“The RoseBouquet”

I did finally get my first video lesson last Wednesday afternoon. However, my young geek-teacher has no training in teaching, so after we had downloaded and installed two programs, he took the mouse and swirled it around on my screen and told me that this is for that, and that is for this…. and I was soon lost. I decided that I would have to take some my education into my own hands here.

So I gave up my Thursday and Friday mornings to go look online for tutorials and to learn to understand at least the one program better. I did try to follow the steps given, but ran into questions, so tomorrow when my guru friend shows up, I will be able to steer the lesson with some intelligent questions. Hopefully we’ll make some progress forward.

Computer art done in a vector program is really terrific, now that I see the potential. You can draw most anything starting with a few basic shapes, then with shading and 3-D effects you can make even a snowman come to life. But that’s not all, You can grab an elbow, say, lift it, and all the rest of the body changes appropriately to create a new pose image for your animation. Clever, eh?

I think this is goin’a be great fun!

I spent the weekend (Friday night and all day Saturday) at a Heritage event by the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan (MHSS). I had to give a report on the website which I am responsible for, and I also took a small part in the honouring of Rev. John D. Friesen, who was my cousin-uncle. (Mom’s first cousin). A number of new jobs for things to put on the site were given to me, so I’ll be busy on that for a few months.

Besides that, one women lent me her Friesen book to study for a while, and another man gave me a photo and asked for help to identify the Friesen woman in there. One of his Walde-Wiebe great-grandfathers had married a widow Friesen and he had no way of identifying her.

Four more friendship articles after today’s and then we’ll start something new. A virtual writer’s workshop. I’m using these weeks to prepare and if I get the participation I’m hoping for it should be loads of inter-active fun.