WIP - One Tribe
Saturday, May 16, 2009 by k10w3 | Discussion: Sneak Previews
Of course, it's a long way from even being started...just playing around with ideas right now, but I thought I would share.
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Reply #42 Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:37 PM
Very nice Karen! Lookin' very good! Needs a "Dream Catcher", imho...and Tetonka...
Reply #44 Monday, May 18, 2009 12:13 PM
I'll think about it, but some Native Americans consider them offensive and tacky. They originated with the Ojibwa tribe, and it was a cradle ornament, to placate very small, frightened children to sleep, with a legend that the dream catcher would filter out bad dreams and only allow good dreams in. Many Native Americans view dream catchers as a commercialization of their culture -- kind of a stereotype thing, but some see it as a symbol of tribal unity.
Obviously, being married to Brian, I've been given an education I never could have gotten in school (especially the really white schools I grew up in, in Wisconsin in the 70s). We learned "about" American Indians in Wisconsin history class, but that's not the same as learning OF American Indians and especially, FROM, American Indians.
What I've come away with from all of this, not only when it comes to my husband's struggle with his ancestry (his mother is white, his father is Muscogee Creek - he was belittled by both sides, and the divorce only made it that much worse), but also the quest my children have had for their ancestry, is to pay respect to where one has come from, but to focus much more attention on where one is going.
Reply #47 Friday, May 22, 2009 1:28 AM
wheres the rest....looking so good karen dont keep us waiting around forever....wanna see more
Reply #49 Friday, May 22, 2009 6:58 PM
It sucks when real life gets in the way of skinning.....
Reply #50 Friday, May 22, 2009 7:04 PM
Sorta backwards here... skinning gets in the way of real life 
Reply #51 Friday, May 22, 2009 7:14 PM
awwwww....... 
now back to work....
Reply #52 Friday, May 22, 2009 8:02 PM
Where I'm at the local library has a somewhat extensive collection of native american tribes an associations. If you want I can look up some info and forward it thru this thread. There is a list of all the native tribes and I tell you...I never thought there were that many. Literally thousands. Just want to contribute in some way.
Reply #53 Friday, May 22, 2009 9:44 PM
Can i put my 2 cent's in......
The wall need to be a darker shade or a bit browner for some contrast......
Look great.......... it's going to be a keeper 
Reply #54 Friday, May 22, 2009 9:59 PM
Its not a wall Robbie just a large texture to cut bits from if needed.... part of the PSD.
Reply #55 Friday, May 22, 2009 10:02 PM
No, I got it right, I'd rather be skinning than doing my day job. 
Reply #56 Saturday, May 23, 2009 2:42 PM
No, I got it right, I'd rather be skinning than doing my day job.
I THINK I would rather be skinning than doing my day job, but if my day job consisted of skinning, I fear it would become the same burden that my day job is, and that would be a pity.
However, I think what vStyler means by "real life" is the family/social/activities of daily living that his skinning is getting in the way of. To those of us with day jobs, or at least from my perspective, my day job AND my real life get in the way of my skinning. Juggling commitments to my employer, my family and myself is a puzzle I have yet to figure out.
So...here's an update one what I have so far. I'm having trouble slicing up the start menu and importing it into SKS6 so that the drop shadow doesn't turn into an ugly black mess surrounding the outside of the menu. I've got an awesome start menu animation with the feathers blowing in a slight breeze, but it looks like crap, because of the black ooze around the start menu right now...stuff for me to beg vStyler's help on.
Reply #57 Saturday, May 23, 2009 3:29 PM
Looks great Karen. Sorry if my suggestion offended....I kinda like Dream Catchers and Buffalo. 
Reply #58 Saturday, May 23, 2009 3:43 PM
You didn't offend me (I had German immigrant grandparents who were doing everything they could to fit in with their surroundings, and my paternal grandparents were Dutch, but they were something like fourth generation, so there wasn't any real culture there...I grew up white bread). I just know from visiting my father-in-law and from stories Brian tells me, you have to be really careful when trying to honor a different culture than you are, because you're viewed as an outsider, a poser, a total noob, and there's nothing those within the American Indian Movement love to moch so much as an outsider. Brian took a LOT of harassment from both sides of his family, being as he was a half breed (Cher did not put enough eloquence in that song to cover it).
Reply #60 Saturday, May 23, 2009 4:31 PM
Make sure you have the blur feature turned off on ALL parts of the start panel........see if that helps
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Reply #41 Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:13 PM
Wow! Looks pretty nice - the colors are easy to look at and detail is going places.
Will be good to see it finished. Very good start!