Published on 12, July, 2020
I thought it might be nice to share our creativity.
Anything really, photography, art, writing etc etc.
Thanks to Steven for partly inspiring this thread.
Please include a visual description with any images to aid those of us with sight impairment.
Thank you.
I'll start:
Thank you, Becca.
Glad to have inspired you! This tune is as old as I am lol. It sounds like the intro music from an early 1980s kids TV series, something poignant and nostalgic.
Ha!Just listened to this after waking up feeling quite horrible, tired, and agitated, it's quite soothing. I think I may have to get into a routine of listening to some music upon waking up to start my day. Well done past Mark!
I was inspired by Becca posting something that wasn't visual.
https://soundcloud.com/spikey-243124935/jennifer-sketch
I wrote this tune at some time between 1987 and 1989. The recording is from 1989.
I'm sad to say that I don't think that I ever wrote anything better in the 35 years since.
The tune is piano only. It is called 'Jennifer'. I didn't know a Jennifer at the time. It was just a name that I really liked. I did briefly go out with a Jennifer about 10 years later. It's not about her.
It's only a couple of minutes long.
I was never very good at playing the piano - my co-ordination and little fingers are a hurdle. So it is computer sequenced on a cheap app that could not control velocity (how hard you hit the keys). So all the notes have the same loudness. There are parts that should be quieter, and parts that should build. One day, I may re-record this. I've forgotten the notes, so would have to transcribe it.
No one has ever heard this before, apart from maybe my first girlfriend.
I was looking through my loft and found some old tapes. I bought a tape to MP3 convertor. I found lots of my old stuff, but this was my favorite.
Another short piece in Scots. This is written from the perspective of a young lad who worked on the farm of the poet Robert Burns.
thelumberroom.blogspot.com/.../burns-fermer.html
A Bang on the
The name of a song by The Waterboys
A Bang on the Ear.
In windows ten the photo viewer they supply allows you several preset sizes to resize down to, the middle one works for here...
The chances of you having a samsung/android are probably slim. But just in case,..
You go to the gallery and choose your photo.
Click on edit (the little pen icon).
Then click on the 3 dots in the top right.
Click 'resize'.
I choose about 40%.
The important thing is not to click 'save', but to click the 3 dots again and choose 'save as copy' - otherwise your nice phone picture is replaced by the smaller one for good.
Very apt!
Ok not in Scots but English this time. A suitable poem for this time of year, that I wrote over a decade ago. I wrote lots of poems at that time but I haven't really written any since.
thelumberroom.blogspot.com/.../september.html
thank you! I'm glad you had fun reading it; I certainly enjoyed writing it. I have a few other Scots pieces to share but I'll need to work out how to put them on here as they are on Google drive, not online.
Before I clicked on it, I thought, "this will be easy to read!", because I can read all the Trainspotting books fluently. Apart from 'midden', I didn't know any of those words from the glossary. I know 'midden' from a childhood spent reading "The Broons" and "Oor Wullie". I was pleasantly surprised that I could read it, though and it was fun to read. Thanks for sharing!
I love the color and the lines! Amazing
Not had any success with images yet so I'll try creative writing. Here is a link to a blog with some of my writing. The selected link is a short story (approx 850 words) based on supernatural tales from my home town. It's in Scots, but I've put a glossary at the end for some of the more unusual words.
thelumberroom.blogspot.com/.../witches-thing-for-stephen.html
(Edit: for forum security reasons I should probably state that the name associated with the blog is not my given name.)
Thank you very much for taking time out of your holiday to reply
I cant reply anymore cause I need to go now cause im on holiday and cause im on holiday I will wont be online until I get back I thought I would take 5 minutes quickly cause im on a long car journey and on the way with my family and will be there soon
this is how I get arpund the problom you have you can use a converter to reduce your images to 999 gb just add you photo then scroll down you will get an option to type whatever number of gb you want it will load for 5 minutes then you press download and it will download it and save it to files and you can save to photo library then add it to the comment and it will send it
https://imagy.app/mb-to-kb-converter/
this should help ypu solve the problom I hope it helps
I know it has to be 72dpi but I have no idea how to reduce it to that. None of the editing options on my phone do it. There is no option to 'save as', and when I upload it to the site it does it straight away, not giving me an option to load it differently.