What makes you MAD?

[happyrobyn]

Just trying to get a feel for the interests of this group. Please take the poll and leave any comments about your specific interests.

[mishou]

I voted for all of the above. I like to experiment with all of those things. I guess that's not very helpful in terms of a poll result though LOL!

[happyrobyn]

That's perfectly fine Michelle! I set up the poll so you could select as many as you want!

[Fiddlette]

I voted for all of them too...I guess I just like to re-write the past!!

That is it, really! Rewriting my past, and everyone elses, while I'm at it! That is what really drives me, artistically MAD!!!! :)

[webchyck]

I like to sometimes just do something other than what I normally do in my memory art. Sometimes a photo just screams, "do something MAD!!!!"

[Belles]

and at the moment I just voted for the Heritage Memory Art but I do dable in the others a little and would like to do more of them or include them with the Heritage stuff I do.

[PacificBlue]

I voted for collage and altered. Heritage isn't that great for me - no old photos, not much from the past. I once did a blog on the difference between collage and altered also - many people get it a bit confused, and I don't blame them. Altered would be interesting in digital - altered means something who's use is now altered - so with a shoe, it would no longer be a shoe. But with a created digital project?

Printing out digital stuff and embellishing a thing to alter it is another matter. But a flat project as an altered concept - now that is interesting....

Gave me an idea I've been generating up for a while...

[happyrobyn]

I can't wait to hear your idea Michelle!

[PacificBlue]

Right, here's the nutshell idea. This post might need moving - and I'm not sure where it belongs - you guys can vote to tell me.

A REAL Digital "Altered" Challenge

A Challenge is Started. This can be based on an initial theme - but don't expect it to stay that way through the lifecycle. :rolleyes:

The Challenge Runner organises participants, and format and theme. It may help for members to be confined to a certain file size in pixels (for sharing sake) and bits (for sharing sake) - but that's worth a trial to see how it works out without this anyway.

Some simple rules - There are no rules. This is no-rules art. Alter it until you don't recognise it anymore.

The Challenge Runner also provides a gallery for the project shares - each participant will have their own starter project (as below) with additions by others. The participants will be organised into a round ie Ms A will have her initial project continued by Mrs B, then onto C. Mrs B's initial project will be picked up by C on the first round. Onwards until the end of all rounds.

The principle to this is a round robin art project. Each person in the challenge creates an initial digital project - the quirkier the better, obviously - based on the theme of the challenge. The project can tell a story towards the theme, introduce characters, provide an intiial background and mood.

A smaller jpeg will be loaded on each round up onto the group gallery. The actual large digital files (including layers) will be sent onto the next round's participant.
I'm not sure about this one, as I need guidance from tech-head quirks. I use Paint Shop Pro (can't afford Photoshop), but can take layers in with psd files. I am unsure if I can save back my own work into PSD format for the next person successfully. But I do also have an older copy of PSE, so if that is problematic then there is a workaround if most people in the group use PS C2 or whatever.

Anyway, the file with full layers is sent onto the next participant - maybe using a file sharing service? And that person alters it as they wish - changes some of the elements, adds other layers, changes the mood...

And onwards.

At each round, the altered project is uploaded again into the gallery for everyone to see. The final version will be completely altered from the original, but the full version should be sent back to the originator - that way he or she inherits a new project, with new elements within it. And along the way, everyone benefits.

Some difficulties -

I don't create elements - I am not a digital designer per se. I use designers work, and pride myself (yes, lol) on being a consumer of digital products - well you have to have some, right? This means that a project I would send through would not be do-able as I would be voiding TOU on other's work towards file sharing. However, I do tend to do a lot of altered work on free-to-use images and colourising, blending etc. It's just a point to make that the elements on layers doing the circle journal around the group, should only be that of the Quirk-Artiste who did the round, and that that work should be given freely amongst the group of participants as the projects do their rounds.

Not to mention the mortification you might find if something you worked very hard upon has somebody else put a handlebar moustache and yellow digital underpants onto it. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right, and altered underpants are all the rage, I believe - so you might be wanting some. :eek:

[happyrobyn]

This sounds like a cool idea!

[Ursula]

Well, I'm really in a morphing phase right now. all of these things affect me and I have done/do all of them. Depends on what mood strikes at the moment. I love the versitility of this whole thing being ART. Previously I've considered myself a scrapper, but I'm discoving much more of an artist, who pursues a wide variety of mediums.

[Cre8tvlyYrs]

I'm definately 'All of the above'. Heritage is important to me right now and Altered and collage are my favorite techs!

[Vania16]

I voted all of the above too! I've done some altering and I'm learning more about collage lately. And, after my gramps' funeral this winter, I got scans of a bunch of family photos, so I'm wanting to do some more heritage work too!

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