Make your own ringtone!

Heres a little tutorial on how to make your own ringtone, so you don't have to buy them through iTunes (if you have an iPhone). This is going to be a ringtone for when my sister calls (:

Step 9 pictures
When you change it a box will pop up - click use m4r

If you have any questions feel free to ask me! 

Hope you enjoy your new free ringtones

sing your song

-dyl

Blackout Poetry - How to

I found out what blackout poetry was when I discovered Tyler Knott on tumblr. He has the loveliest poetry. Its all very heartfelt and seems to be written about someone he loves dearly. Which makes my heart really happy.

This one is one of my favorites of his 

Anyways back to blackout poetry. What you do is you find a page in a book. Pretty much any page will do. And you read it and pay close attention to words that you like. After you have gone through the page, you start to circle some words and essentially make a poem by crossing out all the words you don't want.

I have always really appreciated poetry, but whenever I try to write it myself, I just end up making Dr. Seuss rhymes. So I gave blackout poetry a try, and it turned out to be much deeper than anything I could've written on my own. 

I know it could be seen as a sort of "cheating" when it comes to writing poetry, but I don't agree. I love art. I was even going to try and double major in art and psychology (its literally not possible if you want to graduate in 4 years - art requires way too much time.) 

When it comes to drawing though, I have such a hard time coming up with original ideas, and it can be very disheartening to a creative soul. But something that comes really easily to me is making collages. Even though it is taking a bunch of things that you didn't make, it is still art. And not everyone can do collages. My friend is an incredible artist, he can draw super imaginative creative things, but he has no eye for how to make a collage. It takes a special talent and degree of creativity to see how things will come together to make something beautiful. So proof! Collaging is an art form. And I think blackout poetry is basically a collage in the verbally artistic world. 

At times when I am doing blackout poetry, there are words that I have found on the page that all go together, but they aren't in the right order. So I will do a modified blackout poetry (it takes a lot less sharpie and you don't even have to write in the book if you don't want to.) 

What I will do is just write out the words on a piece of paper and arrange them in the way that I want. After that I will find a picture online and add the poetry to it. 

Doing it that way also allows you to make variations of it, or add other words that you didn't find on the page. 

I didn't finish blacking it out, and I spilled cranberry juice on it but here is one of mine.

 An ordinary mind almost drowned by the dull hue of fear

How to make a GIF

If you have a MacBook there are so many cool Apps you can get in the App store.

This app is for making GIF's

What is a GIF you ask. Well GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and it is a computer image that moves like an animation, because it consists of frames, like a movie with no sounds.

This is a GIF

To start go to the App store and download the App called GIFQuickMaker

This is what it looks like 

GIF's work best if you have 2+ pictures that are very similar. That is you take one picture, and in the second picture you move just a little bit.

We really only moved our faces in these two pictures 

A good way to tell if they are going to make a good GIF is if you use your left and right arrows and go back and forth through the pictures really fast it will look like you are dancing or something (I'm not sure if that makes sense but it did in my mind.) 

Once you download the App open it up and it will look something like this 

The picture below explains how to get your pictures all ready for the GIF

So the GIF at the beginning of this post is done with the time setting .10 on both frames and it is set to infinite so it keeps repeating. If you would like one frame to show longer than another or if you don't want your GIF to go on forever you can change those settings

 

Here is an example of what it looks like for the first frame to have a time of .30 and the second frame to be at .10 (still on infinite) 

you can see its slower than the first one 

And here is an example with the same time setting but not on infinite (it goes three times)

Finishing up!

If you don't like the way the time is set the first time you view your GIF you don't have to delete it or anything. Just go and edit what you want to change and press make GIF animation again and it will give you an updated preview. 

If you have any questions let me know!

Here are some other GIFs that I have made.

Thats my sister on the right (: