After 199 consecutive posts of mostly flag designs, I am no longer ahead of the game to post more. At least not posts I can yet share, or that I’d care to share because I discarded those designs without using them for my initial consultations. But I’ve been active on TikTok of late, so I’ll share some of my adventures there in this and future posts.
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A Nice, but Bias Inducing, Flag Presentation
This was my first attempt at a new format to show finalist flag designs in my Nova Scotia Municipalities flag project. Middleton, NS, the People’s Flag version is shown here. While I think the presentation is nice, it would work better for showing things for purposes of information only, not for decision making. That’s because of the accompanying music. It might make the animation and text to read more interesting for the senses to include sound, the music itself could influence how one feels about what is seen given the power of music on human beings. Using the same music would be rather boring, and it might still be influential because not all designs are meant to evoke the same feelings, so the music would then be more appropriate for some than others, creating a dissimilar effect rather than the same one despite it being the same music. So while I didn’t use it, I kept it for future presentations to be made for information only… like after a flag gets adopted and is shown to “the world”.
I will keep some of the visual aspects of the presentation, though, to show finalist flag designs in Phase 2 of my NS Municipalities flag project.
Writing to the Music of Minecraft
Before you read the rest of this post, just click play on the video below of the video game Minecraft’s soundtrack, and either leave it to play, or click somewhere randomly on the length of the track to play some of its music. It would be appropriate because this post is about how I came upon this music by chance, and fell in love with it for my future writing!
My Current Favourite Video on YouTube – Fictional Starship Comparison
WOW! JUST WOW! I can’t remember being more wowwed and mesmerized by anything on YouTube or any other video platforms! 12.5 minutes super well spent! BRAVO!
Salvaging Videos from Disappearing Online Courses using Windows Based PCs
There are lots of details here, but it’s easy once you go through it once or twice, because all it comes down to are the steps below, which you can just try for short video samples without reading the rest of the post, and see if you feel like you need to read the rest of it:
- Go to the online course as if you were going to view it
- Hold the Windows key while pressing g to get the recording interface
- Do a few setups (or not, but if so, you’ll be familiar with after first try)
- Start recording on the recording interface, press Play on the video
- Stop when done recording or when episode ends and URL changes to next episode. The site keeps on playing, but your video recording will not switch, it seems. You have to leave the video to play to record, unfortunately, not like file downloads, but you can keep it on mute.
Do a few demos first for a few minutes each to get things right. Then go at it for real. Good luck!
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