Litexperimental
Creating one picture story – a step-by-step example
One picture stories are extremely easy to create. Just shoot a picture and type your story using TypeDrawing application. This post is to share with you some tips on how to achieve a more advanced look. If you know what you want, it’ll take no more than 20 minutes.
When you have an iPhone 3G the pictures are, to be polite, average. This one was shot at the Spectrum Museum in Berlin. I knew I had to deeply rework it. »»»
Create your own one picture stories
If you own an iPhone and want to share with the world more than just pictures, try this: one picture stories.
They’re extremely easy to create – and fun to do. What you need is one great application from the AppStore – Type Drawing. The app is definitely worth its price – 1,99 USD/1,59 EUR (download link here). The program lets you literally paint with words. The recent update has an enhanced, intuitive interface; a choice of 22 fonts, ability to zoom, eyedropper and many other features.
What’s most important – as a background you can use pictures from your iPhone’s photo library.
How to create one picture story?
1. Pick up a photo.
2. Open it in Type Drawing.
3. Write/paint your text. Do it the way you want, it’s all up to your imagination. A useful tip here is that if you don’t want a text to be painted in a loop just enter several spaces at the end in a text input box.
4. Save picture to photo library.
5. Share with the world. If you use a tag #1picstory it’ll be easier found in the Twitterverse. »»»
Ivona, czyli technologicznie przetworzone myśli o technologii
Znowu zacząłem maltretować Ivonę.
Wróciła wczoraj w przebłysku wspomnieniowo-inspiracyjnym (krótkie wspomnienie, stanowiące źródło inspiracji) – wpadłem na pomysł, by wykorzystać syntezator mowy do przekazania kilkunastu najlepszych myśli na temat relacji człowieka i technologii, znajdujących się w tym zestawieniu.
Doszedłem do wniosku, że po pierwsze forma będzie bardziej zwracała uwagę, a po drugie uda się zbudować przewrotny kontekst: myśl o relacji człowiek-technologia stworzona przez tego pierwszego, podana przez tę drugą.
O Ivonie myślałem dobrych parę miesięcy temu. Chciałem wtedy napisać opowiadanie (lub serię) z punktu widzenia maszyny, robota, skryptu zliczającego, itd. które myślą, rozumieją i przeżywają dużo głębiej niż ludzcy bohaterowie opowiadań byliby sobie w stanie to wyobrazić. »»»
Hashtagstories – a literary memoir of social media trends
It’s almost a year since I started hashtagstories – microstories written with current Twitter hashtags.
Sorry? Stories written with what? A year ago this was weird even to me. But it was just so inspiring to combine the world of hashtags into a piece of a literary fiction that I gave it a try. I also wanted to use it as a way to enter English writing. It was looking like a pretty easy job to do – just collect meaningful, emotional hashtags and scrabble them into a story.
After a year I can tell you – hashtagstories are not easy. They are a hard work. I had to go through many Twitter-based services to find the best source of hashtag info. Previously I was using Hashtags.org, now it’s What the Trend. »»»
Looking for a partner to co-create avatar stories
Today @wembley shared a great link.
When you go to a Twitter profile of @420watch, you’ll see in a sidebar an awesome visual art made from animated avatars. The idea is brilliant, as well as execution. One of those ideas answering a question “what else can we do with the old good Twitter”. One of those inspirational ideas which make you think, until you come up with something new.
And here it is: an #avatarstory. A story from animated avatars. Each avatar is one letter. The letters can appear in a speed and order, which are best to tell a story. We’ve got 36 characters. It’s an average length of a #6wordstory.
I imagine to have one account, let’s say @avatarstory, which follows 36 other accounts created specifically for this purpose. A new story could come every weekend. It’s not as easy as tweeting it, you have to change 36 avatars, but it’s definitely much more interesting. »»»
#1picstory :: Facebooked
#1picstory :: Twitter addict
#1picstory :: Keep focused
One Picture Stories: where to find them
Now you can find One Picture Stories in many sites across the internet as I did a perfectly insane job of autoposting with a help of Mobypicture and Posterous. They are the two services, where I send an original, freshly made story from an iPhone.
Please choose below your favourite source of One Picture Stories: »»»
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