These lyrics kinda came pouring out when listening to vickie's "fall love song" record so thought I'd give a quick version of what I'm hearing in my head with this song. Very rough cut & my voice sounds bad but just couldn't wait to put it upppp.

This is the version that played at Sundance 2012

This is a short film/stop animation I made with the help of my friend.  I think it would be really cool if someone contributed some sort of voice over.  I originally intended it to be for the Love collab but I think it works for Independence as well.  It's about a lonely, shy girl who finds her strengths in her imagination and throws herself into her writing (thus the paper girl made of words) but she's still lonely, and then she meets someone else like her.  I guess it's about love as a connection of imagination, meeting someone on a more abstract level.  Anyway, whatever your interpretation, have at it! I've spent several days on this and I need a break.

This is the version that played at Sundance 2012!

This is the verison that first screened at Sundance 2012!

I've been wanting to put a video together on this topic for a while, so I finally did it today. I'm really pleased overall with the level of discourse that's currently happening, but I thought this might help break things down a bit and making giving constructive feedback not so scary. I know that it can be, so hopefully there's some helpful points in here!

Since we're still having some problems with the dashboard and recommendations page, I think that making re-recommendation albums and videos have become even more important than usual because they're a great way for us to find records we may have missed. 

I thought I'd make a tutorial explaining some of the nuts and bolts of re-RECing in general, and then talk about how I make my re-REC vids. 

Hope this is helpful!

Hi guys,

Here's a little tutorial on how to apply a texture to an object/drawing in photoshop...

I made some print screens to illustrate this...the quality is not great...but I hope it shows what I'm talking about...

First pick out an illustration and a texture.

Open the files in photoshop and copy/paste the texture layer on top of the illustration.

1. Select the layer with the illustration and select the area where you want to apply texture. I use the magic wand for this. In the example I'm selecting the dress.


2. With the illustration layer still highlighted...go to Select -> Inverse.  This will make the texture outside the dress disappear but keeps the texture inside the dress (after delete in step 4).


3. Now highlight the texture layer.


4. Press delete on your keyboard...and tada...


5. To finish...play around with the blending modes...In this example I used 'Multiply' ...this makes the texture blend in with the illustration...

Well that's it...I hope it makes sense...

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A few days ago I read a question by GabyVaughan in the conversation thread...she asked bloemday how to do a pop of color in a b&w image...I figured I'd do a little tutorial for this...here you go...

I used my RECord store poster as an example.  There are different ways to do this but this is the easiest...

1. Open an image (in color) in photoshop and duplicate the background layer.


2. Select the background copy layer and convert it into b&w: Enhance -> Convert to Black and White.


3. Now you want to reveal the color from your underlying layer (background layer). To do this you need to activate the b&w layer.  Select a hard eraser with 100% opacity and go over the areas where you want to reveal the color. 


4. You can also reveal the color using the magic wand or another selection tool.  Select the area where you want to reveal color and then press delete on your keyboard. And that's it. 

Depending on the complexity of your image you can use the eraser or a selection tool...whatever works best for you.

In photoshop CS5 you can use the history brush to get this result.  Just convert your image to b&w and use the history brush to reveal the color again.

That's it.

Thanks for reading!