no excuse for the following widgets:

You can read more about what a few others had to say about it in the comments.

So what did I learn about this little trek into where my blog is being marketed and mentioned. One it pays to monitor your blogs activities not only promoted by you but others as well by doing a Google search. Two you should be doing this every week if you want to keep a high quality blog no matter what your niche is.

The only thing that bothers me about this post is that he could have mentioned what the two blogs he pin pointed could be doing better instead of just saying there is no excue for this. I have to say in my defense I am continually learning how to use my programs and a lot is trial and error. Some times I get lucky and sometimes I don't and ever so often I amaze myself. We are not perfect by any stretch. I am a work in progress and try hard to learn from my mistakes.

I take criticism with grace and use it to make myself better.

In Honor of Veterans Everywhere

Veterans everywhere have my deepest respects. I come from a line of military men. My father served in The Korean War, my uncle John served in 'Nam, my grandfather served in WW2, my ex Mark served in the army national guard for over 20 yrs and finally retired this year, and my sons father served in the army. I wanted to just take a moment on my blog to remember these men as well as the men and women who make monumental sacrifices to keep our country free.Not to mention the ones that have fallen in battle, been POW's, are MIA and our fighting forefathers before us.

No matter what is wrong with this country you have to admit that there is plenty that is still good. Just look at the fact that gas prices have finally fallen. Now you can fill up for a $20 bill again if you have a vehicle that has a 4 cylinder that is. Well ok even if you have a 6 cylinder or an 8 and they have had good upkeep you can get great gas mileage.

So for all you do This Blogger's Respect for You!