Category: Blog

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent

I love print design, and I’ve been at it for years; first my making zines in the 90’s and next by making newspapers, magazines and promotional media over the last ten years. So it makes sense that people ask me for tips and recommendations regularly. Some examples are this page from Femme2010 program, and my… Continue reading Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent

Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance

I’ve been up late these past few weeks, getting ready for Femme Pride Week, and working on media for the US Social Forum, where I’m teaching a DIY New Media workshop with Sarah Jenny, and Femme2010, the amazing femme conference that I’m Co-Media Chair of this year. Part of my favorite media strategy has always… Continue reading Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance

Hart Collective is teaching DIY Web at the US Social Forum!

The inimitable Sarah Jenny and I — wearing our femmetech hats as the Hart Collective — are going to the US Social Forum in Detroit this June! Our workshop, DIY New Media: Creating and Maintaining an Activist Presence using Websites, Blogs, Audio/Podcasts and SMS was accepted this week. We’ll be steamrolling our way through demystifying… Continue reading Hart Collective is teaching DIY Web at the US Social Forum!

Images: Print vs. Web, an explanation, instructions + resources

I love it when my talented friends send me fabulous pictures as proof of our magical lives on the interweb. It makes me feel grounded. BUT – beauty as those pics are, they aren’t always great for printing when it comes times to make postcards or send images to people for printing in their magazines,… Continue reading Images: Print vs. Web, an explanation, instructions + resources

Webpages 2: My Friend Made My Site But Now…a Choose Your Own Updating Adventure

So your friend is super awesome and made your site a few years ago. You now have made more art or have new pics or got some great press etc. and want your site to reflect that…but your friend is Living On The Land and no longer does websites or perhaps is cray busy still… Continue reading Webpages 2: My Friend Made My Site But Now…a Choose Your Own Updating Adventure

Buying A Video Camera

Buying a video camera might seem like a simple task, perhaps because you haven’t attempted to do it recently, or maybe you live in a world where video cameras are an oft-discussed item. For the rest of us — hearty DIY people who would like to purchase a video camera who are not independently wealthy… Continue reading Buying A Video Camera

Google games: beemp3 makes my songs into… ringtones?

ONE So every once in a while I’ll google my name[s] to see what comes up. And this time around I learned that you can get two songs from Ice 9 and two tracks from Exquisite Witness on the illustriously sketchy beemp3.com. This is surely payment for all the [legal, ahem] files I have gotten… Continue reading Google games: beemp3 makes my songs into… ringtones?

Recording For Free: Sound on a Mac & PC [how-to]

I love recording audio, making music, archiving stories and beautiful moments, and I am not endowed with money — and have definitely been seriously broke and still wanted to make audio art. What’s a techhead to do? Read on for audio recording recommendations for voices and music on mac and even pc! Programs Audio on… Continue reading Recording For Free: Sound on a Mac & PC [how-to]