Take it from a dyed-in-the-wool teacher: there’s nothing quite as effective for learning how to do something as working through it step by step, and possibly problem solving along the way. I often use this mantra, and according to this blog’s search function, I’ve used it at least 100 times here.
A couple of weeks ago I made a short video for the first time in my life. My wall quilt “Spirogyra 3: In The Weeds” was selected for the Interpretations26 exhibition at the Visions Museum Of Textile Art, VMOTA, and in additon to the usual updated headshot photo, resume and biography, we artists were asked to send them a 60 second (max) video of us talking about our art. I thought I’d have a go and so consulted tech savvy daughter who works with videos all the time, and she outlined what to do. It took me a while to rig up a very non-professional looking structure to hold the phone camera at more or less face level 🙂
I pinned the quilt to another one already hanging on a wall in our house where the morning light’s great. I placed a small coffee table up on the dining table, and on top of that parked a couple of thick books holding an unopened box of wine and a coffee tin that with a bit of duck tape propped the phone up at MOL face level. I’d worked out what I’d say, and 60 seconds is not very long! After several takes I sent them to said daughter who edited out the rubbishy bits and it resulted in 52 seconds – perfect. Derry hasn’t yet had a chance to get back to me on whether I can embed the video here on the blog post, but it is up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DalPcuMP4D0/ and on my FB Fabric Artist page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082231031799
And the bits she removed – the repeats featuring the bloopers of clenched lips and teeth, eye rolling, one swear word I think and a brief nose scratching incident, will go public shortly once the good video has had time to go viral unimpeded 🙂 I have to say, though, that I fear close friends and family will all say they’re so typical…
