{"id":2240,"date":"2012-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2240"},"modified":"2021-12-24T06:55:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T06:55:50","slug":"uitwaaien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/uitwaaien\/","title":{"rendered":"Uitwaaien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first attempt at a ds106 assignment. I was reading Alan Levine’s post Building the No English Words Translation Tool<\/a> about a new DS106 assignment Make The Untranslatable Understood<\/a> the task is:<\/p>\n

Use the Random Words with No English Translation tool<\/a> to generate a word that could be better understood with a photo or image. Find a creative commons image or make your own, and include the word somehow in the image (using a desktop photo editor or web tool like Aviary or PicNIk). Then share it with someone and ask if it makes sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I click through a few and then got sidetracked<\/a> (more about that later).<\/p>\n

Today I reloaded the tool and Uitwaaien popped up. <\/p>\n

“Literally, this Dutch word means to walk in the wind, but in the more figurative (and commonly used) sense, it means to take a brief break in the countryside to clear one\u2019s head.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I slightly disremembered this, thinking of head in the clouds which reminded me of the cover of On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas Harding. This lead me to this (click for larger versions):<\/p>\n

\"Uitwaaien<\/a><\/p>\n

and this:<\/p>\n

\"Uitwaaien<\/a><\/p>\n

Checking images for the cover of On Having No Head<\/a> it seems that my memory was faulty again, not quite how I remembered it. Not to worry.<\/p>\n

One of the resions I am joining in with ds106 is to learn how to photoshop, having a fairly unused copy on my work laptop, but here I went for my comfort zome of fireworks 8 (the last one with a really good edu discount). I mostly use fireworks for cropping and maybe dropping the odd shadow but Feathered selections and transparent gradients in Fireworks 3<\/a> go me on the right track<\/p>\n

\"Howto<\/p>\n

I faded the head a wee bit too much but I know how to do it now. I had 2 photos ofthe same place one with me in it one without (Credit to my daughter Christine). I tool my head area out of the photo without me and cropped it to a wee rect round my head as a layer on the photo of me. I then masked the layer with a graident as per instructuions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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