The Web as a Resource
Do you use the web to do online research for your writing?
I find myself increasingly dependent on the web for a variety of information -- everything from airline tickets to my work. For example, I recently took a sofa from a web ad, morphed it, skewed it, colored it and put it in a tropical setting that, again, was a composite of found web travelogues. With dramatic Photoshop lighting, I felt the image was "mine". Are others using similar techniques?
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 2/15/99 10:21:14 AM)Does every one know the Zuzu's Petals site? I thought I would mention it as an excellent resource site for writers. http://zuzu.com/
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Sue Thomas (Sue Thomas, 2/15/99 12:48:55 PM)Thanks for this Christy - it looks like something well worth checking out regularly.
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 2/18/99 11:13:37 AM)There is a fascinating exhibit of futurist books at http://colophon.com/gallery/minsky/futurist.htm Background information on the movement and some of its practitioners is included. Impressive site that speaks of manifestos, the influence of advertising in art, above all, shows many book samples!
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 2/19/99 12:45:14 PM)I have always liked Al Filreis's Univ. of Pennsylvania Poetry site. This is a great resource for 20th century poetry with a few notable exceptions. Listen to Gertrude Stein read: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap2.html
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 2/23/99 11:07:41 AM)http://pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/KomachiSources.html
This is an amazing site dedicated to the woman poet Ono no Komachi (834?-?).
Legend has it that her poetry ended a drought in 866.
I believe it.
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Jennifer Ley (jley, 3/2/99 9:45:38 AM)back to Christy's original question - I've wondered about the technical issues of copyright her question illuminates - ie. I do quite a lot of image maniupulation, and was told once by a designer that if I changed something 10% (10% of what !! one wonders) it then became 'mine' - but I don't know where she got this interpretation (she was using fifties stock icons for napkin designs and selling the napkins)
Comments? Does intent to sell/profit enter into this discussion?
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 3/2/99 12:38:01 PM)If anyone knows the answer to Jennifer's question or to the question of midi files, let us know here.
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Sue Thomas (Sue Thomas, 3/2/99 2:21:44 PM)The people who seem to know most about the copyright issue mentioned above seem to be the music trade, since they have to deal with mixes etc.
I don't think there is an answer yet to most of the copyright questions which absorb us, but I think everything will probably be tied up within the next couple of years, if only because the incomes of so many lawyers depend on them.
sue
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 3/16/99 10:43:18 PM)Here's my favorite site for hexing colors. I take the red, green, blue values determined in Photoshop and put them in this great gizmo and voilą!
http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/hexed.html
If you want websafe colors, here's a good site for them:
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cool links (lars, 3/17/99 10:29:55 AM)bookmarked, thanks - a bunch of us, on different machines, did this collaborative experiment once, and one problem was that we could never get our "homepage" to look good, to all members, due to colors.
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Christy1, 3/30/99 9:16:49 AM)For anyone who might like to know about resources for grants and opportunities for writers and artists, I offer my list of top nominees: My chief source of information for grants and opportunities has been _Poets and Writers Magazine_. They have an online site: http://www.pw.org/
For online/tech/arts information, FineArt Forum is one of the best. You can have it delivered via email. http://msstate.edu/fineart_online/ This and Poets and Writers are at the top of my list.
Online, one of the best general all-purpose resource sites for writers is Zuzu's Petals. http://www.zuzu.com/poelink.htm#general Linked from Zuzu, for example, is AWP (Associated Writing Programs), which has a newsletter with many opportunities, mostly related to print.
Artswire is another resource: http://artswire.org/current.html
And let us not forget trAce! http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/
This is a start, does anyone else have an address/resource to share?